I have battled with this piece for more than four weeks. Not because I do not know how to go about it but because I thought it should not have be written at all. How can I summon the courage to describe such an active, youthful and exuberant life in the past? Where will I start from to reflect the profundity of character, rare sophistication, creative ingenuity and addiction to excellence? It is now three years since late Mrs. Augustina Alaere Alaibe joined her creator in the great beyond but her seemingly short and extraordinary life on earth and the…
Author: Dotun Oladipo
After being in detention for 13 years, a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere will today pronounce a verdict in the case the state brought against a former Chief Security Officer to late General Sani abacha, Major Al-Mustapha and others, for allegedly killing Kudirat Abiola, wife of late business and winner of the June 12, 1993 annulled presidential election. The case, reopened in July 2011, is being heard by Justice Mojisola Dada.
While we’ve been busy discussing natural family planning, scientists have been busy messing with rats’ testicles in hopes of discovering entirely new methods of contraception. A team of researchers from the University of North Carolina, while following up on a not-so- new concept, has learned that ultrasound waves, when directed at rats’ testicles, significantly reduce sperm count, in rats, to a level that, if rats were humans, would render them infertile.
Sahara Reporters has replied presidential spokesman, Dr. Reuben abati, that it lied in a report it carried that the President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, contrary to his promise of cutting spending on foreign trips, went to the African Union Summit that ended today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with a delegation that did not fulfill his pledge. According to the reply written by Omoyele Sowore, Sahara Reporters accused abati of being economical with the truth by not stating the fact that the First Lady was also attending another fringe meeting on the side of the AU meeting involving First Ladies of other…
Ethnic tension is on the rise in Kogi State over who should succeed the former Governor of the state, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, whose tenure the Supreme Court on Friday declared over since May 29, 2011. Sources in the state told The Eagle Online that the tension is principally among two of the major tribes in the state – the Igala and Igbira.
They are to preach and give peace to the “worldly.” They are to exemplify orderliness and live a life worthy of emulation. They are to be meek, mild, humble, honest, loving and project to the world the virtues of godliness. But to the leaders of the Lagos State chapter of the Christian Association in Nigeria, all these are commissions for Christians other than them. In the last seven years, the association has been embroiled in a crisis of who should be at the wheel of the association’s leadership.
Taju Tijani Lanky, well-lacquered, well-connected and stunning Mrs. Dizeani Allison-Madueke rumbled the House of Representatives with her mesmerising beauty. Like an oily princess of Abuja, she came with a retinue of courtiers as befitting a custodian of our oil wealth. There was a discernible, yet penetrating arrogance in the carriage and demeanour of DAM – Dizeani Allison-Madueke. Whether a DAM can damn the million dollar question of the existence of a shadowy vampire class called cabal is everybody’s guess. Then the inevitable question popped up. The Chairman of the committee investigating the actual subsidy on petroleum, diminutive but boyish Farouk…
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Reproduced below is a secret cable of the United States Government on the fraud in the oil sector in Nigeria as published by Wikileaks. C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 LAGOS 000767 SIPDIS NOFORN E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/07/2014 TAGS: EPET EINV EFIN PGOV NI SUBJECT: SCANDAL BREWING OVER NIGERIAN FUEL IMPORTS Classified By: J. GREGOIRE FOR REASONS 1.5 (B), (D), AND (E). ¶1. (C) SUMMARY. A scandal is brewing in Nigeria over prices paid by the government for imported fuel. International fuel traders have been falsifying the dates of bills…