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By abiodun KOMOLAFE Temitope Oladipo Fayehun must be passing through hard times. A native of Ilesa in Osun State, Fayehun’s ordeal started on March 2, 2021, when he, alongside others in his vehicle, fell into the hands of some Fulani kidnappers along Osogbo-Ibokun-Ilesa Road in the state. While some of the passengers were killed and … Read more
Israel’s military has warned that Hamas militants from Gaza are still fighting inside Israel after they infiltrated southern communities and left a reported 250 people dead. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told Israelis they are going into a “long and difficult war”. EDITOR’S PICKS Fraudulent Academic Records: ‘Bring Evidence In 30 Days’ – Wole Soynika … Read more
The rockets began around 6:30am, Tal Gibly told CNN. Thirty minutes later, she and hundreds of others attending an Israeli music festival were running as Gaza militants fired at them. The terrifying attack was just one of multiple locations hit on Saturday morning by the most sustained and coordinated assault inside Israel ever carried out … Read more
By abiodun KOMOLAFE There was a time in Nigeria when the name, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) suggested a dynamic, positive and functional institution. Perilous, and as the war against drug crimes and related offences was, society and criminals were conscious of the institution’s existence. During the time, everything was bright and beautiful for … Read more
By abiodun KOMOLAFE A man represents different things to different people. It’s like a mirror in the sun, reflecting different parts of humanity, which depends on who is looking at it, and what part of life we met him. It boils down to human behavioural patterns and factors responsible for them. Unfortunately, the outcome becomes … Read more
Eko Hot Blog reports that it was a green and white affair in Onigbongbo Local Community Development Area (LCDA) as the Chairman, Hon. Oladotun Olakanle inaugurated a team of new community development council (CDC) Executives. The inauguration ceremony held on Thursday, September 28th, 2023. The Council Chairman in his speech admonished the new executives to … Read more
By Tunde Odesola Like humans, words have birthplaces. Russia is the birthplace of the word troika. In the once-upon-a-communist-but-now-a-democratic-capitalist country, troika means ‘a group of three’. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a troika as a Russian vehicle drawn by a team of three horses abreast. As a Yoruba expression, ‘i-k-a’, the last three alphabets of ‘troika’, … Read more
By abiodun KOMOLAFE Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo’s recent discourteous behaviour against some of the traditional rulers in Iseyin, Oyo State, has drawn an angry tirade from the public. Not unexpectedly, these comments have come as a mix of both the printable and unprintable words. For yours sincerely, the former president’s comments could only be … Read more
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has relieved the heads of 21 parastatals, agencies, and government companies of the FCT Administration of their appointments with immediate effect. The spokesperson to the minister, Anthony Ogunleye, stated this in a press statement in Abuja on Wednesday. EDITOR’S PICKS Presidency Misleads Nigerians For Third … Read more
Eko Hot Blog reports that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has called on Africa to break free from the grip of drug barons and illicit drug syndicates. EDITOR’S PICKS Presidency Misleads Nigerians For Third Time In Less Than Two Weeks VIDEO: Nigeria Committed To Universal Health Coverage, Tunji Alausa Tells World Leaders At UNGA 78 UNGA 78: Tunji … Read more
Eko Hot Blog reports that the recently appointed Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Olayemi Cardoso, has expressed his commitment to addressing the apex bank’s outstanding foreign exchange obligations as a top priority in the immediate future. EDITOR’S PICKS Presidency Misleads Nigerians For Third Time In Less Than Two Weeks VIDEO: Nigeria Committed … Read more
The MD/CEO of Ceecon Energy Oil and Gas Limited and the founder Ofuji Movement, Dr. Chimaobi Desmond Anyaso, better known as Ofuji has visited the Director ABN TV, Mr. Ifeanyi Okali to felicitate with him on the birth of his first child, Miss Precious Ola Chizaramekpere Ifeanyi Okali 11 years after his marriage to his … Read more
By abiodun KOMOLAFE Wait a minute, how many of the original NADECO members are still alive and what’s their current attitudinal disposition and worldview to the democracy that we claim to be enjoying? We need to interrogate this premise so that wecan appropriately gaugeif what we havein place is worth what they have put into … Read more
By abiodun KOMOLAFE There is nothing wrong with a very big dream. What is wrong is not having a dream at all. But with a dream, there’s also the possibility of a deluge of hindrances to its actualization. So, dreamers don’t go to the office to sleep. They go to the office to work. Actually, … Read more
Today, we live in a society filled with vices that we seem to have regularised, ranging from fraud and drugs to cultism, and we even glorify them in our music daily. Sadly, MohBad, a youngster, undoubtedly, was caught up in that web, dishing out music we could consider as “Afro Fraud”. He got signed into … Read more
By Tunde Odesola There’s no god-like mother, orisa bi iya kosi. A praying mother for that matter. Eyes shut wide in her bowed head, brow sweats as bosom heaves up and down while tongue speaks in supplication for her offspring to grow in wisdom, blossom in understanding, blow in success, live in health and enjoy … Read more
By abiodun KOMOLAFE Last week, I had the honour of visiting Dr. Amos Akingba, a chieftain of Afenifere and National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), in his Ode-Irele, Ondo State country home. Akingba, who turned 85 last March, relocated to his hometown about two years ago. EDITOR’S PICKS Ogun Records Cholera Outbreak, Warns Residents Mohbad’s Mother Insists … Read more
The Ondo state Woman Affairs Commissioner, Dr ( Mrs) Olubunmi Osadahun, was weekend, attacked in Arigidi Akoko area of the state, during the distribution of palliatives to cushion the effect of the removal of fuel subsidy by government. Report had it that the commissioner, was attacked by some members of the All Progressive Congress, in … Read more
As confirmation that even our Ambassador, High Commissioners and other envoys are trapped into uncertainty, here is the front page of “Saturday Punch” newspaper of September 9, 2023. Headline: “NIGERIAN EMBASSIES IN FINANCIAL CRISIS AS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DELAYS FUNDS.” “The Nigerian foreign missions are currently facing a financial crisis following the delay in the release of … Read more
By Bashorun J.K. Randle The credit for the concept of Negative Capability rightfully belongs to another “J K” (John Keats) who defined it as the possibility of living with uncertainty. In Africa, we have turned it upside down. A case in point was the front page report in “Daily Trust” newspaper on September 7, 2023. … Read more