COURT SENTENCES SEXUAL OFFENDERS TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Lagos State Special Offences Court, Ikeja, has sentenced Abiodun Matthew, a 39-year-old driver to life imprisonment for raping a 4-year-old pupil of the University of Lagos Women Society Nursery and Primary School, Akoka, Lagos. In another case, Sunday Oyedele was also sentenced to life imprisonment with no option of fine […]
EMMANUEL IKECHUKWU UMEONYIHIRIOHA BECOMES FIRST IGBO LECTURER IN OXFORD UNIVERSITY
In Emmanuel’s words: “It is official that I am the first official Igbo Language lecturer at the number one university in the world, the University of Oxford. Our induction happened today by Marion Sadoux, Head of Modern Language Programmes, University of Oxford Language Centre. This became possible in an account of the James Currey Society. […]
SIMI ADEAGBO INDUCTED INTO OLYMPIC HALL OF FAME
Simi Adeagbo was inducted into the Olympic Hall of Fame at the Winter Games – Beijing 2022. She is the FIRST African female winter olympian to receive this award. Before her induction, Simi recently made history by becoming the first African to win the Europe Cup monobob race at the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation […]
LOOTED BRONZE RETURNED TO OBA OF BENIN
Hurray! Two of the historic items looted by the British during the 1897 invasion of the Benin Kingdom have been officially handed over to the Oba of Benin – Oba Ewuare II after 125 years. The artefacts—the head of an Oba (Uhunwun Elahor) and a carved cockerel (Okpa)—were handed over to the Oba by the […]
EiE Nigeria Hosts Symposium To Commemorate 12th Anniversary
March 30, 2022 Lagos, Nigeria ‘‘We must begin to imbibe a culture by which those who aspire to lead our people are subjected to a rigorous process of public debates that will assess their suitability on objective criteria, rather than the religion they practice or where they come from.’’ – Olusegun Adeniyi (Chairman, ThisDay […]
Watch This Space!
On Tuesday, March 22nd, the brave women who had been occupying the National Assembly (NASS) gates gained access to the NASS premises, where they were met by the leadership of the House of Representatives who requested 7 legislative days to review all 5 bills and vote again. Recall that on Tuesday, March 8th, the House […]
Rant But Act!
Dear Active Citizen, Oftentimes we complain about the state of the nation and how difficult life can be when governed by bad and incompetent leaders but we hesitate to make our voices heard through our votes during elections. Elections are not won on social media nor are they won from the comfort of your sitting […]
EiE @ 12: On debates and democracy
“We must begin to imbibe a culture by which those who aspire to lead our people are subjected to a rigorous process of public debates that will assess their suitability on objective criteria, rather than the religion they practise or where they come from.” – Olusegun Adeniyi, chairman, ThisDay editorial board. In 2010, we protested […]
CVR At Your Doorstep!
Good News! INEC has devolved Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) to the ward level. This process will end on Tuesday, March 22, and will be followed by a 2-week break for citizens to review the voters register at INEC LGA centres. CVR will resume on April 10, 2022, and will be devolved to the wards towards […]
12 Years of Inspiring Action
Today, March 16th makes it 12 years since the historic #EnoughIsEnough protests of 2010 to the National Assembly in Abuja and to the then Governor Babatunde Fashola’s office in Lagos on April 13th. We asked if Mr President was dead or alive in Saudi Arabia, wondered why an oil producing nation had fuel queues and demanded that the killings […]