Last week, we got a dose of what investigative journalism ought to be. Umar Audu, a promising young journalist, proved to be an outstanding student of his mentor, Ja’afar Ja’afar, an investigative journalist of the first order. Reporting for Daily Nigerian, Ja’afar’s online newspaper, Umar Audu went underground to bag a degree in Mass Communication from a university in …

First he became President by losing the popular vote of 137 million American votes by 3 million votes He had won 62 million and Hilary Clinton had won 65 million. When people challenged him and questioned his his logic and foggy mathematics, he claimed it was not his fault but the fault of the American Constitution which says the popular …

  President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Office of the President Presidential Villa Abuja, Nigeria Subject: Urgent Call for Accountability and Reform in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs Your Excellency Sir, I hope this letter finds you in good health and high spirits. I am writing to bring to your attention a matter of grave concern regarding the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs …

The body of the late former Governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has arrived Nigeria. The plane conveying the body arrived at about 3:39 p.m on Friday, January 5, 2024. The late Governor’s remains were brought into the country from Germany, where he passed away. The body was received by his wife, Chief Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, his children, and siblings …

Cost of Governance: The East Africa Model Tinubu Must Hug Leadership, being the generally accepted trouble with Nigeria, the November 2023 cabinet retreat of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was the right way to kick starts an administration that is expected to put abrupt end to the multi faceted crisis maligning our dear Nigeria. Expectedly, as leadership crisis in Nigeria is …

18-year-old mother charged with kidnapp in Montreal abduction that set off Amber Alert Montreal police say the missing child that triggered an Amber Alert has been found “safe and sound.” Police posted the update early Wednesday morning on X, formerly Twitter. The baby girl was reported missing around 9:25 a.m. Tuesday from her maternal grandparents’ home in the city’s Lachine …

BETTY ANYANWU-AKEREDOLU: TIME TO TAME EXCESSES OF FIRST LADIES IN NIGERIA Since Ebony Herald the most credible Magazine with as much credibility and influence as Newswatch published by Dele Giwa. has published the article below. I am lifting it verbatim because it addresses all of my concerns about why “First Ladies” at local, state and federal levels in Nigeria have …

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has urged his Rivers State counterpart, Siminalayi Fubara, to work for peace in order for his vision to develop the state to be actualised. Governor Diri stated this on Wednesday when Governor Fubara and a high-powered delegation visited him at his country home in Sampou, Kolokuma/Opokuma local government area. It was Fubara’s first official …

  Who says that one tree does not make a Forest in making a prediction on who becomes the next Deputy Governor to Aiyedatiwa?  A special case for Ondo State Muslims I can tell you that one tree that could have made that Forest in Ondo State was late Sheikh Yayi Akorede the second and the most powerful Chief Imam …