Former head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, has revealed that Nigerian students resisted the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, when it was first introduced. Gowon stated this when the newly appointed Director General, Brigadier General Olakunle Oluseye Nafiu paid him a courtesy visit at his residence in Asokoro, Abuja. He acknowledged the multi-dimensional contributions…
Mainstream media detailed Trump’s multiple false and misleading claims but ignored how that was a deliberate strategy for demolishing our democratic republican institutions. About 36.6 million people watched President Donald Trump’s Address to the Joint Congress on 15 different networks. That is the lowest viewership Trump received from his prior four State of the Union…
In a continued effort to curb the dangers of illegal migration, the Nigerian government has successfully evacuated 956 stranded citizens from Libya in the first quarter of 2025, according to Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), in a press release on Monday. The evacuations, carried out in collaboration with the International…
Former UFC heavyweight champion, Cain Velasquez has been sentenced to five years in prison over the attempted murder of a man accused of sxually assaulting his four-year-old son. Velasquez was arrested in 2022 during a car chase when he fired toward a vehicle where the man he accused of molesting his 4-year-old son was. Although the target, Harry Goularte,…
An expanding body of research highlights the rising importance of class in arrests and incarceration in the United States. This research shouldn’t be read to suggest that ethnoracial disparities have closed or that racial domination is no longer a major driver of hyperincarceration in the United States. However, it should lead to a sharpened focus on the…
