NIGERIA is the country with the second highest number of child brides in the world behind India with a scary total of 23m girls forced into marriage as children according to a recent report United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).
(1) As today is a faith holiday in Nigeria with us celebrating Eid el-Maulud, I want to return to this pressing matter of religious capital. No matter how you look at things, it presents Nigeria with the biggest potential source of internal capital for investment. Even if we appoint the most brilliant economist on earth as our finance minister, he or she will never be able to crack the Nigerian economy without tapping into religious finance
(1) Nigerians always bemoan the fact that their leaders lack vision but we have to ask ourselves if that is surprising. Someone who assumes office because they are well connected or because they have been a loyal political lackey is not going to suddenly develop vision because they have been sworn-in as governor. What you do not have, you cannot give
VICE president Professor Yemi Osinbajo has been advised by the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) nor to resign despite the constant undermining of his office by those close to President Muhammadu Buhari known as the kitchen cabal.
MEDICAL history has been made in China after an unfaithful wife gave birth to a set of twins in the southeastern city of Xiamen with each one of them belonged to different fathers in what is a very rare clinical occurrence.
(1) Reading this week about how there are about 80 special advisers in the vice president’s office and about a similar number in the president’s office has got me thinking. With this number of assistants, we actually have the manpower to create a think tank in the presidency. With about 150 full time staff, we should have an Aso Rock Think Tank that comes up with innovative and unthinkable ideas on a daily basis
FULANI cattle herdsman Iliasu Abubakar has been remanded in custody by a Kwara State Magistrates’ Court in Ilorin for murdering his brother Isah after his sibling reportedly had an affair with his wife.
POPE Francis has promoted the current parish priest of Saint Mary’s Parish in Makurdi's North Bank Reverend Father Stephen Beba to an elevated position within the Catholic Church naming him as a Chaplain of His Holiness.
PRESIDENCY officials have confirmed that President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked 35 of vice president Professor Yemi Osinbajo's saying it was not as a result of a rift between the two men but rather part of a strategy to streamline government operations and cut red tape.
NIGERIA'S highest ranking female lawmaker ever Senator Abiodun Olujimi the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has returned to the National Assembly after the Federal Court of Appeal recently declared her duly elected to represent Ekiti South Senatorial District.
NIGERIA is the country with the second highest number of child brides in the world behind India with a scary total of 23m girls forced into marriage as children according to a recent report United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).
VICE president Professor Yemi Osinbajo has been advised by the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) nor to resign despite the constant undermining of his office by those close to President Muhammadu Buhari known as the kitchen cabal.
MEDICAL history has been made in China after an unfaithful wife gave birth to a set of twins in the southeastern city of Xiamen with each one of them belonged to different fathers in what is a very rare clinical occurrence.
FULANI cattle herdsman Iliasu Abubakar has been remanded in custody by a Kwara State Magistrates’ Court in Ilorin for murdering his brother Isah after his sibling reportedly had an affair with his wife.
POPE Francis has promoted the current parish priest of Saint Mary’s Parish in Makurdi's North Bank Reverend Father Stephen Beba to an elevated position within the Catholic Church naming him as a Chaplain of His Holiness.
PRESIDENCY officials have confirmed that President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked 35 of vice president Professor Yemi Osinbajo's saying it was not as a result of a rift between the two men but rather part of a strategy to streamline government operations and cut red tape.
NIGERIA'S highest ranking female lawmaker ever Senator Abiodun Olujimi the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has returned to the National Assembly after the Federal Court of Appeal recently declared her duly elected to represent Ekiti South Senatorial District.
