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By Femi Onakanren/Lagos Increasingly, it has become clear that most commentators on Nigerian politics are ignorant, novices or just plain anywhere-belle-face apologists. There is often a lot of uproar and agitation when issues align with preferred biases but at the center of all the opprobrium, there doesn’t seem to be any substance or vision beyond wishful thinking and self interest powering the social activism. The real players know how to play the game and have been successfully exploiting the weaknesses of their following for many decades. It is like the dance of the Masquerades. The initiates know the rites, meaning,…

Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) Housemate, Saga has broken into tears over Nini’s unexpected disappearance from the house. Saga was seen crying in the garden after the morning exercise on Wenesday. Chronicle Ng reported that Nini had been told by Big Brother to leave the house through a secret exit for twenty four hours. She was asked to keep this information from other housemates. The latest development caused confusion in the house as the other participants refused to sleep in their rooms over her sudden unexplained absence. Nini had told Big Brother that she missed being with her family and loved…

Former US President Donald Trump is suing his niece, Mary Trump, and the New York Times over a 2018 article that alleged he was involved in “dubious tax schemes”. The lawsuit, filed in New York, accuses his niece and newspaper reporters of being “engaged in an insidious plot” to obtain confidential documents. It alleges that Ms Trump, 56, breached a settlement agreement barring her from disclosing the documents. She revealed herself as the source of the story in a tell-all memoir in 2020. Ms Trump, the daughter of Fred Trump Jr, the president’s older brother who died in 1981 at…

By Wole Oguntokun I opened a corporate account with my company, Jasonvision Ltd in 2006 at Zenith Bank’s Adeniran Ogunsanya Branch in Surulere, Lagos. On the 31st of July, 2019, hours before I got on a plane on vacation to the United States, I stopped at the Adeniyi Jones Avenue Branch in Ikeja, Lagos, to change a token that had a failing battery. The lady at the customer service desk did so speedily. I then mentioned to her that I had continued to receive messages from the bank to renew my I.D. even though I had handed in my valid…

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has forwarded President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominees into the board of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to the Committee on Anti-Corruption and Financial Crimes for screening. Also forwarded were the names of appointees into the newly established Boards of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NPRA) and Upstream Regulatory Commission (URC) to the Committees on Petroleum (Downstream) and (Upstream), respectively. The nominees were referred to the relevant committees for legislative action on Wednesday during the start of plenary proceedings, following the receipt of three separate requests from the President to that…

Two policemen have been killed at a checkpoint by a group of unknown armed men in Enugu state. It was gathered that the incident occurred at Nachi, Oji River Local Government Area of the state. The incident was confirmed by the Enugu State Police Public Relations Officer, Daniel Ndukwe,nwho added that the Command had launched an operation to track down the perpetrators of the attack. “Full scale investigation that will lead to fishing out of the assailants has commenced. Further development will be communicated, please,” he said. Three policemen killed at checkpoint in Anambra It can be recalled that Chronicle NG…

Emir of Gaya, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdulkadir, has reportedly passed on in Kano state. The latest development was disclosed by the Senior Special Assistant to the Kano State Governor, on Social Media via Facebook on Wednesday. Late Emir Abdulkadir Gaya was believed to be about 90 years old and had been on the throne since his appointment in 1990. Gaya which is a local government area is one of the five major emirates in Kano. Community rejects Gaya Emirate, pledges loyalty to Kano Emirate In May, 2019, he was elevated to the rank of Emir, along with three other traditional rulers.…

The Senate has passed a bill seeking to control and manage sickle cell anaemia, a genetically inherited disease in Nigeria. The passage of the bill followed the consideration of a report by the Committee on Health (Secondary and Tertiary). Chairman of the committee, Senator Yahaya Oloriegbe (APC, Kwara Central), in his presentation, explained that sickle cell anaemia is a disease and inherited disorder of Haemoglobin (SS) from either or both parents of a child affecting nearly 100 million people globally. According to the lawmaker, Nigeria ranks 1st in the world as the sickle cell endemic country and was declared by…

The Acting General Officer Commanding (GOC), 7 Division, Brig.-Gen. Abdulwahab Eyitayo, has revealed that over 8,000 Boko Haram fighters have surrendered so far to Nigerian troops. According to the GOC the terrorists surrendered from their hideouts in Sambisa Forests, as well as other camps. Eyitayo, who is also the Commander, Sector 1, Operation Hadin Kai, disclosed this during a visit by the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu and a team of Defence Correspondents form Abuja on Tuesday, in Maiduguri. He said the surrender by the repentant terrorists was a welcome development, adding that, the overwhelming fire power of…

About 18 million Americans, or 7% of U.S. adults, say they were recently unable to pay for at least one prescription medication for their household, according to a new poll from Gallup. The finding shows in “stark terms” how high health-care costs and prescription drug prices are impacting households across the nation, the polling firm said. The situation is even worse for low-income households with annual income of less than $24,000, with almost 20% unable to pay for at least one prescription medication in the prior three months, Gallup found in its survey of almost 5,000 adults in June. About…