Tola Adeniyi: Celebrating A Significant Journalist @ 80 By : Martins Oloja Instead of deconstructing the second year of the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu today, I would like to celebrate one of our own on a thankless and dangerous beat that harbours what even the World Bank Institute once celebrated in a publication as…
Inside Fat Farms Where Young Mauritanian Women are Force-Fed to Gain Weight “In Mauritania, young women are often beaten and force-fed to ensure they gain vast amounts of weight in the short period of time spent at the fat farms”.Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign state in Northwest Africa. Mauritania is…
Exposed! Sen Adaramodu’s evil agenda against Ekiti State, Nigeria State. Typically, one might be inclined to praise and celebrate Senator Adeyemi Adaramodu, the distinguished representative of Ekiti South Senatorial District in the 10th Senate in Abuja.However, a profound love for Ekiti compels this commentary.Unbeknownst to many, the Senator—once a member of the Federal House of…
Lazy husbands are ‘flying’ their wives to Syria to ‘work’. Greedy aunts and shortsighted mothers are pushing their children to go to Libya, Egypt, Mali, Iraq to do jobs that even they do not understand. The terrorism of the Sahel is an attraction for desperate Nigerians. Nigeria is bad. It is not conducive for anything….
Octopuses are considered by biologists to be very crafty, clever, cephalopods, who have multiple brains and three hearts, and can easily manoeuvre their ways around even the most difficult circumstances. These Einsteins of the Deep can be very playful, but you can only underestimate their resourcefulness at your own peril. They can dance in and…
– On the danger of digital thuggery and the ignorance of democratic principlesSome intolerant children of ignorance have recently invaded my Facebook page and direct messages to hurl insults at me. Their offense? That I failed to praise their “god” — the President — in a simple, innocuous piece where I commended the Minister of…
WALE OJO-LANRE HIGHLIGHTS THE ROLE OF ARTISTS IN ENHANCING BIODIVERSITY Artists and creative minds were reminded of their significant roles in maintaining and enhancing biodiversity during a recent event celebrating this vital aspect of our environment.Barrister Wale Ojo-Lanre, the Director General of the Ekiti State Bureau of Tourism Development, delivered a compelling keynote address at…
Dr. Olusegun Odegbami has continued his personal chronicle of the 22nd National Sports Festival, Gateway Games 2024, offering insight into the unfolding experience on Day Three of the competition.In a post, Odegbami described the day as a moment of quiet observation and deeper appreciation for the atmosphere surrounding the Games.He wrote:Gateway Games – through my…
I had no prior information that the Kano State Government sought help from the NBC before coming up with a landmark decision on live political broadcast early in the month. But my source at the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) said there was indeed a stakeholders meeting on broadcasting early this year where the regulator, government…
“As she is making the necessary impact, cracking down on criminal activity as well at FCID Alagbon Annex, and working hard to make the popular lingo, ‘ police is your friend’ becomes a reality, the general consensus among the officers and men who work with her is that ” a new Sheriff is in Town!”In…
