News From Nigeria

The most outrageous and misleading statement about Ifa I yet have heard is that Ifa is part of some Arab culture, and that it is geomancy.

By Pepe Escobar – posted with permission Let’s start in mid-May, when Nur-Sultan, formerly Astana, hosted the third Russia-Kazakhstan Expert Forum, jointly organized by premier think tank Valdai Club and the Kazakhstan Council on International Relations. The ongoing, laborious and crucial ...

By Ollie Richardson We’re in the Middle East, and after a big explosion caused by an aerial bombing, a female child is stuck under all of the rubble, people come to remove the remaining rubble and pull the girl out. ...

KỌ́JỌ́DÁ” – ‘Ki ṓjṓ dá: Meaning; May The Day Be Clear or Foreseen; is the name of Yórúbà Calendar. Akù Odùn Tìtún o! Eyìn Omo Yórubà nìlè lókó, léyín ódì!It is 10,061 of the Yoruba Calendar (Kojoda, which means “May ...

The Court of Appeal in Lagos, on Friday okayed the request of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for the final forfeiture of N1.4billion which a firm, Melrose General Services Limited, obtained from the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) through ...

Operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team have arrested two members of a kidnap gang operating in Kaduna State. The suspects, Abdulmimini Adamu and Usman Abdulahi, were said to possess been mixed up in kidnapping of four expatriates ...

Oṣù Òkúdù á yanjú gbogbo ohun tí ó ń dùn wá lọ́kàn Ẹnikẹ́ni ò sì ní bá wa du’re ayọ̀ wa. @AlamojaYoruba

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has said contrary to speculations that the House Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila (APC, Lagos) was being sponsored by Bola Tinubu for Speaker of 9th House, it was President Muhammadu Buhari himself who chose him. El-Rufai stated ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will on Friday, May 31, 2019, arraign the controversial official of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Philomina Chieshe who claimed that the missing N35 million (Thirty Five Million Naira) JAMB proceeds ...

Ọya is one of the very powerful African Goddesses (Orisa). A Warrior-Queen, she is the sister-wife of the God Sango, to whom she gave the energy to produce storms. A lot of Ọya’s power is rooted in the natural world; ...