15-year-old Kwara public school student nets 362 in UTME

16-year-old with 354 UTME score tells how he was groomed by parents Olukayode Victor Olusola, a 15-year-old student of a public secondary school, Government Secondary School, Omu Aran, Kwara State scored 362 in the just concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. Olusola is now among the contenders for the highest scorers in the…

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Miracles Still Happen: Kidnappers doze off after abducting pastor’s wife and others in Ondo

"Everyday holds the possibility of a miracle." Elizabeth David Five suspected kidnappers that abducted a pastor’s wife and two other persons have been arrested after their victims identified one of them. The victims had escaped when the kidnappers slept off while taking them to their den. It was gathered that the effect of hard drugs…

Video: With just N5,000 fake Plateau doctor carried out abortions, lured minors into prostitution

As SSS operatives shut down another clinic in Plateau over death of patient A probing report has revealed how a “fake doctor” conducted abortions for young girls in the Yan-Doya community in Jos, Plateau capital. and enticed minors into prostitution. The report was undertaken by a freelance journalist from Kano with support from the…

Petrol pains, wilderness wanderings

By Lasisi Olagunju A young taxi driver sat on the bonnet of his car some years ago thoroughly frustrated by Nigeria’s unending petrol mess. A television reporter asked him to speak on his experience in that filling station where he sat, stranded. He looked straight into the camera and said he wanted “the world to come…

In Nigeria, judicial appointments have become network corruption

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “Fools at the top would cause damage to any system not to talk of the fragile institutions of a fledgling democracy.” Charles Archibong, A Stranger in Their Midst: A Memoir, 97 (2021) In the last week of April, 2024, Chief Justice of Nigeria, (CJN) Olukayode Ariwoola, co-convened and chaired a “National…

For a thriving civic space, we must all advocate for press freedom — DiGiCiViC Initiative

Press Release In commemorating the Press Freedom Day, we lend our voice to the call for media freedom as this is the hallmark of a true democracy. Importantly, no democratic society can survive without a vibrant and free media, which holds governments accountable and responsible to the people. Media freedom is integral to the right…

86 years after, Reader’s Digest UK exits the market

The United Kingdom edition of Reader’s Digest is shutting down after 86 years of operation. The magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, Eva Mackevic, announced this development on LinkedIn on Monday. Mackevic explained that the magazine, founded in 1922 by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Wallace in the US, has been struggling financially Mackevic wrote, “After 86 wonderful years, I…

For lawyers and Non-lawyers: Watch your clients back

By David Oluwasegun Ogundipe A lawyer of men should know much of life and human nature, he should be a novice in nothing and wide-minded in all things. He may not be a genius, but must be ripe in broad knowledge and general experience. If he is these, and he fails, it will be no…

NBA Abuja Law Week 2024 begins tomorrow with a thanksgiving service

The 2024 Annual Law Week of the Nigerian Bar Association, Abuja Branch, (Unity Bar) themed “DEPLOYING THE LAW TO ATTAIN NATIONAL STABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT’’, will commence tomorrow with a thanksgiving service. Chairman of the branch, Afam Okeke has also magnanimously announced that the first 20 members of the branch to attend the church thanksgiving service…

Intimate Affairs: The foolhardy he-goat

By Funke Egbemode A man with the he-goat spirit is a man who does not listen to your advice. It’s not that he does not respect you. It’s just that he respects that thing in-between his legs more. He is not deaf either, he just likes the sonorous voice of his third leg. It is…

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