Archive for the ‘Social Issues’ Category

Onyeka Onwenu Endorses Goodluck Jonathan With “Run Goodluck Run” + Additional Songs

Onyeka Onwenu Endorses Goodluck Jonathan With “Run Goodluck Run” + Additional Songs

Nigerian Music Legend, Onyeka Onwenu has officially endorsed current president, Goodluck Jonathan, in the upcoming Presidential Elections, in Nigeria. She does so by recording an inspiring track, titled “Run Goodluck Run” that all but hand picks Goodluck Jonathan as the next president. Her website to promote the records and her campaign for Goodluck, along with [...]

In Defense of Nigerian Nurses

In Defense of Nigerian Nurses

Careers in healthcare have a proven record of leading African women out of financial woes and hardship.  It has been responsible for their financial stability and independence; becoming the breadwinners of the household and the “ATM” for other members of their family.  Their choices to become physicians and mainly nurses have given them a bad [...]

Chinua Achebe, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Wole Soyinka, and 25 others Nominated for Nigerian Hall of Fame

Chinua Achebe, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Wole Soyinka, and 25 others Nominated for Nigerian Hall of Fame

Twenty eight Great Nigerians will be inducted to The Nigerian Hall of Fame for Science and The Nigerian Hall of Fame for Letters on the 9th of October. It will be hosted by Nigeria LNG Limited, The Nigerian Academy of Science and The Nigerian Academy of Letters. These twenty eight individuals have broke barriers in [...]

Green Card Vows: ‘Till Citizenship Do Us Part

Green Card Vows: ‘Till Citizenship Do Us Part

Coming to America has gone far beyond fairytales of African prince traveling to America in search of his future wife.  In fact, for Africans seeking to emigrate from their native land, coming to America is purely the only motive. Though by what means? It remains no surprise obtaining a visa has become a goal of [...]

Nigerian Ex-Military Ruler IBB Officially Declares Presidential Election Bid

Nigerian Ex-Military Ruler IBB Officially Declares Presidential Election Bid

Nigeria’s former military ruler Ibrahim Babangida has formally declared his intention to seek the ruling party’s nomination for the presidential election next year, a further blow to incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. “(The ruling party) accepts that all of us including Jonathan have the right to contest and I will exercise my franchise,” Babangida said in [...]

Wahala Dey: Nigeria to buy 3 new presidential jets

Wahala Dey: Nigeria to buy 3 new presidential jets

Our country is a very interesting place. See article before from Business day … All I can see is Greed is deadly disease. Nigeria’s cabinet on Wednesday approved the purchase of three new presidential jets, a day after government said it would have to issue bonds to fund elections due next January. President Goodluck Jonathan [...]

World Bank To Aid Nollywood with $30 million

World Bank To Aid Nollywood with $30 million

World Bank has declared its intention to spend $US30 million on the film and music industry of Nigeria. This is a 100 per cent equity support to Nollywood and musicians in the country. Chioma Nwagboso, Finance & Private Sector Development Unit, World Bank, made this disclosure at the conference organized by the Digital Bridge Institute [...]

A FRAUDULENT SMS AND A DISJOINTED RANT (which won’t solve anything…)

A FRAUDULENT SMS AND A DISJOINTED RANT (which won’t solve anything…)

A most unusual title, yes? I guess it best describes what you are about to read; I got a fraudulent SMS from an unknown number sometime last week and after a lot of thinking, I decided to share the experience with you and get some reactions. The SMS goes thus; ‘Congratulation! You have won #250,000.00 [...]

Charles Soludo VS Dora Akunyili – “Soludo Sent Thugs After Me” Says Dora

Charles Soludo VS Dora Akunyili – “Soludo Sent Thugs After Me” Says Dora

Not exactly sure what is really happening between these two in laws, but it really seems to have escalated to apparent threats and potential violence. See story below: Following reports of fracas at the burial of Dora Akunyili’s sister in Anambra she sent out this press statement from her father’s compound at Nanka, Anambra State. [...]

Nigeria’s Senate has voted to move up general elections to January

Nigeria’s Senate has voted to move up general elections to January

ABUJA (AFP) – Nigeria’s Senate has voted to move up general elections to January, pressuring President Goodluck Jonathan’s ruling party to resolve a split between the mainly Christian south and majority Muslim north. The House of Representatives must still approve the new election rules after the Senate decided on Wednesday to change the constitution to [...]