Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) has described the sudden death of Michael Ojo, a Nigerian basketball player, as saddening and shocking. In a condolence message, she said the news of the sudden death of the promising basketball player in Serbia during training was painful. The NIDCOM boss regretted that Michael, 27, died in his prime when ... Read More »
Former lawmaker and Managing Director of Federal Housing Authority (FHA), Senator Gbenga Ashafa, has pledged that he would use his appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari to justify expectations and deliver on the housing policy of the administration. He stated this in his acceptance speech on the appointment where he said, “It is with the highest sense of responsibility and consciousness ... Read More »
Nigeria has continued to wobble through her multi-faceted challenges, and one of the issues her leadership as well as the political actors are unable to pretend about is the place of the 2023 presidential election, which expectedly, is at the heart of all other things, currently. I’m unpretentiously Yoruba – a proud one at that – and if anything, I’d ... Read More »
Nigerian basketball player, Michael Ojo, was announced dead by his last club on Friday. The Lagos born basketballer died at the age of 27 in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade. Ojo who played for KK Crvena zvezda Basketball club was 216 centimetres tall and weighed 147 kilograms in a Red Star jersey. According to a press statement by the management of KK ... Read More »
That day, the twelfth day of August, 1997 was electric…a deep pall of sadness swept over the nation, yet a distinct halo of exhilaration swooshed over metropolitan cities of Nigeria…as the prodigiously gifted enigma who called himself “one who keeps death in his pouch – he who resists death” was laid to final rest in his large Gbemisola Street, Ikeja, ... Read More »
The management of Med-View Airline insisted that it resolved to advertise the sale of its only two aircraft to reduce the company’s credit facility with its banker. It also added that the pending suit by Sheikh Abdul Mohsen Al Thunayan, the Chairman of the airline, does not affect its operation, sale or leasing of any aircraft by the carrier. Managing ... Read More »
Fellow Nigerians, this story you’re about to read is the stuff of fairytales or even science fiction but it is very real and absolutely true. Nothing worries a man of big dreams and voluptuous ambition like me than the fear of failure and the cataclysmic humiliation that goes with it. But that was the condition under which I found myself ... Read More »
After the thrills and twists of Stanza 6 of the on-going Hymnodia season2, the triple E ( Edification, Education and Entertainment) reality show built around hymns, the hymn-loving public is in for another stanza of exhilarating renditions on the stage of Hymnodia Season 2 come this Sunday. This Stanza is on Original compositions and the theme is ‘A Prayer for ... Read More »
“That was just a child’s play and irritation by young Nigerians, not a protest (Femi 6/08/2020). “I just want to encourage Mr Ibikunle not to continue to sound like a broken record.” “If you see yourself as used tissue paper I can’t help”. Mr Adesina replies callers (Nigeria Info FM, Premium Times 5/5/2020). “Giving your ancestral land for ranching better ... Read More »
A foremost elite group of learned folks, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), recently held its presidential election, but ended up leaving on its trail, a blight of corruption allegations and malpractices that questioned the quality of the character of those in the association. Days after, another elitist organisation, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Enugu State branch, held its chairmanship election ... Read More »
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