Reading Time: 3 minutes Image Credits: REUTERS/John Sibley, REUTERS/Kieran Doherty. Boris Becker’s thunderous delivery earned him the nickname ‘Boom Boom’ as a 17-year-old Wimbledon winner in 1985 but on Friday, aged 54 and bust, the German great was told he must serve time in prison. Three times a champion on the grass courts of south-west London, the man who Read More…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Image Credits: Poverty Action Lab/Shutterstock. Lagos residents are divided on how mental evaluation should be included in pre-marital and post-wedding counselling to prevent the rising spate of domestic violence in homes. In a study carried out by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Lagosians in separate interviews on Friday, however, agreed that mental and psychological Read More…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Image Credits: PA Media, BBN. A police officer who appeared on the Nigerian version of Big Brother without permission from her bosses has been given a final written warning. PC Khafilat Kareem was a serving Metropolitan Police officer when she applied to be on the show in 2019. A misconduct hearing ruled PC Kareem should Read More…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Image Credits: Grooming Centre. Grooming Centre CEO, Dr Godwin Nwabunka with some of the women profiled in the book STORIES OF IMPACT: Real Women, Real Lives, Real Growth launched on Thursday, 28 April 2022 at the Grooming Centre Hall, Ejigbo, Lagos. CREDIT: Grooming Centre Grooming Centre, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that focuses on enabling financial Read More…
Reading Time: 4 minutes THE United Nations Assembly, UNGA, deliberations and resolution on the veto power that was held on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, was two years in the making but was all hot air without substance. It was a poor stage drama with a linear plot. The event was like a dog sharpening its teeth over two years for Read More…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Image Credits: REUTERS/Heather Somerville. San Francisco police were left scratching their heads after they pulled over a car earlier this month for driving without headlights at night and found no one inside. In what otherwise would have been a great April Fools’ Day joke, San Francisco police officers pulled over a driverless car operated by Read More…
Reading Time: 6 minutes “Kabiyesi, I’m told you want my daughter to enrol in your school so that you can convert her to Christianity”, said Imam Oyefolahan, Chief Imam of Eripa Central Mosque. He was addressing the Orangun of Oke-Ila Orangun and founder of Abolarin College, Oba Dr. Adedokun Omoniyi Abolarin, Aroyinkeye I. The Imam’s daughter, Aminat, had won Read More…
Reading Time: 16 minutes When over 40 years ago Abimbola Azeh was making a career choice, she did not see herself as a cobbler. Rather, she envisioned herself in the robes of a barrister in the mould of those portrayed on the BBC television show, Crown Court. She loved the courtroom drama of the show and was drawn to Read More…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Image Credits: The Statesman. By Prof. Remi Sonaiya, Abiodun Olowo-Ake, Betty Abah, Chido Nwakanma, Emmanuel Emeh and Ier Jonathan-Ichaver Our hearts are heavy and go out to the young children and families involved in this Chrisland VGC scandal. We pray that healing will come to them and that all involved will learn whatever lessons we Read More…
Reading Time: 5 minutes “Why is nobody putting me under pressure to contest for an office? Where are my people?”, asked Jibrin Ibrahim on twitter. One of the interesting replies he provoked was by M J Balogun (@balogunjide1) a former Director-General, Administrative Staff College of Nigeria: “We, your people, are here! We want you to run. We have the Read More…
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