By Rachel Ogbu Tributes have been pouring in since the news that Sheila Solarin, wife of the late renowned social critic, Tai Solarin, had passed on was released to the public on Sunday. Sheila died on Sunday as a result of injuries she sustained when she fell out from a chair. Her son, Tunde who... Read More
by Demola Rewaju It is however in the area of motorcycle transportation that Fashola strongly shows not only his elitist mentality but also a peculiar lack of understanding of how Lagos was built on the foundations of free enterprise. Many actions of His Excellency the Governor of Lagos State have made me conclude before... Read More
What: The Headies 2012. Where: Expo Centre, Eko Hotel and Suites, Lagos. When: October 20, 2012. Photos by Hycinth Iyereosa
by Rachel Ogbu Picture: The Punch The four states said to have invested in power production have failed in their combined attempt to make their preferred power distribution bidder – Southern Electric Distribution Company – the winner. They blame the unfairness of the process. Governors of Edo, Delta, Ondo and Ekiti, whose consortium submitted a... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola There are no permanent foes in politics, the saying goes. Here’s your proof: The Peoples Democratic Party, which along with the Action Congress of Nigeria, fiercely contested the just concluded gubernatorial poll in Ondo State with Olusegun Mimiko of the Labour Party, paid a congratulatory visit to the latter at the Ondo... Read More
by Isi Esene Senator Ahmad Zannah (Borno Central) who was accused by the Joint Military Task Force of sheltering a Boko Haram Commander in his house, yesterday fired a return salvo at the JTF accusing the outfit of killing 15 boys playing football in an open space. The senator had on Sunday denied sheltering the... Read More
by Hauwa Gambo Nollywood observers would know by now that, a few days ago, blogger and gossip journalist Stella Dimoko-Korkus revealed exclusively on her blog that actor (and singer?) Jim Iyke has an 11-year-old son. He is said to have had the son with an ex-girlfriend who relocated to the United Kingdom years ago. No... Read More
by Niyi Akinnaso Several mediators appealed to him to leave Governor Olusegun Mimiko alone, that he was too popular in Ondo State to be dislodged, that Ondo politics was kind of unique, and that a Mimiko victory might dent his political stature and expose his vulnerabilities. But the National Leader of the Action Congress of... Read More
A commercial motorcyclist, identified simply as Ifeanyi, has been arrested for allegedly handing over a nurse, Mrs. Helen Ilonge, to ritual killers after collecting N10, 000. PUNCH Metro learnt that Ilonge had on Tuesday last week took Ifeanyi’s motorcycle on her way to Igoli along the Ogoja-Ikom Highway in Ogoja LGA. Ilonge, the coordinator of... Read More
by Hauwa Gambo Public sentiment be damned – the Action Congress of Nigeria is insisting it should have won the Ondo gubernatorial elections this weekend. In a statement issues yesterday, the candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Rotimi Akeredolu insisted that the win by the Labour Party’s Olusegun Mimiko was tainted with irregularities –... Read More
Tunde, son of the late renowned social critic, Dr. Tai Solarin, said his mother, Sheila, died on Sunday as a result of injuries she sustained when she fell out from a chair. He said his mother was fond of gathering children around herself while sitting on the chair from which she fell. Tunde, who described... Read More
stated that the thinking of the government was that by the end of this month, no okada rider should be seen on any of the prohibited routes, saying that government was more determined to enforce the ban. According to Fashola, there were lots of jobs to do for okada riders that might lose their businesses,... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola The Kogi State House of Assembly has been rocked by crisis which has seen two factions emerged. The Federal House of Representatives viewed the crisis as so severe that it had to intervene, setting up a six-man ad-hoc committee chaired by Mohammed Mourktar Ahmed. That committee has quickly sprung into action, sealing... Read More
by Hauwa Gambo You may or may not know of a new artiste called Burna Boy who may or may not have hit singles. Last week, after actress Tonto Dikeh was widely (and might we add, wildly) panned across the globe for her severely auto-tuned album, the singer joined the race – calling for death... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola The news which everyone heard loud and clear from the Joint Task Force (JTF) was that a top Boko Haram commander, Bama, was arrested in the home of a senator representing Borno Central Senatorial District, Ahmad Zanna. Even Zanna admitted that the Boko Haram man was a nephew of his. What he... Read More
the general public, there may be something almost bizarre about the editor of one of BBC journalism’s flagships – Panorama – commissioning an investigation into why the editor of another of BBC journalism’s flagships – Newsnight – decommissioned an investigation. Tonight I heard one correspondent on a rival channel describe it as ‘corporate cannibalism’. But... Read More
The bullets were on the house. A Winter Park, Fla., restaurant owner allegedly shot at two customers after they complained about the food and one of them didn’t pay a $19 bill, reports WFTV. James Marshall Phillips and Destin McMahon, the two diners, told the station they complained to the server at Wazzabi Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi... Read More
When you’re eight months pregnant and about to get married, you don’t expect that to be the day you take your last breath. That is the tragedy of Vindalee Smith, a 38-year old woman who was stabbed and killed in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn this weekend. The woman was found in her home with... Read More
Two off-duty Florida law-enforcement officers fatally shot an armed, naked woman who confronted them at a party Saturday, authorities said. The shooting occurred at about 1:15 p.m. Saturday in Hernando County, north of Tampa. The county sheriff’s office said in a news release that the men were approached by an “armed, naked and irrational female.”... Read More
by Oluwatobi Soyombo Mayflower was the kind of school that combined academic excellence with moral and spiritual balance irrespective of your religion. You’ve got skill/talent? Mayflower recognizes this. Yesterday evening, I read with sadness the death of an icon. Legend. A virtuous woman. A mother of many. Obinrin ogun (woman of war). Madam Sheila Sholarin... Read More
The longest fingernails belonged to Lee Redmond (USA), who started to grow them in 1979 and carefully manicured them to reach a total length of 8.65 m (28 ft 4.5 in) as measured on the set of Lo show dei record in Madrid, Spain, on 23 February 2008. Lee lost her nails in an... Read More
The Federal Government has declared Thursday and Friday as public holidays to mark the 2012 Eid el-kabir celebration. Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, who announced this in Abuja on Monday, called on Nigerians to imbibe and emulate the worthy tenets of Islam as practiced by the holy Prophet Mohammad. A statement signed by the Permanent... Read More
Heidemarie Schwermer, a 69-year-old woman from Germany, gave up using money 15 years ago and says she’s been much happier ever since. Heidemarie’s incredible story began 22 years ago, when she, a middle-aged secondary school teacher emerging from a difficult marriage, took her two children and moved to the city of Dortmund, in Germany’s Ruhr... Read More
Ali-Mohamed Mohamud was convicted of second degree murder in the death of his 10-year old stepson. The beating was so bad that many police said that it was the worst crime they’d ever seen. The father duct taped the boy’s mouth and binded his hands with electrical cord, and then proceeded to beat the... Read More
If there’s one thing everyone knows about hip-hop mogul/entrepreneur Jay-Z, it is that he is an expert in all matters regarding business. The drug dealer -turned rapper – entrepreneur is one of the wealthiest men in the world. Forbes claimed he and Beyoncé Knowles’ combined incomes equate to a billion dollars. With all of this... Read More
by Isi Esene The enforcement of the new Lagos Traffic Law has continued to generate protests. Motorcycle operators, popularly called ‘Okada’, came out in their numbers in the Mushin area of Lagos on Monday singing solidarity songs in protest against the activities of the police and traffic management agencies in the state over the enforcement... Read More
by Yemisi Ogbe The Nigerians in London not only had to deal with the frustration of eating chicken that was texturally revolting… soft flesh falling off the bone at the most gentle of boilings; chicken that was so fatty, you knew it hadn’t moved more than a few centimetres in a battery cage. Perhaps only... Read More