September 15, 2019

Unfathomable Mercy: A full length TV drama series 47

September 15, 2019 4:27 am

By MarkAnthony Nze

133. EXT. MR. KADIRI’S COMPOUND.DAY.

JEFF exchanges pleasantries with Adamu and the LAND LADY as he comes in.

JEFF

Adamu, how’re you now?

ADAMU

Oga Jeff, wa lahi ta la hi! That your friend no be human being, na animal, na bad one em be, na kill em wan kill me.

JEFF

But you’re getting better now?

ADAMU

Small, small oga Jeff. But my body still de pain me.

JEFF

Sorry, you’ll be all right soon, okay.

ADAMU

Okay, oga.

JEFF

Good evening ma!

MRS. KADIRI

Good evening, Jeff, how’re you?

JEFF

I’m …

Tunde Baiyewu: Being a Lighthouse Family

September 15, 2019 4:10 am

Growing up in an era where cigarette adverts were permitted to air on television and radio, it was a tad difficult to miss those deceptive cuts that told us it was a mark of pristine masculinity to puff on neatly wrapped nicotine.

It was also one of those ads – St. Moritz’s – that introduced me to the music of Lighthouse Family. Ocean Drive’s simple yet inspiring lyrics contradict the reality cigarettes represent, but the minds behind it found it beautiful enough – maybe it’s Tunde Baiyewu’s voice – to rest the soul of the commercial on. Such was the …

DR Junaid Mohammed, a medical doctor, politician and member of the Northern intelligentsia, speaks on the self-determination quest by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, the xenophobia attacks by South Africans on Nigerians

‘Southeast is landlocked, can’t survive outside Nigeria’

September 15, 2019 2:59 am

Dr Junaid Mohammed, a medical doctor, politician and member of the Northern intelligentsia, speaks on the self-determination quest by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, the xenophobia attacks by South Africans on Nigerians and other foreign nationals in South Africa, the $9.8 billion judgment debt against Nigeria, 2023 presidential elections and power shift. He also speaks on other contemporary national issues. Excerpts.

What do you think about the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other foreign nationals in South Africa and the nature of reaction to it by the Federal Government and the people?
This is very unfortunate. The xenophobic attack …

'Nigeria has been under serious bastardization for years'

‘Nigeria has been under serious bastardisation for years’

September 15, 2019 2:34 am

Senator Anthony Agbo represented Ebonyi North Federal Constituency at the 6th Senate on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and was appointed to committees on National Identity Card and Population, Housing, Federal Capital Territory and Drugs Narcotics Anti-Corruption.
During the last governorship election in Ebonyi State, Agbo was the Director-General, Senator Sonni Ogbuoji Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
He was a former Speaker, Commissioner of Finance, as well as Commissioner of Public Utilities. Agbo, who was reputed to be very active in plenary and committee work at the Red Chambers in this encounter with Sunday …

How Jonathan signed himself into trouble in 2015

September 15, 2019 2:07 am

Sizzling details of some of the behind-the-scene power games during the five years reign of former President Goodluck Jonathan are beginning to surface, one of which was how the former president had already signed himself into trouble with the Fourth Amendment Bill 2015, if not for the last minute intervention by his former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke.

Apart from this, the former president also endured intense pressure from prominent members of the political class, who wanted him to use his office to annex more states ahead of the 2015 general election, using …

Orji Kalu and nullification of his election by tribunal

September 15, 2019 1:08 am

Abia State’s former governor, Orji Uzo Kalu is not a political neophyte. The All Progressives Congress (APC) senator representing Abia north was governor for eight years. On two occasions, he contested for presidency and lost. At other times, he contested the senatorial seat of his zone and lost. The defeats did not whittle his spirit.Providence, however, smiled on him during the build up to the 2019 general elections when he pitched membership with the APC and won the senatorial election. It was a victory that was however, suspected to have been earned dubiously.

But Kalu, according to the Independent National

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