President Zuma's statue Dear Rochas,   My hatred for the Western media is a global secret. I have personally boycotted them for over two decades. I would have maintained my blissful presumption that their flagship cable television has long gone extinct, if it were not for a recent event that had to do with your person.   You may not know but I discovered ‘’fake news’’. I discerned the West’s practice of fact-bending journalism and outed them long before the internet emerged and popularized ‘’fake news’’. This is the real reason they portray me as a buffoon, the humanoid baboon that reduced Zimbabwe from a food basket to a banana republic.   Notw...

              Kebbi State Accountant-General, Mohammed Arzika Dakingari and others were sentenced to prison The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured the conviction of the Kebbi State Accountant-General, Mohammed Arzika Dakingari and others for their involvement in a N1.6billion fraud.  The Court of Appeal, Kebbi Division has upturned the judgment of a Kebbi State High Court which discharged and acquitted a Kebbi State Accountant-General, Mohammed Arzika Dakingari, on charges of conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence preferred against him and one other by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. He, among other things allegedly used his office as the Accountant-General, Kebbi State for personal enrichment to the tune of N1.6billion. Dakingari was charged alongside Musa Yusuf, Managing Director, Beal Construction Nigeria Limited; a company owned by him (Dakingari) and used in award various contracts to him...

I am a curious being Wondering in ignorance I want to know Since “man is born to know”- Aristotle. I beseeched the moon I bribed the stars I went before the harsh eyes of the sun But all were more ignorant than me. I walked and walked But on the road of my village I met a man named John But not the one called the Baptist.  I asked him, ‘ Onyekachi’ - Who is greater than God? And he started to preach like John the Baptist: “Chi- God is a being ever supreme His power is greater than power itself His voice is louder than voice itself And His name is famous than name itself.” My head became filled Having met John A man that answered my question: Onyekachi - Who is greater than God? Please if you see Onyechefula John Onyekachi Tell him these words of mine: “Having taught me the meaning of ‘ Onyekachi’ May Chi- God, bless you before the sun rises And may your light shine even after sun set. “May your new age, bring you...

Paul Akpederi, a 52-year-old retired civil servant, is now a ‘tenant’ in a Lagos police cell after taking her daughter’s virginity. The Delta State indigene, who lives on Adegbite Street, Ori-Okuta, in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State, was alleged to have raped his 15-year-old daughter, Rose, for over three years. According to the information gathered by PUNCH Metro , Paul started sexually abusing Rose when she was in Junior Secondary School Three. When the secret got to the knowledge of a teacher, Paul allegedly changed her school. The suspect was said to have continued the abuse until she got to Senior Secondary School Two in her new school. Rose’s former teacher was said to have run into her sometime in October 2017 and told a friend about Rose’s plight, who then alerted the Lagos State Office of the Public Defender through the agency’s social media platform. The officials of the agency reported the case to the police at the Owutu division, who then arrested the su...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has alleged that the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari is a government of lies and propaganda. He made this statement on Thursday in Abuja when he received one of the national chairmanship aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, and members of his campaign team in his office. The party will hold its national convention in Abuja on December 9 to elect its national officers. Jonathan said the solidarity being enjoyed by the party even though it lost election at the centre in 2015 showed that “there is something in the PDP.” While pledging to speak up some day on the achievements of the PDP in its 16 years in power, the former President took a swipe at the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), who as a state governor reportedly said that a serious government at the centre must be able to fix power within six months. Jonathan was the president when Fashola made the state...

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign state of Biafran, MASSOB, has rejected in strong terms to the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to approve payment of pension to police personnel who served under the defunct Biafran police during the civil war. According to a statement made by its National Director of Publicity, Samuel Edeson on Thursday, 19 th 2017, he described the move by President Muhammadu Buhari as an administration of medicine after death. MASSOB said Buhari was using the carrot to placate what it alleged Nigeria government’s atrocities against Igbos. The group noted that even if Buhari stepped down for an Igbo man to be president of Nigeria, it cannot change demand for Biafra. The statement reads: “‎the directive that ex- Biafra policemen should be paid is medicine after death. “For forty seven years after the civil war, these men have been denied their right. Why must it be now because president Buhari feel by doing so, Ndigbo and Biafr...