Afrobeat king and son of the legend Fela Anukulapo-Kuti, Femi Kuti said life is very tough as government ordered lockdown of human and business activities in Lagos, Ogun and Abuja as part of measures to contain coronavirus. Femi Kuti, who was responding to a fan on Twitter said he has shut down African Shrine...
Read MoreWriter Abi Dare grew up in a part of Lagos, Nigeria where most families, including hers, had maids as young as eight years old who worked all day, were often beaten and did not go to school. It was only as an adult that she realised these so-called “house girls” were essentially slaves. “I...
Read MoreOne of the last weddings performed in public in Las Vegas was on St. Patrick’s Day. The groom wore a dark suit. The bride wore a rockabilly-style black halter dress. The minister was Slash from Guns N’ Roses—or, rather, a licensed officiant performing as the shaggy-maned, top-hatted guitarist. As ceremonies go at the Rock...
Read MoreBy Oludare Mayowa The popular saying goes; ‘crisis brings out the best and worst in people,’ and so true of the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus across the globe including Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy. Many Nigerians both home and abroad have come out stronger, manifesting their selfless side by extending the hands of fellowship...
Read MoreA housewife Ada Amuzie in Imo State has been arrested by the Police for killing a commercial sex worker, identified simply as Happiness over allegations the prostitute was dating her husband. According to Police report, Amuzie had accused Happiness of dating her husband, Ejike Lambert Amuzie. The deceased Happiness had gone to Amuzie house...
Read MoreIn small groups and large crowds, through inner-city lanes and down interstate highways, hundreds of thousands of India’s poorest are slowly making a desperate journey on foot back to their villages in a mass exodus unseen since the days immediately after India’s independence in 1947. For many, it’s a matter of life and death....
Read MoreThe Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-rufai has tested positive to the dreaded disease the novel Coronavirus, according to a statement by his wife on Saturday. “My husband. the governor of Kaduna State has tested positive for COVID-19. Please keep us in your prayers,” Hadiza Isma El-Rufai wrote on her twitter handle on Saturday....
Read MoreCases of the infected person in Nigeria has risen by 11 to 81, according to the latest data released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The NCDC said eight of the cases were reported in Lagos, two in Enugu and one in Edo State, with the tally now 81 cases in the...
Read MoreLagos State has announced its plans to distribute food items to 200,000 households in the state as part of its palliative and stimulus package to help Lagosians cushion the effect of the lockdown in the efforts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus in the state. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who disclosed this on...
Read MoreThe former commissioner of finance in Abia State, Udeh Udeogu who was sentenced along with his former principal ex-governor Orji Uzor Kalu 10 years imprisonment for N7.65 billion fraud has been granted post-conviction bail by a Federal High Court in Lagos. The two ex-top officials of the southeastern state were jailed by Justice Mohammad...
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