Kush Alabi's Blog

President Muhammadu Buhari has called on state governors to consider, as a matter of urgency, exploring efficient means of gradually liquidating all unpaid salaries of staff, which have brought untold hardship to thousands of families. Inaugurating the national economic council  at the presidential villa   Monday   morning, ‎President Buhari also called on the states to also devise ways of increasing their revenue base in order to cushion the effect s of dwindling revenue from the federation account. The national economic Council  is made up of the 36 state governors, minister‎s of Finance and National as well as the Attorney General of the Federation.

Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote says he does not own a house outside Nigeria "Somebody asked me, how many houses do you have abroad? I said, well, to tell you the good news, I don’t even have a nine-inch block outside Nigeria, and that is the truth. I don’t have a house anywhere abroad.” - he told Senior Media executives during an interview session over the weekend

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief Security Officer, Abdulrahman Mani, has revoked the order by the Aide-De-Camp to the President, Lt.-Col. Lawal Abubakar, removing operatives of the Department of State Services from giving Buhari close body protection. Mani, in a memo countermanding the ADC’s order, said the DSS operatives should disregard the directive by Abubakar. He said the order was a misrepresentation of Buhari’s directive. Buhari’s ADC had on Wednesday last week issued a memo redeploying the DSS officials from 10 beats that they had hitherto manned inside the Presidential villa, explaining that the decision to strip the DSS officials of their traditional roles was part of efforts to enhance general security within the villa. He also claimed that the development was necessitated by “recent events,” which he did not disclose. The ADC consequently directed personnel of the Armed Forces and the Nigeria Police to take over the DSS officials’ duties of providing “c

A Beninoise, Kwenume Ojo, aka Abiodun, has been arrested by men of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly killing her husband, Jimoh Ojo, 32, in the Yaba area of the state. PUNCH  Metro  learnt that Kwenume put poison in her husband’s soft drink and forced it down his throat while he slept on the bed. Our correspondent gathered that the 17-year-old suspect took the poison from a relative of her boyfriend after she was forced to marry Jimoh.The incident happened on Friday on Apolo Street, the Makoko area of Lagos. Jimoh’s in-law, Rotimi Akinlagun, explained that the deceased was retarded, which made it difficult for him to get a wife.He said his marriage to Kwenume was arranged by the two families.  He said,

“I know you don’t love me and it shows in everything you do”. “If you loved me, you won’t treat me like this”. “I deserve some respect as the man of this house”. “My orders should be final but just now, no one listens to me at all”. The list goes on and on till eternity. The desire for love and respect/submission between man and wife is not a new thing and we have all either felt unloved or disrespected at one point or the other. This makes me giggle sometimes – the fact that it can also be used as blackmail- a woman feels telling the man he doesn’t love her would make him feel guilty and put in more effort than before while the man believes the mere mention of the word submission would drag a woman to her supposed place of not being heard at all. Before I drift too deep, I want to quickly mention here that it is very difficult to love a woman who does not submit and extremely hard to submit to a man who does not love. Taking a look from this angle has placed a responsibility on b