“The world needs strong women. Women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved, women who live bravely, both tender and fierce, women of indomitable will.” – Amy Tenney Amy Tenney must have thought about the past, present and the future for her choice of words in description of woman of timber and caliber. Indeed, should the world survive her prescription is much needed. One of the best epitome that fit such quote is the First Lady in Kwara State, Amb. (Dr.) Olufolake AbdulRazaq. For the records, you have been an exampelary leader for the…
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Nigeria’s Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari says ‘bad belle Nigerians’ will wait forever to see him arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over an alleged bribe he took from a suspected fraudster, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, alias Hushpuppi, who recently pleaded guilty in the United States. Hushpuppi, who pleaded guilty to various charges, including money laundering, wire fraud, and felony, had said he used Kyari, a leader of the Inspector-General of Police’s Intelligence Response Team, to jail a fellow fraudster Kelly Chibuzor Vincent after both were locked in a dispute presumably over how to share the $1.1 million…
Veteran Actress Rachel Oniga is Dead The beautiful Talented Actress who still shot some scenes in a movie in Mowe ogun state earlier in the week passed on late friday night. The news is coming at a time the movie industry is grappling with mixed issues and after mourning the death of another entertainer, Sound Sultan, who passed on early this month. The cause of Oniga’s death was unknown at the time of this report. Oniga, who was a veteran actress, featured in over a hundred movies. Details of what lead to her Death is still sketchy. More details soon.
The Police Service Commission has said it will determine the fate of the Commander of the IGP Intelligence Response and Monitoring Team, Abba Kyari, a deputy commissioner of police, indicted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for alleged involvement in a $1.1m Internet fraud. The commission also noted that Kyari might face dismissal or demotion, and criminal prosecution if found culpable in the fraud perpetrated by an Instagram influencer and fraudster, Ramon Abass, popularly known as Hushpuppi. A Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal complaint lodged at the United States District Court in California had listed Hushpuppi and Kyari among six…
Services have been feeding the 12 aides of the Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, with a soup known as “engine oil”, counsel for the detained persons, Pelumi Olajengbesi, has alleged. The lawyer, who said he was at the DSS headquarters in Abuja on Friday after over four weeks of not being allowed to meet with his clients, said the detained persons began purging after eating the soup with fufu or eba. Efforts to get the reaction of the DSS spokesman, Peter Afunaya, on the allegation by the lawyer proved abortive as he neither took calls put across…
Debate is raging across the world on individual freedom, free speech, security, and taking responsibility. Nations — including older, liberal democracies like the United Kingdom and Canada — are taking firm steps to peg the boundaries between free speech, public order and national security. They are aggressively drawing the line that no one must cross in the name of free speech. This is understandably pitting governments against free speech advocates. This is a debate that will not go away. However, both sides will have to agree on something: our world is bleeding from unrestrained rights. We must also agree that…
A group Incorporated Trustees of Egalitarian Mission for Africa (EMA) has begged a court to declare that former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar is not a Nigerian. The group made the declaration in a suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/177/2019. Joined in the suit are: Atiku, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) as 1st to 4th respondents respectively. It was also learnt that the Attorney-General (AG) of Adamawa, Afraimu Jingi through his lawyer Chief L.D. Nzadon is seeking to be joined in the suit filed by a group against Atiku and three…
Now, let’s come back to them, the politicians, who obviously would love to set the Ilorin emirate in flames just to prove a point. One of them is Mr Wahab Oba, the spokesman to ex-governor AbdulFatah Ahmed. We need to beg him to spare our beloved emirate from their macabre politics. This treatise becomes apposite, after he released the latest of his dolorous articles on Sunday, and he passed all the lines of decency. It is such that can undermine the peace and unity of the Ilorin emirate and throw the city down the dark, gloomy days of the…
All most wanted by FBI: Top L-R Uzuh, Ogunshakin, Okpoh; below L-R Kayode, Orson Benson and Olorunyomi The FBI in the United States has declared six Nigerians most wanted for cyber crimes, involving a $6 million swindle of over 70 U.S. businesses. The wanted Nigerians are Michael Olorunyomi, Richard Izuchukwu Uzuh, Alex Afolabi Ogunsakin, Felix Osilama Okpoh, Abiola Ayorinde Kayode and Nnamdi Orson Benson. The FBI accuses the six of executing a business email compromise scheme that defrauded over 70 different businesses in the U.S., resulting in combines losses of over $6 million. Uzuh, who appears to be the leader…
Hy my friends sorry for the break in communication for few days . It pains to see writers with exceptional writing skills being broke when there are a lot of channels to earn massively in the writing industry. Asides from being exceptionally good at writing, they make blaring mistakes that could easily be avoided if they knew the right thing to do. More painful is seeing them pride in the title ‘writer’ and their ability without anything (profit) to show. While it is good to be a writer, greater gain lies in getting paid for being one; not just getting…