Efe Ejeba, one of the housemates in BBNaija 2017 edition has just been announced winner of the show which ended today. He also won the N25 million cash price. He beat the likes of Bisola who came second runner-up with Tboss, third in that order. Bisola was however was made the latest ONE Campaign Ambassador…
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National Vice-Chairman (South-South) of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Emmanuel Ogidi, said impending Supreme Court verdict rather than political solution would resolve the party’s leadership crisis. Ogidi told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the expected ruling would help to lay to rest, many issues that could re-emerge and trouble the party in future….
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The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Mr Fatai Owoseni, said the command was working with sister security agencies to arrest the suspected militants that killed four policemen, an army captain and a civilian today. Owoseni made the promise in a statement on Sunday while responding to the killings by militants in Isawo area of…
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The Special Adviser on Media to the National Chairman of the People’s Democracy Party Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, Mr. Inuwa Bwala, has announced his resignation. Bwala in a statement made available to journalists in Abuja stated that the recent developments in the polity, especially as it affects his duties made it imperative for him to…
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BY CHRISTOPHER OJI Suspected militants and vandals operating in the Ishawo area of Lagos at the weekend hacked down five policemen operating in area. Details of the killings were still sketchy but Daily Sun reports that the men were responding to a distress call from a suspected kidnapped victim when they were ambushed by the…
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…Over death of Sani Abacha, MKO Abiola By Onyedika Agbedo the irrepressibility of truth is an undeniable fact of life. But many a time, those who fear the truth for whatever reason lose sight of this fact and seek to suppress it. Nevertheless, it contends with them until it finally finds its way out and…
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…Says he should go and read the history of Nigeria ■Listen to the Emir, eminent Nigerians tell northern leaders By Onyedika Agbedo (Lagos), Noah Ebije and Abdullahi Hassan (Kaduna) the Emir of Kano, His Royal Highness, Muhammadu Sanusi II, is not new to controversies. In fact, he often courts them with candour. As such, his…
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By Omoniyi Salaudeen Senator Rufai Hanga is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State. In this interview, he speaks on the raging controversy over the Senate’s rejection of Ibrahim Magu as substantive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as well as Hameed Ali’s refusal to wear Customs uniform,…
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Early last week, the news wafted through the horizon like harmattan fire: another Nigerian teenager proved to the world that the Nigerian DNA is of very high quality. 17-year-old Ifeoma White-Thorpe, a New Jersey high school senior, daughter of a Nigerian woman, Patricia White-Thorpe (nee Eluemunor) and Andre White-Thorpe ( a computer specialist) was accepted…
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By Richard Akinnola I saw it coming. Right from the moment of the mid-night so-called sting operation by the operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) in October last year, the breaking down of doors and a deliberate humiliation of some judges – l knew the case had been bungled. In an attempt to…
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Geoffrey Anyanwu, Awka The Senator representing Anambra Central Senatorial District, Chief Victor Umeh has faulted the planned honouring of June 12 heroes today without the then National Electoral Commission (NEC) Chairman, Prof. Humphrey Nwosu, saying that Nwosu was the actual hero of the 1993 general election. Speaking to newsmen in Awka shortly after being…
Romanus Ugwu, Abuja The Federal Government has declared Friday, June 15 and Monday, June 18 public holidays to enable the Muslim faithful celebrate the 2018 eid-el-Fitr. In a press statement signed by the Permanent Secretary, Dr Mohammed B. Umar, read that the Minister of Interior, Lt Gen. Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau (rd) made the declaration….
Romanus Ugwu, Abuja Former Edo State Governor and top contenders for the All Progressives Congress (APC), National Chairmanship position, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has described his two other aspirants contesting against him as feather weight. Speaking to newsmen after undergoing several hours screening in Abuja yesterday, Oshiomhole however promised that whether or not he emerges the…
Sylvanus Viashima, Jalingo GovernorDarius Ishaku of Taraba State, on Monday, assured the Igbo resident in the state that their security and well-being was of utmost concern to him and that they have no cause to fear. In a statement issued and signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Bala Dan…
Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari is back in Abuja after a two-day official visit to the Kingdom of Morroco. This is even as he has declared that Nigeria’s strongest selling point remains an “intellectually aggressive and economically ambitious” populace that always seeks self-improvement and self-actualization in any part of the world. The trip…
NAN The Chairman of Calabar Carnival Commission, Mr Gabe Onah, has expressed sadness over the death of the popular reggae artiste, Ras Kimono on Sunday describing it as “painful.” Onah who expressed his feelings in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Calabar, said that Kimono was a legend. He…
Laide Raheem, Abeokuta For the families of Alhaji Aminu Isiaka and Bankole Isaiah Adeniran, the tragic incident of May 12, 2018, will forever linger on in their memory. That was the day men and officers of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Ogun State command, accompanied by some soldiers, invaded the border town of Ilara in Imeko-Afon…
Noah Ebije, Kaduna Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BOT), Sen. Walid Jibrin has said the party is not in a hurry to reconstitute its board. He said the process would commence as soon as the party meets with the requirement in the amended Constitution of the party. Jibrin in…
Felix Ikem, Nsukka Wherever there is palmwine there is truth, so says a popular saying. From time immemorial, tens of hundreds of rural dwellers, especially in the South East, have depended heavily on palm wine tapping to eke out a living. It is therefore a common feature to see men climbing palm trees to tap…
Garba Shehu An old Chinese proverb says: Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil. This short proverb sums the intensity of attacks against President Muhammadu Buhari, not leaving the ratcheting up of violence in some the states after a period of relative calm, in the wake of the political tsunami honouring the heroes of…
Henry Akubuiro In 2017, Hon. Jerry Alagbaoso became a major talking point in Nigerian literature as his reissued literary works made it to the UBEC (Universal Basic Education) reading list, and were circulated in twenty-one states across the federation for use by students in Nigerian schools. Since then, curiosity has been set apace what constitutes…
How hearing-impaired persons celebrate Catholic Mass each Sunday Cosmas Omegoh It could be emotional watching hearing-impaired persons communicate. The act becomes more profound when the communication is with God. Every Sunday during the mid-morning Mass at St. Brigid’s Catholic Church, Ijeshatedo, Surulere, Lagos, a particular woman stands out. She is Mrs. Mirabel Chinenyerem Utam, a…
Gabiel Dike, Bianca Iboma; Jet Stanley-Madu; Fred Ezeh, Abuja; Gyang Bere, Jos The proposed plan by the Federal Government to add extra year to undergraduates in the Nigerian University System (NUS) studying certain courses has stir controversies, with students asking the Buhari administration to perish the idea. The students are demanding to know who will…
Despite being a green horn in the movie industry, the CEO of Mind Bursters Film Ventures, Emeka Kachikwu, has practically set the social media network buzzing alongside other media platforms with his new movie, Boss of All Bosses. From one geo-cinema region to the next, the highly anticipated movie is indeed gaining grounds among the…
When an illustrious personage passes on, his death is not mourned but celebrated. This phenomenal human characteristic underlies the celebratory circumstance that had underpinned the epochal translation of Professor Albert Chinualumogu Achebe. The global outpouring of eulogies is a splendid testament to the superlative reckoning and a profundity of aura this renowned novelist of facile…
Life is an ultra-weird inanimate mass of scary twists and funny turns remote-controlled by a monstrously-creative higher force. Life’s Maker and Giver must be the great-great-grand-grandfather of literature. Imagine the seamless plots, the deafening suspense, and the untold wizardry that combine to weave life so intricately into such delectable art. Forget its untold unpredictability, life…
When an illustrious personage passes on, his death is not mourned but celebrated. This phenomenal human characteristic underlies the celebratory circumstance that had underpinned the epochal translation of Professor Albert Chinualumogu Achebe. The global outpouring of eulogies is a splendid testament to the superlative reckoning and a profundity of aura this renowned novelist of facile…
The agitation for the sovereign state of Biafra is gaining currency by the day. And so is the call for the restructuring of the country. I wrote the story you are about to read in October 2008. Almost 10 years after, our situation has not changed. In fact, it has worsened. Who will rescue Nigeria?…
Where were you when you heard the news of the June 12 annulment? Where were you when you heard that the man you freely gave your votes in the freest presidential poll ever held in this country would no longer be president of Nigeria? Where were you when the hope of the man of hope…
I now know how Prof Wole Soyinka felt, when he got a cable in the early 70s, that simply said “The man died”. This was a journalist Segun Sowemimo – who was brutally beaten, by soldiers on the others of a Military Governor of then Western Region. The reason? An imagined slight. The journalist had…
Our society has never ceased to be a hostile environment, even before the amalgamation in 1914. Before then most of what is known as component parts of our nation were independent kingdoms and empires and if history is true most of them were constantly at war with each other and even till today the story…
Alex and Angela have been married for two years now and the relationship is perfect. But lately, Alex has been having money issues with his wife. Angela is a shopaholic in every ramification; there is nothing Alex says that will make her stop. She makes reckless purchases and when her husband calls her attention to…
The National Assembly, specifically the Nigerian Senate, is the symbol of democracy. Whenever the military strikes and takes control of government, the parliament is always the first casualty. While the judiciary and other arms of government are allowed to remain operational, the parliament is often shut down. This is to emphasise how significant the parliament…
If you are planning to send me any gift, keep it. Unless it comes with everlasting life. My birthday is still some months away. And I don’t want any sleepless night wrapped as gift! Gifts are causing problems for so many people now as 2019 approaches. So the Inspector General of Health (IGH) has advised…
Brothers and Sisters in Crisis, abeg make una forgive me o. Do you know that all this while I’d been busy writing norm-sense in this column, I have never, for one day, bothered to prey and commit this country into the galled hands! For you, should that not rather be too strange an act in…
