A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Dr. Adekunle Ojo, has reacted to the furore generated by the adoption of Senator Kashim Shettima, a Muslim from Borno State, by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as his running mate in the February 23, 2023 presidential election. The legal luminary in a statement made available to media houses in Lagos, said that many Nigerians speaking against the Muslim-Muslim ticket had already made up their minds on who to pitch their tents with and will not vote for Tinubu even if he had picked a strong Christian…
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We got married three years ago. They called me lucky because I found a woman who had her own. At my wedding, my friends couldn’t hide their smiles, they would walk up to me and say, “Bro, you’re the man. You made it happen.” Some said, “We’ll come for tutorials. You have to show us the way.” Even my parents were exceptionally happy because of the kind of woman I married. Marrying a rich woman wasn’t the point. Marrying a woman I loved and would want to build my future with was the point but when that woman came along,…
The spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to resign.Baba-Ahmed said Buhari should just resign now because things would get tougher.The former Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Secretary gave the advice in reaction to the President’s revelation that he is eager to leave power. Buhari spoke when he hosted some All Progressives Congress (APC) governors, legislators and chieftains at his Daura home in Katsina.Noting that he has less than a year left in office, the Nigerian leader assured that he would do his best in the remaining months. “I wish the person who…
I m a midwife who just completed my national service. I had some weight issues that were affecting my health and my self-esteem.I tried diets and home remedies to burn fat but none of it worked. I remember how I even starved myself thinking that if I ate less I would lose weight. I only almost ended up getting a stomach ulcer. The next thing that l was left to try was workouts. I wanted to do it in an environment that would motivate me to keep going when it got harder. So I signed up for a gym membership.I…
My parents had twins after they got married. Their marriage was full of issues. It was always one misunderstanding after the other with them. Eventually, my dad met someone else and decided to leave my mum. At that moment their families sat them down and advised them; “Custom demands that when you give birth to twins, you must give them a younger sibling. The two of you haven’t given your twin girls a younger sibling yet and it is not right. If you go ahead and dissolve this marriage without fulfilling custom, it will bring you a streak of bad…
According to the report: One Mrs Ebi Igho who resides off New era street jakpa Road,Effurun in uvwie local Government council area of Delta state,was today Arrested by me for delivering a pregnant woman Mrs Vivian surname withheld and in the process she lost the baby and went into serious bleeding from 9:am till 8pm in the evening after the baby has breached in the womb and she went ahead to give the mother multiple cuts that left her in the pool of her blood before she was rushed to central Hospital Warri and in the process her womb was…
A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, has made a shocking revelation about the Ganduje Foundation.The foundation is owned by Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje.According to Lawal, the foundation was created with the sole aim of forcing some Christian faithful to join Islam. He made this known in a lengthy statement released on Tuesday and obtained by IDOMA VOICE.He alleged, “For those who might not know, Governor Ganduje has a foundation called “Ganduje Foundation” which purpose, according to its website, is to ‘provide selfless service to humanity and Islam’ but whose primary purpose it appears is…
Human rights lawyer, Ebun Adegbrouwa, SAN, has slammed the presidential candidate of the Labour Party and his running mate, Peter Obi and Ahmed Datti, respectively.According to him, “They are usurpers with no legitimate party or structure, leveraging on their financial prowess to corner a ticket meant for genuine representatives of the working class.” Adegboruwa who posted on Facebook on Tuesday said they revel in parading dubious statistics, gathering mob support without ideology or principle other than raw anger against the status quo, which their idols were part and parcel of.He continued, “The supposed anger of bourgeois renegades against their fellow…
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, on Tuesday unexpectedly arrived at the Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison in Apapa, Lagos.Aregbesola’s surprise visit was to galvanize Nigerian prison officials amid intermittent jail attacks across the country.“Today, I paid a surprise visit to the Kirikiri Maximum and Medium Security Custodial Centres in Kirikiri, Apapa, Lagos State,” the former Osun State governor wrote on his known social media pages. “During the visit, I acknowledged our servicemen and security agencies, who have sacrificed a lot to keep us safe. I equally charge them to remain eternally vigilant and continuously evolve strategies. And to define these…
CHRISTIANS of Northern extraction in the All Progressive Congress (APC) have said they can no longer campaign for the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, because of his choice of a Muslim running mate. They made this position known in a communiqué issued to journalists, on Tuesday, following an emergency meeting of the group in Abuja where the issue of the religious colouration of the APC’s presidential ticket and its implication for the nation was on the front burner. According to the communiqué jointly signed by Prof. Doknan Sheni (Chairman) andGeneral Ishaya Bauka (Secretary), the group explained that Tinubu’s selection…