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
If anything good could come out of a mess so sordid, let it be that every Nigerian begins to think about the problem and what to do to solve it. When things like the Aluu Mob killings happen, it seems our default reaction is to hope. Hope it will never happen to us or... Read More
Lance Armstrong was today formally stripped of his seven Tour de France titles as the International Cycling Union addressed the “biggest crisis” in the sport’s history. The UCI accepted the findings of the United States Anti-Doping Agency which found Armstrong guilty of masterminding sport’s most elaborate doping conspiracy. At a hotel in Geneva today, the... Read More
by Nomalanga After listening to Tyrese’s short video, I can honestly say he actually shared a few words of wisdom. There is a video circulating the blogs and internet sites in which R & B singer, Tyrese speaks directly to Black women. In his message, he stresses the importance of finding a balance between being... Read More
by Isi Esene Senator Ahmed Zanna has been invited for questioning by the State Security Services over his alleged involvement with a suspected member of the militant Islamic group, Boko Haram. This invitation is following the arrest of Shuaibu Bama, a Boko Haram suspect, in a house believed to belong to the senator. Bama was... Read More
One thing you quickly learn from doing even a tiny bit of traveling around Africa is that Nigeria, even by African standards, this country is pretty messed up. The debate is still on about how we can establish connections (accountability and transparency) between the governing class and the governed. The protests of January 2012 showed... Read More
When one Oklahoma girl found herself in a tough spot, she took matters into her own hands. Police say the Calera 12-year-old used the family’s gun to shoot and injure an alleged home invader on Wednesday, KFOR reports. “And what we understand right now, he was turning the doorknob when she fired through the door,”... Read More
by Isi Esene The Nigerian Railways Corporation (NRC) will resume its services between Lagos and Kano by December. This was disclosed by the minister of information, Labaran Maku, while leading the Good Governance Tour Team on a demonstration ride from Akere to Zungeru. He said the NRC operations was hindered by the collapse of a... Read More
President Barack Obama and GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney are now tied among likely voters, according to a poll released on Sunday by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal and previewed on “Meet the Press.” The poll of 1,000 registered voters and 816 likely voters was conducted after the second presidential debate, from Wednesday... Read More
Gunmen last night bombed a patrol van of the Joint Task Force (JTF) at Yindiski Ward, along Gashua road in Potiskum Local Government Area of Yobe State. Daily Trust gathered that two vehicles were coming out from Potiskum Prison area of Yindiski when the last vehicle was targeted and bombed “I was at Gashua motor... Read More