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  Anita, Davido & Chioma A Twitter user has set the internet on fire with the use of her explosive words while commenting on Davido’s alleged baby mama, the fifth woman to come out with the claim that Davido impregnated her around the time his little baby was involved in a tragic swimming pool accident that resulted in his death. Anita Brown said she did not know that Davido was married when the sexual affairs started and that she’s not looking to get married to Davido.  The Twitter user Lady Fiyinfoluwa of London while commenting said “While Chioma was mourning, Davido was moaning” Did she mean to say that Davido did not wait for the ink to dry on the baby’s death certificate when he went mourning, sorry moaning on top of another woman? Chioma 

  Dr Reuben Abati  See Paris and die!” We used to hear that as young persons. Paris was meant to be the most exotic spot of European civilization, an intellectual capital and the reference point for the Renaissance – Francis !1, Cardinal Richelieu, Loui XIII, Louis XIV, and the ideas-driven salons of Paris.  But that was in the past. Nobody goes to Paris to die these days, or to look for big ideas at salons.  The history is still there, the legacy is apparent, but there is no big deal anymore about Paris. Most people go there for tourism, lovers travel to Paris to take pictures at some of the most memorable legacies of world heritage: at the la Tour Eiffel, the Louvre Museum, the Seine River, the Versailles, the Mussee d’Orsay and particularly at the Arc de Triomphe where lovers take pictures after, or before visiting the Eiffel Tower to show that they have been to Paris.  It is particularly tragic for France that from being the centre of culture and civilization at a time in history,

  Omoyele Sowore Those who have ideas do not have the political power to exercise the ideas and those who have the political power are bereft of ideas that can transform the country. It’s no more news that Nigeria’s foreign reserve is depleted while the debt profiling is increasing with the negative effects on the poor masses. Asked on the AriseTV on how he intends to solve Nigeria’s economic crises with the paucity of funds due to corruption bedeviling the country, Omoyele Sowore takes the news anchor to the cleaner on why the question is being repeated several times. In Sowore’s response, Nigerians have no reason to be poor if not for the mismanagement of the country’s economy by the heartless Nigerian leaders. “You shouldn’t worry about the foreign reserve but the local reserve that should feed the people…” Sowore retorts.

  Tope Fasua I must admit that the policies put into action by President Bola Tinubu these first few days are hard to explain. And indeed, it is not my duty to do so. But there is beginning to be some complaints and many – including myself – have cause to be wary because there are usually very powerful folks with international backing, who move in whenever a new leader emerges in Africa and make leaders tread a different trajectory from their fundamental wiring. In this particular instance, firstly, President Tinubu has shown himself to be a man of speed, resolve, grit, and a sense of urgency. Rather than go to sleep like President Buhari did for the first seven months, Tinubu has hit the ground running and is ticking all the right boxes with friends and foes alike. He briskly changed the headship of a few critical organisations like the central bank and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), took some critical decisions where angels fear to tread, and then in one fell sw

  The Embattled Emefiele The Bàtá is a Yoruba drum that is in a class of its own. It used to be highly venerated in social and political circles as its percussion impacted virtually all spheres of life. It is a double-faced drum shaped by its crafters to look like an hourglass, with one end of it bigger than the other. In the olden days, Bata got deployed mainly during traditional and religious festivals – it occupied a special place in the heart of Alaafin Sango, all his descendants and devotees. In its outstanding place of social pride, the Bata shared spatial recognition with Gbedu, the drum of royalty. In those early years spanning centuries, the Bata’s uniqueness was based on its deployment to connect with the ancestors and the other world. It often cosseted local politicians on outings in village administration. In Cuba where it later migrated to in the 1800s, Bata has played a major role in a religious worship known as Santeria. In the 1950s, Puerto Rico and the United States of

Yemi Mobolade He shattered the glass ceiling in an unprecedented fashion that replays President Barack Obama’s ‘Yes We Can’ mantra.  Born in 1978 in Lagos State, Nigeria to a father who worked with ExxonMobil and a mother who worked as a teacher, Mr Mobolade moved to the US 27 years ago as a student and with his persevering spirit, he believes that no mountain is too high to climb and no obstacle is too strong to overcome as he pressed on in his academic studies.  He graduated from Bethel University in 2001 and got his master’s degree from Indiana Wesleyan University. Later in 2010, Mobolade moved to Colorado Springs where he founded his church while also running his restaurant businesses. He was the Vice President of business retention for Colorado Springs’ Chamber of Commerce from 2017 to 2019. In 2023, Mobolade contested as an independent candidate for the office of the Mayor of Colorado Springs to beat the Republican Party candidate Mr Wayne W. Williams. Mobolade’s Swearing In He b

Prof. Kperogi  It’s either President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his inner circle didn’t read my April 29 column titled “Six Agenda Items for Tinubu’s Success” or they did but dismissed it as the impractical, high-flown, indulgent musings of an idealistic diasporan Nigerian. The fifth item on my list concerned petrol price hikes amid the current agonizingly biting poverty in the land. I wrote: “I know that there is now an artfully manufactured consent, particularly among the gilded classes in Nigeria, about the undesirability of ‘fuel subsidy.’ I don’t care what it’s called, but any policy (call it deregulation, subsidy removal, appropriate pricing, etc.) that results in an arbitrary and unbearable hike in the price of petrol without a corresponding increase in the salaries of workers and an improvement in the living conditions of everyday people will sink Tinubu. “Resuscitating existing refineries and creating conditions for robust private sector investment in building new ones are obvious,