Words are powerful, if anyone doesn’t know that, a good Muslim woman like my wife should know that. She knows how I am a hot tempered person and she shouldn’t have provoked me. That is all I have to say…
My dear, death is inevitable, so start planning for it – Tara Martins Aisida
Death is a reality but a lot of us refuse to face that fact. The hausas even have a saying – Mutu a dole. (Death is sure) It is strange but true that even though we long to go to…
Death is but a door- Tara Martins Aisida
“A rich and mighty Persian once walked in his garden with one of his servants. The servant cried that he had just encountered Death, which had threatened him. He begged his master to give him his fastest horse so that…
Writers gather today at Ouida to pay tribute to Pius Adesanmi
If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me (Psalm 139: 9-10). – Pius Adesanmi Professor Pius Adesanmi, award…
Court sentences man to death for murder (Guardian)
An Osun State high court sitting in Osogbo, the state capital, on Thursday, sentenced a middle-aged man, Sunday Palms, to death by hanging for murder. The convict was arraigned on December 8, 2014, on a one-count charge of murder, a…
Two siblings burnt to death in midnight fire (Guardian)
The Kano State Fire Service yesterday confirmed the death of two boys of the same parent in a fire incident. The children reportedly died yesterday during an early morning inferno that gutted their parent’s two-bedroom apartment at Sharada, Ja’en Yamma…
Stop spreading misinformation on Badeh – NAF (Guardian)
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has called on those spreading the misinformation about the unfortunate incident that led to the death of former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, to stop. NAF Director of Public Relations…
Man arrested over death of girlfriend (Punch)
The Police in Enugu State says it has started investigation into the incident involving one Chibuzor Okonkwo, who killed his lover, Nkemakonam Onovo. The Command’s spokesman, SP Ebere Amaraizu, said in a statement in Enugu on Tuesday that the incident happened on…
Buhari in Poland, says ‘I’m not Jubril’ (Guardian)
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday broke his silence on rumours suggesting he had died and had been replaced by one Jubril, a body double from Sudan. “A lot of people hoped that I died during my ill health. Some even reached…
LASTMA officials kick over reported death of killer F-SARS operative (Punch)
November 30, 2018 asked to show incontrovertible evidence of the death of an operative of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Inspector Olukunle Olonade, who allegedly killed an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Rotimi Adeyemo, on Wednesday. Some…