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The 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 […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s women football team, the Super Falcons, have arrived in Kansas City, Kansas, United State for their doubleheader friendly with the United States Women’s National Team (USWNT). Head Coach of the Super Falcons, Randy Waldrum, has selected four players from Nigeria’s U-20 girls that reached the quarter-finals at the just-concluded FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup […]
Continue ReadingOgun State Police Command, Nigeria has confirmed the arrest of a 23-year-old woman, Mary Olatayo, for allegedly selling her three-week-old baby boy for N600,000. In a statement on Thursday, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), said the suspect was arrested following a complaint from the father of the baby. Oyeyemi said: […]
Continue ReadingNigeria and the United States government have reached an agreement on the return of over $23 million of the Abacha loot. The agreement signing ceremony was held in the office of the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami on Tuesday, August 23. Mr. Malami signed on behalf of the […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi as well as the Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Kassim Shettima, on Monday graced the current Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) annual conference in Lagos, Nigeria, where they respectively decried the state of the […]
Continue Reading(In line with what has become my annual tradition every August, I devote this column as a tribute to my friend and compatriot, General Ibrahim Babangida, as he marks his 81st birthday this week) General Ibrahim Babangida, the former military president, has never told anyone that he is a politician nor has he seen or […]
Continue ReadingCoalition of Fulbe Professionals in Africa (COFPIA) has replied and rebuked Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore over its attack on the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi. COFPIA, a Fulani professional group, said the comment by the National Secretary of Miyetti Allah, Alhaji Alhasan Salah, against Peter Obi as “politically sponsored.” The […]
Continue ReadingDeclining opportunities, rising insecurity and a bleak economic outlook have created an environment polluted by anger. This anger has bred a growing rank of political fundamentalists and fanatics. There is palpable anger on Nigeria social media platforms whenever politics is at issue and what is at issue these days, if not the 2023 elections? In […]
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