Naira, Nigeria’s national currency, has been very much in the news in the last couple of weeks. The naira is seriously ill and the prognosis from the ‘experts’, many of them full of bile and ill-will, is indeed dire. They have written the naira’s obituary and are already summoning the burial party of undertakers that... Read More

January 23, 2015

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Bayo Oluwasanmi: Rev. Samuel Chukwuemeka Uche is a Prelate for hire

by Bayo Oluwasanmi Uche’s gospel of do not touch my anointed Emperor has a snowball’s chance in hell of winning converts to his new crusade. His remarks are comically pompous and damnable. The robust defense of President Jonathan’s inept and corrupt administration by the Prelate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, Rev. Samuel Chukwuemeka... Read More

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October 8, 2013

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Failure delivery: Mourners left horrified after undertakers arrive at funeral service with the WRONG coffin

Horrified mourners were left in floods of tears after undertakers arrived at a funeral service with the wrong coffin, it emerged today. Thankfully when the hearse arrived at Southampton Crematorium a member of staff checked the nameplate and realised it was not the body of a 77-year-old. Witnesses said the incident left mourners sobbing in... Read More

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June 20, 2013

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Wole Soyinka: The village mourners association

by Wole Soyinka As a teacher, I lament your failure to use the opportunity of the passing of a revered writer to turn your younger generation in enlightened directions. You have chosen instead to coarsen their sensibilities and breed in their minds misunderstanding, suspicion and above all – hate! Nigerians who are old enough will... Read More

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June 7, 2013

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Cruel justice? Angry villagers bury suspected rapist and murderer alive with victim

Mourners in a Bolivian village seized a 17-year-old boy who was named by police as a suspect in the rape and murder of a 35-year-old woman and buried him alive alongside her at the woman’s funeral. About 200 inhabitants of the small town near the Colquechaca municipality in the Potosi district of Bolivia’s southern highlands... Read More

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Cruel justice? Angry villagers bury suspected rapist and murderer alive with victim

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