BAT 2023

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan seems to have proven beyond reasonable doubt the truth captured by the familiar adage that whatever a man can do, a woman can do, even better. Nearly all the women in the President’s cabinet have performed excellently and shown to the rest of us that Nigerian women may, after all, hold […]

For ages, outcome of conferences have always been bellwethers or peep into the future of a people which always birth decisions that affect the people under the jurisdiction covered by the decisions. We can still remember the Berlin conference of 1884 where the present direction Africans are towing was gainfully shared and tailored by European […]

Let a sleeping dog ‘lie’ without disturbance is a metaphor that sometimes show how weak an individual is in terms of confronting issues that are personal to him. Is NSC a sleeping dog? Should we let NSC lay motionless because of a Giant (really puppet) at the helm? I was informed of new Sports Minister […]

These beans are not delicious, these beans are not delicious, yet the coiffure at the occiput is shaking vigorously. (A person’s actions towards a person or thing belie his or her detracting comments; if one claims to dislike something or someone, one’s actions should not say the opposite.)



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The leadership of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has expressed disappointment over a statement of Super Eagles Chief Coach, Stephen Keshi that the wives of the players would be allowed to go with their husbands to Brazil for the FIFA World Cup competition. According to a representative of the NFF who spoke anonymously to journalists, the […]

Fuji exponent, Abass Akande Obesere is innocent of any rape allegation; Lagos State Police Command has clarified. Ms. Ngozi Braide, Lagos State Command Police Public Relations Officer, (PPRO) on Thursday cleared the air about Obesere’s involvement in the case. She said investigation reveals that Obesere did not do anything of the nature but that he […]

One of the most pressing issues affecting the world currently is the high rate of unemployment and under-employment. This social economic problem needs a radical and immediate solution before it consumes the peace of the country. In Nigeria, as a result of our economic structure, demography and dysfunctional education system we face more grave dangers […]

Today, the world is becoming more aware everyday of how Gov. T.A Orji operates a government of blackmail and falsehood against nonconformists to his views of governance. Reading The Nation online, April 2 2014, one could not but agree that what this governor does is to be mobilizing media-buffoons, who go about creating blogs online […]

The Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) has barred Spanish football club, Barcelona from selling or buying players over the next two transfer windows. The development is especially a huge blow to the goalkeeping department, as first-choice keeper, Victor Valdes has announced his decision to walk away on a free transfer when his contract expires […]

We shall continue to speak the truth, death threat notwithstanding.The Northern elders upped the hypocrisy and crocodile tears to a higher degree and another point within the past two weeks or there about. Surprisingly none of them have ever come out clearly to condemn Boko Haram by its name Boko Haram except probably the governor […]

At 57, popular fuji Lagos-based musician, King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal (K1) is renowned as a chronic womaniser and his escapades have produced more than 30 children. And yet again, a Nollywood actress, Bisola Badmus has brought up more controversies by disclosing that this musician, who recently gave out three of his daughters in marriage, is […]

Femi Segun, a popular broadcaster and former husband of Yeni Kuti, the late Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s daughter, is dead.  He died on Friday in Lagos State, following serious injuries he sustained in a power bike accident. Though details of his death were sketchy at the time of this report, the former son-in-law of Fela was until […]