Kabiru Yusuf
By Farooq Kperogi
I’m certain that many people will be astonished by the thematic core of today’s column: the extolment of someone who isn’t dead and whom I have a good reason to resent for capitulating to pressures from … Read the rest
Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan
Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan, popularly known as Mama Taraba is dead.
She died at 61 in Cairo, Egypt.
“Mama (Al-Hassan) died in a hospital today in Cairo. We will miss her,” a former aide to Al-Hassan, who pleaded anonymity, said on … Read the rest
Piers Morgan
The coronavirus pandemic has destroyed millions of lives, wrecked global economies, stolen our basic freedoms and left all of us feeling deeply deeply p*ssed off.
(Well, apart from Amazon’s billionaire boss Jeff Bezos who got massively richer as he sent … Read the rest
Kiss of life in Disney's Snow White
Disneyland’s new Snow White ride has been slammed for prince’s ‘non-consensual’ kiss. The ‘true love’s kiss’ in Snow White has raised issues around consent.
The overhaul of the ride at the theme park in Anaheim, California, was revealed to the … Read the rest
Iyabo Ojo, Baba Ijesha, Yomi Fabiyi
Since the news of alleged child sexual exploitation by popular actor, James Olanrewaju Omiyinka, aka Baba Ijesha, broke, some Nollywood actors of the Yoruba genre have exchanged insults and rebukes among themselves. I have no wish whatsoever to litigate their … Read the rest
The Void
Finally, I could breathe.
Unfortunately George Floyd couldn’t. This is very sad. And not for lack of oxygen in the environment. Or we would have run for his sake to the Emergency Room for supplemental Oxygen.
Nay. It was a … Read the rest
By Dele Momodu
Fellow Africans, please, permit me to make an open and audacious declaration today. No Professor of Business Management or Mass Communication could have published Ovation International successfully for the period of time that we have done. I
One of the most unfortunate things about leadership in Nigeria is the process by which it is derived. With the absence of a rigorous selection process based on merit, adequate know-how and manifestable compassion, all sorts of individuals attain leadership … Read the rest
President Muhammadu Buhari
After Nigerians criticised the National Broadcasting Commission for trying to strong-arm the television station, Channels TV, over their interview with the spokesperson for the Independent People of Biafra, Emma Powerful, a more contrite version of them addressed the public to … Read the rest
“I am confirming that there are Boko Haram elements here in Niger State. I am confirming that they have hosted their flags here, if care is not taken even Abuja is not safe; we have been saying this for long. … Read the rest
