Incessant uncontrollable anger, arguments that led to a fight between neighbours over a ‘worktable’ has caused the death of Mrs Tope Owoade in Ogun State. The housewife, was the owner of the table she uses the work in selling edible animal skin, popularly known as ‘pomo’ in local parlance. The Nigeria Police Command in Ogun...
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Should Nigerians worry about budget padding?
Tony Abolo Opaqueness defines Nigeria clearly we seem in for a ride by an opaque Presidency, NNPC Ltd and now add on, the Nigerian Senate. Nigerians are not any longer certain if it was a N25 trillion budget that was passed for assent or it was a N28.7 trillion budget, an addition of N3.7 trillion....
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Erisco Tomato Saga: Redirecting narratives on Consumerism
By TheNewspad team Since September 2023, when a largely unknown Chioma Egodi, a Nigerian Facebook user posted on her timeline a stinker on Erisco Foods Limited after tasting the company’s tomato mix, Nagiko Tomato Mix, the Nigerian media, mainstream and social, has been awash with the fallouts that the post ignited between her and the...
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Chancellor attests to Varsity students’ virginity
The Founder of Madonna University, Okija in Anambra State, Prof Emmanuel Edeh has declared that females students admitted into the Private institution as virgins and marry as virgins after their graduation. Prof. Ede who stoked the hornets nest while delivering the graduation speech of the University on Wednesday March 20th 2024, amid loud ovation by...
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‘How Tinubu ruined Nigeria’s foreign policy’
‘How Tinubu ruined Nigeria’s foreign policy’ Ex-Governor Gabriel Senator Suswan of Benue State has blamed President Bola Tinubu for worsening Nigeria’s foreign policy, badly impacting the nation’s image at global stage. Suswan, top contender for national chairmanship position of Peoples Democratic party, PDP, made the assertion on Arise Television interview, Monday March 18, 2024. He...
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Honouring heritage, forging futures
Tony Abolo The topic broaches on a constant philosophical question, an existential question, which we must all answer as individuals, as organizations or as nations. The existential question is stated thus –Where am I? Where am I coming from? Where am I going? To really take one’s location and bearing, one must ask – where...
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Mad man invades NIPOST, attacks staff
Pandemonium broke out when a middle-aged man seen as a lunatic, allegedly attacked a yet-to-be identified staff of the Nigeria Postal Service, NIPOST on airport road in Benin City, Edo State. It was leant that invader, strayed into the complex at 1:13p.m on Friday March 15, 2024 after beating security check at NIPOST gate. The...
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Herbet Wigwe, Bankers and caricature Capitalism in Nigeria
Tony Abolo The shock of his death in a helicopter crash in the United States a week or two ago, while on his way to watch the American Super Bowl event alongside, his wife, son and a business colleagues, Ogunbanjo remains unsavory for his family, friends, business associates and those who knew him intimately. But...
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Nigeria Service Chiefs jittery over looming sack
Largely due to the disastrous escalating of the insecurity in the Country and the mulling of turning around the security architecture, Service Chiefs are running from pillar to pole to make sure that their jobs are not tempered with if eventually Federal Government decided to sack them. An informed source in Aso Rock told TheNewspad...
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How much for an empty belly?
By Julius Ogar A rather strange kind of advisory surfaced after Nigeria’s semi-final clash with South Africa in the just-concluded African nations football tournament. Strange because it seemed one-of-a-kind for the most dramatic, fanatical and passionate fan base in Africa.– And for good reason too. Five persons had been reported dead as a result of...