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Gunmen on Sunday killed some policemen on a stop-and-search duty at Umuna on Owerri- Okigwe road in Imo State, Nigeria. A source who doesn’t want to be mentioned told newsmen on Monday that an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and a Police Inspector were killed by the fleeing gunmen who allegedly operated in military uniforms […]
Continue ReadingAs Nigeria marks her 62nd independence anniversary, the group that fought Abacha military junta to a standstill in the 90s, the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) has thrown its weight behind ethnic nationalities that have either declared their intentions to secede from Nigeria or vowed not to “participate in any purported elections under the disputed and […]
Continue ReadingThe best time to enjoy Nigeria is when elections are at hand. Boy, this is what we live for. We were created to play politics, to engage in intense politicking, to create, perform and watch political drama. We forget all our sorrows and dive into the fray headlong, jumping up and down, chit-chatting morning, noon […]
Continue ReadingHurray! Tomorrow, Nigeria will be 62! This season in 1960, the British stranglehold of slavery was dismantled. Today all around the nation is an upbeat celebration replete with hope. The afflictions besieging the nation remain innumerable. What torments Nigerians today are the backlashes of the cruel collusion between the British and Nigerians they handpicked pre-independence […]
Continue ReadingBOOM, THE NEW SOCIAL E-COMMERCE PLATFORM THAT ENABLES EVERYBODY TO BUY, SELL AND PAY FOR EVERYTHING ONLINE, WITHOUT A BANK ACCOUNT ANNOUNCES THAT ITS APP IS NOW LIVE AND AVAILABLE TO ALL NIGERIANS. Boom is on a mission to enable financial inclusion for all Nigerians by taking its e-commerce without banking solution to the masses. […]
Continue ReadingPolice operatives in Kwara state, on Sunday, October 2, were in search of one Abubakar Abubakar over the killing of his 12-year-old brother, Yusuf Abubakar, both sons of one Abubakar Abubakar a hunter in Dutse Gogo town via Kaiama. According to the police, preliminary investigation shows that the fatal incident happened while Abubakar was testing […]
Continue ReadingBelow is the full text of President Buhari’s speech on Nigeria’s 62nd independence anniversary: “Fellow Nigerians, I address you today, with a deep sense of gratitude to God and a high level of appreciation to all Nigerians whose tremendous goodwill gave me the opportunity to provide leadership for our great country at one of the […]
Continue ReadingThe police in Bayelsa state have paraded John Ewa, the suspected kidnap kingpin recently arrested in the state. A video of Ewa showing off cash and after his arrest went viral over the weekend. Parading the suspect and his accomplices before newsmen today September 26, the state Commissioner of Police, said that on December 8, […]
Continue ReadingBeautiful Nigerian playwright and Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Cultural Diversity and English Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Osonye Tess Onwueme, has given reasons why she decided to relocate back to Nigeria from the United States where she had been a citizen for more than 30 years. Onwueme stated that she has been anxious to […]
Continue ReadingLet’s say I want to re-build a nation that’s already on life support and clinically dead. The population is blaming the politicians, past and present, for the predicament the country is in and the politicians themselves are blaming each other. With elections looming, the politicians have started their usual game of lying, trying to outwit […]
Continue ReadingOne hackneyed fallacy regularly bandied around in the Nigerian social media spheres is that people fail to retrospectively learn from their experiences because “history was removed from the Nigerian school curriculum.” As a cure for this inability to introspect, commentators suggest re-introducing history into the school curriculum. Listening to them, one gets the impression they […]
Continue ReadingA middle-aged woman was killed in an auto crash while chasing her husband and his alleged mistress in Calabar, the Cross River State capital on Sunday. It was gathered that the mother of three sighted her husband leaving a shopping mall in the company of the lady and she tried to block his car with the Toyota […]
Continue ReadingA yet-to-be identified woman has reportedly died in an auto crash in Calabar, Cross River State while chasing her husband who she saw with another woman at a shopping mall. According to an eye witnesses, Stephen Okposin, the accident happened along the Murtarla Mohammed Highway on Sunday, September 18, 2022. “The lady saw her hubby at […]
Continue ReadingA retired Deputy Superintendent of Police identified as Gamy Ugwu was paraded after he was allegedly caught having sexual intercourse with a mentally-ill girl in Enugu-Ezike in Igbo Eze North local government area of Enugu State. Chijinkem Ugwuanyi, who disclosed this via Facebook on Monday, September 12, said the incident happened in Amufie community. “A […]
Continue ReadingIlana Omo Oodua, the umbrella body for Yoruba self-determination groups being led by Prof. Banji Akintoye, has through the Prof. in a news conference, told the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and other Southwest All Progressives Congress leaders not to hurt the agitations for Yoruba freedom and that the Yoruba […]
Continue ReadingCatholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Nigeria, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has declared that there is no problem between the two major religious groups in the country, Christians and Muslims. Kukah, who spoke on TVC News Breakfast show on Monday, said the problem of the country is with irresponsible leaders who use religion as a tool of […]
Continue Reading38-year-old pastor, Israel Adebayo has been arrested by men of the Ogun state Police Command for allegedly defiling a 14-year-old member of his Church (name withheld). The Pastor who is the General Overseer of “The Beloved Chapel ” situated at No 9, Iyaniwura street, off Owonikoko street Agbado area of Ogun state was arrested following […]
Continue ReadingIn contemporary Nigeria, the term “restructuring” has become something of a “God term,” as rhetorical scholars call words and expressions that instinctively evoke warm fuzzy feelings in people, that galvanize people into action, that are unquestioningly sanctified by a cultural community, that people associate with affirmative attributes, and that people are prepared to make sacrifices […]
Continue ReadingProf David Bamgbose, Ogun state governorship candidate of the People’s Redemption Party (PRP) is dead. The Professor of Educational Management died one week after he was unveiled last Saturday August 27, by the Chairman of the party, Samson Ogunsanya after a meeting with leaders and stakeholders of the party in Abeokuta. Daily Trust reported that Bamgbose died […]
Continue ReadingTwo students of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Kwara State, Nigeria, believed to be lovers and identified as Tobiloba Daniel and Arewa Abayomi, have been found dead in a hostel room outside the premises of the institution. The 200-level students were found dead in Daniel’s hostel room outside the University campus. A student of […]
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