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Politics ordinarily should be a call to serve. So do politicians tell us during campaigns. They claim they want to serve us. However, the opposite is the case. The main attraction to politics in Nigeria is for personal aggrandisement and primitive accumulation of wealth. That is why our elections are very fierce and war-like. It […]
Continue ReadingAs a child growing up in Nnewi, Anambra State, in the 1970s and 80s, it is shocking to remember that we had some facilities that are not available in Nigeria of today. In the 1970s, Nnewi was a semi-urban town. It was not reckoned with as a town of significance. In fact, maps produced in […]
Continue ReadingA female student of the Federal Polytechnic, Offa in Kwara State, Nigeria, Toyin Bamidele, has been allegedly hacked to death by unknown assailants suspected to be cultists. The Higher National Diploma student of Food Technology was said to have been murdered in her rented apartment outside the campus on Thursday, November 16, 2023. Toyin, who […]
Continue ReadingBy the Rivers of Babylon, there I sat down; yeah, I wept, when I remember N-i-g-e-r-i-a. Verily, verily I say unto you, these words that I write, are words of redemption and wisdom. Therefore, I beseech you, brethren, to keep these words in your hearts, inscribe them in stones and scribble them on scrolls. I […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC) has nominated 22 Court of Appeal justices to the National Judicial Council (NJC) for elevation to the Supreme Court bench. According to reports, the nominees represent each geopolitical zone. The North-Central and South-East regions have the largest share with 6 candidates each, while the South-West and South-South each have […]
Continue ReadingRetired Permanent Secretary with the Oyo State Government, Nigeria, Ms. Elizabeth Olaniyan Gbenle, has been gruesomely murdered by unknown assailants in her house in Ibadan, the state capital. The incident happened at the deceased’s residence, along All Saints College Road, Idi Ishin, off NIHORT area of Ibadan between Thursday and Friday last week, according to […]
Continue ReadingSaudi Arabia authorities cancelled the visa of all the 264 passengers who travelled from Nigeria to Jeddah. The Air Peace flight took off from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, Nigeria, via the Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano on Sunday night, Nov. 12, and arrived in Saudi Arabia’s major city, Jeddah, today, Nov. 13. However, […]
Continue ReadingIn spite of the news of the court order obtained by Nigerian government to stop organised labour from embarking on its proposed industrial action in protest over the attack on Comrade Joe Ajaero in Imo State on Wednesday, November 1, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) have directed their […]
Continue ReadingNigerian politician and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), comrade Timi Frank; American-based Nigerian journalist, Jackson Ude; and others stated that they have formed a movement called Coalition of Nigerians in Diaspora to reclaim Nigeria from those they dubbed criminal cartel. They made this known in a video address […]
Continue ReadingA female worshipper identified as Bisi Adewumi of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM) reportedly slumped during a prayer session at the church auditorium in the Ibafo area of Ogun State. The Worshipper, who was described as a 75-year-old woman by the Ogun State Police Command, was said to have later lost her […]
Continue ReadingTwo things happened recently that should make us rethink the direction Nigeria should go with regards to the laws that govern us as a nation and the electoral law that guide the conduct of elections in the country. Former INEC chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega’s opinion that the electoral laws should be amended and the revelation […]
Continue ReadingNigeria is now ranked 120th of 142 countries in terms of adherence to rule of law, according to the latest global Rule of Law Index released by the World Justice Project (WJP). The rankings showed that out of the 34 countries ranked in the sub-Saharan region, Nigeria is rated 23rd. The 2023 index released on […]
Continue ReadingI had just arrived Abuja from Beijing, China on Monday when news broke that Nigeria won its case against Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID) Limited, which had been seeking enforcement of a controversial $11 billion judgement debt in its favour. The Commercial Courts of England and Wales upheld Nigeria’s prayer that the said gas processing […]
Continue ReadingFormer Niger Delta militant leader, Asari Dokubo has lamented over President Bola Tinubu’s recent appointments. Asari said this while reacting to controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Gumi’s call for Nyesom Wike to be removed as FCT Minister. Addressing this in a video which has gone viral, the former militant leader stated that Abuja was built with […]
Continue ReadingLoneliness In The UK When I moved to the UK a few years back, the ‘relationship market’ appeared confusing. Many people presented as available, but at the same time, they were very unavailable. It was the feeling of being lonely in a densely populated space. The single African men were eager to mingle and date […]
Continue ReadingA businessman, Mallam Umar Tasiu, was allegedly flogged to death by his former in-laws in Minna, Niger State, Nigeria. Daily Trust reports that a neighbour told City & Crime on condition of anonymity that the Al Azhar University, Egypt graduate had gone to see his children who live with his ex-wife at her father’s house. “He […]
Continue ReadingBusiness and Property Court in London on Monday halted the enforcement of the $11bn arbitration award in favour of P&ID against Nigeria in a case marked CL-2019-000752, according to Punch. In a judgment delivered by Justice Robert Knowles, it was held that the process through which P&ID secured a 2010 contract to build a gas […]
Continue ReadingCanadian-based Nigerian woman, Toni @olutoni444, has taken to X (Twitter) to say that Nigerian men abroad are the worst when it comes to relationship. “Nigerian men abroad are the fucking worst. If you want a good Nigerian man, find one in Nigeria. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk,” she said on Sunday, October […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement on Saturday, Nigeria Police Force has revealed that two suspects were killed during a chase of armed robbers who robbed a bank, attacked a police station and killed some police officers in Benue State on Friday. Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of Otukpo, Chief Superintendent John Adikwu, three other police officers, […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji Ojo, has said that the Federal Government plans to ensure that several passport offices are opened around the country, as well as abroad, so that there will be easy collection of passports for Nigerians at home and in diaspora. Tunji Ojo said that the creation of multiple offices […]
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