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It was a calamity on Tuesday at Elegbaata village, Oke Suna, Apomu, in the Isokan Local Government Area of Osun State, Nigeria, after seven people — a man, his wife and five children — were found dead in their apartment. According to Punch, one other member of the family, who also slept in the house, […]
Continue ReadingGunmen suspected to be bandits have killed a police officer identified as Ismail Dogara, in Kaduna state, Nigeria. It was gathered that ASP Dogara was brutally attacked by the assailants on his way home in Zaria in the early hours of Monday, August 16. The officer was rushed to a hospital where he passed away […]
Continue ReadingFormer Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the immediate past Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, said on Saturday that Nigeria had made zero progress in 40 years, that is, since 1981. Sanusi, who said this in Kaduna at a colloquium organised to mark his 60th birthday, maintained that the government must make […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that the total unclaimed dividend in the Nigerian capital market stood at N170 billion as of December 2020. The Director-General of SEC, Mr Lamido Yuguda, disclosed this on Friday, August 13 at the second post-Capital Market Committee (CMC) virtual news conference. Yuguda said: “The figure had increased when […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari on Friday returned to Abuja, Nigeria, after a two-week stay in London, United Kingdom. Nigeria Air Force 1 jet carrying him touched down at the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja at about 18.00 hours which is 6.00pm Nigerian time. He was received on arrival by his Chief […]
Continue ReadingAfter collecting N11m ransom, gunmen still shot dead an engineer on Thursday in Nigeria. The source, who did not want to be mentioned because of the sensitive nature of the matter, was responding to enquiries by Punch about fresh updates on the Baptist College students held captive by bandits. He said, “There is a company […]
Continue ReadingNigerian 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 […]
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