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Death prowls the homeland with venom Spreading cyanide with anger Forcing the poison down many throats Just like Socrates’ suicide in 399 BC Plato’s teacher drank hemlock as punishment As if hypnotised to bite the bullets Some Nigerians are now taking a quicker exit To escape this artificial hell chamber Betrayed many times? Failed many examinations? Bloody Cowards!Spineless species of Homo Sapiens! Why must you be your own heartless executioner? Leaving behind agonised relatives and friends Must we weep a bucket of tears for your transition? To massage your traumatised souls to the great beyond Your souls won’t smell the…
The federal government has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s comments imputing ethno-religious motive to Boko Haram and ISWAP as deeply offensive and patently divisive, saying such indiscreet comments are far below the status of an elder statesman.In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said it was particularly tragic that a man who fought to keep Nigeria one is the same one seeking to exploit the country’s fault lines to divide it in the twilight of his life.He said Boko Haram and ISWAP are terrorist organizations pure and simple, adding that they…
LAGOS – Foremost philanthropist and richest man in Africa, Aliko Dangote has been rated 11th of the 50 World’s Greatest leaders for 2019The rating carried out by the Fortune Magazine, an American multinational business magazine headquartered in New York City, United States was released recently and focused mainly on the businesses run by the men and how they have used it to impact their society positively. The time-tested magazine, which first edition was published in February 1930, said the world’s greatest leaders both men and women are transforming the world and inspiring others to do so in business, government, philanthropy…
Brand new bloggers and experienced bloggers alike are always looking for new ways to monetize their website. If you’re doing the work to build an audience, I’m sure you wouldn’t mind seeing some fruits from your labor coming in sooner rather than later, amirite? There is one way to monetize early with your blog that will get you some modest results starting out—advertising networks. First, let’s define what an ad network is for the newbies… A Digital Advertising Network is a company the connects advertisers to bloggers who want to host ads on their site. Although monetizing with ads on your blog…
This life is a complex web of mysteries and full of strange creatures walking on the surface of the earth without any challenge. At the centre of Makoko market, Amope is a popular merchant of fresh vegetables but nobody knows of her nocturnal activities when the birds no longer chirp gibberish to restless ears of human beings. This 65-year-old woman belongs to the ‘spiritual’ world but in real life, always friendly to people around her. There is one hidden eye at the centre of Amope’s forehead, only the spiritually-fortified people can notice this third eye. At the end of the…
The Nigerians Citizens Association in South Africa (NICASA) says another Nigerian, Mr Tony Elochukwu from Nnobi Anambra State has been killed by an unidentified gunman in South Africa. The President of NICASA, Prince Ben Okoli, said this in a letter sent to the Consular General, Nigerian Consulate in Johanesburg. Three Nigerians had been killed between April 6 and April 9 at different locations in the country. In the letter, obtained by News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Saturday, Okoli decried the death and continued killings of Nigerians in South Africa. “We received yet again the sad news of…
Dear Professor Oriola, I knew you as an undergraduate in the 1990s as someone who struggled against all odds to obtain his PhD degree and glory be to God that you’re now a full Professor of Geography. I need to go straight to my point today for the sake of posterity, I am still my ‘radical’ self and nothing you can do about my lifestyle. This is my personal life. You’re free to award me a carry-over because I am still your student in the year 2019! It is no longer a secret that I was expelled from the University…
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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” -Revd(Dr) Martin Luther King Jr. Mr Owolabi Ramon is a UK-based Nigerian businessman who is currently facing persecution in Morroco over a business transaction with a fellow Nigerian citizen (Benjamin Olowodola) in the United Kingdom has called on all Nigerians and non-Nigerians to demand the immediate release of his passports and travel documents in order to reunite with his family members in London. He is into cargo business to Nigeria and a container(loaded with items worth over £40,000) that he bought vanished without a trace in Birmingham 3 years ago and the…