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Meghan praises Prince Harry for being a proud ‘feminist’

Meghan Markle praised Prince Harry for being a proud "feminist" and for setting a "beautiful example" for their son Archie by being so "comfortable" advocating for women's rights.  The Duchess of Sussex sat down for a 'backyard chat' with Gloria Steinem. During the chat, Meghan, 39, recalled a moment when Harry, 35, proudly told...

Whites slam Oprah Winfrey for saying white Americans ‘use whiteness as a weapon’

White people on social media have blasted billionaire TV host and media entrepreneur, Oprah Winfrey after she said white Americans use their "whiteness as a weapon". Oprah speaking during an episode of her Apple TV+ show titled "How to Be An Antiracist", opined that whites use whiteness as a weapon...

Netflix apologizes for inappropriate ‘Cuties’ poster

Netflix has issued an apology for the "inappropriate" marketing poster it released to promote the forthcoming French movie, Cuties. The poster released by Netflix shows the young girls of the film in suggestive dance poses. This led to a petition in Change.org to remove Cuties from the streaming platform, calling it, "disgusting as...

Entrepreneurship may make you rich but will cause you unhappiness- iroko Boss

Iroko TV boss, Jason Njoku has revealed why he won't encourage his children to be entrepreneurs.  In a tweet he shared, the British-Nigerian start-up investor who noted that he wants his kids to be happy said he won't encourage them to be entrepreneurs because it is "super hard". Jason added that though...

Oyedepo rejects CAMA: Appointing a trustees over his church

Bishop David Oyedepo has criticized the application of the Company and Allied Matters Acts (CAMA) in churches, following its signing into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on August 7, 2020. The law which permits the registrar-general of Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and a supervising minister to strictly supervise religious bodies and charity...

Tonto Dikeh: I have achieved 100% of my life success through strangers

Nollywood actress and mother of one, Tonto Dikeh has advised people to stop begging for support and start networking with strangers. The actress disclosed that she achieved her success through strangers. She added that her success was not influenced by her friends and family. She went on to advise people...

Why women should pamper their husbands – Actress Maryam Charles

Nollywood actress/filmmaker, Maryam Charles, took to social media to advise married women to take care of their husbands. The actress said that men go through a lot from the time they were born till the time mantle of provisions is placed upon them and they deserved to be pampered by...

I regret finishing my PhD at 26 – Young lady declares

A young lady has expressed regret over finishing her PhD at the age of 26 - The American with the Twitter handle @taoleighgoffe advised people to take time off between graduate school and undergraduate school - She said people should live their lives, defer, read, work and party A...

The comedy called Nigeria

A few years ago, I told a friend that Nigeria was a wonderful and funny place. I told him anytime God wanted to watch comedy, He would tune in on Nigeria 101 on the satellite for the best of laughs; not just serious comedic and clowning laughs but those...

Coronavirus has exposed years of leadership failure in Nigeria – Peter Obi

Coronavirus has exposed years of leadership failure in Nigeria - Peter Obi

Lessons for Africa from America

Nothing can be true now than the saying that ‘a second can spoil the work of lengthy hours’. Nothing is equally more devastating than witnessing a single mistake ruining decades of hard work when we consider the current storm rocking the American political scene and her prize assert, democracy....

Don’t choose to be a concubine when you can be a wife – Tuface’s former GF

Don't choose to be a concubine when you can be a wife - Tuface's former GF

“There is no president and Commander in chief in Aso Rock” – PR Expert Osamgbi

As we speak, there is No president and Commander in chief in Aso Rock

Dating without purpose: A psychological Imbalance

In the present of our times, a lot of us struggle with the status of being single while a lot too suffer from the side incidences of being in a dramatic relationship. This goes a long way in having lots overviews and discernment about dating and relationships. Have you...

Some Ngerians disagreed: Oyedepo says prosperity is impossible without tithing

David Oyedepo took to Twitter to state that anyone who doesn't pay tithe is "under a financial curse" and can never prosper and this has led to an argument. The founder of Winners' Chapel International tweeted: "Tithing is an inescapable covenant obligation. Prosperity not just wealth is impossible without tithing, because...

Hushpuppi and Nigeria’s Image Abroad

For any Nigerian, living at home or abroad, and above sixteen years, there is little doubt that they are unaware of Nigeria’s badly tarnished image abroad, shredded in tatters, caused Nigerians untold hardships, treated with disrespect and regarded with contempt wherever they are found in the world. The tag...

Long-term relationship: What you should look out for

Many of us have this notion that there’s someone out there who would perfectly complete us. You know that idea that they’ll fill the void in your life and all. And then begins the wild goose chase for the perfect love story. Well, I am not trying to burst...

Igbo women are lazy, don’t like to work

A twitter thread by media personality, Noble Igwe, has sparked off a conversation on Twitter.  In his Twitter thread, the media personality opined that Igbo women are ''lazy, don't like working, and just want to sit back and enjoy their husbands' hard-earned money''. He said unlike Igbo women, Yoruba women are...

A festival of corruption in Nigeria

Corruption is dishonesty for personal gain, it is moral depravity and it is an undesirable change in the state of affairs of a person, nation, or any entity at all. Corruption, many agree, is cancer that eats away at the fabric of human development, at personal growth, and destroys...

Nnamdi Kanu needs guidance

Kanu needs guidance. He's throwing away goodwill, support and trust of millions. His language is increasingly belligerent, uncouth, his logic tilting towards the irrational and his attacks on Christianity, the Clergy, individuals, groups and other institutions, untenable and unnecessary. He should limit himself to issues that solely have to do...

No apology after fifteen million murders

KING Philippe of Belgium descends from his heavenly throne this week to sign a letter to President Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo of the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, acknowledging for the first time in 113 years, Belgium’s genocide in that country. Philippe danced round the subject of his country’s...

Digital Footprints: The internet neither forgives nor forgets

In this era, as the world grapples with scapegoating the digital citizens, this caveat seems necessary and compelling. All internet users starting from the digital natives (the iGeneration) through the digital pioneers (Millennials or the Generation Y) to the digital migrants (Generation X) should bear in mind that the...

The new dawn in mobile payments and virtual services

Cryptocurrency is basically, a digital currency based on a modern technology called the blockchain. Its users range from small businesses to process payments, financial tech-based startups, and retail consumers that use it to send money across borders and as an investment asset. Since cryptocurrencies like BTC and other altcoins have been gaining high acceptability and in high use...

One week, two troubles

In just the space of about one week Nigeria, “the giant of Africa”, was involved in no less than two, maybe three, diplomatic debacles, each of which can be traced to an incremental reduction in the quality of governance over so many years that has now resulted in the...

And APC survives..

Buhari at the APC NEC meeting that resolved a lot of issues When a couple of days ago I wrote that APC, unlike PDP, will soon resolve her issues, some didn’t believe. It will implode, it will soon disintegrate so said the so-called analysts. They never wished our party well. This is...

Freedom of worship is no longer a constitutional right but now determined by some people’ – Bishop Oyedepo

Bishop David Oyedepo has again lashed out at the governments of Lagos and Ogun state over the continous closure of churches.  The founder of the Living Faith Church International aka Winners’ Chapel in his sermon on Sunday June 28, alleged that Lagos and Ogun have been inflicted with anti-church virus rather than...

Buhari should have been compelled to resign based on inefficiency — Afenifere chieftain, Adebanjo

Elder statesman and a leader of Afenifere, a Yoruba socio-political organisation, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, speaks with OLALEYE ALUKO on the spate of insecurity, restructuring of the country and other issues How would you react to the rumblings in the APC? Do you agree with the sacking of the members of...

Electronic banking fraud in Nigeria: how it’s done, and what can be done to stop it

Six years ago, a cashless policy became fully operational in Nigeria. The aim was to encourage electronic transactions with a view to reducing the amount of physical cash in the economy. The logic was that this would minimise the risk of cash-related crimes. But a major downside of the policy...

Nigerian woman buys a Coffin for her Husband on Father’s Day

A Nigerian woman had reportedly bought a coffin for her husband on father’s day. According to reports, the incident took place at Oko, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State, she bought the casket earlier and kept it with the seller, waiting for Fathers’ Day, After church service, she...

How Bobrisky lied to his father about his changed identity

The Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Isolo-Ejigbo branch B, Alhaji Bashir Femi Olowu, has revealed how the Nigerian cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, lied to his father, Alhaji Musibau Okuneye, about his changed identity, saying he told his father that his feminine...

You don’t need a church wedding to be married, it isn’t in the scriptures – Nigerian Activist

Author and activist, Reno Omokri has shared his thoughts as regards the concept of church wedding saying it isn't biblical. In series of posts shared on his Facebook page, Reno said the concept of church weddings isn't backed up by the scriptures. According to Reno, a former media aide to ex-president...

You don’t have to be a Yahoo Boy before you can make money online

You don’t have to be a YahooGuy to make money online. Apart from the fact that illegal wealth isn’t sustainable, illegal businesses are very addictive. You also lose your creative mind. There are 1001 legitimate businesses you could do online & earn a decent income! You can make livings and...

The sorry state of Nigeria’s Judiciary among others makes Sowore’s battle cry for revolution inevitable

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - President John F. Kennedy (1962) This week may be one of the worst weeks for Nigerian judiciary and they might have made the much vaunted Sowore’s revolution inevitable. The first salvo was the list of judges released by the...

NIGERIAN ECONOMY, ROCKED BY THE ‘UNCERTAINTY’ IN THE VUCA

Towards the end of the last decade, hardly would any business or corporate executive meeting/summit/roundtable session end without a reference or mention of the acronym VUCA (Volatile, Uncertainty, Complex and Ambiguous) to describe the economy and business landscape.  Any business executive who has not used it in his or...

Covid-19: How the Pandemic could Alter the Business Landscape for Good

All businesses, corporations and enterprises had planned a robust policy for 2020, to start a new decade with bracing policies and decisions to scale up the business operations, increase sales and revenue; and shore up the profit base. But there comes the bombshell, the Coronavirus (COVID-19), an epidemic detected on November...