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By Itunuoluwa Adebo In what appears to be the largest leak of C.I.A documents in history, Wikileaks released on Tuesday thousands of pages describing sophisticated software tools and techniques used by the agency to break into computers, smartphones, and even Internet-connected televisions. The documents amount to a detailed, highly technical catalog of tools. They include... Read More
by Azeez Adeniyi The Nigerian Association of Nigerian Traders said the country has lost more than N130bn to corruption at its borders. President, National Association of Nigerian Traders, Mr Ken Ukaoha, said this on Wednesday. Ukaoha said, “These past three months alone, Nigeria has lost more than N130 billion due to the porosity of our... Read More
We at the Sexuality Blog are revisiting the basics, and as best we can, explaining the concepts of sex, consent and the different aspects of rape culture with analogies that are specific to Nigerians. We are also trying to answer a number of questions that revolve around rape culture and how our current beliefs and... Read More
By Itunuoluwa Adebo The Trump administration is planning to ask for a relatively small amount of money to start building the President’s long-promised border wall this year far short of estimates of what the wall might cost. Despite the President’s repeated calls to begin building immediately the substantive wall along the entire Southern border, which... Read More
Mr Trump seems to be on a roll this week, but when isn’t he? In the wake of the wire-tapping allegations against Obama in a tweet over the weekend, Twitter’s most active president isn’t done. He tweeted “122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield. Just another terrible... Read More
So Donald Trump has signed a new immigration order and it’s been met by expected opposition and criticism, but here are the 4 main things we’ve gleamed from Travel Ban 2.0. The new ban takes effect from March 16. Iraq has been removed from the list of affected countries. The affected countries are Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia,... Read More
The TECNO L9 Plus is here to take you by surprise and literally give you a much better experience in “Bigger” and “Longer” doses. “Longer” Battery Life: The TECNO L9 Plus is brilliantly crafted with a 5000mah Ultra Long-lasting Battery; this technically means you can use your phone for over 3 days of uninterrupted battery... Read More
by Dele Awogbeoba For a while now, the Niger Delta has been on the boil again. Bayelsa, Delta, Rivers and Akwa Ibom constitute the major sources of oil revenue that makes up over 60% of Federal Government foreign exchange earnings and over 50% of Federal Government Income. Ondo, Imo, Abia, Anambra and Lagos states contribute... Read More
by Dolapo Adelana Social commentator Japheth Omojuwa is currently being detained by South African border officials. According to Omojuwa who tweeted about the situation, said he is being held and has been isolated. See tweets below: The lady said to me; "this country, does it look like Lagos? Go back to your country" — JJ.... Read More
It’s doubtful. And that’s because we have made it the bedrock, the corner stone, the essence of politics. But it’s more than that, as @KingDouyeAlfred explains. Do see below: 1-"Ethnicity doesn't matter! I just want a country that works" LOL Naivety at it's peak As usual, we don't ask the right questions — King Alfred... Read More
The Buhari government is an absolute propagandocracy, that is, a government conducted by intentionally false and manipulative information. And this is so because the very foundation of the government is fraud. When you defraud people into electing you and you have no substance to justify the trust they invested in you, you either apologise and... Read More
by Reno Omokri This has been a most interesting week for me. As many of my readers may have become aware, the minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, gave an interview to some select papers (THISDAY thankfully not included) and repeated the lie that former President Jonathan pilfered $49.8 billion from the national treasury and that... Read More
by Pius Adesanmi One of the more curious consequences of President Buhari’s prolonged medical absence from Nigeria and the criminalization of questions about his condition by the President’s people is an emergent practice of federalism which speaks to Nigeria’s tendency to bastardise just about everything she touches. For the record, we already practice a bastardised... Read More
by Abiodun KOMOLAFE “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer, 1875 – 1965. It is a long established fact that men have different motives for seeking power. Some are altruistic and some are... Read More
by ‘Lakunle Jaiyesimi Dear Hannibal, “This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice”, are words attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., one of the U.S. Supreme Court’s great Justices (as he then was). They were uttered in response to the argument of a young lawyer who mentioned severally while... Read More
by Dolapo Adelana A suspected member of Boko Haram, Mukthar Suleiman who escaped from the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) in 2015 after killing a police officer has been rearrested. Suleiman was arraigned before a magistrates’ court in Lokoja, the Kogi state capital, on Tuesday. Prosecuting counsel, Mohammed Abaji said Suleiman was... Read More
by Dolapo Adelana The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris has urged the Force to go beyond parading suspects before the media to actual prosecution. Idris, who stated this while addressing a seminar for state commands’ public relations officers on Tuesday at the Force headquarters, Abuja, said it was necessary to ensure the diligent trial of... Read More
by Dolapo Adelana Ekiti Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has asked former President Olusegun Obasanjo to stop blaming others in his generation for the nation’s problems. The governor, who was reacting to a statement credited to Obasanjo in which he said his generation had failed the nation, said the former president had a huge chunk of the... Read More
The 89th Academy Awards held last night in the United States and as can be expected of an event as anticipated as the Oscars, the internet has been awash with memes and micro-posts on Twitter as well as other social media platforms. However, we understand that the timing sucks – the time difference that put... Read More
The 2017 Oscars had one of the most shocking moments ever, when they mixed up the winner for Best Picture. See video below: https://twitter.com/Kingwole/status/836088454635102208 Reactions Steve Harvey’s jazz https://twitter.com/Kingwole/status/836081706180411392 Steve Harvey right now— #Oscars pic.twitter.com/Zx4nRyMLPH — Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah) February 27, 2017 Stunned https://twitter.com/Gidimeister/status/836082496903184384 A WTF epidemic https://t.co/dshUi76gkf — Mark Amaza (@amasonic) February 27, 2017... Read More
by Pius Adesanmi A friend asked me today why I have not weighed in on the recent wave of xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa. I told him that I am not indifferent to the situation. On the contrary, I’ve been monitoring it quite closely. It’s just that I’ve written condemnations and analyses during... Read More
Something unNigerian happened in Abuja on Thursday: protesters vandalised an MTN office in an apparent reprisal mission over the perennial xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa. MTN, being the biggest South African company in the country, is by far the easiest for reprisal. This, I suppose, was meant to send a message to South... Read More
by Tony Ogunlowo I’ve spent a lifetime fending off spiritual attacks from family, friends and people I don’t even know. Thank God I’m still alive till this day to tell the tale; many not so fortunate have gone to meet their Maker before their time. We live in precarious times where people use the Power... Read More
Every day on the Nigerian internet, 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 even just downright ridiculous. We make it our job to take down the names of these noisemakers. Here’s our list from... Read More
by Reno Omokri I believe I now know the reason why God allowed President Buhari to come back to power. It was to expose him for who he really is. Not the saint he portrays himself. A so-called anti-corruption crusader who writes letters to cover his corrupt Secretary to the Government of the Federation and... Read More
Fellow Nigerians, something major is happening in our dear beloved country and it is very positive. Every disappointment they say is a blessing. While we are very sad that our President, Muhammadu Buhari, has not been feeling too well for some time now and needs treatment and recuperation abroad, I now believe that God wants... Read More
It is easy to throw in the towel and shut down your business, given the economic terrain in Nigeria, but ‘Feyzo’ as she is fondly called wasn’t born a quitter and has chosen to keep pushing her brand, Fedora Organics. Feyisayo’s story will inspire every entrepreneur who has been thinking of quitting to hold on,... Read More
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