Some months ago, 18 presidential aspirants agreed to elect a consensus candidate. The initiative sounded so exciting and we were all expectant. On getting to the day of the election, some of the candidates opted out of the process few hours before the election, leaving 11 aspirants to participate. Nigeria’s former minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili monitored and observed the election. She gave her account of how the election went down. “The PACT – Presidential…
Melania Trump embarked on her first solo trip to Africa; a five-day tour of Ghana, Malawi, Kenya, and Egypt. It was an opportunity for Melania to promote her “Be Best” campaign, which focuses on children’s health and well-being. It was a way of encouraging friendly relations between the United States and the countries hosting her. It was a standard first lady diplomacy. Melania faced a lot of criticism and backlash for her decision to wear…
Facebook tries its hand on hardware with PORTAL. We all knew it was a matter of time before Facebook creates its own hardware. Unlike feeds, texts chats and likes, video is the real aspect of the company’s social platform that can justify a standalone device. The device comes with Facebook messenger and it uses Artificial Intelligence to recognize people in a frame and automatically zooms on their face as they move around. Portal reportedly features…
Back in 2008, Taylor wrote on a website called MySpace, “Republicans do it better”. Although she never mentioned in what context she wrote those words, since that post, unlike her fellow celebrities who have at one point or the other signaled at what camp they belonged, she has maintained silence on the subject of her politics, and so the Republicans took it that she was one of them. Taylor broke her silence in a lengthy…
Contrary to what you would expect from a woman whose husband declared to the whole world that she belongs to the ‘Other Room’, the first lady, Aisha Buhari has once again proven that she is her own woman. She took to Twitter hours ago to express her displeasure and disappointment over the way the APC, led by Adams Oshiomhole conducted the primaries in which her Brother Halilu Ahmed, was a governorship aspirant. “It is disheartening…
In reply to Nnamdi Azikiwe when he said “let’s forget our differences and move on”, Ahmadu Bello said, “No, instead let us understand our differences to be able to move on”. Even our founding fathers understood that we are not ‘One people, One nation’. And as such it is unfair for anyone to say Achebe should have told the Biafran story, painting Nigeria as being united and one when in truth, Nigeria has never been…
Last night more than ever, I felt rage towards the American people. How the hell did they allow this misfit happen to them and the rest of the world? How in God’s name did Trump win the Presidency? We often neglect this, but voter apathy is indeed dangerous. Little wonder Hillary Clinton, Barack & Michelle Obama, as well as other Democrats, are speaking out now on the need to vote in the coming midterm elections….
For Google, a lot has changed in 20 years. With the way Google’s popular products looked 20 years back, they could have taken home the award for bad product design without contest. A journey back to what their popular products looked like, in pictures; Google.com Google.com — the website and search engine, which represented all Google had to offer in the beginning — began as a research project called BackRub, the brainchild of Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and…
Microsoft at an event on Tuesday announced that it has started to roll out the next big update to Windows 10. This update has one big feature: An App, known as ‘Your Phone’. It lets you read your iPhone/Android phone’s text messages and photos from your Windows 10 PC. One amazing thing about this App is that it works over WiFi, so you do not need to have your phone plugged into your computer to…
“Good morning my dear Lagosians, I thank you all for your affection and support. Today is the day, let us all go out peacefully and vote in the #LagosAPCPrimaries Thank You.” Sanwo-Olu Tweeted this morning. A man endorsed by the ruling party’s national leader, Bola Tinubu. Tinubu’s endorsement ended weeks of speculation about where he stood on the stand-off between him and the incumbent Governor, Akinwumi Ambode. He said he turned his back on Ambode…
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