The Media Blog: Lai Mohammed is going to court – over a scandal that doesn’t even make sense

No one is asking our opinion, but if they did, we would tell them the truth: the entire kerfuffle over the ‘Change begins with me’ campaign is ridiculous. First, because the campaign itself is dead on arrival. It’s a hastily conceived, unprofessionally rolled out, accident of governance that terribly mismatches the slow-train messaging of a... Read More

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June 8, 2012

We’re sorry: Daily Independent apologises to Charlie Boy over gay and illuminati story

Charles Oputa (popularly known as Charly Boy) has received an apology from Daily Independent, one of the newspapers which reported the story linking him with homosexuality and the illuminati cult. The editors of the paper apologized in their Friday, June 8 edition, for the “embarrassment” they caused Charly Boy when they published a piece which claimed that... Read More

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May 29, 2012

The saga continues as Charly Boy gives papers 72 hours to retract gay, illuminati stories

by Tolu Orekoya Make up and power bikes usually don’t appear in the same sentence unless the sentence refers to Charly Boy, one of Nigeria’s longest running “shock jock” entertainers in the business. His deliberately outlandish personality and affection for guyliner have many Nigerians afraid that he is both illuminati and … gay. Rumours popped up on the Internet late... Read More

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