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The Oba of Benin, His Royal Majesty, Oba Ewuare II, has made a touchdown in Abuja on a historic visit as he arrived in company of other high chiefs and is set to visit to President Muhammadu Buhari at Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.  His Royal Majesty, Omo N, ‘Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolor, Oba Ewuare II- Oba of Benin, on Wednesday made an historic visit to Abuja after his coronation in October 2016. The Oba who arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at about 5:05p.m., was received by some Benin traditional chiefs, prominent Benin indigenes and friends.   Chief Odigie Oyegun, Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), one of the Edo indigene at the Airport to receive the Monarch, said that the visit by the Oba was historic being his first after his coronation. “The Oba’s visit is bringing peace, hope to the country and change in the nation. “Everybody is here as you can see came to give him a rosy welcome. It is an historic occurrence, our new Oba, a ...

As the crisis in Zimbabwe continues, the military has arrested the country's finance minister, Ignatius Chombo and found large sums of money at his home.  According to reports, the Zimbabwean Minister of Finance, Ignatius Chombo, has been arrested by the country's army who recovered a whopping $10 million from him. Chombo is reported to have been arrested after gunfire was exchanged between his security and members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) last night.  Chombo is reported to be in custody after the ZDF arrested a number of ministers and senior party officials over allegations of  “committing crimes that are causing social and economic suffering in the country in order to bring them to justice.“ While speaking on Al Jazeera, Norton MP, Temba Mliswa, backed the military's intervention and says that it was necessary because Grace Mugabe had usurped power from Mugabe. Mliswa said:  "Just for your own information, Minister Chombo's h...

When you think about the greed with which average Nigerian live their life, you begin to wonder whether they understand that this earthly material world is just an illusion. When we die all that we leave behind in this world is just a shriveled corpse. It doesn’t matter how rich, famous, beautiful, handsome, good or evil you are, when you die the only thing you leave behind is dried-up flesh on a skeleton. Human being is nothing but flesh and bones until you insert a soul to drive it. Before we are born we  sign  a contract that when we come into this world, as a new  born baby , we will come with nothing and when our earthly time is up we will leave with nothing, just leaving behind a shriveled corpse to be buried or cremated. Shakespeare once said that ‘the Worlds a stage. And  all men  and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances’. We are born to play a role or roles. What this role is depends on the individuals’ desti...

The rate at which female students subscribe to the so called oldest profession in the world makes one think sex work is the best route to success. Campus prostitution is covering more ground in Nigerian tertiary institutions across the country than you might think.   The rate at which female students subscribe to the so called oldest profession in the world makes one think sex work is the best route to success. Almost all campuses now have hot spots where girls can be picked up and dropped after a sexual transaction. From OOU to  UNILAG ,  DELSU to UNICAL and  KADPOLY to ABU prostitution on Nigerian campus is a big deal that keeps growing like a well-funded industry. Setting up this business is not a problem, all it takes to combine sex work and education is to get make up kits, look good and get introduced to a campus pimp. And if money comes from the trade regularly,  it is pretty easy to juggle academic pursuit and prostitution because th...

Except for Atiku Abubakar who has declared his intention to run for the presidency of Nigeria, there has been dead silence on opposition to President Buhari’s administration of the country. So, I ask these questions. 1.     PMB promised that he would stop corruption in the country and that he would recoup looted funds. My question is this: has corruption stopped or been reduced (we have no right to expect 100%) in almost three years of service? How much of the looted funds have been recovered and to what use where they put? A good answer would involve numbers for I am a numbers guy. 2.     PMB said that he would rid Nigeria of the Boko Haram mess and make Nigeria’s security a priority. He has increased the military budget 100% since assuming office. My questions are: have we rid Nigeria of BH yet? There have been at least three occasions when BH was declared defeated, has been cleared from Sambisa Forest and cleared out of all parts of NE? How c...

The spectacular rise and fall of Zimbabwe’s uncompromising First Lady, Grace Mugabe, had an unusual beginning: an office affair. It was the early 1990s when President Robert Mugabe’s eye fell upon one of his shy young typists. She would become his wife, a ferociously ambitious politician and, more than two decades later, a contributor to the downfall of her 93-year-old husband. President Mugabe is trying to cling to power after the military took over this week in response to his purge of vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa, 75, a liberation war fighter and Grace’s sworn enemy. Mnangagwa’s aides even accused her of trying to poison him with ice cream from her dairy farm this year. She denies this. Grace, now 52 and under house arrest in Harare, had been calling for Mnangagwa’s removal for weeks as the two fought an increasingly bitter winner-takes-all contest to succeed the man who has led Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980. It wasn’t the first ti...

A thorough investigative report have revealed how China helped depose 'dozing despot, Robert Mugabe after flooding Zimbabwe with billions to build hospitals, schools and even the 35 million Pounds Parliament.  As he was driven back to his opulent palace in Harare on Tuesday, surrounded by bodyguards in military fatigues and wearing motorcycle helmets, Robert Mugabe had no reason to suspect that his 37-year rule was about to end. Having been in power since 1980, Mugabe — not to mention Grace, his high-handed, grasping second wife — thought he was invincible. Just days earlier, he beamed with satisfaction at a ceremony to change the name of Zimbabwe's main airport to the Robert Mugabe International Airport. He believed he would be president of the former British colony until he died, and had once proclaimed 'not even God' wanted his murderous reign to end. His wife, meanwhile, had called for a Mugabe family 'dynasty' to run the country for ever. ...