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Shoprite and our ‘bad belle’ syndrome

When Shoprite owners announced that they were selling their stake in the Nigerian market, many of us were baffled. Initially misunderstood to mean the South African food retailer was...

Obasanjo: Kashamu evaded justice but couldn’t escape death

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says Buruji Kashamu, a former senator from Ogun state, evaded justice but could not escape death. Kashamu died from COVID-19 complications at a Lagos hospital...

Abati: Buruji Kashamu groomed me in politics

Reuben Abati, former presidential spokesman, says Buruji Kashamu brought him into partisan politics and groomed him in the process. Kashamu, who chose Abati as his running mate during the...

MFM, Daystar, Synagogue… six Lagos churches that won’t reopen this Sunday

FLASHBACK: How ex-NDDC chairman ‘squandered N1bn on juju’ in 2008

Like the drama that played out when the current acting managing director (MD) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) slumped at a house of representatives hearing, events at...

Buruji Kashamu dies of COVID-19

Buruji Kashamu, a former senator from Ogun state, has died of complications from COVID-19.  Ben Murray-Bruce who broke the news on Twitter on Saturday said Kashamu died at First...

Osinbajo: Appointment of judges in Nigeria is influenced by the elite

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says the appointment of judges in Nigeria is influenced by the elite. During a webinar tagged, ‘Selection and appointment of judges: Lessons for Nigeria’, which was...

Idachaba: IrokoTV not investing much in Nigeria but ‘buying editors’ to fight NBC code

Armstrong Idachaba, the director-general of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), says IrokoTV, one of Africa’s first mainstream online movie streaming websites, is not investing in Nigeria but taking revenue...