Wole Soyinka reportedly fulfills promise to tear US 'green card' over Donald Trump's election win

    Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka today revealed that he has fulfilled his pledge to throw away his US residency green card if Donald Trump won the presidential election.
"I have already done it, I have disengaged from the United States. I have done what I said I would do," Soyinka told AFP on the sidelines of an education conference at the University of Johannesburg. "I had a horror of what is to come with Trump... I threw away the (green) card, and I have relocated, and I'm back to where I have always been."

PHOTO- Female corps member who died in Kano NYSC camp laid to rest

     Female corps member, Ifedolapo Oladepo, who died in NYSC camp, Kano was buried today in Osogbo at her family’s residence.

Buhari To Present 2017 Budget To National Assembly Next Week

   

       According to the the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma, announced the plan after the Federal Executive Council meeting,President, Muhammadu Buhari, will present the 2017 appropriation bill to the National Assembly next week, a government official said on Wednesday.

"I was in need of money for my honeymoon- Man caught with heroin at Lagos airport says

       Abuja-based trader and a commercial tricycle rider from Owerri were arrested by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos in connection with the unlawful importation of 6.390kg of substances that tested positive for heroin.

We’re addressing recession with wrong tools —CBN

     The on-going economic recession has persisted owing to application of wrong prescription by non-professionals, the Director of Policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Moses Tule, has contended.