As a result of the growing appeal of Pan-Africanism amongst African Americans and an urge to connect with their roots, In 2009 under the aegis of The Motherland Group LLC, a group of African Americans led by Gary Loster, Alfred Dixon, Marlon Jackson an elder brother of the late Michael Jackson and numerous other successful…
Sowore, while speaking on Monday at the memorial lecture held in honour of the late human rights lawyer and activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, in Lagos, said that the Labour Party ran into a problem in the course of choosing the candidacy of Obi, as there were calls that Obi should not be presented. The presidential…
The budgets of Osun, Nasarawa, Enugu and seven other states in the country are less than the annual earnings of 10 top athletes in Europe and America put together, Sunday PUNCH has gathered. The combined yearly salaries of athletes such as Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and basketball star, Lebron James, are higher than the budgets…
When are we going to have orisa legislations in the southwest Nigeria to prosecute blasphemy against indigenous Orisa and Irunmole, with the imposition of death penalty on anybody who blasphemes against our indigenous holy names? For example, should there be a death penalty imposed on anyone who calls Esu “Satan,” as believers do in churches…
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, has disclosed that he is not bothered about the calls for his resignation, saying the proponents of such moves are youngsters who do not have a grasp of the goals of the party when it was formed. Ayu said that PDP members and stakeholders…
“Sowore has the best idea on minimum wage, and I must really commend him for that.” Ope Banwo said while speaking on the state of the nation on the platform of GOVERNMEND. He mentioned that a wage that looks decent for Nigerians considering the economy of the country should not be less than N100,000, and…
Tuesday’s meeting between the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government has again ended without an agreement. This means the six-month old strike by public university lecturers is set to continue. The striking lecturers had met with the Professor Nimi Briggs Committee on Tuesday at the National University Commission…
A popular rights activist, Deji Adeyanju just deposited a sum of $10,000 into the account of Dele Momodu of Ovation Magazine, placing a bet with one of the supporters of Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate. Adeyanju is convinced that Peter Obi will come a distant 3rd right after Atiku and Tinubu after describing…
“Sowore woke the youth population from docility at the time there was political apathy…” During the extension of the monthly series of the State of the Nation, Mr. Olorunfemi Adeyeye, a chieftain of the African Action Congress discussed in details how the Buhari administration has been a monumental failure, and one that Nigerians have had…
Majority of them are Igbo who kill, harvest human organs for rituals, their objective being lucrative criminality —Soludo AFTER wrecking havoc in various communities in Anambra State for several months during which many people were kidnapped, killed and sometimes beheaded, many of the so-called unknown gunmen have, at last, become known. Many of them whose…