At this point, this is just unfair. The burden of defending his government may have started kicking in. He’s had to deal with silly Nigerians wishing their president dead all week (make that two) and now somebody named Tuface is trying to conduct “a shake-down” at whose cost? If this tweet we just read doesn’t... Read More
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Baruwa Olalekan is probably the synonym you are looking for to properly describe the passionate, pragmatic pursuit of a single-minded vision. So we’ll just use his name since that may be too long to type every time. We had a long chat with him few days ago at the Serve office in Lagos where, for... Read More
Honestly, at this point, we cannot help but ask. Just last week, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, decided to take out the frustrations that the ruling party, All Progressives Congress, has been feeling over the wrongly-timed vacation of his boss on the whole of Nigeria. He went from being gobsmacked at our ability to... Read More
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Amongst the many promises of Change that this present administration campaigned on, is that the provision of many social investment programmes (SIPs) to help alleviate poverty and just generally hand out bail outs in different sectors. One of such programmes was kicked off last year, as, on the 9th of June 2016, the office of the... Read More
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A couple of days ago, we spoke about the disaster-in-waiting that President Buhari is currently toying with by not forwarding any names to the Senate for confirmation as regards the currently empty office of Chief Justice of Nigeria. The Acting Chief Justice’s term of three months as prescribed by law and no one in the... Read More
by Roqeebah Olaoniye Not many people know this, but Shan George starred in a soap opera titled Winds of Destiny before she became widely popular for her role in the feature film, Outkast. In fact, before Outkast, she’d produced her own movie, All for Winnie, in her final year of University in 1998. She was a student... Read More
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by Roqeebah Olaoniye Nigerians are suspicious. Naturally so. Rightly so too. We have been so cheated, so wronged, for so long by people in high places that we are now conditioned to take everything said by anyone that appears to have any sort of privileges with at least a grain of salt. Or a bunch of... Read More
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After it’s Homegrown School Feeding Programme and the NGN 5000 monthly being paid to poor Nigerians, the Federal Government has kicked off another one of its Social Investment Programmes (SIPs), the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP). GEEP aims to provide soft interest-loans targeted at micro-enterprises run by traders, artisans, market sellers, entrepreneurs, and farmers... Read More
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A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Wole Olanipekun, has just raised a most vital point in a statement entitled “The Imperative of Appointing and Swearing-in a Substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria,” where he cites the provisions of Section 231 (1) and (4) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Sections speak to the appointment... Read More
She made it to the Top 6 quite alright. Mary EstherWere, the Miss Kenya Universe, oOn her own and with quite a number of fans on Twitter as the show progressed made it past Top 13 and then Top 9 before getting through, lonely African, into the Top 6. Even when we were starting to... Read More
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President Donald Trump has 45th President of the United States for all of one week and he’s already pissed off the world, both within and outside the United States. Honestly, at this point, he may even be toying with United Nations sanctions. Yes, that bad. Undemocratic, and authoritarian are some of the words being used... Read More
This is the moment they've been waiting for all their lives. #MissUniverse pic.twitter.com/kb3P542Pcw — Miss Universe (@MissUniverse) January 30, 2017 The 2015 Miss Universe, Pia Wurtzbach from the Philippines has just handed over her crown to Miss France, Iris Mittenaere. She was crowned by Miss Philippines, the former Miss Universe and will wear it and bear the... Read More
The Miss Universe for 2016 pageant is ongoing at the Mall of Asian Arena in Manila, Philippines. This year’s show is being hosted again by Family Guy show host, Steve Harvey with performances from Flo Rida who opened the show wearing a red get up. He performed his hit song, Apple Bottom Jeans, My House and many more as contestants were called on... Read More
The Miss Universe competition has endured 65 editions yearly since the first one held in 1952. It was founded by a California-based clothing outfit, Pacific Knitting Mills and the Miss Universe Organisation but it is now owned by WME/IMG Talent Agency which bought it off President Donald Trump in 2015. Miss Universe – Wikipedia Interesting... Read More
It has been a long week but all you need to know about it has been condensed into these ten pictures that show that Donald Trump lost, Nigeria is still the same, Serena Williams is King and in the end, beauty is calming. See our top 10 photos from the past week below: The Northern... Read More
This week it was hard to drown out the noise of conviction about the President’s health status coming from the Presidency but then there’s been more from others in and outside Nigeria. See our top ten quotes from the past week below: “We look forward to having a great relationship with all countries. We believe... Read More
The Presidential media team seems to have a whole album of photos ready for release everytime there’s any rumour about his death. This time, it’s a photo of him and his wife, Aisha Buhari. Looking very relaxed, by the way, don’t you think? Honestly, someone just needs to school these people that they are the... Read More
Maybe yesterday you read in the News that MPs in the United Kingdom have only five days to consider the 137 word in a bill presented to them by the government. A bill that once passed, will trigger the formal process of Britain’s exit from the European Union and thought to yourself: “Didn’t they leave the EU last June?”.... Read More
Wife of the President Buhari, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, has organised a free medical outreach for citizens of Nigeria living in Kogi State as part of her Future Assured Programme. Recall that she recently entered into a partnership with the Bil and Melinda Gates Foundation that will allow the Future Assured Project reach more people. In... Read More
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https://instagram.com/p/BPvZWs4gprb/ No matter how horrible things get in Nigeria, we can always count on people like the comedian, Ali BabaGCFR to bail us out with some jokes. Sadly though after all fun and jokes, the reality always sits there waiting. Former Minister of Petroleum, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke became liable to be used in this kinds... Read More
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