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Founder and Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church (CGCC), Pastor Tunde Bakare, told his congregation on Sunday that he warned against the “Emilokan” kind of politics. During a State of the Nation broadcast, at the church in Ikeja, Lagos, Bakare said, ’emilokan’ meaning ‘it’s my turn,’ used by President Bola Tinubu during his […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian lady moved to the United Kingdom a year ago but has voluntarily returned to Nigeria. Social media user, DHK Rullah, who posted the story on Twitter said the lady went to the UK with her family, but applied to the UK Home Office and cancelled her visa, and then returned to Nigeria. After a […]
Continue ReadingCaveat Emptor: What is adopted and said here is pending the judiciary determination of who ultimately becomes the Nigerian president. “Let me dispense with any political correctness and say it loud and clearly that, any attempt to invade Niger Republic by a Nigerian led ECOWAS Army in the guise of “safeguarding democracy”, will be a […]
Continue ReadingA female soldier enforcing the curfew imposed by Adamawa government has killed a senior colleague, Nigerian army captain, at a checkpoint in Yola, the state capital. Daily Trust reports that the female soldier simply identified as Lance Corporal Nkiru shot a captain who tried to intervene in her altercation with civilians at Fire Service Round […]
Continue ReadingDays after a military junta ousted Niger’s elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, the Nigerian government has cut off power supplies to the neighbouring country. Niger’s electricity company, Nigelec, noted on Wednesday that the development followed an emergency meeting by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), where sanctions, including freezing utility services, were imposed on […]
Continue ReadingECOWAS member countries’ defence chiefs met in Abuja, Nigeria, but Defence Chiefs from Mali, Niger, Guinea Bissau, Burkina Faso, and Guinea were conspicuously absent. Defence Chiefs from Ghana, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Senegal, The Gambia, Cote D’Ivoire, and Cape Verde were in attendance at the meeting, which took place at the Defence Headquarters […]
Continue ReadingOfficers of Katsina State Police Command have arrested a bride, Tinene Isa, for allegedly cutting off her husband’s penis with a razor on their wedding night. According to reports, the incident happened in Yar Kyasuwa village in Kafur Local Government Area of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Katsina, ASP Abubakar Aliyu, […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Super Falcons defeated Australia 3-2 at the Brisbane Stadium on Thursday. Nigerian female national team beat their opponent to record their first win in the competition and the fifth win in the history of the Women’s World Cup. The Nigerian side came from a goal down to hand the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup […]
Continue Reading1. Diversion of N40 billion from Federation Account A company, Continental Transfert Technique had been hired by the Ministry of Interior to collect the Combined Expatriate Residence Permit and Alien Card (CERPAC) Fee of $2,000 per annum from every expatriate in Nigeria. The revenue from 2019 comes to an average of N40 billion per annum. […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s International electricity customers- ers-Togo, Benin and Niger are owing Nigeria $18.29 million for electricity consumed in 2022, the Ni- Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), has said. The international customers include Compagnie Energie Electrique du Togo of Benin Republic, (CEET); Société Béninoise d’Energie Electrique (SBEE) and NIGELEC-electric power generation and transmission utility in Niger. New […]
Continue ReadingHours after confirming that she has been charged with anti-doping violation, Nigerian athlete, Tobi Amusan has been handed a provisional suspension for allegedly missing three drug tests. The announcement was made by Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) on Wednesday, July 19. AIU tweeted: “The AIU confirms that it has today charged and provisionally suspended Tobi Amusan (NGR) for […]
Continue ReadingIn at least 70 recorded cases of police brutality in the United States, the victim cried out three words: I. Can’t. Breathe. From Eric Garner in 2014 to George Floyd in 2020, people hogtied or put in a chokehold cried out those words but were ignored by officers who thought they were lying or exaggerating […]
Continue ReadingThunder lightening has reportedly struck early this week in the agrarian Oro Ago community, Ifelodun local government area in Kwara state, Nigeria and killed three suspected kidnappers. It was gathered that the incident might not be unconnected with the resolve of local vigilance team in the Igbomina axis to check security challenges in the area. […]
Continue Reading25-year-old Nigerian man arrested for falsely presenting himself as a lawyer, AbdulGafar Ayanrinde, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment by an Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court. Spokesperson of Osun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Kehinde Adeleke, on Wednesday, said Ayanrinde committed the offences between 18th and 22nd May 2023 and […]
Continue ReadingThe last time Ms Hilda Effiong Bassey featured in this column was in a piece titled “Tales The Country Told Me: Hilda Baci and Seun Kuti” (ThisDay, May 16) wherein I commented on her courage and heroism for using her culinary skills to bring herself to global attention by breaking the Guinness World Record in […]
Continue ReadingOperatives from Bauchi State Police Command have arrested a 21 years old housewife, Maimunatu Sulaiman of Kofar Dumi area in Bauchi metropolis, Bauchi State, Nigeria, for culpable homicide as she allegedly killed her husband. In a press release by the Acting PPRO of the Command, ASP Aminu Gimba Ahmed on Friday, the Police stated that […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Senator, Ben Murray Bruce has announced himself as the first owner of a $300,000 Alef flying electric car in Nigeria. Though the car is yet to arrive in the country, nor even ready, the Silver Bird boss announced this on his preferred social media page — Twitter, saying, when the car is delivered […]
Continue ReadingIt is a sad day and a sadder period for sports in Nigeria. A few days ago, Jeremiah Okorodudu, a famous Nigerian boxer, probably the most flamboyant and loquacious boxer in the country’s boxing history, died in a private hospital in the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria. He was only 64 years of age. His death […]
Continue ReadingTo save Nigeria we must, among other things, go back to Education, Healthcare and Infrastructural development, Cut The High Cost Of Governance, with the President, ministers, governors, legislators and all other political appointees taking a substantial pay cut to save money that could be spent on the welfare of the citizenry – Chief Philip Asiodu, […]
Continue ReadingSince well before Nigeria’s return to elective governance in 1999, the country has been overtaken by a progressive escalation of what Hannah Arendt in her classic On Violence called “a massive intrusion of criminal violence into politics.” In contemporary Nigerianism, the word for this is “banditry”. “Bandits” is a conveniently capacious bogeyman for insecurity in Nigeria that precludes […]
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