It’s actually your dumb head for me. How you think to be hailed ‘The I Am That I Am’ How you envisage being praised ‘Baba hum baba hum’. Look at your fatty neck Suffocating your wind pipe, Full of stolen funds- The one you alleged to a monkey. Oh poor monkey. Even this DRUM you call belly could pass for a parachute Come to think of it how does your tiny anus bear the...
OWERRI — All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirant and Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi believes the agitation for an independent state of Biafra championed by the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) will be over if the next president emerges from the South-East. Umahi stated this when he addressed delegates of the party from the South-East in Imo State at a consultative meeting in Owerri, the state capital, on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports...
Boko Haram terrorists have razed 512 schools and killed 600 teachers in Borno state within the past 12 years of insurgency. The Director of School Services, State Universal Basic Education Board Ali Dogo made this known at the launch of EduTrac mobile phone-based data collection system and mainstreaming of psycho-social support into formal education in Borno state in partnership with United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF). “Low levels of education and literacy in northeast Nigeria have...
This update represents violence in Nigeria and related to Boko Haram in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger from May 14 to May 20, 2022. Below is a visualization and description of some of the most significant incidents of political violence in Nigeria from May 14 to May 20, 2022. This update also represents violence related to Boko Haram in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger. These incidents are included in the Nigeria Security Tracker. May 14: Bandits killed one...
ABUJA — The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has unanimously voted to raise the Monetary Policy Rate by 13 percent. CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, announced this on Tuesday while briefing reporters at the end committee’s meeting at the apex bank’s headquarters in Abuja. It is the first time in two and a half years that the policy-setting committee of the nation’s financial regulator would increase the MPR, which measures...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has met behind closed-door with three governors and former governor of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital ahead of the 2023 presidential Primaries of the party. The three Governors included Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, and former Governor Donald Duke of Cross River. It was learnt that the governors arrived at Obasanjo’s Residence at the...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has announced the approval of a $1.5 billion emergency programme to alleviate the effect of worsening food insecurity as a result of the Russia/Ukraine War, this was revealed by its director on Monday. About 20 million farmers on the continent will benefit from the fund as Africa faces a shortage of at least 30 million metric tonnes of food, especially wheat, maize, and soybeans imported from Russia and Ukraine. “The US$1.5...
“This Archbishop must truly believe that THE BODY OF CHRIST, is his to grant. I say, screw him.” ―Don Okolo Sometimes, I find myself thinking the way atheists do. Atheists must have rationalized all tidbits of data their minds feed them before every one of them concluded that there is no God. Neil Degrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist, contends that if one can’t scientifically prove the existence of God, then God does not exist. A brilliant...
Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organisation (WHO), has warned that COVID-19 is not over in spite of the reports that cases and deaths have declined significantly. Ghebreyesus said this at the opening of the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of WHO comprised of representatives of 194 countries, on Sunday in Geneva, Switzerland. The 75th World Health Assembly, the first in-person Health Assembly since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, is being held in...
The dialogues in the Horn of Africa inspire little confidence to resolve the region’s crises while U.S. diplomatic efforts seem insufficient in an area of strategic interest. It’s a matter of conventional wisdom that the crises gripping the Horn of Africa are fundamentally political, and that viable, sustainable solutions can be found only through inclusive political dialogue. But in both Sudan and Ethiopia, current dialogues—one internationally-backed and one a domestic project—inspire little confidence. The United...
