About 150 students are missing after armed men raided a boarding school in Nigeria’s Kaduna state, a parent and an administrator said on Monday, and police said they were in hot pursuit alongside military personnel. The attack on the Bethel Baptist High School is the 10th mass school kidnapping since December in northwest Nigeria, which Read More…
INEC HAS COMMENCED voter registration for the 2023 elections beginning 28 June 2021 until August. It comes against the backdrop of some confusion in the South-East concerning its political future given recent events. INEC planned the voters’ roll initially for February 2021, and this column noted that it would play a critical role towards 2023. Read More…
By Chiamaka Nsude Behind every successful man there is a formidable support system and for Burna Boy, that support system is his mother Bose Ogulu A.K.A. ‘Mama Burna’. She had taken over the official management of her son’s musical career in 2017 when it became obvious that Burna needed an overhaul that would help project Read More…
By Nkanu Egbe Take a walk into a clothing shop in the United States, check the labels on their garments and you will see “Made in Turkey”, “Made in China”, “Made in Nigeria” … Made in Nigeria? Yes! Unknown to many, Nigeria exports first-grade textiles and garments to Europe and the United States. The numbers Read More…
I CANNOT BELIEVE I am writing this. The events are a nightmare that will not go away. Pa Joseph Oritseretsolokumi Ayomike, an 83-year-old man of culture and immense intellect, and his wife, Dr. Chinyere ‘Chichi’ Shirley Ayomike, opera soloist/duetist, Technical Vocational Education and Training, TVET, expert, and a senior lecturer at the Delta State University, Read More…
THREE NEWS-BREAKS, the re-arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB); the storming of the residence of Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a. Sunday Igboho, and the passing of the Petroleum Industry Bill by the National Assembly — nearly consigned the seminal treatise enunciated by former President Goodluck Jonathan at the 13th Joe-Kyari Gadzama Read More…
IF SHEIK AHMAD GUMI’S intention in rubbishing the security agencies and pontificating as the self-appointed capon of banditry and kidnapping in Nigeria, is to attract attention — he has succeeded spectacularly. Although the government pretends not to notice the man’s dangerous rhetoric, the Nigerian Army which was at the receiving end of his latest series Read More…
Lawyers say case already jeopardised For Ojukwu Okwara Onoh, father of prime suspect in the recent death of a television executive in Lagos, his nightmare began on Wednesday, 23rd June 2021 when at about 10 pm, police officers from the Lagos State Force Criminal Investigation department (CID), stormed his Alagomeji, Yaba apartment to effect the Read More…
“Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts”; says Dalai Lama XIV. “Differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.” Such sentiments are desperately needed in Nigeria today. Different parts of the country have been vending different positions on the problem with Read More…
It may seem that the light that ignited a gas explosion on Thursday night came from a Chinese Restaurant. The restaurant is among the many businesses within the premises of OPIC Plaza. OPIC Plaza was the epicentre of where a moving Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) tanker was located before the blast. The LPG tanker was Read More…