Let’s not deceive ourselves
Let us not deceive ourselves. The NASS is a tightly guarded place. No unauthorized persons can just walk into the Senate chamber, with its extra security, and walk away with the Mace. Every visitor...
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Omo Agege? Na!
Did Senator Ovie Omo-Agege (Delta Cental) actually sponsor thugs to invade the Senate chamber and make away with its symbol of authority, the Mace? I don’t believe it. Though one cannot vouch for anyone,...
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Ekweremadu and his 22 properties
I have just heard with one ear (apologies to Prof Pius Adesanmi) that the deputy senate president, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has challenged the power of the Federal High Court, Abuja, to grant interim ownership of...
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Dealing in death
States are finding new ways of killing enemies abroad, and of justifying their acts AS EUROPEANS know to their lamentable cost, assassinations can start wars, even world wars. A bullet fired by a Serbian...
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Drama as Bribe-seeking SARS men keep Lagos businessman in Bank toiket
A businessman, Immanuel Ibe-Anyanwu, created a sensation on Monday after calling for help on Facebook while in the toilet of a Zenith Bank branch at Ago Palace-Way, Okota, Lagos State. Ibe-Anyanwu claimed that some...
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Nostalgia as a dream
The California-bound Nigeria Airways airbus took off punctually from the newly renovated, reconstructed and redesigned Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Lagos. Time was 12.30pm. The airport – its facilities and personnel, first class – testifies...
Oyegun and the Abuja disease – Louis Odion, FNGE
Abuja disease is a peculiar affliction in Nigerian politics. It refers to the tendency of an actor with otherwise modest endowment or from humble station to transmute to a monstrous creature once he/she enters...
Fela Resurrects – Eunice Alonge Obaro
As APC and PDP each publish list of treasury looters, Fela’s hit track “Authority stealing” easily comes to mind. Check it out APC: “You be thief!” PDP: “I no be thief.” APC: “You be...
BREAKING: FG Releases More Names Of Alleged Looters
The Federal Government has on Sunday released more names of people who have allegedly looted the nation’s treasury. The Federal Government said the list of alleged looters which was released earlier was based on...
Whistleblower: Cambridge Analytica used Israeli firm to hack Nigerian President
The whistleblower at the heart of the Facebook privacy scandal told the British parliament Tuesday that an Israeli intelligence gathering firm was involved in a hacking scheme targeting the president of Nigeria. The company,...
AfCFTA and Nigexit – Issa Aremu
Last week Forty-four (44) African countries signed on to the controversial African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Nigeria, the continent’s biggest economy under the legitimate pressures of stakeholders notable Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and...
Dapchi schoolgirls release: EU applauds Buhari
The European Union on Friday commended President Muhammadu Buhari for the release of the abducted Dapchi schoolgirls. The EU in a statement by its Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ray, expressed relief over the release. The union therefore called...
Facebook’s Zuckerberg apologizes for ‘major breach of trust’
Breaking five days of silence, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized for a “major breach of trust,” admitted mistakes and outlined steps to protect user data in light of a privacy scandal involving a Trump-connected data-mining firm....
2019: Why I want to be Nigeria’s President – Sule Lamido
A former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, on Thursday said his presidential ambition was not out of desperation for power, but for genuine service to the people of Nigeria. Mr. Lamido made the statement in...
NBC bans Olamide, Davido, 9ice’s songs
Less than 24 hours after the National Broadcasting Commission banned one of his recent songs, Wo, among others, from being played on the airwaves, popular rapper, Olamide Adedeji, has said that he never intended to...
Ex-NNPC worker sentenced to death for murder of daughter’s boyfriend
A Cross River State High Court sitting in Calabar on Wednesday sentenced a retired worker of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr. Godwin Elewana, to death by hanging. The court found Elewana guilty of the murder...
