Yesterday, I cried. Today, the stream of tears continues to run down from my eyes and wet my shirt. Between the tears and cries, I cynically smiled as I gazed into this life, staring at nothing, but running through the beautiful memories we shared in my early American years. In 1989 was a six-month-old young Read More…
Month: November 2021
Maina And ‘Authority Stealing’
A thief is a thief whether he steals a golden crown or a cocoyam. The way we are now glamourising stealing and making celebrities of common felons, indicates that we are too far gone in our descent into amoralism. It wasn’t quite many decades ago when stealing was a shameful thing. There was something called Read More…
Third Mainland Bridge is safe, Federal Works Ministry insists
Ask public to discountenance circulating video as five-years old Many Lagosians have been scared lately by a circulating video of an old Channels TV news report on a faulty expansion joint at the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos. But the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing says the bridge is safe and the video is a Read More…
INEC declares Prof. Soludo winner in Anambra guber polls
Awka, Nov.10, 2021(NAN) The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Prof. Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) the winner of November 6 governorship election in Anambra. Soludo polled a total of 112,229 votes to defeat his closest rival, Mr Valentine Ozigbo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 53, 807 Read More…
[Pictures] Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai marries
LONDON, Nov 9 (Reuters) – Malala Yousafzai, the campaigner for girls’ education and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who survived being shot aged 15 by a Taliban gunman in her native Pakistan in 2012, has got married, she said on social media on Tuesday. The 24-year-old, who lives in Britain, said she and her new husband, Read More…
COP26: Woodsmoke clouds Nigeria’s carbon reduction plans
LAGOS, Nov 9 (Reuters) – Nigerians have been lining up to buy Adunni Abdul’s moimoi – black-eyed peas steamed in leaves – for more than a decade in the vast tech accessories market in Lagos. Five years ago, she ditched the smoke that came with it; now it is back. High prices for smokeless liquid Read More…
Taiwo Odukoya’s wife, Nomthi, dies of cancer
Fountain of Life Church has announced the death of their Senior Pastor’s Wife, Pastor Nomthi Odukoya. The church made the announcement in a statement they posted on their social media platforms. According to the statement, Pastor Nomthi Odukoya died from a cancer she had been battling in the last two years. “She battled cancer for Read More…
Banana Island murder: Danish man tells court he and wife were intimate before her death
A Dane, Peter Nielsen, charged with murder of his Nigerian wife and daughter, on Tuesday said that he woke up one morning and found them dead on their kitchen floor. Nielsen testified before a Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square. Nielsen said he watched a football match together with his wife and was Read More…
In Ataga murder case, illegible statements, inaudible audio cause adjournment of Chidinma’s trial
Following defence counsels’ complaints on Tuesday that the statements and audio served on them were illegible and inaudible, the trial judge in the Michael Usifo Ataga murder case, Justice Yetunde Adesanya directed the prosecution to make available clear proofs of evidence to the defence before the end of day. The complaint by the defence counsel Read More…
Nigeria administers 5.7 million COVID-19 vaccines, targets 112 million by 2022
Abuja, Nov. 8, 2021(NAN) The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), has vaccinated 5,770,899 eligible persons with the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination while 3,146,885 have taken the second dose (fully vaccinated). The Director, Planning Research and Statistics, NPHCDA, Dr. Abdullahi Bulama Garba, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja, at the Ministerial Press Briefing Read More…