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Mother of four girls, Mrs. Martina Okey Itagbor, was accused of witchcraft and burnt to death in Old Netim, Akamkpa Local Government Area of Cross River State. The deceased woman was accused of causing the death of two young men who died in a motor accident. Some youths in the community gathered on the 13th […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement necessitated by nine demands and released on Wednesday, Nigerian activists and revolutionists have announced plans to hold a nationwide protest on October 1, the Independence Day in Nigeria. The statement, signed by Coalition for Revolution’s (CORE’s) Co-convener, Baba Aye, and Co-convener, Gbenga Komolafe, was titled, ‘Poverty, insecurity, police brutality: CORE organises actions […]
Continue ReadingEnraged residents on Saturday blocked the Abuja-Kaduna highway over persistent attacks and killings by bandits in their communities. A 13-year-old girl was killed by bandits on Friday night, June 18, and this infuriated the villagers to storm the Abuja-Kaduna highway to protest. The protesters, from Anguwar Magaji, comprised mostly of youths and women, some of […]
Continue ReadingYouths in Taraba state have staged a protest regarding the plan by the Federal Government to establish Ruga settlement in the state. The youths who took to the streets of Taraba could be seen bearing placards with various inscriptions such as ‘no land for ruga settlement in Taraba’, ‘no to herdsmen attacks’, ‘Tarabans say yes […]
Continue ReadingMajority Leader of the Osun State House of Assembly, Honorable Timothy Owoeye, was allegedly caught taking a ‘ritual’ bath inside a bush at Osunjela area of Osogbo, capital of Osun State in the dead of the night. Some youths in the community had caught the legislator during the bath and alleged that he was bathing […]
Continue ReadingNigeria is a necrocracy. We have been – and are still being – ruled by the dead, the living-dead, and the dying old men. As it was in the days of Sani Abacha, the expiring dictator who, despite his body yielding to mortality, ensconced himself in Aso Rock and planned to rule Nigeria forever, so […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, let me start on a personal note today by repeating a story you are probably familiar with. Anyone who has followed my trajectory a bit would have heard this story for the umpteenth time. I moved to Lagos from the ancient city of Ile-Ife in 1988 at the age of 28. I had […]
Continue ReadingIt has been revealed that the steel industry in Nigeria is being sustained by scrap scavengers who scour over heaps of rubbish around Nigeria. Now, one out of the major organised dealers of scrap wastes in Nigeria is a Port-Harcourt-based comrade, Christopher Anayo Ogbu, who started his foray into business of motor spare parts sale […]
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