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For the first time in a long while, I heard the coldblooded leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau lamenting. The cry was sweet music to my ears as President Idriss Deby led the Chadian army to pound Shekau and his insane boys, who have been inflicting unprecedented pain on hapless Nigerians in the North-east. Few […]
Continue ReadingAn elder statesman and Pan-Yoruba social-political group, Afenifere chieftain, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, on Friday, said Nigerians should pray for divine intervention to deliver the nation from the hands of President Muhammadu Buhari. Speaking in a chat with Daily Independent on his birthday, Chief Adebanjo who clocked 92 on Friday, April 10, said it is only […]
Continue ReadingThe World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that confirmed cases of Coronavirus in Africa are now in excess of 11,900. According to the new report by the WHO, Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria, has fewer cases when compared to less populated countries like South Africa, Algeria and Cameroon who continue to top the list of […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Minister, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode said if former dictator, late Sani Abacha was the one in power at this time, many Chinese nationals in Nigeria would have been deported following the recent alleged maltreatment of some Nigerians in China. He said this in reaction to a video showing Chinese officials allegedly chasing Nigerians from their […]
Continue ReadingPopular Ghanaian TV station, GHOne TV last night, accidentally aired a hardcore porn on live television. The explicit content was shown during the station’s broadcast of relationship and sex talk show, DUVET, which aired at about the same time President Akufo-Addo was addressing the nation on COVID-19 pandemic. Shortly after the blunder, the Acting General […]
Continue ReadingRumours are rumours! But, if, indeed, there is any substance or element of truth in the rumoured presidential ambition of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, then, he will have to take some serious steps for it to become a reality. Charity, they say, begins at home! For him to be sellable to the majority of Nigerians, Tinubu must metamorphose into that […]
Continue ReadingThe lawmaker who represented Oyo North senatorial district between 2003 and 2007, Robert Koleoso, is dead. Mr Koleoso, who hails from Saki area of Oyo, died on Thursday at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan. The deceased is the elder brother to Michael Koleoso, former Secretary to Oyo State government during the administration of late […]
Continue ReadingEvangelist Timothy Ofoegbu, who said he is a Catholic, has shared one of the Christian doctrines that has been in existence from the beginning of earth or creation among Christian believers. The doctrine he has tried to share here is about eating on Good Friday, the day Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross. He […]
Continue ReadingIn the message he personally signed on Friday, Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari rejoiced with Christian brothers and sisters, as well as all Nigerians on the occasion of the celebration of this year’s Easter. He said it’s unfortunate that Christians will celebrate Easter in a subdued manner, away from the usual congregation in churches, because the […]
Continue ReadingGeneral Gowon was overthrown in a palace coup in July 1975 and succeeded by General Murtala Muhammad, who was in turn assassinated in an abortive coup on February 13, 1976. He was replaced by Olusegun Obasanjo, formerly his second in command. General Obasanjo basically continued the policies and plans of the Muhammad regime. Murtala Muhammad, […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Government has summoned the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Zhou Pingjian over reports of maltreatment of Nigerians resident in China. Nigerians in China who had traveled there for business purposes a few days before the federal government announced a lockdown are accusing Chinese authorities of maltreatment, just as they said the Nigerian government did […]
Continue ReadingThe governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi received great plaudits across the aisles for the robust EkitiKete food bank for vulnerable households, to ameliorate the punishing effects of the COVID-19 lockdown crisis. According to the governor in his speech, “The relief materials, which are in the form of food packs, are to be distributed […]
Continue ReadingNigerian government has released the names of Nigerians who died from Coronavirus complications abroad, as it mourns them. Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has put a list of Nigerians who have died from the virus in a video she shared on Twitter in their remembrance. She wrote: “May the […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Boss Mustapha has bemoaned the poor state of the Nigerian healthcare infrastructure. Speaking at a meeting with National Assembly leaders on Thursday April 9, Mr. Boss Mustapha said he only realized that Nigeria’s healthcare infrastructure was in a bad state after being made the Chairman […]
Continue ReadingThe cowardly nature of Nigerians against their leaders manifested with the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country. When some political leaders or their relatives announced that they had contracted the coronavirus disease, many Nigerians, especially on social media, were jubilant. Their argument was that God was punishing Nigerian politicians for their corruption, mismanagement, greed, insensitivity, […]
Continue ReadingHuman rights activist, Segun Awosanya a.k.a Segalink has slammed Presidential aide, Bashir Ahmad after he defended the arrival of Chinese doctors in Nigeria to help in the fight against Coronavirus. This is coming after President Buhari’s Special Assistant on Digital/New Media, Tolu Ogunlesi countered Segalink on his tweet which suggested that “the federal government imported chinese […]
Continue ReadingSouth African President, Cyril Ramaphosa has suspended one of his top ministers for two months, including one unpaid, after she was photographed having lunch with a friend in violation of a national lockdown to contain the coronavirus. Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams was summoned to explain herself on Tuesday after Mduduzi Manana, […]
Continue ReadingA trio of suspected robbers, made up of one woman and three men, were allegedly caught robbing along Benin-Auchi road and they were beaten and disgraced. The alleged gang of robbers, also known as “one chance”, operate a taxi which they use in robbing unsuspecting passengers. They were caught after they robbed a woman and tried throwing […]
Continue ReadingA housewife, Mary Okunade, has appealed to an Ado-Ekiti Customary Court in Ekiti State, for the dissolution of her 25-year-old marriage to her husband, Tokunbo Okunade, on grounds that he was a drunk and also a wife beater. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the mother of three told the court that her […]
Continue ReadingThe Consul-General of Nigeria in Guangzhou, China, Mr Anozie Madaubuchi Cyril has confronted some Chinese officials days after a video of Nigerians being sent out of their apartments in the Asian country went viral on social media. Mr Cyril accused the Chinese officials of targeting Nigerians in the wake of Coronavirus which began in the country. The ambassador […]
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