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On April 30, news filtered out that President Buhari had given final approval for the implementation of the Steve Oronsaye committee report, which was commissioned by late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to look into the proliferation of government agencies, many with duplicated or lavishly overlapping functions. At some point, the figure we had was 541 […]
Continue ReadingShocking revelations emerged during the week, that the sum of N100 million found in the bank account of the wife of late billionaire kidnapper, Collins Ezenwa, popularly known as E-money, which was suspected to be proceed of crime and was ordered to be seized and forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria, by the Federal […]
Continue Reading33-year-old woman in Nasarawa state, Janet Ekpe, has killed her husband of eight years, Sunday Ekpe, after she discovered he was allegedly having an affair with her best friend, Hellen, in Zumbagwe community in Karu local government area of the state. The Nation reports that Janet and Sunday had two children and seemed to be […]
Continue ReadingJustice Isiaka Isola Oluwa, a retired Judge of the High Court of Lagos State is dead. He died at the age of 102. The late judge who is remembered as the one who sentenced the Lagos socialite, Alhaji Jimoh Isola a.k.a Ejigbadero to death for murder of a farmer, Raji Oba over land disputes in […]
Continue ReadingA 48-year-old pastor in Edo state has been arrested for defiling four minors aged between six and 11, three of them siblings who were placed in his care. The oldest sibling is nine years old, and the youngest six. The pastor who gave his name as Otobong Emerson of Believers’ Ministry Church Incorporated, was paraded at the […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, I am excited to report to you the feedback I got from my article last week, May 2, 2020, titled TIME TO PROTECT NIGERIAN COMPANIES AND JOBS. Reactions were varied but instructive. A few of the names I mentioned, who I had not seen or heard from for many years, reacted directly to […]
Continue ReadingAs soon as the Nigerian Supreme Court judgment was made public, the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, SAN, expressed his disapproval of the Supreme Court judgment. In the same vein, a human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana SAN, said the nullification of Kalu’s conviction was a demonstration of the […]
Continue ReadingThe governor of Cross River state, Benedict Bengioushuye Ayade, easily called Ben Ayade was in the farm on May 7. According to him, he was at the land preparation site for the state’s demonstration farm at the industrial park in Calabar, Nigeria. Governor Ayade was in that farm with his entourage and perhaps the farm […]
Continue ReadingAmid the Nigerian conundrum and the raging Covid-19 pandemic which has seized our attention is a breath of fresh air, the soon-to-be-inaugurated Dangote Petrochemical Refinery. It was Kahlil Gibran in The Garden of the Prophet who wrote this powerful poem long ago but it speaks perfectly to the Nigerian conundrum today. Here it goes: “Pity […]
Continue ReadingThe founder of The Boob Movement, Abby Chioma, has admitted that she’s struggling to cope with the Coronavirus pandemic that has changed every aspect of daily life. The South African-based Nigerian model took to Instagram to share topless photos of herself, while explaining that she was tired of only showing the good parts of her […]
Continue ReadingPopular Nigerian Vlogger, Grace Ajilore, who recently welcomed a son, has told of how she thought God had forgotten her until He blessed her with a man “that is the closest thing to perfect” and a son. Sharing a photo of her newborn son, she wrote: “wow my baby boy was born through this pandemic. […]
Continue ReadingPublic discourse has naturally shifted to permutations about the next chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, following Abba Kyari’s death. One newspaper reported that 26 persons, including current and former ministers, governors and senators, were already jostling for the position of chief of staff. What will or should the Buhari presidency look like after […]
Continue ReadingThe Nasarawa State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, arrested a 22-year-old pregnant woman, Veronica Boniface, for stabbing her husband to death over alleged phone call with his ‘girlfriend.’ The lady, Veronica Boniface, who claimed to be pregnant, used a kitchen knife she was using to peel yam to stab her […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has lost his nephew, Alhaji Mutari Dauda Daura to the cold hands of death, days after he lost his Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba Kyari and his in-law Alhaji Modu Sheriff. Though the cause of death was not revealed in the statement released by the President’s media aide, Garba Shehu on […]
Continue ReadingA group of Nigerian lawyers have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to reject 33 candidates recommended to him by the National Judicial Council (NJC) for appointment as High Court judges of the Federal Capital Territory, based on nepotism. The lawyers, under the aegis of Open Bar Initiative, in a petition to Buhari said 17 of the […]
Continue ReadingWith shops and factories closed nationwide due to the coronavirus pandemic, nearly all of the jobs created in the US economy in the last decade were wiped out in a single month. An unprecedented 20.5 million jobs were destroyed in April in the world’s largest economy, driving the unemployment rate to 14.7 per cent compared […]
Continue ReadingThe Big, Bold and Beautiful Comedienne Princess is a year older today. To mark the day under the circumstance, she has shared beautiful new photos of herself, thanking God for sparing her life in spite of all odds. Nigeria’s popular comedienne, actress, compere, caterer and a motivational speaker, Oluwadamilola Adekoya, better known as Princess, especially […]
Continue ReadingWithout a shadow of doubt, Nigeria is endowed with men and women with requisite cerebral competence that can shake up and reawaken the soul of the nation from its manifold and multifarious doldrums across all spheres. Nigeria is blessed with characters who exude irrefragable capableness that can help bring the nation’s ship back on the […]
Continue ReadingVeteran Nollywood actress, Regina Askia and her daughters looked like triplets as they posed in new photos. Born Imaobong Regina Askia Usoro, is a Nigerian-born, American-based family nurse practitioner (FNP), healthcare and educational activist, television producer, writer, and public speaker, who found fame as an actress and model. Regina, who was first runner up in the […]
Continue ReadingFormer governor of Abia state and member of Nigerian Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, has said his five months in jail afforded him the opportunity of learning “invaluable lessons” about Nigeria and the citizenry. Nigerian Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision by a seven-member panel voided Kalu’s conviction and held that the Federal High Court in […]
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