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Oyinlola Rotimi, a 400-level student, has reportedly spoken for the first time since she delivered her baby boy in the student residence toilet of Moremi Hall at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State. Already OAU authorities have explained that it was not an attempted murder as earlier speculated and both mother and child were doing well. In an interview published on   CKN Nigeria CKN Nigeria reports:   In spite of the trauma she had passed through since last Wednesday, the student, a native of Ijabe, a border town between Osun and Kwara states, says she is happy that the embarrassment she received from the controversy that surrounded the birth of her baby has turned into a blessing for her. She says the baby’s birth has made her more popular and important in the society. Her plan for the baby “I will continue to keep him more handsome, healthier and nurture him to attain greater height in life. But what he will become later in life is ...

CONTROVERSY is currently trailing the outcome of the South-West chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] leaders’ meeting in Lagos, during which delegates reportedly endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan for a second term in office in 2015. Feelers indicated on Wednesday that a number of the leaders were kicking against what they described as the smuggling of the issue of the presidential race into the communiqué of the meeting by some desperate delegates. The meeting came on the heels of a similar endorsement by PDP leaders from the Middle Belt and the South-South at separate meetings. Some notable PDP members, including former governors of the party from the zone, were absent at the South-West PDP leaders’ Lagos meeting. Some of those present, who craved anonymity while speaking with Nigerian Tribune on Wednesday, blamed the current furore on the communiqué on “some overzealous elements and fifth columnists, who were bent on jumping the gun since the president said Nigeria...

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Let’s just say this event… never happened in reality. Let’s assume I made it up, in my usual hydrocarbon fuelled craze. There was a gathering of looters and semi-pious gangsters. So it happened that they had to vote for the next ring leader, and the incumbent head-man, who probably also has a Mexican name, was interested in leading again. READ:   Release the whole video – Mimiko challenges Amaechi On the other side, the side that had the backing of the Cap’n-in-chief, was a confused jaguda whose name rhymes with Jangirova. He-whose-name-rhymes-with-jangirova is known to be presently presiding over a non-ending gang war in the part of town he lords over. So the gang gathered to cast lots on who rules next. A gang member, well known for his Kangol hat (he had it on that day too), and who is a kinsman of a former gang member who is currently doing time in a foreign land, was called forward. He would watch over the cast lots. He accepted the noble role with aplomb. Very gr...

“..In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations”                                                                           Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn I will never understand how this Boko Haram phenomenon got this far. Sometimes when I read about their atrocities, I pinch myself to be sure that this is st...

You would think it was all about the progress of our land and the enrichment of the lives of our people but wait till the activists are done discussing “the way forward” for Nigeria. All hell will be unleashed if the organisers fail in their responsibilities to make per diem available to the participants. I respect activists and we owe our democracy not to the locusts and hawks who came to perch on the carcass of the nation left by the military but to the men and women, who fought and toiled, who talked and walked, who defied guns and bullets, bombs and incarceration to make sure the people of Nigeria have a say in who govern them. These people are not essentially the popular ones who are able to get appearances on television and radio, they are mostly the unknown soldiers of the people who by virtue of fate and other factors within human control only find their names in the dust of time, thrown into space by the wind and never to be seen again. Even when seen, they are ...

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“Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.”  – Corinthians 10: 11-12 Your Excellency, please permit me to intrude into your busy schedule again today. After my last letter, I was so sure there would be no need to contact you so soon. But I was encouraged to return by two developments. The first was your response to a mid-term analysis of your achievements and shortcomings as well as that of your cabinet in the past two years of Transformation Agenda. The impression most people have is that Nigerian leaders don’t read newspapers. As a matter of fact, that belief was corroborated by President Olusegun Obasanjo, in his brutally frank manner when he declared he had no time for nosey journalists and could not be bothered to read what they wrote about him. I was therefore gladdened to read your own assessment ...