Photo credit: Premium Times In the eighties, specifically 1983, when public buildings were getting burnt by insiders turned arsonists, Ray Ekpu, the celebrated journalist predicted that the NET building would be one of the next to be burnt. Presto! The building was burnt. That’s no news. The news is the fact that Ekpu was arrested….
Some people are so well-fed that they have chosen rather conveniently to turn a blind eye to the suffering of the generality of Nigerians. Bamu bamu layo;Awa o mo pebi npa omo eni kankan!! Is the opposition causing the price of virtually every commodity to rise? Is it the opposition that’s making take-home salaries not…
Photo credit; CNN Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on Wednesday unveiled a new underground missile base amid tensions with the United States, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. The base was unveiled by Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Abdolrahim Mousavi and Seyed Mousavi, commander of the IRGC’s Aerospace Division. The capabilities and operational…
Photo credit: Aljazeera Japanese atomic bomb survivors said on Thursday that they feared the world was marching towards nuclear war as the last US-Russian arms treaty expired TRT World reports that the new START Treaty ended with the turn of the calendar to February 5, after US President Donald Trump did not follow up on…
Photo credit; Toronto Star Canada’s Immigration Department has said asylum claims “cannot, and will not” prevent criminals being punished, after British Columbia’s premier criticized refugee claims by extortion suspects as “ludicrous.” The Canadian Press reports that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada says those who pose a risk to public safety or who commit crimes remain subject…
While others are returning from correctional facilities in a sober and somber mood, Nigerians made a show of the great Ogirigborigbo of the universe’s return from a British prison.No less a personality than a seating senator of the Federal Republic led the welcome party which was held somewhere in the UK. What’s so special about…
Photo credit: Facebook A joke used to be the in-thing when I was much younger! Some Nigerian nationalists went for a pre-independence constitutional conference. Usually, the Europeans would give them lunch breaks. On one of those days, they went for the lunch break, their hosts decided to give them a seven -course meal. Of course,the…
