By Festus Ogun It should no longer be a news to anyone that mass defection is currently rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC). Many key members of this ruling party are aggrieved and are left with no option than defecting to other political parties. It appears that the drama of defection that was witnessed during the 2015...
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Last week, Twitter users this side of the Niger experienced a display of rare humility by a subset of that group of social media users known as influencers. Promises of follow backs in exchange for likes and retweets were rampant from new handles being recast in the image of their originals after Twitter’s wave of...
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Seun Onigbinde, co-founder of the civic-tech organisation, BudgIT over the weekend posed what he termed, “the 22 existential questions Nigeria can’t avoid” to ignore if it desires to achieve greatness. In a thread on his Twitter page, the social entrepreneur took his audience covering issues bordering on the economy, education, health, power, security, agriculture and entertainment sectors....
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Here’s everything you missed in entertainment over the weekend and others that unravelled while you slept – and are still buzzing today. Chika Ike says she had a stint of backward local belief that disturbed her childhood In an interview with Punch she said: “I didn’t have a good relationship with my father growing up because...
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These are the stories you should be monitoring today: Unknown gunmen have kidnapped 15 persons in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara. Speaker of the Zamfara House of Assembly, Alhaji Sanusi Rikiji, told newsmen in Gusau on Sunday, stressing that the security situation in the state called for serious review. The family of detained former National...
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A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Bode George, has said political parties in the country lack ideological differences. The Board of Trustees (BoT) member, said this during his appearance on Channels Television’s programme, Sunday Politics in Lagos. “For me, if you look at the Nigerian politics, all political parties don’t have ideological differences – where you...
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The Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye, has said that contrary to reports that he was abducted on Thursday, it was an attack by gunmen who wanted to kill him. Melaye who spoke to journalists in Abuja on Sunday, said having escaped the alleged assassination attempt around Gwagwalada along the Abuja-Lokoja Road on...
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Following the July 24 attack on villages in Mashema District of Zurmi local government area in Zamfara, and renewed attacks by bandits in parts of the state, the Federal Government has directed a deployment of 1000-strong mixed force, comprising the Army, Air Force, Police and the Civil Defence to launch counter attacks on the bandits...
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The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki met with the Obama Foundation Leadership program winners in Lagos to discuss youth entrepreneurship and job creation. It was an interactive session between the Senate President and the emerging leaders. After Dr. Saraki’s opening remarks, members of the Obama Leadership Foundation discussed the bottlenecks involved in youth...
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I live on celebrity clapbacks on social media. More often than not, they show a side to celebrities that reminds us that they are humans. But clapbacks are an art form by themselves, as seen in the savage style of celebrities like Chrissy Teigen, who culturally has been regarded as the “Clapback Queen.” On the...
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These are the stories that drove the conversation today: The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the United Nations to prevail upon the National Assembly to drop the controversial press council bill. According to a statement on Sunday by its Deputy Director, Timothy Adewale, the anti-corruption group said: “the proposed bill by the Senate is...
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There are few events that can come to define a nation’s identity quite like how it approaches elections. This is because elections expose the priorities and motives of the men and women who seek to lead their country and reveals the electorate’s ethno-religious biases. This is true, even for long-established democracies in seemingly progressive countries...
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Creating new rules or enforcing old ones have become a familiar act by social media platforms. Facebook, Instagram, and even recently Twitter have tried to bring decorum and civility into our internet culture. The latest in this regulatory check is WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging service that has set a limit on forwarding messages following the...
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Disney’s catalogue of properties, especially its princess-y fairytales marketed towards children, have a heavy stroke of white characters as leads. Cinderella, Ariel, Belle, Aurora and, excuse the pun, Snow White. Much has been said about Shuri being a Disney princess in Marvel’s Black Panther, but this thread on Quora smartly dispels that idea. And perhaps...
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Detained journalist and publisher of Weekly Source Newspapers in Yenogoa, Bayelsa, Mr. Jones Abiri whose illegal detention in the Department of State Services (DSS) custody since July 2016 has received wide condemnation home and abroad has finally been arraigned. He was brought before a magistrate court in Abuja on Friday, July 28, 2018. According to...
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The importance of photography cannot be underestimated in today’s world as it has redefined our perspective on virtually everything we know & understand. From single-handedly changing the entire outlook of the advertisement industry to becoming a highly lucrative profession as well as forming a credible partnership with social media platforms such as Instagram which since...
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These are the stories you should be monitoring today: President Muhammadu Buhari will on Sunday depart Abuja for Lome, the Republic of Togo to participate in a Joint Economic Community of West African States / Economic Community of Central African States Summit. According to a statement signed on Saturday by his Senior Special Assistant on...
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These are the stories that drove the conversation today: President Muhammadu Buhari has on Saturday urged his supporters across the country to halt their current campaigns for his re-election. As contained in a statement made available to journalists by Presidential Media Adviser, Femi Adesina; it read that as an administration committed to due process and scrupulous respect for rules,...
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Continuing on from its commitment to train people in vital digital skills across Nigeria and here in Calabar, throughout 2018, Facebook announced a day of training designed for entrepreneurs in Calabar. Aspiring Entrepreneurs Training Taught the fundamentals of digital marketing and how to leverage these tools to boost their businesses, participants will also learn about...
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The next time you’ll hear about director and writer BB Sasore, on a big scale that is, it will be for his upcoming faith-based, Christmas movie God Calling. Sasore is known for works like Before 30, the television series about the pressures of marriage especially on women and the farcical, supernatural comedy Banana Island Ghost....
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These are the top ten stories that drove conversation this week. The Lagos Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Kehinde Bamigbetan said the state resolved to set up a Mobile Court to deal with erring drivers of articulated vehicles/trucks who park indiscriminately along the road. He said over 2,000 vehicles were removed from the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, Funsho...
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It was reported last week that some Muslim students of the Nigerian Law School Lagos campus attempted to lynch a colleague of theirs last week for writing a blasphemous article against prophet Mohammed and it was nipped in the bud by security agencies. After much stress, I was able to lay my hands on the...
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There are smartphones with huge battery capacity and there is an intelligent device called Infinix Note 5, a smartphone battery king that delivers an incredible level of power with its enormous 4,500mAH battery capacity that can last 3 days of moderate use on just one single charge. This isn’t the first time that one of...
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These are the stories that drove the conversation today: There was a mild drama at the complex of the Benue House of Assembly on Friday when the impeached speaker, Terkimbi Ikyange (APC Ushongo) and his successor, Titus Ubah, (APC Kyaan) arrived at the premises, both laying claim to the speakership. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
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The June 12, 1993 presidential election will remain a historical reference the world over when a discuss centres around ‘free and fair elections‘. There were antecedents and of course, outgrowths after the election was annulled but, that will not take anything off the fact that the election affected the Nigerian political sphere in more ways...
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‘In the Music’ singer, Omawumi, is set to offer another enthralling single titled ‘Malowa.’ The new song ‘Malowa’ which was released Friday, July 27, 2018 is off Omawumi’s upcoming EP; this comes on the heels of her widely popular single, ‘Me Ke’ with Kizz Daniel. The Afro pop song features DJ Spinall...
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Him: And you made a statement on how only those who have deep emotions can reach deep or something like that? Me: Yeah… Him: Well…I went through a deeper ocean on Monday. And it left me apart. I wish I could tell you some of these things. I honestly wish I could. Me: Why can’t you? Him: It’s a long...
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Following yesterday’s crackdown on accounts belonging to Nigerian digital influencers, Nigerian Twitter has pivoted towards the Assistant Commissioner of Police Yomi Shogunle, with efforts to have his social media presence removed on account of abuse and bullying, not to mention how he ethically sucks at his job. Advanced thieves like – Yomi Shogunle @YomiShogunle –...
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Almost everyone loves to throw their hands in the air whenever the sun is going down on Friday and just shout: ‘TGIF!’ But the last Friday of every month is ‘SPECIAL’ in the truest definition of the word, as Aforevo TV always come through with her highly anticipated hip-hop show “Grab The Iron Mic” (GTIM)....
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Former Super Eagles and Wolverhampton Wanderers goalkeeper Carl Ikeme has announced his retirement from football. Ikeme on Tuesday announced his decision to his teammates before a training session at the club’s ground. Ikeme took the decision after consultation with doctors after a 12-month battle with leukaemia. The goalkeeper announced last month that he was in...
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