Personal Stories From The Life of a Writer

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMatthew Kukah, The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto said he was looking forward to a debate with the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, and presidential spokespersons, Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu, over the country’s state of affairs. The Bishop Kukah also accused presidential spokesmen of being inefficient in his writin. Shehu had…
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Reading Time: 5 minutesAfenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Leader of the Yoruba socio-political group who recently clocked 94. He speaks on sundry national issues including the insecurity bedevilling Nigeria, the 2023 presidential election, and the pardon granted to some popular fraud convicts by the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) The National…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Tuesday in Abuja, encouraged Nigerians to resist agents bent on causing breakdown of law and order in the country. The President said no individual or group will be allowed to destabilise Nigeria. This statement was made during Iftar dinner with state governors,…
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Reading Time: 3 minutesProf Wole Soyinka, has said the President, Major General, Muhammadu Buhari (retd), squashed a putrid egg against Nigerians’ faces with the pardon granted ex-governors of Plateau State, Senator Joshua Dariye; and Taraba State, Rev. Jolly Nyame. He noted that it was an action that the people shall not forget – or…
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMany officers are feared to have been killed in the plane crash which occurred on Tuesday 19th April 2022. A training aircraft of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has crashed in Kaduna State While the details of the incident remain sketchy, two pilots were on board. Barely a year after…
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt least three persons have been killed and many others injured as an explosion rocked cattle market in Taraba State. Information gathered that an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off at Iware cattle market, in Jalingo about 5kilometres from the capital city. One of the residents of the town…
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Islamic State West Africa Province formerly known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād, are currently attacking the Forward Operational Base (FOB) in Molai, Borno State. Molai is located at the outskirt of Maiduguri, about 7km away Inormation gathered that the insurgents invaded the town after iftar, the meal eaten…
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteUbi Franklin, Talent Manager turned blogger is getting backlash from Nigerians over his story on ‘the alleged rape saga’ at Chrisland schools. Here are some of the reactions on social media that got eopple talking: “Ubi Franklin just came here to expose that girl and disgrace her parents by trying…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has said it is suing President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration for pardoning former governors of Plateau and Taraba states, Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame respectively, serving jail terms for corruption. SERAP earlier on Sunday called on Buhari to urgently withdraw the pardon recently granted to…
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Reading Time: 5 minutesHuman rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), says the justice system in Nigeria is constantly manipulated to favour influential politicians facing corruption charges in Nigeria. Falana stated this on Tuesday in a paper titled ‘Sentencing Rich And Poor Convicts In Nigeria: An Unbalanced Scale’, delivered as the Inaugural Public Lecture of Department…
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteNo fewer than two pilots have died after the Nigerian Air Force aircraft crashed in Kaduna on Tuesday evening. It was gathered that the pilots died after the aircraft, which was a trainer aircraft, crashed. The pilots, our correspondent learnt, were on a training session when the incident happened at…
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteEx-Lover of Nkechi Blessing, Opeyemi Falagan bowed to pressure and apologized to the Nollywood actress, friends and followers online. This came few days after Opeyemi Falegan and Nkechi Blessing fought dirty on social media following the crash of their relationship. The former lovebirds publicly exchanged words and threw shades at…