If you ask most women about the diaper changing portion of mothering, they will typically say they do it because they have to but not because they love it. Beyonce is not most woman and she is certainly not typical. Speaking to Anderson Cooper on Anderson Live on, Monday, Mrs. Carter said, “Actually, [Jay-Z] is... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola The Lagos public schools’ curriculum is about to see a new introduction — Mandarin. No kidding – Fashola is working. As from next session public schools in Lagos State would have a subject called Mandarin (Chinese language) in their curriculum. The state’s commissioner for Education, Olayinka Oladunjoye, said in a signed statement... Read More
by Akan Ido The president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, Pastor Enoch Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), and Bishop David Oyedepo of the Winners’ Chapel are billed to be in Ibadan, Oyo State for the National Fasting and Prayer Day on September 22. The one day... Read More
It’s the dream team, meet the Supreme team And all our eyes green, it only mean one thing You ain’t fucking with my clique – Jay-Z (Clique) One the big ideas of this column have been the idea that people power is much greater than the people in power. As I have made very clear... Read More
Imagine that you own a blog where loads of information has been stored over time with value proportionately built with it? How would you want that value utilized should you no more be alive? A certain young lady on her way to her National Youth Service Corps got involved in a road accident and unfortunately... Read More
by Isi Esene In a new twist to the 5000 note saga, activists from the Concerned Human Rights Nigeria (CHRN), Civil Societies for Good Governance (CSGG), Joint Action Front (JAF), United Action for Democracy (UAD), Gani Fawehinmi Foundation (GFF), United Middle Belt Youth Congress (UMBYC), among others, took to the streets yesterday protesting the planned... Read More
by Isi Esene James Ibori, the former governor of Delta State who was convicted of money laundering and other financial crimes in a UK court in April surprised everyone yesterday by choosing to stay in his prison cell in Worchestershire rather than attend the confiscation of assets hearing between his defense team and the Crown... Read More
by Isi Esene With our gaze constantly fixed on the November #America2012 elections, we can’t help but notice how fit the US Vice President, Joe Biden appears to be as he sprinted out to address delegates at the recently concluded Democratic National Convention (DNC). Go get ’em Joe!
by Akan Ido Tan Chaoyun, the mother of Chinese quadruplets, gets numbered haircuts for them to make it easier for folks to tell them apart. For the first day of school, she had their heads shaved into numbers 1 to 4. “My sons are identical, even to me,” she said. Chaoyun confessed she also finds... Read More
Do not be coerced into helping anyone break the law, all in the name of love or romance. I read the report of the murdered Cynthia Osokogu, may her soul rest in peace, and chills went over me. She went missing in July and her body was found late in August at a Festac Morgue after... Read More
by Akan Ido Capital Oil and Gas, one of the companies indicted by the Presidential Committee on Verification and Reconciliation of Fuel Subsidy Payments headed by Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, has described the reports of the committee as “very shoddy”. The management of the company in a statement released to newsmen yesterday expressed surprise that the committee... Read More
by Akan Ido Former financial controller of Intercontinental Bank Plc. (now Access Bank Plc.), Akin Fabunmi, revealed in court yesterday that the bank paid N40bn to Tropics Securities, a stockbroking firm which Erastus Akingbola’s wife, Anthonia, has interests in, when buying its own shares from customers in 2008. Fabunmi said this at a Lagos High... Read More
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