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Nigerians have taken to social media to express worry over alleged mysterious deaths in Kano state which has reportedly risen to 640 in one week. Though the state was on lockdown for 7 days, it was recently relaxed for a day by Governor Umar Abdullahi Ganduje following the declaration of Ramadan. While the mysterious disease […]
Continue ReadingThe Oluwo of Iwo’s ex-queen, Ms Chanel Chin has accused him of sleeping with their 13-year-old maid and daughter of woman that sells tatashe in front of his palace, in her latest disclosure of some incidents that happened in her marriage which crashed late last year. In an interview with Asabe Afrika, Chanel recalled how […]
Continue ReadingThis piece summarizes my contribution to an African debate. From Johannesburg to Lagos, Cairo to Dakar, Kinshasa to Kigali, Nairobi to Accra, etc the debate on how Africa should respond to the global coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is raging. At an African regional policy platform, I had expressed some of these (personal) views some weeks ago […]
Continue ReadingNigerian man’s insistence on obeying the social distancing order of the Lagos state government has allegedly led to his death in the Mafoluku, Oshodi area of Lagos state, Nigeria. The deceased, Taiwo Eluyemi, who resides on Taiwo Street, Mafoluku, Oshodi area of Lagos, usually invited his neighbors to his apartment to come watch football as […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, it has been a week of mourning and jubilation in Nigeria, depending on which side of the divide you are, since the sudden, devastating and unbelievable departure to the eternal beyond of the former Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Malam Abba Kyari. The deluge of reactions to his death was neither […]
Continue ReadingGovernor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has announced four new cases of coronavirus in the state, bringing to eight the number of confirmed cases. Fayemi made this known in a statement he personally signed on Saturday evening in Ado-Ekiti, Stating that the victims contracted the disease from the state’s fourth index case, a 45-year-old […]
Continue ReadingPolice in Ogun State have arrested a herbalist, Lajuwon Ogunleye and his wife Adetutu Apalaya, for alleged conspiracy and murder of their seven-year -old son, Pelumi Apalaya, for ritual purpose. Also arrested along with the couple is one Fatai Sefiu in connection with the ritual killing of the boy. The suspects were arrested on April […]
Continue ReadingNollywood actress, Kehinde Olorunyomi took to Twitter and Instagram to advise wives to beware when their husbands begin to discipline the house girl excessively. She tweeted: “When your husband beats your house help too much, be vigilant my sister, he is sleeping with her or the girl is proving difficult to sleep with.” The actress […]
Continue ReadingOlugbenga Abayomi Obileye, popularly known as Yomi Obileye, a Nollywood veteran actor, has died. He died in the early hours of Friday, April 24. Comedian cum actor, Gbenga Adeyinka confirmed the news of passing away of the actor yesterday via his Instagram page. “If tears could build a stairway and memories were a lane, we […]
Continue ReadingA very young house wife has stabbed her husband to death in Bauchi State, Nigeria. According to Facebook user, Datti Assalafiy, who shared photos of the deceased and the suspect on Saturday April 25, the incident happened in Itas-Gadau Local Government Area of the state. Merely looking at this so called wife, she looks too […]
Continue ReadingThe first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford. Two volunteers were injected out of more than 800 people recruited for the study. Elisa Granato (pictured above), a scientist, was the first volunteer to be injected and she said she volunteered because she wanted to try to support the scientific […]
Continue ReadingKim Jong Un is rumored to be dead, according to a Hong Kong broadcast network, while a Japanese magazine is reporting that North Korea’s rocket man is in a “vegetative state” after he underwent heart surgery earlier this month. Reports say that the Chinese government dispatched a team including medical experts to North Korea to advise North […]
Continue ReadingSaudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a form of judicial punishment, the supreme court announced, hailing the latest in a series of “human rights advances” made by the king and his powerful son. Court-ordered floggings in Saudi Arabia, sometimes extending to hundreds of lashes, have long drawn condemnation from human rights groups. The headline legal […]
Continue Reading“According to a report by The ICIR, as of April 9, the North-West region is the highest beneficiary of the Conditional Cash Transfer in the country, with 561,758 households benefitting from an allocation of N500bn. Others are North-Central, 321,434; North-East, 109,442; South-South, 67,696; South-West, 37,904; and South-East, 27,977. The report further showed that the highest […]
Continue ReadingNational leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has confirmed the death of Lateef Raheem, his Chief Security Officer for many years, who passed away on Friday after battling high blood pressure and diabetes. Raheem is believed to be his most trusted aide. On Saturday, Tinubu made revelations about how Lateef (fondly […]
Continue ReadingA pregnant teenager who claims her 10-year-old boyfriend, Ivan, is the father to her unborn baby has held a gender reveal party. Daria, 14, who has since become a social media influencer, revealed to her 119,000 followers that her baby will be a girl. The girl from Zheleznogorsk, Russia, also announced that she will call […]
Continue ReadingThere is a saying in the Yoruba tradition to the effect that death translates ordinary mortals into idols. I do not know the exact sense in which progenitors of the tradition meant it, but this can be construed in two ways, at least. The first but more improbable is the spiritual. In Yoruba cosmology, the […]
Continue ReadingBill Bryan and Trump. Photo: CNN The United States Department of Homeland Security has revealed that sunlight could kill the Coronavirus within minutes, according to The Sun. New research from the DHS Science and Technology directorate found that high humidity, temperatures, and sunlight kills the virus in saliva droplets on non-porous surfaces and in the […]
Continue ReadingA man accused of raping his wife to death in Kankaleru village in Ringim Local Government Area of Jigawa state, Nigeria, has been arrested by the state police. The 17-year-old girl was reportedly forced to marry 30-year-old Alasan Audu against her wish. It was gathered that the suspect forced himself on his wife after she […]
Continue ReadingFrancis Chukwuma Abosi, acting president of the customary court of appeal and Aliyu Musa Liman, a judge of Bauchi state high court have been suspended by the National Judicial Council (NJC) over judicial misconduct. While the NJC recommended the compulsory retirement of Liman for failing to deliver judgment in a case for over four years, Abosi was recommended for […]
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