The city of Cologne, Germany, fell back into the spotlight of sexual assault this week, when its annual street Carnival kicked off. A woman reporting from the city center for a Belgian broadcaster was groped […]
Let me start with a personal story. At a point in my life, I ignored the church like many youths in their 20s still do. It’s the rebel in us that wants to break away […]
Nobody should sell us short, on a wholesale basis. Nigeria may be bad, we do have our many challenges, but hey, we have one or two lessons to teach the world as well. Indeed, on […]
To be a feminist, if not a defect, is at least a fetish; like porn. The feminist is that woman who dulls down to an artificially created set of sexual-political sensibilities, in order to satisfy […]
CATHOLIC priests in Nigeria have always captured the public imagination. Some of them have served in government positions, some were prominent in the fight and struggle for democracy, some of them have proved their mettle […]
President Barack Obama has made his first visit to a US mosque and condemned “inexcusable political rhetoric” against Muslim-Americans, amid a growing number of hate crimes being committed against members of the country’s Muslim minority.
I STARTED the hobby of stamp collection in my late teens. Back in the day, it was a fad to have a pen pal, mostly from overseas with whom you exchanged ideas, memorabilia and subjects […]
There were indications that the Publisher of ThisDay Newspaper, Mr. Nduka Obaigbena, has returned the sum of N350m to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. A top operative of the commission, who confided in our […]
With hours to go and $63 million on the line, the mystery remains: Where’s the winning California Lottery ticket and why hasn’t somebody cashed it? Lottery spokesman Alex Traverso said Wednesday that even he wants […]
France has carried out abusive and discriminatory raids and house arrests against Muslims under its current state of emergency, traumatising and stigmatising those targeted, including children and the elderly, human rights groups said. Human Rights […]
The young girls and their poverty-stricken families are at the mercy of men with cash. Namaacha, Mozambique – Carlota Domingos sits on a four-legged wooden stool in front of a one-room mud house, which clings […]
Lagos—The trial in the ongoing legal battle between the widow of the late Ikemba of Nnewi, Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, Bianca Ojukwu and his brothers over the family estate commenced yesterday before a Lagos state High […]
TO be an elder naturally suggests an aged person, mature, experienced, wise and temperate. And to wear the toga of an elder-statesman confers on one the added impetus of pre-eminence that often comes with holding […]
Ajegunle, the cradle of Nigerian soccer stars, is a ghetto town with so many poor people in the Apapa area of Lagos state. It’s a shanty town that evidently lives up to its nickname: ‘Jungle […]
THE Awujale and paramount ruler of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, has advised the Ooni of Ife, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, to be wary of sycophants, politicians and various groups claiming […]
Igbos say tomorrow is pregnant. Amaechi means no one knows tomorrow. Fate doesn’t pretend not to be fickle. But we never learn. Not the here today , dead and rotting tomorrow scary finality of this […]
I didn’t see any fire service. They said the firefighters complained of lack of water and went back. Goods worth about N200m were lost to the fire. The number of shops burnt were over 500” […]
I think the rampant and sickening cases of big man worship we’re seeing today are a reflection of the increasing material poverty and widening gap between the rich and poor…The poor, bereft of self-esteem, think […]
The road that stretches from General Gas to Akobo in the ancient city of Ibadan measures about 10 miles. It is bumpy and riddled with potholes. If you call it a dirt-road, you won’t be […]
I v’e spent the past three months in London. And while I was away, I regularly received phone calls from friends and relatives who are based in various Nigerian states. Some of these friends and […]
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