Author: Frank Ofili

Nigerian Literary Icon, Buchi Emecheta Passes on 0

Nigerian Literary Icon, Buchi Emecheta Passes on

Buchi Emecheta   One of Africa’s most celebrated and cerebral writers, Florence Onyebuchi “Buchi” Emecheta has passed on. She passed on in her sleep on Wednesday in London. She was aged 72 years.   Born...

6 shot while mourning gunshot victim 0

6 shot while mourning gunshot victim

Shooting Practice   A 12-year-old girl was among six people shot on Wednesday night during a vigil in Chicago for a gunshot victim, local media said.   The Chicago Tribune reported that the shooting...

Herdsmen attacking Nigerians are from Senegal, Mali – Northern governors 0

Herdsmen attacking Nigerians are from Senegal, Mali – Northern governors

The Northern Governor’s Forum, NGF, says it has resolved to work with relevant stakeholders to secure Nigeria’s borders and register Fulani immigrants entering into the country to rear cattle.   The Chairman of the...

Still on Magu, Babachir Lawal 0

Still on Magu, Babachir Lawal

  On 24th January 2017, Primium Times, an internet newspaper, carried a bold headline declaring that President Muhammadu Buhari had cleared the Secretary to Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, of all charges in...

Telecoms subscribers now 154.5m – NCC 0

Telecoms subscribers now 154.5m – NCC

Active users of telecommunications services in the country increased to 154,529,780 in December 2016, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said.   The telecommunications industry regulator made this known in its Monthly Subscriber/Operator Data...

Fury defines Trump’s first day in the White House 0

Fury defines Trump’s first day in the White House

President Trump had just returned to the White House on Saturday from his final inauguration event, a tranquil interfaith prayer service, when the flashes of anger began to build.   Trump turned on the...

Trump Brought His Own Studio Audience To Clap For Him At CIA Speech – CBS 0

Trump Brought His Own Studio Audience To Clap For Him At CIA Speech – CBS

Donald Trump   CBS News confirmed reports that President Donald Trump brought a studio audience to his visit with the CIA on Saturday. The news agency reports that an official said the visit left...

Tinubu’s plane ferries Jammeh to exile 0

Tinubu’s plane ferries Jammeh to exile

Bola Tinubu   Fifty days after he lost at tbe ballot, former Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh, relinquished power on Saturday, January 21, 2017 and left the country in an aeroplane said to belong to...

PDP Govs Forum: Kashamu, Fayose trade words 0

PDP Govs Forum: Kashamu, Fayose trade words

Buruji Kashamu     Senator Buruji Kashamu, has described Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose as ‘unfit’ to be chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum.    In a statement signed by Kashamu,...

Big Brother Naija re-launched with 12 contestants 0

Big Brother Naija re-launched with 12 contestants

Big Brother Naija   The reality TV series Big Brother Nigeria, was on Sunday re-launched as “Big Brother Naija” with 12 contestants also known as “housemates”, after 10 years of holding its first edition....