There is no gainsaying that one of the likely flagbearers of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming 2023 presidential elections is its national leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. As it is peculiar to Nigerian politics, a politician regardless of how influential or popular, needs strong alliances in the Northern part of the country especially … Read more
Marriage is a lifelong contract which must be entered into by two people who are willing and ready to make each other’s lives better. It wouldn’t make much sense to rush into it and then start looking for a way out when the parties are bound to each other in so many ways. Read Also: … Read more
By Afolabi Hakim Rain started in Lagos last year with a greater intensity which resulted in floodings, with many homes damaged across the state, especially in suburbs like Ikorodu, Makoko, Bariga, Ayobo to mention few. In March last year, at a news conference on the 2020 seasonal rainfall predictions and prevention of flooding in Lagos, … Read more
Genotype is what you should be knowledgeable of, before getting into a marriage. A Genotype is an inherited orgasms from parent. It is a person’s heritable genetic identity, transferred from parents through genes. There are many types of Genotype, which also tells about a person’s blood group,we have Genotype AA, AS, SS, SC, AC, CC. Genotype … Read more
The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments – Henry Clay If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which … Read more
I grew up watching ‘Nigerian films’ as we called it back then because there was no organized name as we have it today and as young as I was, I knew something was quite wrong with most of those films in terms of acting, casts, presentation, setting, representation, and storytelling. Read Also: Women’s Day – … Read more
The former warlord who dared the federal government to constitute a Biafran government, declared himself the leader of the new Biafra defacto Customary Government (BCG). Dokubo assured that the defacto administration will tackle insecurity challenges faced by the Igbos and improve the lives of the people of the region. The agitation for a Biafra State … Read more
By Simon Kolawole It would appear setting up state police in Nigeria is now a matter of “when” – not “if”. What started as a campaign championed solely by south-west political and opinion leaders at the dawn of this democracy has gone on to win more disciples nationwide. Support is coming from unlikely quarters in … Read more
When national, state, or local governments make a concerted effort to solicit input from citizens and provide services to all of their constituents equally, they sow the seeds of stability and growth. When this is done within a framework of political and legal accountability, citizens increasingly trust state institutions to support and to treat all … Read more
Societies are recognizing the achievements and abilities of women to contribute immensely to the development and progress of the nation if their skills, potentials, and abilities are harnessed and they are given a level playing field to showcase the talents they have. Read Also: Now That Big Brother Naija Form is Out Women are incubators, … Read more
By Femi Akintunde-Johnson This piece was inspired by my mother…a woman whose mastery of the English Language was no more than adequate to communicate with her diverse customers at her petty-trading shop in Iponri, Lagos. My mother was tough, hardworking, thrifty and distrustful of haughty, loudmouthed smooth talkers. She would not condone my truancy or … Read more
By Olamide Francis The call by many Nigerians for the presidency to proscribe bandits as terrorists are gratuitous. The presidency is upstanding to turn deaf ears to this reverberating call except that it has failed to treat these vicious murderers, the plunder of resources and architects of national bewilderment for what they really are — … Read more
By Simon Kolawole Sadly, this story makes me laugh. A human rights activist shared with me an experience she had during a governorship election in one of the south-west states many years ago. She said she was in the state capital on election eve when she learnt that a renowned political thug (who is now … Read more
This past week, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Asiwaju Tinubu has constituted the source of viral media reports carried by a vast majority of major news outlets in the country. As gathered by EKO HOT BLOG, the former Lagos State Governor is being investigated by the apex anti-graft agency, the … Read more
The Republic of Biafra, which seem to have existed from the year 1967 to 1970, during the Nigeria civil war, still lives in the heart of most Igbo people today, as they are seen to portray kin interest in wanting Biafra as a nation, which from every indication cannot be a reality. Considering the fact … Read more
Controversies have always trailed the BBNaija reality show and the arguments against its easy public access has ranged from cultural to religious to moral reasons. While some are vehemently against it stating that it influences the youth badly, a lot of others, ranging, surprising, of different ages and religious beliefs devotedly follow the series. Read … Read more
By_ Richard Akinola No man is above the law, including Tinubu. If there are reasons to investigate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, it is within the purview of the EFCC to do. However, perception in most cases, is stronger than reality. Tinubu left office 14 years ago. For the EFCC to suddenly wake up now and be … Read more
By Femi Akintunde-Johnson Have you been seeing some online videos where all sorts of activists anarchists make calm and confident threats to ‘take our nation’ back from their rudderless kinsmen in leadership positions who are accused of being in cahoots with the ruling ‘oligarchs’? Well, we hope others are taking those videos in public domain … Read more
By Simon Kolawole Chilling. I mean very chilling. I felt a shiver down my spine on Tuesday when I saw the video of “new” Niger Delta militants, with war weapons, threatening to bomb Abuja and Lagos because of the “underdevelopment” of the oil-producing region. It brought back sad memories – memories of 2004 when organised … Read more
Round face, short black hair with a distinctive white spot right at the top of the frontal middle and in a yellow armless long outfit, I vividly recollect these images from the video of her song, One Love, which filled the air-waves in the late eighties. We sang it as we went to school, came … Read more