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  Adedoyin  Justice is served. Special thanks to the Nigerian police officers who unraveled the circumstances surrounding the death of Timothy Adegoke, a post graduate student of the Obafemi Awolowo University who was murdered by the Proprietor of Oduduwa University, Dr Rahmon Adedoyin in his Ile Ife Hilton Hotel. Contrary to the people’s doubt, the professionalism that was deployed to uncover the bizarre murder was so phenomenal that one would recommend promotions for all the police officers involved. The Abuja-based Timothy travelled to Ile Ife to sit for his exams and lodged at Adedoyin’s Hilton hotel where he met his untimely death. Adedoyin and his accomplices later killed Timothy for ritual purposes. Justice Adepele Ojo while delivering the judgement said that the circumstantial evidence presented to the court showed that the killing of Mr Adegoke was masterminded by Adedoyin.

President Bola Tinubu  My Fellow Citizens, I stand before you honoured to assume the sacred mandate you have given me. My love for this nation is abiding. My confidence in its people, unwavering. And my faith in God Almighty, absolute. I know that His hand shall provide the needed moral strength and clarity of purpose in those instances when we seem to have reached the limits of our human capacity. This day is bold and majestic yet bright and full of spirit, as is our precious nation. As a nation, we have long ago decided to march beyond the dimness of night into the open day of renewed national hope. The question we now ask ourselves is whether to remain faithful to the work inherent in building a better society or retreat into the shadows of our unmet potential. For me, there is but one answer. We are too great a nation and too grounded as a people to rob ourselves of our finest destiny. This nation’s journey has been shaped by the prayers of millions, and the collective sacrific...

Dr Raymond Dokpesi   Dr Raymond Dokpesi is dead. Here’s the statement made by his son in a press release: PRESS RELEASE: It is with deep sadness and heavy hearts that we announce the passing of High Chief Raymond Aleogho Anthony Dokpesi (Ezomo of Weppa-Wanno Kingdom) who passed away on May 29th, 2023. High Chief Dokpesi was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, and friend to many. He will be deeply missed by all who knew him. High Chief Dokpesi was also a respected and accomplished businessman, a pioneer in the media industry, and a philanthropist who dedicated his life to the service of his country and his community. His legacy will live on through the impact he made on the lives of many. The Dokpesi family is grateful for the outpouring of love and support during this difficult time. We ask that you keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we mourn the loss of our patriarch. We also ask for privacy during this time as we grieve together as a family. The family will release ...

Bayo Oluwasanmi Today, May 29 offers Nigeria a chance for a fresh start. A new president brings new policy ideas, a new team, and a new store of political capital. But Nigeria’s slate is anything but blank. The list of problems facing Nigeria’s new chief executive – old and new, chronic and acute, social, economic, Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen terrorism – is dwarfed only by the universe of ideas about how to solve them. My advice to the new president: 1.  The 1999 fraudulent constitution must be discarded to make way for a new constitution. 2.  Boko Haram terrorists must be bombed out of existence. Fulani herdsmen terrorists must be contained or caged within their own northern territory. 3.  State and local government police should replace the ragtag central police aka NPF. 4.  Eliminate posts of junior ministers of state. 5.  Scrap all duplicitous and redundant federal agencies.  6.   Reduce salaries, allowances, and emoluments of federal legislator...

Hanan and Buhari   The palpable anger in Nigeria reached its highest crescendo when Nigerian Twitter users unleashed the worst form of vulgar abuses on Hanan Buhari. The Afro beat king Fela Kuti’s song “when trouble sleeps, yanga go wake am up” reverberates this week when the attention-seeking, beautiful Hanan, daughter of Nigeria’s outgoing, worst President Muhammadu Buhari got a dose more than she bargained for when she took to her IG account to rate her father’s performance in office. In her account she wrote, “My father is a silent achiever”  This statement did not go down well with Nigerian youths mostly of Hanan’s age who are suffering the excruciating economic hardship under Buhari’s mismanagement of the Nigerian economy. In my personal opinion, Muhammadu Buhari deserves condemnation not commendation because under his regime, life has been nasty, brutish and short as most Nigerians suffer the worst hardship in the history of the country.  Under Buhari’s regime...

Billionaire Aliko Dangote Some years ago, Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest man invited media leaders to a luncheon at then Protea Hotel in Ikeja to mark his 55th birthday. Some of his guests sat around  him at the centre table. They chatted freely. Discussions about our country, the  state of the economy soon veered into discussing the absurdity of our country, being a major crude exporter, and also a major importer of refined petroleum products. Our colleague from a major business paper said the local conditions were unfavourable to any investor who wanted  to build a refinery. He then  made a remark that I believe he would live to regret: "Only a foolish man will build a refinery in Nigeria". Aliko who had listened to all our business and political pontifications, interjected: "I am that foolish man". A pin drop silence enveloped the table as he  dropped the unexpected news: "My company has just decided to build a refinery in the country. But we are doing ...

 “The president stands down next week. He said sometime last year that he had done well and history would be kind to him: “I want [Nigerians] to analyse how things were when we came in and how they are when we’re leaving.” Today, he insists he has done very well. But, history has no friend and no fixed address. Its judgement comes now or maybe, later. Just as I write this, a BBC report popped up online. Its headline: ‘Nigeria’s Muhammadu Buhari leaves legacy of kidnapping, inflation and debt’. And the report’s conclusion: “The fact is that Nigerians were safer, better off and less in debt before Mr Buhari took over, and many will remember him for presiding over the toughest eight years they might ever face.” Exactly one week from today, Muhammadu Buhari will stop being our president; his place another shall take. But what kind of leader has he been? The best assessment of a leader you get, not from his fanatics – boys who eat directly from the leader’s palm – but from men with cock...