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The 2019 Nigerian Presidential elections are just around the corner and the electorates are going to be faced with the age-old problem of electing one from the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (- and I’m not providing any clues to who is who!) Whoever gets elected will face the age-old problem of tribalism, Corruption […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari has approved the issuance of operating licences to 213 new public and private broadcasting outfits in the country. Director-General of National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Ishaq Modibbo-Kawu disclosed this on Tuesday in Port Harcourt at the opening of the 71st General Assembly of Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON). Giving the breakdown, Modibbo-Kawu […]
Continue ReadingThe 100,000 capacity church auditorium of the Dunamis International Christian Center, Abuja, believed to be the largest church auditorium in the world was dedicated on Saturday, 24th of November. In attendance were former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor E. A Adeboye, Bishop David Oyedepo, […]
Continue ReadingA pastor, simply identified as George Lifted and his unidentified friend, are the latest victims of communal conflict in Bahumono, Abi Local Government Area of Cross River State. The pastor and his friend are believed to have been killed by yet to be identified persons and beheaded. A Facebook user, Rajuno Ohen, took to social […]
Continue ReadingFormer President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Issa Ayo Salami, yesterday hinted that Nigeria is heading for a doom if it fails to address the growing corruption in the polity. Also, the Auditor General of the Federation, Mr. Anthony Ayine, has said corruption, a global phenomenon, is becoming endemic in Nigeria, as an estimated […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has launched his campaign for the 2019 presidential elections. Alhaji Abubakar launched the presidential campaign on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter simultaneously. See the live #TheAtikuPlan broadcast below: Atiku Abubakar✔ @atiku My plan to get Nigeria working again. #TheAtikuPlan #LetsGetNigeriaWorkingAgain https://www.pscp.tv/w/bsKPPTFvUEtMWWVXbEJYamR8MW1yR21ZWGFNelFHeRtlBmVS2VAuPWg4z8Ob8-ud4YZft7zzAC09hUrk9zju … 5:00 AM – Nov […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has told Nigerians in diaspora that ‘there are too many people talking lazily about restructuring’ in Nigeria. Buhari who is in France for the Paris Peace Forum, spoke during his interactive session with the Nigerian community, made up of Nigerian Diaspora Organization, NIDO, All Progressives Congress, APC, members in France, students […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, has made mockery of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, for rushing out of the country. Oshiomhole, former Edo State Governor, left the shores of the nation hours after he was reportedly grilled by the Department of State Services (DSS) in Abuja. In […]
Continue ReadingIbrahim Idris, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Thursday, decorated Patience Ibekwe Abdallah, a police officer, promoted to deputy inspector-general of police (DIG). The Police Service Commission (PSC) had approved the promotion of three assistant inspectors-general of police (AIGs) to the position of DIGs. Among these officers, Abdallah is the only woman, meaning she is an inch […]
Continue ReadingEmeritus Professor of International Law and Jurisprudence, Akin Oyebode, has said the 1999 Constitution must be discarded in whole before the country can make progress. He said, no matter the number of amendments made to the constitution, it cannot work for Nigeria because it is entirely faulty. He said Nigeria must heed the call to […]
Continue ReadingThere is a lot of rave about making money online more than ever. This has birthed so many online businesses and online entrepreneurs. Today we will be discussing a faction of these online entrepreneurs. Online Vendors. Who is an online vendor, this is basically someone that sells products through the means of e-commerce. Some use […]
Continue ReadingAmerican model and celebrity, Blac Chyna has announced that she’ll be visiting Nigeria for the first time at the end of this month. If she is talking about October, that will be between today and tomorrow. Describing Nigeria as ‘motherland’, she wrote, ‘Hello Nigeria!!! I’m visiting the motherland finally to party with you in Abuja’.
Continue ReadingLagos lawyer and rights activist, Femi Falana SAN, has said that former President, Goodluck Jonathan was presiding over the country when $12.7 billion worth of crude oil was stolen from Nigeria. While speaking at the 40th-anniversary celebration of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, in Abuja, on Thursday, the Human […]
Continue ReadingSince Nigeria attained independence 58 years ago, the nation has been running from pillar to post, in varied attempts to take the country out of the woods, and push it to an appreciable level of development befitting a country with its plethora of human and material resources. From a parliamentary system to unitary (military) government […]
Continue ReadingWe see different things even when we are looking at the same picture. When CBN asked MTN to return the $8.1 billion dividends it “illegally” repatriated between 2007 and 2015, I was not thinking about MTN or CBN. Rather, my mind was on Econet, the ancestor of Airtel. Econet and MTN launched operations in Nigeria […]
Continue ReadingI used to keep the list of ‘spurious’ loans that were written off for Nigeria in 2006. Our leaders in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s had collected all sorts to build different monstrosities of their bizarre fancies. In those days, even local government chairmen collected foreign loans. Just before those loans were written off by […]
Continue ReadingA few days ago, this platform shared a story of a Nigerian woman based in Canada whose heart was said to have been broken after she discovered that her husband just got married to a woman he’s been claiming was his sister and they already have two grown kids. Pastor Glory Idahosa who has been married to […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian wife’s heart has been mercilessly broken after she discovered that her husband just got married to a woman he’s been claiming was his sister and they already have two grown sons. Christabel Idahosa has been married to Pastor Glory Idahosa for years and their union is blessed with 5 kids – 4 girls […]
Continue ReadingIf the German philosopher Max Weber is right about the causal link between religiosity and prosperity, then why, asks LSE’s Olu Fasan, is Nigeria so poor? A few months ago, the popular American preacher TD Jakes came to the church I attend in London. Preaching on leadership and wealth, he said prayer is not leadership […]
Continue ReadingThe man who appeared in the National Crime Agency’s ‘most wanted fraudsters’ appeal, Bayo Awonorin, has appeared in court after being extradited from the US. According to BBC, Bayo Awonorin was arrested in Maryland and charged with conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to launder money. He was originally arrested in 2012 as part of an […]
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