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Nigerian Government has given the sign that the over two months’ ban on the social networking giant, Twitter, in Nigeria will be lifted soon. It made it known that it has reached an agreement with Twitter in most areas of misunderstanding. Fielding questions from the press at the State House after Wednesday’s FEC meeting, the […]
Continue ReadingThe Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Nigeria, Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, has written to the United States House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on Religious Freedom and alleged the persecution of Christians in Nigeria based on their faith and not crimes. He said the faith-based harassment of Christians posed one of the greatest threats to […]
Continue ReadingOne of my favourite Igbo proverbs says: “What a dog saw and started barking ferociously is the same thing a goat saw and merely grunted.” As young as I am, I have seen so much in this country that when people are barking over a thing, I just sigh. Yet we are reacting to the […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has insisted it has the capacity to transmit election results electronically from remote areas across Nigeria. Speaking on Channels Television breakfast show on Saturday, Mr Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and INEC’s Information and Voter Education Committee Chairman, said the Commission’s position was clear. Okoye said: “We have uploaded results […]
Continue ReadingJustice Adenike Adeeyo of the High Court of Justice, Awe Road in Oyo town, Oyo State has sentenced an accused murderer, Adeyemi Morenikeji, to death for strangulating a staff of Federal School of Surveying, Oyo, Mrs Racheal Oyewumi Ayanwale, to death on April 11, 2019. The judgement, in the case of The State vs Aderemi […]
Continue ReadingNigerian government has said that Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho, is trying to obtain a new passport to escape from Nigeria after being placed on the stop-list in order to facilitate his arrest. This was stated in a letter dated July 9 and signed by A.B. Baba, Assistant Comptroller General of Immigration, Investigation and Compliance, […]
Continue ReadingI lived in London in 2006 when the largest to date cash robbery in that country – and perhaps in the world – happened. It was the robbery of the Tonbridge, Kent facility of the Bank of England by a team of blaggers (that’s how they call thieves in Britain), which included fighter Lee Murray, […]
Continue ReadingA senior registrar in the department of anaesthesiology, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), has died of COVID-19 complications. UCTH’s association of resident doctors announced the death of Odii Stanley. A statement released by the group reads: “On behalf of the entire membership of ARD UCTH, I regret to bring to your notice the untimely demise […]
Continue ReadingNigerian-American female basketballer, Nneka Ogwumike’s bid to play at the Olympics has again been denied. The Los Angeles Sparks was left off Team USA’s Olympic roster, a decision that has been described as arguably the biggest snub in Team USA’s history. Despite the snub, Ogwumike decided to join her sisters, Chiney and Erica, on Team […]
Continue ReadingA young man who hurriedly came to Nigeria in anger because of what he discovered online, is reported to have slumped and died after reading the result of a DNA test conducted on his son. According to the so-called friends of the deceased who gave their opinions online, the overseas-based man chanced upon his wife […]
Continue ReadingVeteran Nigerian singer, Charles Oputa, better known as Charly Boy and areafada1, has said he does not believe in one Nigeria. In a chat with The Nation, the 71-year-old singer said his submission is as a result of the current happenings in the country, which have continued to reoccur over the last four decades. “No, I […]
Continue ReadingThe six governors from the Southwest geopolitical zone of Nigeria have proposed conversion of the present six geopolitical zones into federating units, as part of the ongoing review of the 1999 Constitution by the National Assembly. In a document presented to members of the National Assembly from the geopolitical zone, the Southwest Governors’ Forum also […]
Continue ReadingNigeria, a country of roughly 250 ethnic groups arbitrarily coupled together by the British colonialists in 1914, is mired in an “existential crisis”, probably like never before. Apart from the north, it seems every other part wants out. The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), under the leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has long declared its […]
Continue ReadingThe author, Chinua Achebe, in his 1983 book, “The Trouble with Nigeria”, depicts a nation where leadership is the most critical challenge in addressing the issues of underdevelopment, nepotism, institutional corruption, inept and mediocre personality cult, and injustice that have bedeviled the nation. Nearly four decades after that publication, our national life is still plagued […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian soldier in the rank of Major has been shot dead in an armed robbery incident in Jigawa State, Nigeria. Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Lawan Shisu Adam said an army private was also killed in the incident which occurred at Dumdubus village in Dutse Local Government Area of the state around 9pm […]
Continue ReadingPolice operatives in Imo state, Nigeria, have arrested an alleged fake lady lawyer, Mrs Princess kate Nneoma Duruji “F”, age 37 Years of Akakkims Palace Orji Owerri, lmo state. A statement released by spokesperson of the state police command, CSP Michael Abattam, today July 7, states that the suspect who has been parading herself as […]
Continue ReadingIn the month of October, 1980, about a month before I turned 19, while living in Calabar, in a newspaper called “Daily Sketch”, I saw an advertisement for a vacancy by Nigeria Airways. It read “See the world and meet people, be a Nigeria Airways Flight Attendant.” I became extremely interested and saw myself travelling […]
Continue ReadingUnited Kingdom Parliament is set to commence a debate on the repatriation of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. Nigeria’s federal Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami SAN, last week revealed that Kanu was repatriated and subsequently arraigned him. However, Malami did not reveal where the IPOB leader was repatriated from. […]
Continue Reading“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a […]
Continue ReadingFormer American sprinter and double Olympics gold medalist, Lee Evans has been laid to rest in a tomb at a private cemetery of the Segun Odegbami International College and Sport Academy, in Ogun state, Nigeria. The former world record holder of 400m event was buried on Thursday, in accordance with his wishes before he died. […]
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