Objective Nigerian Stories…
Nigerian Lecturer – The professor of English noted that the meeting in the video was supposed to be a private discussion and not a lecture as the Ghanaian media claimed, adding that it was not meant to condemn the people of Ghana. Austin Nwagbara, the Nigerian Professor sacked by a Ghanaian university over unsavoury […]
Netanyahu – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Tuesday that Israel’s fighter jets “can reach anywhere in the Middle East, including Iran,” in his latest comments directed at his country’s arch-foe. While visiting an air force base where he inspected F-35 jets made by US firm Lockheed Martin, Netanyahu issued a video with one of the […]
Death Penalty – “You have people on both sides of that,” the president said when asked about the wrongly convicted defendants. President Trump said on Tuesday that he would not apologize for his harsh comments in 1989 about the Central Park Five, the five black and Latino men who as teenagers were wrongly convicted of […]
Nigerian Man – After he was turned back by the embassy because he arrived “late”, the 32-year-old lashed out by using iron rods and stones to destroy vehicles parked within the Embassy premises. The Nigerian man who destroyed five embassy cars in London earlier today has now been identified as Jeffery Apkovweta Ewohime. Ehohime has […]
Kyle Kashuv – A teenager who survived a gun massacre at his Florida high school has said he lost his spot at Harvard University over past racist remarks. Kyle Kashuv, 18, said the online comments were made when he was 16, and we’re done “in an effort to be as extreme and shocking as possible”. […]
Liberia – Authorities in Liberia have blocked the internet, in what is perceived to be a move to suppress ongoing anti-government protests in the capital, Monrovia. Netblocks, an organisation that monitors internet disruptions and shutdowns confirmed the shutdown on Friday afternoon, saying access to social networking platforms Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Snapchat had been […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger – The former Governor of California was the judge of a skipping competition when the unnamed coward pounced. Dramatic footage showed the attacker bounce off the former Mr Universe – who didn’t realise he had been attacked until he saw the video afterwards. Arnold Schwarzenegger tumbled forward into a crowd of people while […]
In his new series ‘e wá wo mi’ (*come look at me) Lakin explores and reinterprets the visual imagery surrounding Nigerian brides and marriage, representing the traditional ceremonial wear of the Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa-Fulani tribes, amongst others. In ‘e wá wo mi’ weddings are seen as a performative ritual as well as a transformative […]
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CBTV had reported that the Canadian PM had written to Buhari to allow at least one million Nigerians move to Canada under a new Employment and Migration Programme designed for immigrants. However, the Canadian embassy took to its official Twitter account (@CanHCNigeria) on Tuesday, April 16, to dismiss the story as false. “If you’ve seen […]
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Countries whose citizens overstay short-term tourist and business visas are at risk of getting hit with travel restrictions as part of new immigration measures being considered by the administration, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. In its 2017 Entry/Exit Overstay Report, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security described overstays as those who […]