by Kolapo Olapoju Chairman of Silverbird television, Ben Murray-Bruce, has shown in the past week that he may be a rebel in the Senate. Murray-Bruce, over the last couple of days, has been advocating for and championing the cause of the regular Nigerians on micro-blogging platform, Twitter. From criticising the level of corruption in the country to...
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At $20,000, the Louis XIII Rare Cask is the world’s most expensive bottle of cognac. Yes, TWENTY THOUSAND dollars. Going by the weekend’s black market exchange rate, that’s N4,300,000. You see all those zeros? That’s a lot. It might have the coolest unboxing ever too Let’s put that in perspective, here’s 10 things you can...
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by Kolapo Olapoju Following the much publicised ‘fear of prosecution’ comment by President Goodluck Jonathan, on Sunday, the All Progressives Congress (APC) says playing victim will not deter the incoming government from doing what it has to do. As always, the APC issued a statement to the effect in Abuja on Monday through its National Publicity Secretary, Lai...
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by Panshak Ibrahim The US Department of State needs to urgently contact the President of Chad, Idris Derby. We suspect he may be worthy of the N1.4 billion bounty offer placed on Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau. During a congratulatory visit to President Jonathan on Monday, Derby said he has no idea where Shekau is...
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by Anike Jacobs A 70 year old woman has been arrested by the Kwara state police command for kidnap. In Nigeria, kidnap victims are usually taken for ransom purposes and rituals, but this 7 year old woman (name withheld) kidnapped a three year old girl (name withheld) for…wait for it, alms begging! And the best...
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Art plays a crucial role in society and can have a huge impact on community cohesion and development. However the art scene remains dominated by white, male artists while black, female artists remain largely shut out. Black communities have been among the hardest hit by austerity and the arts are consistently undermined by cuts. This...
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by Chinwe Okafor Well if there’s one thing that is certain, these trekkers aren’t jobless or have the tendency not to be. So why are these people still trekking? So if you recollect, female trekker for GEJ joined male trekker, Oladele Nihi during his quest to 15 minutes of fame and later dumped him when...
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by Ranti Joseph The war of words between the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Adamu Mu’azu and Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose over the latter asking Mu’azu to resign his seat as chairman seems to be growing deeper as Mu’azu has dared members threatening him to factionalise the party. Muazu, who disclosed...
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by Chinwe Okafor Well at least one person in the family is sensible enough o know when to quit. Emmanuel Adebayor had quite an interesting week when he described his family members as “leeches“. The expose was a little too heavy to bear for most. One of such is his sister who came out to...
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by Adekoya Emmanuel Despite the ongoing furore over rice import allocations for 2014, the Federal Government has downwardly reviewed its import target for the commodity to 1.3 million metric tonnes. According to a letter signed by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwunmi A. Adesina, addressed to the Co-ordinating Minister of the Economy and...
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by Ranti Joseph The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is really going through tough crisis and it seems to be have extended to its Lagos State chapter as its chairman, Tunji Shelle, was on Monday sacked by 34 members of the State Working Committee. He was immediately replaced by the current Secretary, Wahab Owokoniran as acting...
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by Anike Jacobs Wait, putting a four-year-old in a car is now an act of witchcraft? Well someone thinks so! For bending over to put her four-year-old son in a car seat, a six months old pregnant woman, Ester Horton, in Florida was recently attacked by a neighbor with a large rock. Why? The neighbor,...
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by Wilfred Okichie The original Desperate Housewives, a primetime soap created by Marc Cherry, and premiered on ABC in October, 2004 was together with other titles, Grey’s Anatomy and Lost, credited with bringing about a reversal of fortunes for home studio, ABC, placing it once again on the path to financial and ratings success, long...
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by Ranti Joseph The All Progressives Congress (APC) shades President Goodluck Jonathan telling him that he shouldn’t be afraid of incoming Buhari’s administration, saying only the guilty needs to be afraid and that incoming Buhari Administration will not persecute anyone. APC, in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai...
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by Ranti Joseph Well, some agency are scared it may not survive the expected general restructuring of government outfits and as such the secretariat of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P), has embarked on a hastened shut down of its programmes and activities towards the May 29 hand over to a new administration to...
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Dear General Buhari, About six weeks ago, Nigerians stood in line and cast their ballots in what is one of Nigeria’s most historic elections and elected you as president albeit with a slim majority over your opponent, making you the first candidate to defeat an incumbent president. For so many Nigerians including your supporters, it...
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by Kolapo Olapoju Buruj Kashamu, Senator-elect of Ogun-East, says he discovered the plot to abduct and cart him away to the United States to face drug-related charges through a friend of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke (SAN). In a petition dated April 15, 2015, which he wrote to the...
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by Ranti Joseph Some faction of the Ndigbo caucus is really pissed with the other faction going to visit the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari and lobbying for appointments. The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, condemned in strong terms the recent visit of Ralph Obioha and some Igbo leaders to Buhari, on behalf of the organisation, describing the...
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by Kolapo Olapoju As he prepares to make his exit out of the Presidential villa, President Goodluck Jonathan has started talking… about what awaits him after loosing his grip on power. Jonathan is apparently apprehensive of what may possibly happen in his personal life and officially after leaving office. On Sunday during a thanksgiving and farewell service...
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by Kolapo Olapoju The Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu I, has finally spoken out about his Lagoon throwing threat against the Igbos in the state. In an interview with Punch Newspapers, the monarch warned non-indigenes in Lagos State to respect the tradition and culture of their host. In response to the threatening comments while campaigning for Akinwunmi Ambode of...
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by Paul Omoruyi The beauty about social media is that it can be faceless and nameless but the message can be thunderous with far-reaching effect. A teenager in a little village in Benin City can post a comment on Facebook or Twitter that can lead to a revolution on the other side of the world....
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Buhari not a miracle worker, quick fixes shouldn’t be expected. Nation Kashamu and abduction saga, says Adoke friend plans to abduct him. Punch Senate says supreme court has no power to stop constitution amendment. Nation Jonathan meets with PDP post-election panel members. Punch Tambuwal assures South-south to expect better deal from Buhari. Leadership APC should...
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by Anike Jacobs Africa’s richest man (according to Forbes), Dangote, who is worth $15.7 billion, recently got everyone takingwhen he disclosed his interest in purchasing football club, Arsenal,valued at $1.49bn. In an interview he did with Bloomberg while traveling in a private jet from Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to Lagos on May 1, Dangote said he’ll love to buy...
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by Anike Jacobs So, the 2015 edition of the annual Lagos carnival held on Saturday, May 9, 2016 and oh my, was it fun? It was an occasion of glamor, color, fun, beauty and a rich display of the culture of Lagos with various groups representing diverse neighborhoods, communities and selected associations in Lagos. The...
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by Ranti Joseph The Senior Special Adviser to the President on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, has nothing but good words to say about his boss, President Goodluck Jonathan. He said Nigerians misunderstood President Goodluck Jonathan’s calmness for indecisiveness. Okupe, who stated this on his facebook on Sunday, described Jonathan as the greatest Nigeria’s President. “In a...
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by Anike Jacobs Senior special assistant to president Jonathan has aired his thoughts on the farewell service held in honour of president Jonathan and the first lady today and we bring you five things we learnt from his thoughts. It was a very emotional service: “It was a lovely event though quite an emotional one...
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by Anike Jacobs Cool FM OAP Ifedayo Olarinde aka Freeze has every reasons to be joyful. He celebrated his birthday on the 6th of May and also got a brand new endorsement worth millions of naira. Well, he has now taken to his instagram page to share a birthday message and it kinda looks like...
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by Kolapo Olapoju This is a free public service announcement on behalf of the government of the United States- for money-loving Nigerians. The US will be giving out an impressive $7 million (N1.4 billion) in “reward for information that leads to the arrest or conviction” of Abubakar Shekau, the leader Islamic terrorist sect, Boko Haram. As you now embark...
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by Ranti Joseph The Senate has argued that the Supreme Court lacked the powers to stop the National Assembly from performing its legislative duties as far as the process of amending the 1999 Constitution is concerned. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Information and Public Affairs, Eyinnaya Abaribe, said this while reacting to an order of...
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by Kolapo Olapoju “The Nigerian Police Force cannot do it alone”, says a certain Commanding Officer of the Nigerian Airforce. Perhaps, Air Commodore Yekeen Ishola was more than gracious to say the Police requires assistance in doing its job. Maybe ‘divine intervention’ would have been more apt to describe what exactly the Nigerian Police Force...
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