The UN Women Nigeria’s campaign against gender-based violence, GBV, was further intensified on Monday, December 4, 2023, at the 2023 Media Partners Conference at the UN House, Abuja, to increase media action for women’s empowerment and ending violence against women and girls. It was part of activities for the 2023 edition of the United Nations’16…
How to End Nigeria’s Illegal Oil Bunkering Business (3)
Oil theft in Nigeria can be stopped if the government, security operatives, oil companies and the host communities play their roles sincerely. Artisanal Refining Oil theft is evolving and developing a lucrative value chain. Artisanal refining, called Kpo-Fire in Niger Delta parlance, is the downstream component, or local content, of the trade in stolen crude…
Gov. Bala Mohammed Expected at Media Awards
On Thursday, December 7, all roads will lead to Airport Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos State as Lagos State council of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, under the leadership of Adeleye Ajayi holds its 2nd edition of the Nigeria Union of Journalists’ Milestone Recognition of Media Icons in Nigeria. Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi state will deliver…
Inside Nigeria’s Illegal Oil Bunkering Business (2)
A Game of the Jackals Government after government, Nigeria has unsuccessfully made repeated efforts to fight and rein in illegal oil theft. Yet the illicit business continues to blossom. Our findings show that this is the case because of the complicity of top government officials from the Presidency, the military, Civil Defence, and the Police…
Oba of Benin, ancestors and Lagos
(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 4 December 2023) “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.” Imagine this…
A Mesh of Corruption – Inside Nigeria’s Illegal Oil Bunkering Business (Part 1)
How Oil Theft Began in Nigeria From just a whisper at the beginning in 1975, oil theft has ballooned to a mega organised crime in Nigeria, involving various stakeholders and grossing about 1.5 million barrels daily with no hope of an end in sight. “They call me ‘Engineer’. I have never gone to school, but…
The Life and Times of Folu Olamiti
“There is no way you will talk about him without reference to his deep love for God, his immeasurable humility, simplicity and meekness.” – Biodun Ladokun On November 30, 2023, he would be 72 years. Family, friends and well-wishers would congregate at the ancient city of Ibadan to reminisce about his eventful life and the…
Nothing And No One Can Stop Us, Shaibu Taunts Obaseki as He Declares Governorship Ambition
A defiant Phillip Shaibu, the embattled deputy governor of Edo State, has finally thrown his hat into the ring to succeed his boss, Governor Godwin Obaseki as he declared his governorship ambition on Monday in Benin City, the state capital. The tenure of the present administration ends November 11, 2024, and the Independent National Electoral…
Ogbomosho Agog, as Tope Maggie Breaks World Guinness Record
The euphoria and aroma welcoming people to Ogbomosho Recreation Club is second to none. It is not just like a party. For one week, it was a non-stop carnival. Students, old and young people flooded the venue of the exercise, not just to see the cooking wonder but also taste the different types of food…
Tope Maggie Breaks Guinness World Record
By the time he walks out of the kitchen this Friday, Temitope Adebayo, aka Tope Maggie, the Ogbomoso-born chef would have set a new Guiness World Record in marathon cooking. He had beaten the record of Alan Fisher, the Irish chef who with his over 119 hours of nonstop cooking had emerged the record holder…
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