There’s probably nothing more crushing as another human exercising complete power over you to violate in the worst ways. How anybody can come through that and still be a fully functioning human being is nothing short of a miracle. How anyone can go through that and decide to turn the tables on the event and...
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Every day, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we read their rants, opinions, perspectives on political and social matters, etc. Sometimes, they are just downright ridiculous. We make it our job to take down the names of these noisemakers. Here’s our list from today: 1 Juliet Kego...
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Domestic violence is not restricted to one gender. Although rarely broadcast, men are victims of domestic violence. Sometime in January, Babatunde Rosanwo shared his anguish with Twitter NG. This story below is as told by the doctor who attended to him. Do see below: So a married man presented at our hospital last night with injuries...
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Suspended lawmaker, Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin (remember him?) has not stopped commenting on political issues in the country albeit from an aloof stance. Although he’s no longer making headlines as he did at the time his whistleblowing was loudest, the lawmaker is still as opinionated as we remember him. In a tweet he shared tonight, Hon...
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The warehouse of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in its office premises in Oshodi area of Lagos state was on Saturday razed by fire. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said the fire incident started from the power house around 3.15pm. A statement by Adesina Tiamiyu, general manager...
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A woman, Toyin Adeyeye, her two month-old baby, Heritage and her younger brother, Adeniyi Dada have allegedly been brutalized by policemen in Ekiti State for refusing to give bribe at a police checkpoint. It was learnt that they were beaten by five policemen who later took them to New Iyin Police Station. It was gathered...
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by Pius Adesanmi Any public figure whose name we fail to agree on will always cause wahala. Evan Enwerem? Evans Enwerem? James Onanefe Ibori? Onanefe James Ibori? Now we have Hammeed Alli! In a single edition of The Nation Newspaper (boda Sanya Oni, take note) on September 13, 2015, the headline reads “Hamid Ali” while...
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Kaduna senator, Shehu Sani has asked the All Progressives Congress (APC) to penalise Kaduna governor, Nasir El-Rufai for allegedly leaking a memo he wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari. Sani, who is the Vice-Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, called for the punitive measures in a statement he released in Abuja on Saturday. Recall that there...
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Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye has alleged that the Economic And Financial Crimes Commission was cooking up allegations against him. Melaye made the claim on Twitter, stating that the anti-graft agency was conducting forensic tests on his bank accounts. He, however, pointed out that he was ready for the commission’s investigation. Melaye wrote, “I...
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Former Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa, has said President Muhammadu Buhari can nominate Ibrahim Magu as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) up to four times. The Senate had rejected Magu’s nomination for the second time following reports from the Department of State Service. In...
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Earlier on today, a Twitter user told how a lady approached him and offered to perform a BJ on him in exchange for t-fare. He refused her both requests and caught major flak for it. It even devolved into a women’s rights issue. Chidi Okereke has explained why society will continue to react differently to...
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Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau will on Monday officially launch the new Immigration Regulations. Sunday James, the spokesperson for the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Abuja. “The honourable Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau, (retired) will officially present the Immigration Regulations 2017...
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Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, let me begin by welcoming our dear leader, President Muhammadu Buhari, back home from his medical vacation in London. We have every cause to be thankful to Allah, the Merciful. The Yoruba have a very apt adage for what happened to President Buhari: we should be grateful to the death that...
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A Chibok girl who escaped from Boko Haram insurgents has urged the Nigerian government and the world not to forget her friends who are still in captivity. The girl who spoke under the pseudonym – Sa’a –made the plea during the Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai. “These girls are human beings, not something...
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The #IStandwithBuhari group has said Igbo will only get the freedom they desire if they support President Muhammadu Buhari to complete his second term tenure. Speaking through its south-east media director, Mr Ebube Mbonu, the group asked the Biafra secessionist agitators to forget the dream that they would get a country for themselves. The group...
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The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari, Femi Adesina has said some persons were trying to cause friction between the Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and President Muhammadu Buhari. He said this in a recent interview with Vanguard. Adesina said those in this category will not succeed. “Their role in the presidency is one. It is a...
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Lately, I have been thinking and visualising all the jagbajantis going on in the legislative branch of our government and na vex just dey worry me. See as some people dey prance around like dem be Kingcon. I just dey sorry for us. Shey una dey follow the twin issues of EFCC’s Ibrahim Magu and...
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Former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo has said Anambra state governor, Willie Obiano has achieved a lot in the state. He said this while delivering at a lecture to mark the third anniversary of Governor Willie Obiano’s administration in Awka on Friday. He likened him to a general who must not...
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Twitter is pretty noisy today, and it’s got something to do with it being Saturday and this fantastic story below: https://twitter.com/Dxlu_/status/842831878734446593 What is this Lagos turning into bikonu? — Ewgi (@Ssaasquatch) March 17, 2017 https://twitter.com/Dxlu_/status/842834434776875008 The narrator probably never expected that the conversation would turn controversial, but it did. Everything from Feminist tirades to...
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The Nigerian Army has refuted report that it will be training the 76 Regular Recruits Intake (76RRI) in the Sambisa forest. The Army spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, in a statement on Saturday urged the public to disregard message on the social media purportedly emanating from the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, to that...
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Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has defended his decision to appoint 110 ministers. In an interview on national television on Friday, Akufo-Addo said the decision was a necessary investment. I’m aware that people are concerned about what they see as maybe the cost of this large government,” he said. “It is a necessary investment to make.”...
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by Wilfred Okiche In the 1997 Hollywood film, Devil’s Advocate, Al Pacino, playing a human incarnation of Satan, mischievously named vanity as his favourite sin. For Dare Olaitan, writer and director of the offbeat black comedy/thriller, Ojukokoro, there is nothing quite as grand as greed. It isn’t just the title of his debut film,- Ojukokoro...
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US President Donald Trump has insisted that former President Barack Obama wiretapped his phones during the Presidential elections campaign. He said this in a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. He referred to the US National Security Agency’s reported tapping of Merkel’s phone several years ago. “As far as wiretapping, I guess, by...
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by Oghenechovwen Oghenekevwe. “Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.” – Malala Yousafzai; youngest Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. During the lead-up to the 2017 Commonwealth Day, I was worried by a visual memory. It was an old and ugly graffiti painted on the wall of...
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Over 1000 delegates across the country were hosted at the Youth & Women Empowerment Congress 2017 held on Thursday at NECA Event Centre, Ikeja, Lagos. The congress organised by Young Entrepreneurs of Nigeria (YEN) also known as Association of Youth Entrepreneurs of Nigeria had in attendance co-founder Red Africa, Adebola Williams, Founder Slum2School, Otto Orondaam, Founder Gazelle...
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N49million – The EFCC intercepted five sacks containing new naira notes of this amount at the Kaduna International airport. The sacks contained 20 bundles of N200 notes and 180 bundles of N50 notes all totaling N49 million. 900 – Aero Contractors lays off 900 members of its workforce for redundancy. The affected staff would be...
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by Peregrino Brimah The intensity of the memo Kaduna state governor Nasir el-Rufai wrote to president Muhammadu Buhari last September as just released by SaharaReporters is rivalled. However, the apparent intention of the letter must be reviewed. In the highly disparaging 30-page letter, the Kaduna governor lambasted president Buhari for failing even in mundane matters. Of note, the...
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by Edem Andah – Ossai Sometime in 2015, while completing a post-graduate programme at the University of Ibadan, I witnessed a heated exchange between a young man and a lady in the Faculty over an issue to do with a student body election process. The loud argument was about to turn fierce as the...
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The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Sani Usman has said it is an offence for civilians to military camouflage. Usman said this in a recent interview with Punch. The army spokesperson said such offence attracts a one month imprisonment. He said, “It is an offence. I expected journalists to have done their homework very...
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