A United States Court has dismissed the fraud case levied against Olalekan Jacob Ponle, popularly known as Woodberry. The Nigerian socialite alongside Raymond Igbalode Abbas commonly known as Hushpuppi were arrested in the United Arab Emirates on accusations of a multi-million dollar wire fraud after a raid by operatives of the Dubai Crime Unit and...
Read MoreAlex Ekubo,
Amen Imasuen,
Dr. Wasiu Olatubosun,
FIRS,
Gbadamasi Jonathan,
Gregory Ojefua,
John Lausch,
Kevin Ikeduba,
Lancelot Imasuen,
Linda Osifo,
Mr Olalekan Ponle,
Mr. Abdullahi Ismaila Ahmad,
President Muhammadu Buhari,
Ramon Abbas,
Robert W. Gettleman,
Son of Mercy,
Woodberry
Looking back at Day 5 in the Big Brother Naija house, we can tell that some of the housemates are finally getting more comfortable with each other. We cannot necessarily point out any cliques yet, but we can tell that certain people take pleasure in each other’s company. There seems to be some form of...
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The Federal Inland Revenue Service on today announced that property owners and agents have been ordered to charge 6% Stamp Duty and remit back to the FIRS. FIRS Director of Communications and Liason Department, Abdullahi Ahmad told the News Agency of Nigeria that the levy applies to all tenancy and lease agreements entered into by...
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Every week, we round up the best tweets revolving around the themes we explore on the blog. Here are the some of the tweets we loved from the past week that inspired us, made us laugh, or made us go a-ha. 1. Many of us don't want equality for all, we want our own superiority....
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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 issues, etc. Sometimes, they are just downright ridiculous. Today, a Twitter user had asked millennial users to tweet like they were existing in Bible times; using...
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B-Red – Fall Again DMW artiste B-Red has released his first single of the year titled Fall Again, a mid-tempo, groovy joint produced by Magic Boi and mix and mastered by STG. The song is off his upcoming album. B-Red only seems to exist in our peripheral consciousness, dropping songs conveniently before disappearing. Perhaps, we...
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An innocuous tweet has exploded most definitely beyond the original poster’s expectations. And while a global Twitter community is having a field day commenting under it and quoting it with an array of creative takes, others raise questions that are very familiar to a lot of people, myself included. https://twitter.com/gemozil/status/1286261166226931712?s=19 These questions are rooted in...
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Although majority of Nigerians agree that corruption exists not just in the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) but across the various arms of government, recent developments involving the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) appear to be putting paid to such speculations. After weeks of mudslinging between the former Managing Director of the Interim Management Committee...
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Nigerians on Twitter are this Thursday discussing the latest announcement by the Federal Internal Revenue Service (FIRS), directing landlords and property agents to charge six percent stamp duty on all tenancy as well as lease agreements and remit same to the service “so that they do not run foul of the Stamp Duty Act.” The...
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Nigerians have over the last few weeks been treated to several episodes in the drama around the politics in the country. Interestingly, a huge number of citizens are speaking with unified voices in demand for justice and good governance as they pay close attention to these matters. A few days ago, it was the hearing...
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President Muhammadu Buhari is to embark on a one-day visit to Bamako, the Republic of Mali on Thursday for a peace mission. Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, Femi Adesina, disclosed that the trip came after a briefing by the ECOWAS Special Envoy to Mali, former President Goodluck Jonathan. Buhari and other...
Read MoreAdebisi Egbeyemi,
Femi Adesina,
Kayode Fayemi,
mali,
Mr Sunday Dare,
NCDC,
Nigeria Youth Investment Fund (NYIF),
President Goodluck Jonathan,
President Issoufou Mahamadou,
President Muhammadu Buhari,
Yusuf Satai
When Tola Odunsi started working on the Men’s Club, the sleeper hit from production company RED TV, only he could predict how big the show would become. Relying on a rarely seen cocktail of raunch, debauchery and boys behaving badly as the core engine which drives the show, The Men’s Club depicts the men that...
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A video has surfaced of 5 people believed to be aid workers being executed by suspected members of the Nigerian pseudo religious terrorist sect, Boko Haram. It has been some time since the terrorist organization made a show of attacking aid workers, considering the neutral players in the ongoing conflict between the Nigerian military and...
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People going to therapists or talking about their mental health is a thing I mostly see on TV shows. Foreign TV shows. Therapy remains a low key taboo topic in our culture. When it comes to mental health issues, there is a general consensus to either face it alone or at most, talk to your...
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The La Casera Company (TLCC) took the initiative to reward frontline workers who have risked their own lives during the Covid-19 pandemic. The global pandemic has affected over 7 million people resulting in over 500,000 deaths. Nigeria is not left out, with over 30,000 confirmed cases and over 700-death pan Nigeria with the numbers rising...
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The Mechanics of Yenagoa, the latest title by Canadian based Nigerian author Michael Afenfia is something of a guilty pleasure. Set in the capital of oil rich Bayelsa state, and boasting a colorful cast of characters- hustlers, sinners and tricksters, all of them- The Mechanics of Yenagoa bristles with mischief on every page. Published by...
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What would a web show set in a preppy Nigerian school look like? That is what Best Friends in the World tries to answer. The show is set in an unnamed preppy secondary school with a small but uniformly attractive student body, who wear Ankara uniforms and seem to all come from wealth. The show...
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The Federal Government has announced that there will be a partial closure of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos, from Friday night to ensure that the crucial structure does not collapse completely. Rehabilitation of the infrastructure slated to last from July 2020 to January 23, 2021 is expected to be done on a stretch of...
Read MoreAyo Ola,
Baaj Adebule,
Coronavirus,
Dami Elebe,
Efa Iwara,
Etim Effiong,
Mr. Babatunde Fashola,
NCDC,
Paul Onuachu,
Samuel Kalu,
Sharon Ooja Egwurube,
super eagles,
third mainland bridge,
Tola Odunsi
The last recourse for justice for the average Nigerian is the Nigerian legal system. It is where we go when we have been wronged, when we try to force the government to honour its obligations to us, to settle disputes. It is also the place where some of the most egregious crimes against average Nigerians...
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The show today was about the housemates getting comfortable with each other. The conversations they had, both in pairs and in groups, opened the housemates up to one another, and one or two of them made some interesting revelations. Here are the revelations that blew us off: Perhaps, Vee was trying to call first...
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News broke today that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has given the minister of the Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, 48 hours to publish the full details of lawmakers in the 9th Assembly who got contracts from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The Speaker made the call while reacting to...
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Politicians in Nigeria since our independence have struggled with moral decency. This in turn has caused a number of troubling issues. The oil issues of Southern Nigeria is a perfect example. Not only do the people of the South, particularly Niger Delta, feel cheated off their resources, they are also the ones who have to...
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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 issues, etc. Sometimes, they are just downright ridiculous. Here’s a roundup of the best we saw: 1. Zoom outfit: Corporate shirt and boxers. — ‘Tunde Omotoye...
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Jidenna ft Bullish – Black Magic Hour Jidenna has had pockets of mainstream success straddling the American music market and Nigeria, sloughing off his garbed, colonial-leaning aesthetics and evolving into chic rap boy. On Black Magic Hour where he features Bullish, he traces his ancestral roots through a tightly controlled rap flow that is biting...
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Jeff Bezos got a whole lot richer in one day than Africa’s richest man has methodically built himself to become over a lifetime. That is the news that got everyone reeling and Twitter users aggressively trending the billionaires’ name. How did the world’s richest man take a $13 billion dollar leap to further seal his...
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The news of late has been riddled with the interesting stories surrounding the ‘Niger Delta Development Commission’ NDDC. It began in an interview, where former MD for the NDDC, spilled the beans on the level of corruption plaguing the NDDC. In her interview, and following subsequent revelations, she detailed how deeply involved in the corruption...
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As the Nigerian culinary landscape expands and finds new interpretations for traditional Nigerian cuisine, they are providing incentives for the average Nigerian to become more adventurous with food. From giving local food and ingredients a contemporary lift to trying out and sometimes merging foreign delicacies to fit our taste buds, the way we approach food...
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Before we unravel the many thoughts of Nigerians about the trend that have sparked a debate on the chances of an Igbo president come election 2023, or the idea that the Igbo people feel marginalized in the country when it comes to politics, let us first talk about the origin of this Twitter trend. The...
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A bird pecks incessantly at its reflection on the window. It not only pecks, it clucks and scratches aggressively against its reflection. This has been going on for 5 days straight. I downloaded a bird identifier app, but it couldn’t identify the bird. A google search using the features of the bird proved furtive too...
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Nollywood veteran, and entertainment power house, Ngozi Nwosu was the guest on this week’s edition of #WithChude, where she talked about the painful ordeal of battling a kidney disease, and being at the center of a media storm of rumours at the same time. Having thrived as an A-list celebrity for decades, Ngozi reveals that...
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