Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo Monday complained about the continued insecurity in the country which he says is “eroding the root of our Nigerian community.” “The issue I am addressing here is very serious; it is the issue of life and death for all of us and for our dear country, Nigeria,” Obasanjo said in the […]
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Despite its earlier stance, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has promised the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA) and its embattled pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo accused of rape by Busola Dakolo, wife to Nigeria popular artist Timi Dakolo, that the Christian body will always support the church. “It is a pleasure being here. And I assure you […]
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I am constrained to write to you this open letter. I decided to make it an open letter because the issue is very weighty and must be greatly worrisome to all concerned Nigerians and that means all right-thinking Nigerians and those resident in Nigeria. Since the issue is of momentous concern to all well-meaning and […]
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently devise measures to forestall likely division of the nation, as Nigeria is “on the precipice and dangerously reaching a tipping point where it may no longer be possible to hold danger at bay.” In the letter released by his media aide, […]
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A train in northern India has derailed, killing at least 115 people and injuring dozens more. Indian Home Minister, Rajnath Singh, said the overnight express train travelling between the cities of Patna and Indore came off the tracks near Kanpur city. Fourteen carriages left the tracks, railway officials said. Two senior police officials in Kanpur […]
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The Ondo State Police Command on Monday disclosed that it had made a number of arrests over the killing of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, the daughter of the leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti. Mrs Olakunrin was reportedly killed by some hoodlums, suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, along Ore-Shagamu expressway in Odigbo […]
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Ekiti State former governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose on Monday, said he had warned Nigerians about the second term of President Muhammadu Buhari. Fayose said this in reaction to the death of a daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, who was killed by bandits in Ondo State on Friday. On his verified […]
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British Sierra Leonean journalist and lead reporter CNN Africa, Isha Sesay, in her first book titled Beneath the Tamarind Tree, explores the ISIS-affiliated terrorist group Boko Haram’s 2014 kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls from the northern Nigerian town of Chibok. Sesay broke the story and followed it for years. For two years, 219 of the girls remained […]
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The Presidency said on Monday that the death of the daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, Mrs Funke Olakunrin, is tragic and regrettable, but adds that politicising it will not help the unity of the country. It said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s thoughts and prayers were with the family over the incident. In a […]
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By Ben Ezeohagwu Why keep mute and fold hands, In the midst of the hopelessness as if nothing is wrong? Why are we so blessed beyond imagination, Yet so poor? Why are we passive, In the midst of active oppressiveness? Why seem depraved, In the midst of so much life around us? Why live to […]
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