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  Popular Singer, Angelique Kidjo has traced her roots back to Nigeria. Legendary singer popularly known as Angelique Kidjo has revealed that she is from Iseyin, Oyo State Nigeria. The famously called Mama Africa noted that she has family from Abeokuta, Ibadan and Lagos. The multiple Grammy Awards winner said in a radio interview on Smooth FM in Lagos state that she is originally from Iseyin, a town in Oyo State, Nigeria, according to what her mother told her. Born in Ouidah, Benin Republic, the 61-year-old veteran singer added that she has a lot of relatives in Nigeria even though she doesn’t visit them often. “My Mum told me that I am from Iseyin, because when my grandfather’s great great great great father came back from Brazil, they found their roots in Iseyin.” “From my mother’s mother’s side, we have always been from Nigeria, so we have families in Abeokuta. Ibadan, Lagos, everywhere, I have cousins I haven’t seen a million years that I miss a lot.” Angelique added that she h...

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has shared his concerns about the insecurity in Nigeria. Pastor Adeboye during his sermon on Sunday questioned why Kaduna State has become a hotbed for terror attacks. He also spoke about oil theft and lamented Nigeria’s depressing debt profile. Pastor Adeboye said he is not endorsing any candidate or political party. VIDEO BELOW

  I have written several times about the ‘uselessness’ of the Abuja National Stadium (now known as MKO Abiola Stadium). Such a great facility for all-round sports lie fallow all year round, overgrown with weed and smothered in dust. Many ministers of Sports have come and gone, and most of them prefer to give the stadium a wide berth. In the distant past, a beautifully constructed, Olympic standard stadium which cost N73 billion (an equivalent of at least N500 billion in today’s money given that the Naira has tumbled at least 7 times over since it was built in 2003), would be hired out to churches for crusades, and our football pitch suffered a bad case of alopecia as our people stomped the devil on the grass turf. The devil refused to depart from the nation no matter how they tried though. Other ministers preferred to just lock up the place until medium to large trees started growing on the pitch. You can’t make this up. The internet preserves the evidence. These days, the Minister...