THE man who raised the alarm after his fridge apparently sparked the Grenfell Tower inferno has today been pictured for the first time. Behailu Kebede, an Ethiopian mini-cab driver, called 999 after flames took hold of his fourth floor flat in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Mini-cab driver Behailu Kebede has been pictured for …
CCT clears Saraki of false asset declaration charges
The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has dismissed the charges of false asset declaration against Senate President, Bukola Saraki. Chairman of the tribunal, Danladi Umar, in his ruling this morning, said the prosecution team had failed to provide sufficient evidence to prove that Saraki was indeed guilty of false asset declaration. The witnesses brought in …
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UK, diminishing power?
The Danish Finance Minster is reported as saying that there are two kinds of European nation and that there are small nations and there are countries that have not yet realized they are small nations. His comment, made during a conference on Brexit, drew a sharp response from Britain's ambassador to Denmark who said he …
Keeping Crime in the Tribal FamilyBy Pius Adesanmi
I've been paying attention to the ethnic composition of Nigerian criminal gangs with the corner of one eye. My non-scientific finding: our small criminal gangs are a mirror of the fratricidal ethnic divisions, hate, and bitterness among the small people. In other words, our small criminals replicate tribalism and the intense ethnic provincialism which clog …
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Photos: Syrian artist depicts Trump, Obama, Putin and other world leaders as refugees
"Being a refugee is like having a new lump in your body that you had nothing to do with, and it will stay until the last day, so you better deal with it," these are the words of Abdalla Al Omari a Syrian artist who has refugee status in Belgium. Omari is breaking the …
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