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The Batá is a Yoruba drum that is in a class of its own. It used to be highly venerated in social and political circles as its percussion impacted virtually all spheres of life. It is a double-faced drum shaped by its crafters to look like an hourglass, with one end of it bigger than […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Government on Tuesday recorded another significant boost aimed at making passport application, processing and production more seamless for the travelling public with the distribution of the enhanced Nigerian e-Passport. This came as it unveiled the new Passport Production Centre and the new Passport Front Office in Ilesa, Osun State, Nigeria. Joined by the Osun […]
Continue ReadingThe Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, says he will meet with state governors to agree on the mass release of at least 30 per cent of inmates from custodial centres across the country. Aregbesola made this known on Sunday when he appeared on the News Agency of Nigeria Forum in Abuja. The minister said […]
Continue ReadingA video clip of Nigerian Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, tackling a Nigerian man who brought out his phone to record him inside a restaurant in the United States has been shared online. The Minister was taking his meal when the Nigerian man accosted him and began to record him. Aregbesola expressed his dissatisfaction at the […]
Continue Reading“The concept of loyalty is a very strange one. My prayer is, may our loyalty never be tested.” That famous quote was from the Works and Housing Minister and former Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, during his senate confirmation hearing on 14th October 2015. But few remember the context. A hospitalized woman who […]
Continue ReadingChinua Achebe’s Tortoise folktale in his highly celebrated Things Fall Apart, among other motifs, excoriates an act of betrayal as evil. In having Ekwefi, one of his characters, narrate the proverbial cunning and treachery of the Tortoise to her daughter Ezinma, Achebe attempted to paint a moral canvass suggestive of the fact that traitors always […]
Continue ReadingThe All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Bola Tinubu’s 69th birthday and 12th colloquium, was on Monday disrupted by bad weather, according to reports. Consequently, many very high office holders and dignitaries who were billed to travel to Kano by air were forced to make a U-turn. Among those affected by the bad weather include […]
Continue ReadingFormer Osun state governor and Nigeria’s current Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has said the argument of some Nigerians that the current political arrangement is hindering the country from moving forward is valid. Aregbesola said this on Friday in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, after his investiture as the grand patron of the Nigerian Union of […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, yesterday shocked the nation, when he hinted that the least daily upkeep of a prisoner in America was higher than the proposed N30,000 minimum wage for the least Nigerian worker. Aregbesola made the startling revelation at a budget defence session of his Ministry with members of the Senate and […]
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