IT was like a seamless gathering. Diplomats and academics. Practitioners of two assertive professions: lawyers and journalists. Cultural ambassadors and traditional chiefs. It was evening in Abuja on Monday, August 22, 2022. We were gathered for the pre-independence 60th anniversary of Trinidad and Tobago, T&T which comes up on August 31. The representative of the Read More…
It is no longer news that teenage pregnancy is a personal challenge that is fast becoming a universal challenge through which illiteracy and poverty are recycled. Before now, I used to erroneously believe that poverty is the only reason why teenage girls fall pregnant, but working with young people has opened my eyes to how Read More…
Dousing insinuations from various quarters that he will support candidates of other parties, President Muhammadu Buhari has said he will support only All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates. By implication, the Nigerian president is throwing his full weight behind the APC presidential flagbearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Buhari said he remains a “disciplined soldier” of the Read More…
The United States is expected to return $23 million taken by former military ruler Sani Abacha to Nigeria, officials said at an event to sign the agreement on Tuesday. Nigeria has reached several agreements to return stolen cash in recent years. Abacha ruled Africa’s most populous nation and top oil exporter from 1993 until his Read More…
Pupils of Mawumadoka Children’s Waterfront School in Makoko, Lagos Nigeria have received school materials from the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) office in Nigeria and its alumni association, SKICAN. Mr Minjae Kang, the Deputy Country Director representing the Country Director KOICA in a statement on Monday disclosed that the donation was aimed at encouraging and Read More…
Former World Bank vice president, Arunma Oteh has given reasons why she has decided to support Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi. In a flurry of tweets on Sunday Oteh said she could not remain apolitical due to Nigeria’s economic situation. She stated further that she has worked with Obi and could categorically state that Read More…
THE news went around. The Federal Government and striking lecturers in the country’s public universities organised under the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, were meeting on Tuesday, August 16, 2022. Not a few hoped that the six-month strike by the lecturers would be resolved. But the outcome was as disappointing as the cavalier way Read More…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured Nigerians that the electronic transmission of election result has come to stay. The commission gave the clarification in a statement titled: “Clarification on Electronic Transmission of Election Result” signed by Mr Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, in Abuja on Sunday. Okoye Read More…
To what extent does the last presidential election in Kenya foreshadow what is likely to happen in Nigeria in 2023? I am not one to draw undue parallels, knowing as I do that there are different intervening variables and sub-texts which may render a blanket generalisation sterile. However, there are many similarities that signpost the Read More…
Nigerian-British Anthony Joshua failed to win his boxing unification rematch against Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday, August 20 at the King Abdullah Sports City Arena in the coastal city of Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He lost to Usyk by a split decision. It was a keenly contested match with Anthony Joshua showing promise earlier Read More…
