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“We must make sure about two things, namely: that our principles are just and that are methods are practical; for nothing destroys her own ends as unjust principles and impractical methods and approach.” – Obafemi Awolowo. Twenty three years ago, yours sincerely authored an article on one of Nigeria’s never-endingDevelopment Plans. The intervention, entitled, ‘Vision 2010 Hath No Fury’ (Nigerian […]
Continue ReadingToke Makinwa has called out some scammers who are trying to use edited nude photos to blackmail her. Back in 2018, the media personality/businesswoman, shared the bikini photos above to celebrate her 34 birthday. Now some fraudsters edited the photos to make it look like she was nude and sent them to her with claims they have […]
Continue ReadingFormer Attorney General of the Federation and Nigeria’s Minister of Justice, Chief Abimbola Osuolale Richard Akinjide, has died. The 88-year-old legal icon died in his Ibadan home on Tuesday April 21, at about 1.00am after a long struggle with an undisclosed ailment. Born in Ibadan, now Oyo State capital in the early 1930s to an […]
Continue ReadingSinger, Lizzo, who never shies away from displaying her body, has shared a risque video to Instagram while promoting love for one’s body. The plus-size singer had on a skimpy black lingerie in the video that did little to cover her butt. With her butt on display, she backed the camera so that viewers can […]
Continue ReadingIn view of the Covid 19 scourge this is the time for us to look within, to pray to our God, to gather our strength and to preach love, unity and peace. However that does not mean that we should act as if all was well before the arrival of the demon called Covid in […]
Continue ReadingGunmen have killed an Inspector of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Joseph Ochogwu, in Benue State, Nigeria. The Media Assistant to the Commandant General of the NSCDC in the state, Ekunola Gbenga, who confirmed the incident on Sunday, said that the killers are suspected to be Fulani herdsmen. According to Mr Gbenga, […]
Continue ReadingOil prices plunged further on Monday April 20, as storage space ran low for the glut of crude no longer needed by economies hard hit by Coronavirus. The price of crude oil fell to $11, crashing almost 40 percent in a market flooded with crude and slammed by evaporating demand in the face of the coronavirus […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Government has extended the closure of airspace and airports in the country by two weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic. Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, disclosed this on Monday. Sirika said the airports would no longer open for commercial operations on April 23 due to the extended lockdown in the Lagos, Abuja and […]
Continue ReadingNational Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, the Yoruba socio-political group, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, on Monday said Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has further ruined his reputation over his statement that families of dead Coronavirus patients cannot claim their corpses for burial, which was ignored by the Presidency last weekend. Many Nigerians have […]
Continue ReadingSlowly but surely, numerous countries are following the lead of the central Chinese ground zero of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wuhan, by starting to gradually end their lockdown restrictions. Here is an overview: – India – Although India’s national lockdown has been extended until May 3, on Monday workers in key sectors were allowed to go […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari’s late Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba Kyari and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama in the 1970s. Recall that in a tribute to the late Chief of Staff, the minister, Geoffrey Onyeama said: “When I got married in Owo to my wife from Idoani, Ondo State, Abba was my Best-Man. […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian banker, but now a photographer, Mrs Busola Dakolo has shared photos of herself portraying what she thought the world is going through at the moment, – ‘hard times’, asking everyone to man up. Busola is the only person who can explained what she wrote and the kind of meaning she is reading into […]
Continue ReadingInsults mean nothing to me. They only fuel my resolve and strengthen my determination. They are like water off a duck’s back and neither can they deter me from speaking my mind on any pressing or burning issue no matter how unpopular my position may be. Those that do not have the prescence of mind […]
Continue ReadingSome female officers of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), have been queried for participating in #Bopdaddychallenge music video. ‘Bop Daddy’ is the latest song by Nigerian rapper, Folarin Falana popularly known as Falz. And Falz, a trained lawyer himself, is the son of Senior Advocate of Nigeria and human rights defender, Femi Falana. Falz’s ‘Bop […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian man who has been working as a female househelp, got quite unlucky as he was reportedly caught in the act resulting in humiliation. The suspect who was seen crying in a video shared online, was forced to remove his clothes by residents of the neighbourhood. Some of the residents were also heard threatening […]
Continue ReadingI am at a loss as to how to begin this article. If I may ask, what can someone reasonably say to me to assuage the humiliation I feel by the bull’s-eye victory the Chadian forces scored against Boko Haram recently and the failure of our military to defeat these terrorists in the last 11 […]
Continue ReadingGhanaians took to the streets in their numbers to celebrate after the 21-day Coronavirus lockdown order was lifted, though public gatherings are still banned. President Nana Akufo-Addo announced Sunday, April 19, in a televised address, that Ghana is lifting a 21-day lockdown of its biggest cities after the restrictions bought the government enough time to […]
Continue ReadingNigerian media personality, talk show host and presenter, Tolu Oniru-Demuren, popularly known as Toolz has also reacted to MC Galaxy and Slimcase’s Instalive videos which according to some social media users, had some soft porn moments. Toolz affirmed that actions have consequences as she recalled how she lost a job interview because of a YouTube […]
Continue ReadingOn Sunday, 19th April, 2020, eighty six (86) new cases of Coronavirus have been recorded in Nigeria. According to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC), 70 of the new cases were recorded in Lagos, 7 in the FCT, 3 in Akwa Ibom, 3 in Katsina state, 1 in Jigawa, 1 in Bauchi and 1 […]
Continue ReadingThese three plants are in the family Solanaceae which happens to be the family of tomato, pepper and garden egg, all of which are major condiments for soup. Solanum macrocarpon (igbagba in Yoruba) is a tropical perennial plant of West African origin. The leaves are alternate, lobed with wavy margins; they bear stellate hairs. The flowers […]
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