Society

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, was on Friday hosted by the indigenes of Ile-Ife, Osun State, resident in the United States. The monarch, with his entourage, was received at the J.F. […]

The Ancient of Days is one of the very many names people of faith all over the world call the Creator of mankind.  From age to age, God is the One who has an exclusive […]

“Have you eaten today? If not, let me show you this new restaurant. Good food, the service girls specially attractive, the Madam herself is quite friendly.” “What are you proposing: the food, the service girls […]

Former Kano State governor Rabiu Kwankwaso stoked a wrong fire in Lagos when he visited the city. He asked the state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, to go back on his decision to relocate the Mile 12 […]

Tragedy struck on Sunday as two postgraduate students of the University of Lagos drowned in the Elegushi Beach during the celebration of their friend’s birthday. It was learnt that the deceased – Adesola Ogunmefun and […]

As of Friday evening, the news across the country, as “celebrated” on social media, was that irate mob in Kano beheaded a woman on the claim of blasphemy against Islam. The narrative went on and […]

The Edaiken N’Uselu and crown prince of Benin Kingdom, His Royal Majesty, Eheneden Erediauwa, has performed the ‘Isotan’ rite as part of the funeral activities for the late Oba of Benin, Omo n’Oba n’Edo Uku […]

I have always agonized and been  concerned about this country Nigeria. My agony in most cases leads to headache and the problem is simply; why has Nigeria been the way it is? Why have we found it […]

Serial reports recently on attempted and successful suicides are sending shock waves across Nigeria. From Abia, a civil servant with the State ministry of lands and survey, whose name was simply given as Nwankwo, reportedly […]

With people like Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau in the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, it is no wonder why the much-touted quest for positive change has remained a mirage. If Dambazau who is the Minister of […]

Not too long ago, the Comrade Governor, Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole of Edo State, uncharacteristically went into a fit of “semantics” overdrive by casting the departed Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Erediauwa, in a demolition […]

As the 15-day funeral rites of Oba Erediauwa, the Oba of Benin continues, the crown prince of Benin Kingdom and Edaiken N’Uselu, Prince Eheneden Erediauwa, on Sunday led his siblings to perform the Izakhue rites […]

The daughter of anti-apartheid figure Archbishop Desmond Tutu has had to give up being an Anglican priest after she married a woman. In an email to the AFP news agency Mpho Tutu-van Furth said that as the […]

A few weeks ago, Fortune, a New York-based multinational business magazine published by Time Inc., officially released its annual ranking of the world’s 50 greatest leaders for 2016. Fortune’s 2016 ranking of the world’s most […]

•(Of desperate philanthropists and advocacy gurus) There is no odor as dire as that which arises from tainted goodness. I will not deny any bit, the praise that is due to philanthropy, I simply say […]

Miss Amina Ali, dainty 19-year-old kid mother has, not undeservedly, become the toast of the nation. It is no longer news that she was one of the 219 girls abducted by the Boko Haram insurgents […]

In late February, the story was reported that a girl from Bayelsa State, Ese Oruru, had been abducted by a young man from Kano and up till then, her parents’ efforts to retrieve her had […]

Two young ladies sat beside each other inside a car: From afar, it looked like they were in a deep conversation. Indeed, they were, except that each was engaged with a person on the other […]

The Obamas have chosen the Washington, D.C. neighborhood where they will move after President Obama leaves office in 2017, the National Journal reported Tuesday. Though the exact home has not yet been revealed, the Obamas are […]

At the end of a visit some 15 years ago for a conference in Abuja that was going to stretch into a two-week stay in Nigeria, I learned from U.S. Embassy officials, horror of horrors, […]