Didi Ekanem is one of the fast rising actresses in Nollywood. Her bum marks her out, but Didi wants to be recognised for her talent on screen rather than for her bum. In this exclusive interview with Vanguards’s Damilola Sholola,…
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IS NIGERIA IN A STATE OF ANOMIE?
Nigeria my country! Issues of CORRUPTION is at its peak, NEPA or PHCN or what do you call it again? DISCO? (I remember what we called disco in my old school days)…has either gone from bad to worse. We don’t…
Stephen Davis: SSS is working for Sheriff
Stephen Davis, the Australian negotiator who sparked off a controversy by naming two prominent Nigerians as sponsors of Boko Haram, has accused the State Security Service (SSS), also known as DSS, of doing the bidding of Ali Modu Sheriff, one…
“The Crimes of Buhari” – By Prof. Wole Soyinka
The grounds on which General Buhari is being promoted as the alternative choice are not only shaky, but pitifully naive. History matters. Records are not kept simply to assist the weakness of memory, but to operate as guides to the…
FRAUD: Indian Dupes Nigerian Banks Of N32bn
An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) witness, Adeniyi Adebayo yesterday told a Federal High Court in Lagos how a Nigeria-based Indian businessman, Patrick Fernandez, defrauded some Nigerian commercial banks of about N32 billion. Adebayo , who is an Investigator…
ALWAYS APPRECIATE WHAT YOU HAVE!!!
In life, just like in love, most of us do not know the importance of what we have. Some people love leaving what they have for what they don’t have and consequently they are at loss before they realize themselves.…
A NEW LAW IN SAUDI ARABIA BANS WOMEN’S ‘TEMPTING EYES’
The draconian law states that women with alluring eyes will be forced to wear a full veil. The decision to control women’s appearance was taken by the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. “The men…
World’s 10 Most Mysterious Pictures Ever Taken by Ivan Petricevic
We bring you the World’s 10 most mysterious pictures ever taken, these images are mind blowing and none of them have been explained. So let’s start. Number 10 In 2004, the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity…
Putin Accuses US of Blackmail, Warns World Order May Collapse
Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. of behaving like “Big Brother” and blackmailing world leaders, warning there was no guarantee for global security in one of his sharpest-ever swipes at Russia’s Soviet-era adversary.Blamed by the U.S. and the European Union for…
Ali Mazrui, Scholar of Africa Who Divided U.S. Audiences, Dies at 81
By DOUGLAS MARTIN OCT. 20, 2014 Ali Mazrui, a scholar and prolific author who set off a tsunami of criticism in 1986 by writing and hosting “The Africans: A Triple Heritage,” a public television series that culminated in what seemed to be…