(Published on Monday, 29 November, 2021) A month from now, it will be over for the year 2021; a new year will be born. The Bantu people say the road does not tell the traveller what lies ahead. Is that also true here? I do not think so. We have trodden this crooked road long…
Yesterday Was Better Than Today
(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 6 September, 2021) Somehow, we’ve all, individually, managed to get by and get better but the country gets progressively worse every new day. I thought of how much I paid to get university education – my first degree. The first year, I paid N20 caution fee; I also…
Why We Should Fear the Nigerian Taliban
(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 23 August, 2021) Some years ago, an editor-friend told me that he was slapped from behind by someone during his first pilgrimage to Mecca. His offence was that he pointed at ‘something’ with his shoes in his hands. The person who slapped him was not an Arab. The…
Pinnick Goes To FIFA
[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] Amaju Pinnick, President of the Nigerian Football Federation ,NFF has been elected as a member of the FIFA Council. He was elected at the election that took place in Morocco on Friday March 12, 2021. He will represent Anglophone African countries on the Council. With his election he becomes the third Nigerian to…
Sold Four Times in Lebanon, Nigerian Lady Begs for Rescue
Najeeb Rukoyat Kemi, a 28-year old Nigerian, has made a passionate appeal to the Nigerian government to come to her rescue in Oman where she is being presently held in captivity. Kemi hailed from Ikire town in Osun State.According to a release duly signed by Ajibola Abayomi, President of Journalists International Forum For Migration (JIFORM),…
Majek Fashek is Dead
Nigerian music legend and reggae king Majekodunmi Fasheke, popularly called Majek Fashek, is dead. It was learnt that he died around 5:45 pm on Monday in a hospital in New York. Report says he has been ill, though the nature of the illness is yet unknown. His longtime manager Umenka Uzoma Day who announced the…
Let’s Gird Our Loins
Joseph Wayas beat Justice Atake with one vote to emerge as Senate president in 1979. Surprisingly, some Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN’s senators were rumoured to have voted for Wayas against their party’s directive. Gayus Bulama of former Gongola State, did not hide his option for Wayas. Atake was UPN. As it stood in the…
Report Corrupt Police, IG Tells Nigerians
Solomon Arase, Inspector-general of Police, has urged Nigerians to assist the police to become better by reporting corruption, bribery and bad conduct in the force. Arase disclosed this in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on Monday during a sensitisation workshop on Reporting Corruption in the Police. Members of the public are expected to report cases…
20-year-old Nigerian Killed in the UK
Ola Raji, a 20-year-old young Nigerian was stabbed to death last week Tuesday while cycling through an estate in Peckham, near a community centre founded in memory of murdered schoolboy, Damilola Taylor. Reports have it that the young man was shot three times and stabbed by two men who ambushed him around 10.30pm. The men…
Nigerian Entertainers Applaud Health Insurance Scheme
The Nigerian Entertainment Industry Health Insurance Scheme, NEIHIS on Tuesday March 3, was officially launched and unveiled to members of the entertainment and media industry at the Sheraton Hotels, Ikeja, Lagos. Flagging off the business of the day, Seun Apara, coordinator of the scheme, took the attendees through some of the processes and challenges the…
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