The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, is currently making headlines after a video of him being publicly embarrassed by Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke surfaced online. In the viral clip, the two were at an event when the Ooni stood up to greet the Governor.
Nigerians on social media are currently reacting to this photo of UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, and members of his cabinet posing in front of a pothole.
Nigerian singer and songwriter, Oluwatosin Oluwole Ajibade, better known by his stage name Mr Eazi has confirmed his marital status to Actress, Temi Otedola.
By 1984 Nigeria had seen the oil boom and was staring at austerity—the Igbo called it otanisi. Though the naira was at parity with the dollar, one for one, the young people thought the country was no longer lush for pasture. Worried about losing the young and future, the military government started a national orientation program to stem the bleeding.
A RECENT report that no fewer than 50 “repentant thugs” in Kano were converted to Police Special Constabulary, PSC, by the Kano State Police Command has generated understandable concerns among the populace.
I still do remember growing up, my father waking, and shaving with the BBC. Against a background of the bleep-bleep-bleep signal of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s World Service, he would do his private chores, and prepare for work.
Once I write on a topic, I am always reluctant to revisit it. But I have since realized that these issues keep reoccurring. Also, there are new entrants into matrimony, so the audience is also changing. Some time ago, I wrote an article titled, “DNA test? Why Not?
In The Emperor’s New Clothes, by Hans Christian Andersen, two rogues go to a vain Emperor to say they can make him a wonderful dress that will be invisible to fools. The emperor, who believes he is as wise as Solomon, agrees.
PROFESSOR Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first literature Nobel laureate, published his critically acclaimed novel, Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People On Earth, in September 2021. So, he probably didn’t have the 2023 presidential election and Bola Tinubu, who emerged president, in mind when he wrote the book.