Month October 2018

BREAKING: Chief Tony Anenih is dead

Chief Tony Anenih, a PDP Chieftain and a former Minister of Works is dead. Tony Anenih who died this afternoon at the age of 85, was admitted at the Cedar Crest hospital in Abuja last week. Anthony Akhakon Anenih was…

Leah Sharibu’s abductors demand N100bn ransom

Members of the factional Boko Haram sect, who kidnapped school student, Leah Sharibu alongside 109 students in Dapchi, Yobe State, early this year, have demanded N100bn ransom before the girl could be released. According to a diplomatic source who spoke…

Yoruba: Time to speak truth to power

This week, I was prepared to write on one of those ‘national topics’ as we often do when I received a post on ‘whether Ondo State is jinxed,’ forwarded by one of my big brothers, Uncle Eric Teniola, who hails…

NNPC denies funding Buhari’s campaign

The Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru, yesterday, denied cash transfer to the President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation for the purpose of funding the media/publicity leg of the exercise. Reacting to an allegation on the…