Time’s Writer Attacked For Listing Tinubu In 100 Most Influential Persons

Astha Rajvanshi, a staff writer for Time 100 has locked her Twitter account, an action which was believed to be connected with criticisms she has received over the inclusion of Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu, on the latest Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. Rajvanshi received a bombardment of denigration on…

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Breaking: Chimaroke in secret meeting with Edeoga, duo plot against Chukwu, Mbah.

By Prince Ejeh Josh …as battle shifts to election tribunals A leaked picture of a secret visit over the Easter weekend by the embattled governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Enugu State, Mr Chijioke Edeoga, to his well-known political foe and traducer, the former governor of the state, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani has sent shock…

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Obasanjo leads WAEF pre-election mission to Sierra Leone

The West African Elders’ Forum (WAEF) has deployed a pre-election fact-finding mission to Sierra Leone, ahead of the country’s general elections scheduled for June, 2023. The WAEF team which is led by former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo also has former President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and former Vice President of The Gambia Fatoumata Tambajang as members,…

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Dj Cuppy donates £100k to Oxford University to support African graduates

By Edoka Itodo Nigerian disc jockey, Florence Otedola, popularly known as DJ Cuppy, has doled out £100,000 (N58 million) to the Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx) to support postgraduate students from Africa at the University of Oxford. The billionaire heiress made the donation through the Cuppy Africa Oxford Scholars Fund. According to the music star, “The…

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Chinua Achebe was a novelist while Wole Soyinka is a playwright

Chinua Achebe was a novelist. Wole Soyinka is a playwright. I know most of you didn’t know this, but there is really no basis for comparison between the two. It’s like comparing Sunny Ade and Oliver De Coque because they are both singers. Chinua Achebe also deserved the Nobel Prize no doubt, but he never…

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Between Achebe & Soyinka: the Nobel Laureate Politics and Obidients Saga

Achebe was more like a true African spirit on a mission to provide a counter narrative to the faulty (rac!st) Western narrative of Africa and Africans; narratives told to maintain the supremacy of the Whites. Achebe’s literary “sin”, why he can never deserve the Nobel Laureates title was simply because his works questioned Joseph Conrad’s…

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Datti, ‘Obidients’ ready for Soyinka’s debate – Obi-Datti Movement

The Obi-Datti Movement has said supporters of the Labor Party, LP, otherwise known as “Obidients” and the party’s vice-presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, are ready for a televised debate challenge by Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka. The spokesperson of the Obi-Datti Movement, Professor Chris Nwakobia, disclosed this in an interview with Arise TV on Saturday. Speaker…

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