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I learnt yesterday that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will be visiting Nigeria today. The question I asked the bearer of the great tidings was: When is he going back to his rest in London? He will be arriving Nigeria two days after our urban psychedelic ‘children’ […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s 62nd Independence anniversary was celebrated at the Eagles Square, Abuja, Nigeria with President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and their spouses in attendance. Other dignitaries in attendance were the former Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan; current Senate President, Ahmad Lawan; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila; the Chief Justice of Nigeria […]
Continue ReadingUntil science unmasked the myth of the jungle and brought the secrets of wildlife home to man via the television, little did the world know the lion wasn’t the king of animals. Yep, the world never fully realised that the lion, when alone, was a potential danger, whose presumed invincibility is magnified by the strength […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday arrived in New York, the United States, for the 77th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. The president is expected to deliver the national statement on the second day of the general debates on Wednesday, September 21. This will be his last attendance and speech at the […]
Continue ReadingThe story you are about to read was published by the Nigerian Tribune 38 years ago. It was the lead story of its June 5, 1984 edition. Written by Joe Aladesohun, it was headlined: ‘Man commits suicide’ with a rider: ‘frustration at the bank’. The report: A middle-aged man committed suicide in Ibadan last Wednesday […]
Continue ReadingAt the height of the chatter the current occupant of Aso Rock, Major General Muhamamdu Buhari (retd.), had been body snatched by a certain Jibril (or Jubril) from Sudan, this column pointed out that there is some sense in the nonsense being retailed in some quarters. Stories do not always need to be logical before […]
Continue ReadingThe 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly opens in New York in three weeks, with the general debate scheduled for September 20-26. This means that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) could sign out with a report card on his eight years in office. It is unclear how many world leaders will […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, it is the season of politics and another election cycle is upon us. Candidates are presenting themselves to the electorate to be considered for various positions. But this cycle is looking more and more like 2015 when men and women, young and old, reasoned in reverse order. All efforts to make them see the danger and demagoguery that then-candidate Muhammadu […]
Continue ReadingGovernor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai, has written a memo to President Muhammadu Buhari informing him that terrorists are consolidating their grip on communities in the state with a “parallel” government and “permanent operational base”. Premium Times reports that the Governor raised the alarm in a memo which was sent to the President in late […]
Continue ReadingThe President of any country is the number one citizen of that nation, all things being equal. He is first amongst equals, being the one that all other citizens look up to for leadership and direction. The President is the first ambassador of the nation and so the rest of the world views the country […]
Continue ReadingThe condition of insecurity affecting many Nigerians has long surpassed bearable proportions; it is only a matter of time before even our inept president is viscerally touched. Several reports indicate that members of the Nigerian political class also get a bitter taste of the medicine Nigerians have been made to swallow but the peak of […]
Continue ReadingThis past week, education came to a halt in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It began with the order by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, on July 25, closing down all six Federal Government Colleges (better known as Unity Schools) in the FCT, while the students were in the middle of their end of year examinations. […]
Continue ReadingNow that the wise, prudent, babes and suckling ones have come to the grueling realisation that Nigeria is gradually coming to a deadly state of affairs under President Muhammadu Buhari, it is nice seeing everyone scampering about frenziedly. Legislators in Abuja, like vipers stirred off their places of comfort, are spitting venom. The political elite, […]
Continue ReadingNews from Nigeria these past few weeks read like an implausibly dystopian fictional plot written by an inept author. Events of the last few days particularly feel like a series of unstable and disordered parade of terrifying mental images and emotions that might seem perfectly logical during the subconscious moments of sleep but that strike […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday asked the Senate to confirm the appointment of the acting Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as the substantive CJN. The request was contained in a letter by the president dated 25th July, 2022, and read by the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, at the start of plenary […]
Continue ReadingIn a new video, terrorists who kidnapped the passengers of Kaduna-Abuja train, have vowed to abduct President Muhammadu Buhari, and Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasiru El-Rufai if their demands are not met soon. The terrorists suspected to be members of Ansaru also stated that they will abduct other prominent Nigerians, as well as cause mayhem […]
Continue ReadingThe July 16th 2022 governorship election in Osun state is a return match of the 2018 governorship election fielding the same protagonists, the incumbent governor Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress, APC and Senator Demola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The major takeaway from the 2018 precedent is that it was a […]
Continue ReadingPa Ayo Adebanjo, leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has endorsed presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi. Speaking on Yoruba Gbode, an online radio programme, Adebanjo said only Peter Obi can rule independently among the current crop of presidential candidates. The Afenifere leader also accused Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari joined other Muslim faithful at the Kofor Arewa Eid praying ground in Daura, Katsina state, Nigeria, to offer their prayers on Saturday July 9, in commemoration of this year’s Eid-el-Kabir. The Emir of Daura, Alhaji Faruq Umar, in his remarks at the praying ground, urged Nigerians not to relent in their […]
Continue ReadingThe outgoing Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo, is dead. He died at about 11pm on Tuesday July 5. He was aged 63. His death was announced in the early hours of of Wednesday July 6, by NNPC GMD, Mele Kyari, who described his departure as a great loss […]
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