Ogun governor’s aide arrested in America over alleged fraud
Abidemi Rufai, a senior special assistant to Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, has been arrested in the United States over alleged $350,000 unemployment benefits fraud. He was arrested last weekend at the JFK Airport, New York. According to the US attorney’s office in Western District of Washington, a criminal complaint had been filed against […]
Wabba, other labour leaders have been declared wanted, says El-Rufai
In a rather twist of event, the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba and other labour leaders have been reportedly decalred wanted, according to Kaduna State governor Nasir el Rufai. The NLC had since Monday declared a total strike and shutdown of the state over the alleged sacking of over 4,000 workers […]
A CONVERSATION WITH PROFESSOR PAUL ZELEZA, PART 5
The Diaspora Experience PART A THE INTERVIEW By Toyin Falola (Unedited Transcript) How did your path lead to living in the West? My path to the West was long and circuitous. Like many among the new diaspora, it started in pursuit of graduate education, which was underdeveloped at the University of Malawi when […]
Leicester Wins English FA Cup For First Time
Super Eagles stars of Nigeria, Wilfred Ndidi and Kelechi Iheanacho, and their Leicester City have won the English FA Cup for the first time after a 1-0 defeat of Chelsea at the Wembley Although it was Youri Tielemans’s sensational screamer which handed Leicester victory, Iheanacho, who had a dour final, has been instrumental throughout the […]
Possibility of Shifting UTME 2021 Date Is Very High-JAMB
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) says there is high possibility to shift the date for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination The JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede said this was because close to 600, 000 candidates who have indicated an interest in the exam are yet to register. Speaking at a virtual meeting with […]
Lessons For Nigeria From EPL – Femi Adesina
Manchester City football club was on Tuesday confirmed winner of the 2020/2021 English Premier League (EPL). For those who follow football keenly, whether it is played in the dusty fields of Ajegunle, in Lagos, the La Liga in Spain, Italian Serie A, German Bundesliga, or EPL, this was one pulsating season, filled with excitement, despite […]
Falola and the praise of greatness
By Olayinka Oyegbile (In Praise of Greatness: The Poetics of African Adulation; by Toyin Falola, Carolina Academic Press, 2019) In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind – Edmund Burke It is only the deep that can call to […]
A CONVERSATION WITH EBENEZER OBEY-FABIYI, PART 6
The Unknown Ebenezer Obey: A Loving Father and A Darling Husband By Toyin Falola (This is the third report on the interview conducted with Chief Ebenezer Obey-Fabiyi on April 18, 2021. With viewers on three platforms now at over 16,000, there is a strong loyalty between him and his admirers. For its entire recording, […]
Shrinking Civic Space: Labour, CSOs Agree to Form Transformative Governance Initiative
Members of the civil society organisations and the Labour movement in Nigeria have agreed to work together to initiate a Campaign For Transformative Governance, with the central theme on corruption and Insecurity and their deleterious impact on the trajectory of Human Development. The groups said in a communique issued after a two-day stakeholders meeting held […]
Buhari Mourns General Joshua Dogonyaro
President Muhammed Buhari has mourned a former Chief of Defense Staff, Lieutenant General Joshua Dogonyao. Dogonyaro, a former Fied Commander of the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group(ECOMOG0 died on Wednesday at the age of 80. President Buhari in a statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu […]
