Kelechi C. Ogbamgba

Lagos

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Renowned Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o dies at 87

1 month ago | centurypost.com.ng | Kelechi C. Ogbamgba

Renowned Kenyan author, scholar, and activist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has died. His family announced his passing Wednesday evening, May 28, 2025, saying he “lived a full life, fought a good fight.”“It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our dad, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o,” her daughter Wanjiku wa Ngugi said in a Facebook post on Wednesday night, reports The Star. “As was his last wish, let’s celebrate his life and his work. Rîa ratha na rîa thŭa.
Graffiti of an atheist

1 month ago | thenicheng.com | Kelechi C. Ogbamgba

I am an atheist and I owe no one any apologies about my belief. I shudder when people, particularly these noisy Christians, talk to me condescendingly, trying to drag me into the conundrum of their faith which they neither understand nor practiceBy Kelechi C.
UTME Resit: 200,000 score above 200

1 month ago | centurypost.com.ng | Kelechi C. Ogbamgba

No fewer than 200,000 more candidates crossed the 200 average mark in the Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination after the recent resit organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Examination Board, following the technical and human errors that marred the original exam.
Jigawa delegates throw Atiku, Obi coalition meeting into chaos

1 month ago | centurypost.com.ng | Kelechi C. Ogbamgba

A high-level coalition meeting involving former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Labour Party’s Peter Obi, former Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi and others descended into chaos as delegates from Jigawa State disrupted the proceedings. The coalition meeting at the Abuja Continental Hotel, organised by the National Political Consultative Group (North), was briefly disrupted following a disagreement over representation for Jigawa State, reports The Punch.
What Peter Obi said at Abuja high-level coalition meeting with Atiku, others

1 month ago | centurypost.com.ng | Kelechi C. Ogbamgba

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has declared that Northern Nigeria holds the key to solving the nation’s deepest challenges, calling on leaders from the region to take bold steps toward driving national transformation. Speaking at a strategic meeting with Northern political stakeholders under the National Political Consultative Group, Obi described the North not as a problem, but as “Nigeria’s greatest untapped asset,” reports The Guardian.
We’ll conclude coalition talks in 2 weeks, says ADC chairman

1 month ago | centurypost.com.ng | Kelechi C. Ogbamgba

National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Dr. Ralphs Okey Nwosu, says the discussions on coalition will be concluded within the next two weeks. The ADC has been adopted as the platform by the coalition groups to contest the 2027 presidential election, reports Daily Trust. Nwosu in an interview with journalists at the weekend, disclosed that the various committees set up by the party had met with those involved in the talks.
N6.5bn opioids intercepted in Lagos, Rivers ports as NDLEA nabs 2 British men

1 month ago | centurypost.com.ng | Kelechi C. Ogbamgba

No fewer than six million pills of opioids namely: tamol 225mg, tapentadol 225mg and carisoprodol 225mg as well as 332,000 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup with a combined street value of Six Billion Five Hundred and Twenty-Four Million Naira (N6,524,000,000.00) have been intercepted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Port Harcourt Ports Complex, Onne, Rivers and the Apapa seaport, Lagos.
NCC orders telecom operators to alert users about major service disruptions

1 month ago | centurypost.com.ng | Kelechi C. Ogbamgba

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has directed telecom operators to notify consumers of significant service disruptions via media platforms. The directive stated that affected consumers are to receive proportional compensation, including extensions of service validity, in accordance with the Consumer Code of Practice Regulations, reports Channels TV.
Wike pulls out of PDP reconciliation deal, blames Gov Makinde for party crises

1 month ago | centurypost.com.ng | Kelechi C. Ogbamgba

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has pulled out of all reconciliation agreements previously reached within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) accusing key party leaders of betrayal, dishonesty, and serial violations of mutual understandings.
Graffiti of an atheist, By Kelechi C. Ogbamgba

1 month ago | centurypost.com.ng | Kelechi C. Ogbamgba

“You don’t understand what graffiti is, if you never run away from the cops.” – Anonymous “There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely – or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world, in its hypocrisy demands.” – Oscar Wilde“And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves?