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NEPAL; An earthquake with about 7.9 magnitude shook villages about fifty miles from the country's capital, Kathmandu. Residents in the capital scampered for safety as there were reports of collapsed buildings leaving over 1,000 people dead and thousands injured in the villages where the earthquake took place. Further details to emerge later.

President Olusegun Obasanjo descended heavily on Friday on President Goodluck Jonathan when he described the latter as a "Moving Train providentially stopped From Collapsing Nigeria. In his twitter account released on Friday, Mr Obasanjo further said, "one month to the election, no one believed we will have a peaceful election that is reasonably free and fair." Speaking further, Obasanjo said he has visited six countries since the election and "they are as happy about the results as we are in Nigeria. It is good for Africa and the world" Tweeting earlier in the day on Boko Haram, Obasanjo who had on several occasions advised President Jonathan to adopt a carrot and stick approach in curbing the menace of the insurgents said, "if Jonathan's government had only attacked terrorism as much as General Buhari was attacked during election, Boko Haram would have been long forgotten"

Are We Still ‘Nigeria’? By: Bukky Shonibare With the recent heightened spate of insurgency, and its resultant effects, Nigeria has become a nation that is a far cry from being amalgamated. We are loosing territories, thousands of kilometers, expanse of land, and, most especially, our people. I dare say: we are gradually loosing ‘Nigeria.’ It then becomes a high level of foolhardiness for anyone to think that because insurgency is only rampant in the North East, then we cannot really generalize it as ‘our’ collective problem. What is the North East without the communities that have been taken over by Boko Haram? What is the North without the North East? What is Nigeria without the North? Terrorism to one is terrorism to all. Insurgency to one is insurgency to all. And because we are somewhat in a state of war, as the word ‘insurgency’ is an understatement in describing our current realities, then war to one is war to all of us. We must never live dismissively and assume that because it

It looks like the business of bootlicking and sycophancy is winding up in Nigeria. The business that became lucrative under President Goodluck Jonathan's administration suffered a setback this week when Mr Bola Tinubu, the most influential power figure of the APC refused to be hoodwinked by the encomiums showered on him by a political scavenger and apostle of do or die politics in Ogun State, one Buruji Kashamu. According to the statement signed by Tinubu's media adviser Mr Sunday Dare obtained by Kay Ola News correspondent, Tinubu rejected the deceitful toga of honour being draped on him by Kashamu. In the statement, Tinubu said, "for Kashamu to liken himself to Bola Tinubu is for a small rut to call itself a mountain." "For Kashamu to call Tinubu a role model is Kashamu's admission that he does not know the meaning of the term. There are no grounds for comparison. There is only contrast. Tinubu has sacrificed years trying to bring democracy yo Nig

; 9 yrs after l wrote this article on Femi Fani-Kayode's idiotic flippancy, the misguided nincompoop has not changed; RUDENESS RUNS IN FANI-KAYODE'S FAMILY In the first republic when the late Odemo of Ishara, Oba Samuel Akinsanya called the duo of late Chief Ladoke Akintola, the then premier of the Western region and his deputy, the late Chief Remi Fani-Kayode "misguided small boys" following their decision to mete out some punitive measures to some Yoruba Obas who owed their allegiance to Chief Obafemi Awolowo, little did we know that there would be a re-enactment of this scenario this time on the part of Chief Remi Fani-Kayode's son, Femi Fani-Kayode, the special assistant to the President on Public Affairs, the loquacious mouth piece that misrepresents and mispresents the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo. Oba Akinsanya was unperturbed by the duo's action and he felt a man of his exalted position should not be joining issues with rude "bo

The Ponzi Scheme; According to Wikipedia, "A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation where the operator, an individual or organization, pays return to its investors from new capital paid the operators by new investors, rather than from profit earned by the operator." The first time I read about Bernie Madoff and his "Ponzi scheme", I felt it was time to know the origin of the Ponzi scheme. I rushed to my dictionary to check the meaning of the word, "ponzi", I flipped over and over my Chambers dictionary, I first thought the page had been ripped off only to find out that no page was missing in the dictionary. Then I did a little bit of research online and got the the true story of the man whose financial notoriety shook the world in the early 19s. "Charles Ponzi's name will be forever associated with the financial fraud scheme he elevated to a way of life. After some minor financial crime and brief time in jail in early 1920 he beg

Further details emerged at the weekend as to the factors that informed the decision of top bigwigs of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to betray President Goodluck Jonathan at the just-concluded March 28 presidential election.Insiders in the party said at the weekend that the “age factor” played a major role in forcing a number of the top echelons of the party to drop their guards at critical points and in some cases allow some untoward things happen to the votes.A source described the “age factor” as the age-related campaign mounted by the PDP in a bid to checkmate president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari.It was learnt that in a bid to draw attention to the fact that a 73-year-old should not be allowed to preside over Nigeria’s affairs, the PDP went too far and in the process forced its chieftains into believing that there would be no hope of being allowed to contest the presidential election in 2019.According to sources within the party, constant references to the fact that the PD

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