Photo credit: BBC Some military officers in Mali worked with jihads and separatists who recently launched their biggest round of attacks in over a decade in the conflict-battered country, authorities have said. The Associated Press reports that the separatist fighters had said earlier in the day that they captured a strategic military camp in the northern…
Photo credit: Times Union A federal judge on Friday blocked the \trump administration from forcing about 3,000 Yemeni refugees to leave the US. The judge ruled that Temporary Protected Status repeatedly granted to them and due to expire Monday should be extended again. The Associated Press reports that Judge Dale E Ho in Manhattan extended the…
There is no country like Nigeria. The people are unique in their Nigerianess. We tend to flex our muscles over non issues. We argue over inanities. That is why we are Nigerians! What is the business of lawmakers with begging and beggars? I understand some of our houses of assembly are busy legislating beggars off…
I vividly remember Chief Ebenezer Obey’s song of the seventies, ‘Ohun ti o da o da’. In English, it means, ‘There is no other name to call a bad thing but bad’. It is no longer news that a section of the official residence of the Oba of Lagos, Iga Idunganran, was engulfed in a…
It was with a great sense of pity that I watched Dr Badamasi Lawal Charachi, the Katsina state commissioner for education, explaining away the mass purchase of dogs! By the way, Katsina is in Nigeria and it happens to be the state Mr Buhari hails from. All those people from a certain state in the…
As the head of the Political jagbajantis, sorry, directorate, of RCCG has declared that Osinbajo is the only child of God and pastor who can take Nigeria to the promised land, I wouldn’t think any primary is necessary again for all the political parties in Nigeria. We should just enthrone him as president with immediate…
The news was agog yesterday about a court in the UK’s sentencing a Nigerian senator who, with his wife, was found guilty of organ harvesting. Knowing how the British love their holidays, and yesterday being Labour Day, were the courts in session yesterday? I googled it, and the answer is, “There are no court sittings.”…
