WISE SAYINGS

1. The anger of a p*nis cannot destroy the v*gina. (Zimbabwe)

2. The day a mosquito lands on your testicles is the day you will know there is a better way of resolving issues without using violence. (Senegal )

3. There’s no virgin in a maternity ward. (Cameroon)

4. A child can play with its mother’s breasts but not with the father’s testicles. (Ghana)

5. He who says that nothing lasts forever has never tried Hausa perfume. (Nigeria)

6. The man who marries a beautiful woman and the farmer who grows corn by the roadside have the same problem. (Ghana)

7. When you see a woman sitting with her legs open, never tell her to close them, because you do not know her source of fresh air. (Ethiopia)

8. The only woman who knows where her man is every night is a widow. (Togo)

10. If you go to sleep with an itching anus, you are sure to wake up with smelly fingers. (Kenya)

11. The monkey who tries to see the hunter clearly collects bullets in its eyes (Nigeria)

12. The frowning of a he-goat does not stop it from being priced.

13. If the sun claims superiority over the moon, let it shine at night.

14. A hen does not expect warning to hide it's chicks from the kite.

15. A man does not test the depth of a river with both legs.

This news not make me happy about former governor of oyo state late Adebayo Alao Akala 's children
Crisis rocks Alao-Akala’s family as daughter seeks DNA test for siblings, exhumation of ex-Gov’s body
by Segun Showunmi, Ibadan
A legal battle has broken out in the family of former Oyo Governor Otunba Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala after his first daughter, Mrs Oluwatoyin Alao-Aderinto, approached an Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan for an order for a Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) test on seven individuals claiming to be biological children of the deceased.
She is also seeking for an application for the exhumation of the late Governor’s body to carry out the DNA test.
In a suit filed before Justice Taiwo of Court 12 at the State High Court, ring road, Ibadan with Motion Number I/443/2024, Alao-Aderinto, through her counsel, Oladipo Olasope (SAN), is praying the court to direct that the DNA tests be carried out on herself, including siblings, Olamide, Adebukola, Olamipo, Olamiju, a serving member of the House of Representatives, Tabitha and Olamikunle, as listed in the motion on notice filed before the court.
She also said the tests be conducted at a court approved, accredited laboratory to determine their true biological relationship with the late Governor.
As part of the application, Alao-Aderinto is also seeking an order of court, directing exhumation of Otunba Alao-Akala’s remains from the mausoleum built in the former governor’s Ogbomoso country home for the purpose of carrying out the paternity test.
The results of the tests, she pleaded, should be filed under a sealed envelope and delivered directly to the presiding Judge for pronouncement in open court.
The fresh application brought before the court is a new twist in what has become a messy and prolonged family feud over the vast estate of the late politician, who died intestate on January 12, 2022.
The crisis, which has been brewing silently since his burial became public in October 2022 when one Kemi Alao-Akala and Olamide Alabi, believed to be one of the deceased’s daughters, obtained a Letter of Administration from the Oyo State Probate Registry without the knowledge or consent of Oluwatoyin, the first child.
According to Alao-Aderinto, this singular act was a deliberate and unlawful exclusion that contravene applicable laws guiding intestate succession in Nigeria.
In her affidavit and accompanying exhibit filed in support of her motion, she accused the duo of manipulating facts to claim sole control over the estate, despite the presence of other biological children and heirs.
The estate in question is said to be massive, spreading across several properties in Ibadan, Lagos, Abuja, United Kingdom and the United States of America, including a five-star hotel in Ghana, vehicles and multiple bank accounts containing hundreds of millions in naira, dollars and pounds sterling.
Her position on the deceased father’s estate stems from the strong resolve at ensuring that every individual, including nuclear and extended family members, aides of the former Governors, who served him meritoriously without blemish and yet to identified children among many others are catered for, as against the alleged winner- takes-it -all approach adopted by the duo of the defendants.
The said administrators listed only seven individuals as legal heirs but the position, as articulated by her counsel, is that there is no consensus on the paternity of these persons and the inclusion of some and exclusion of others in the administration of the deceased’s estate raises troubling questions of authenticity and equity. It is on this basis she seeks judicial intervention through scientific means.
In an August 2023 letter made public, her counsel Oladipo Olasope SAN, warned that the exclusion of the claimant who is the first daughter of the late Alao-Akala, violated both moral norms and legal rights, stressing that unless resolved, the dispute could further polarise the family and damage the late governor’s political legacy.

"NO VICTOR, NO VANQUISHED”? NO, SIR. JUST THE BLOOD OF THE INNOCENT
A Truthful Dissection of Gen. Gowon’s Crocodile Tears

✍Ugochimereze Chinedu Asuzu

"I always remember the Civil War. It was the most difficult period of my life. It was not my choice…” So says General Yakubu Gowon: decades after the fact, as if the burden of memory alone could exonerate a man from the burden of responsibility.

But memory, stripped of remorse, becomes theatre. And this latest performance by the old General, wrapped in prayerful tones and wistful platitudes, is exactly that a theatre of moral evasion. What was presented as reflection was in fact deflection. A man who presided over the darkest chapter in Nigeria’s history now seeks to launder his conscience with the sponge of spirituality, mouthing prayers as if that were enough to bury three million truths beneath the soil of forgetfulness.

No, sir. You did not pray. You played. You played politics with people’s lives. You played Russian roulette with the destiny of a region. You played central command while entire communities burned. You stood at the gates of peace and walked away. The blood did not flow because you had no choice, it flowed because you made a choice. And the choice was war.

You stood beside Odumegwu Ojukwu at Aburi in Ghana. There, both of you spoke, agreed, shook hands and made a pact. You returned to Lagos to a hero’s welcome, but before the ink of trust could dry, you tore it apart. You listened to federal hawks, buried Aburi under the rubble of Decree No. 8, and turned your face from peace. You betrayed a solemn covenant for the sake of power. That betrayal, not the first shot fired, is where the war truly began.

The records are stubborn. They do not bend to nostalgia. They remind us that before a single Biafran soldier took up arms, thousands of Igbos had been hacked down in the North. Pregnant women butchered. Children beheaded. Men dismembered in full daylight. Railway stations were turned into morgues. Churches, into chambers of death. Kaduna. Kano. Jos. The North descended into madness, and the East was served grief on a plate of silence.

You, sir, presided over that silence. You were Commander-in-Chief, not a curious passerby. You issued words but withheld justice. You gave speeches, but not shelter. You watched a people bleed and called it unfortunate. And now, years later, you whisper: "It was never out of hatred." But hatred needs no introduction when its fruit is genocide.

And then came your famous phrase, carved into Nigeria’s post-war psyche: “No victor, no vanquished.” It sounded noble. It rang loud. But it rang false. Because the war ended, yes, but justice never began. Biafrans were not vanquished by force alone, they were buried beneath the rubble of reconstruction. Their economy was stripped. Their currency devalued. Their children starved. Their land mined and their dignity mocked. What you called reintegration, we lived as retribution. What you labeled reconciliation, we endured as marginalisation. The victor danced in national attire. The vanquished crawled through national amnesia.

Sir, you had the chance to become a Mandela long before South Africa birthed one. You had the moment. The world watched. The African continent stood still. But you chose empire over empathy. You chose command over compassion. You chose to keep Nigeria one by breaking a people in half. And now, the same mouth that sanctioned the guns says, "I prayed to God." Perhaps you did. But God is not mocked by crocodile tears. Not when the skulls of infants still haunt the red soil of Nsukka, Aba, Umuahia, and Onitsha.

Prayer is not repentance. Repentance begins with truth. And the truth is that you, along with others, enabled a war that was avoidable. You squandered the peace we almost had at Aburi. You enabled pogroms with your silence. You denied justice its wings and handed the world a bullet instead. And when it was all done, you wrapped the pain in poetry and hoped the music would make us forget.

But we remember. Not because we hate. But because we bleed.

This is not a call to bitterness. It is a call to honesty. To name what happened. To look the children of Biafra in the eye and say: Yes, you were wronged. Yes, we failed you. Yes, the war was avoidable. And no, it should never have happened.

Until then, sir, do not cloak yourself in prayer while justice lies unclothed. Do not speak of love when you could not uphold truth. Do not say “it was not my choice” when history has proven otherwise. And above all, do not try to rewrite what we lived.

You may now carry the Bible in one hand. But the other hand still drips with memories. Your legacy may wear the robe of elder statesmanship. But it remains stained by silence, by betrayal, and by the bones of those who trusted your word at Aburi.

So here, General Gowon, is what history truly says:
You may cry now, but the tears do not wash the blood away.
You may kneel today, but that does not undo the horror of yesterday.
You may pray, but the ghosts still answer with questions.
And until Nigeria confronts its past with courage, it will never know peace that lasts.

We forgive. But we do not forget. We move on. But we do not move blind.

Because truth, bitter as it may be - is still better than convenient lies.

✍Ugochimereze Chinedu Asuzu
Social Cum Political Analysis|Tuesday, June 10, 2025

One Minute Please The Longest Minute in Accra

It was a hot Saturday afternoon in Accra. The sun was shining like it had a personal grudge, and the whole town was waiting at the church for one thing Kojo and Akosua’s wedding. The pastor had already wiped his face three times, the choir had run out of songs, and even the flower girls were eating their own petals from boredom.

Meanwhile, back at the house, Akosua was in front of her mirror, applying her 13th layer of makeup. She looked stunning, yes, but time was running like Usain Bolt.

Kojo, her poor groom, was standing by the door sweating in his tuxedo like someone who owed ECG. He looked at the wall clock and shouted,
Akosua We’re late oo! The pastor is threatening to go and do another funeral

Akosua, without blinking, replied in her sweet voice,
One minute please
Then continued carefully brushing her eyelashes like she was painting the Mona Lisa.

Kojo held his head. Ei! One minute in Ghana woman time is one hour in real life

Outside, the best man was pacing, calling every 10 minutes:
Bro, has she finished
Kojo whispered back, She said ‘one minute 45 minutes ago

Back at the church, people started whispering:

Maybe she changed her mind

No oh, maybe she lost her shoe

Or the makeup artist is still contouring her ancestors.

Finally, Akosua appeared at the door like a queen stepping out of a music video. Kojo, half-dead from panic, smiled and said,
Let’s go before you remember you need to fix your necklace too

They arrived at church almost 2 hours late. But when Akosua walked in, the whole church gasped in awe.

Someone in the crowd said,
Ah well, beauty takes time. But next time, marry her in her sleep. That's when she won't delay

In Ghana, when a woman says One minute please, just sit down, drink some sobolo, and wait like you're queuing at DVLA

*SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 22/06/2025*

Female suicide bomber kills 12, injures 18 in Borno – Police

Police nab 22 suspects over killing of 12 Plateau wedding guests

Five Killed As Bomb Explodes In Kano

MRS hikes petrol price to N925 in Lagos, N955 in Southeast

FG gets approval from UK for Air Peace to fly directly to Heathrow Airport

Kidnappers to die by hanging in Ondo – Govt

Osimhen, Troost-Ekong, others join Ndidi at Maracana children’s fest in Ajegunle

Trump says US launched ‘very successful’ attack on Iran nuclear sites

Iran’s Ayatollah names 3 successors as Israel renews assassination threats

Hot air balloon crash kills eight in Brazil, 13 injured

Netherlands returns 119 Benin bronzes to Nigeria

Nigeria negotiates $65m extra procurement loan with W’Bank

Nigeria, Benin sign landmark integration pact

Salis set to be first Nigerian in space, as astronauts converge for camp training


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*DID YOU KNOW?*

* Saponification is the chemical reaction that converts fats or oils into soap and alcohol. Humans discovered this around 2,800 B.C. by three simple ingredients—animal fat, wood ash, and water.

* The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backward.
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Tinubu urges economic unity among W’African countries

Shettima condemns Borno suicide attack, assures immediate response

EFCC arrests Benue gov’s aide for alleged sextortion, cyberbullying

NAF first female fighter pilot wins top award in Ghana

AIG Zone 5 convenes stakeholders’ meeting over Warri ward delineation crisis

Akume meets Benue monarchs on Tinubu’s directive for lasting peace

FG denies abandoning Nigerians in Iran, says working with Armenia for evacuation

FG targets $12 million revenue from global market electronic navigational charts – Matawalle

West African economic summit unlocks $400m in investment deals — Minister

Convict passport scandal: FG panel suspends two officers, probes inmate

Musawa directs NIHOTOUR to suspend enforcement actions nationwide

NPA averts fire disaster at Lagos port as vessels go up in flames

NNPCL spokesman Femi Soneye resigns

Buba Marwa’s mother-in-law dies at 76

NDDC inaugurates four projects in Rivers

Board cautions against contraband luggage, as 425 FCT pilgrims return

We won’t allow individuals hijack IBB Golf Club — Wike

NBA rejects plan to increase Supreme Court justices to 30

Constitutional Infractions: The African Church Suspends Primate Abbe

Air Peace flight suffers bird strike, returns for safety checks

Hoteliers appeal to Aiyedatiwa over unpaid debt

OCCIMA calls on FG to oversee N75b intervention loan disbursement

Iwuanyanwu’s Will bans young widow from remarrying

Property dispute: Alao-Akala’s daughter seeks father’s exhumation for DNA test

Obi condemns incessant attacks, killings, urges action on insecurity

Tinubu to Eno: You won’t regret joining APC

Atiku denies ADA, says he’s yet to adopt unregistered party

2027: Northern power blocs eye VP Shettima’s seat

2027: PDP NEC members differ on presidential zoning

Ex-PDP chairman assassinated in Benue one year after wife’s murder

Benue Killings: Sule tasks traditional rulers to protect border areas

Killers of Kaduna citizens in Plateau must face justice, says Sani

Plateau gov condemns murder of eight travellers, urges calm

Bandits killed 30 in Zuru – Kebbi govt

Benue nabs 50 fake displaced persons in IDP

Enugu traders seek Mbah’s intervention over alleged relocation order

Power surge sparks fire in Kwara plaza, firefighters save building

Gunmen abduct judge in Bayelsa

Gunmen kill hunter commander in Benue

Anambra vigilantes detain pregnant woman, two kids for 20 days

Battered 13-year-old girl rescued after guardian’s brutal attack in Imo

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*TODAY IN HISTORY*

* On this day in 1633, the Catholic Church forced Galileo Galilei to renounce his heliocentric world view. The Holy Office concluded that the Italian scientist, by stating that the Sun is the center of the Universe, was “suspect of heresy”. Galileo spent the rest of his life under house arrest.

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God does not need your good works, but your neighbour does. – Martin Luther


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*Compiled by Hon. Osuji George [email protected], +234-8122200446*

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Holiday Arm Rubber Wahala

One peaceful night in Kumasi, Ama and her husband Kojo were sleeping like babies after eating heavy fufu and light soup.

Suddenly, Ama heard strange sounds from the sitting room. Chai! That is not rat o..She shook Kojo quickly.

Kojo Kojo Wake up, An armed rubber has entered our house.He is carrying our TV and even our jollof rice pot

Kojo slowly opened one eye, hissed, and turned back to sleep.

Ama, tell that man today is a public holiday. He should come back tomorrow when we are back to normal stress, Kojo mumbled.

Ama’s eyes nearly fell out. Eeeii Kojo, You want me to go and greet the armed rubber like it’s Christmas What if he greets me with slap

Kojo snored. If he slaps you, tell him to come and slap me after the holiday

Ama shook her head and whispered, This man will sleep through Judgment Day

At that moment, the rubber heard their conversation and burst into laughter. He dropped the TV and shouted from the sitting room, you people are m@d i dey come tomorrow sef

And true to his word, he returned the next day with a holiday calendar to confirm.

Moral of the story: In Ghana, even thieves respect holidays.sometimes

Meet Uwakmfon Unwana Jacob
A young Nigerian making serious waves across the world with just one weapon, Mathematics.

In only 2½ years (from JSS2 to SSS1), Uwakmfon has done what many only dream of, becoming a champion in top math competitions around the world, including:

America
South Africa
Canada
Ghana (MIT)
Indonesia
Stanford
Germany (istem Maths)
IYMC — and many more!

Yes, he’s that good.
From one continent to another, Uwakmfon is showing the world the power of Nigerian excellence.

And now? He’s off to Ghana for a research program and has been admitted into the World Science Scholars, personally recognized by Prof. Brian Greene, one of the world’s top theoretical physicists in String Theory.

Uwakmfon isn’t just winning medals, he’s making history.
He’s proof that African brilliance belongs on every global stage.

Let’s clap for this young king doing us proud!

This is just the beginning.

— Adam Syte
Nigerian Student