Day: 8 August 2020

BREAKING: Buruji Kashamu dies of COVID-19

Jide Ige

Controversial billionaire businessman and former Senator, Buruji Kashamu, is dead. Some few days ago, National Infinity reported that the former Ogun State PDP governorship candidate was battling the dreaded disease and has been taken to an isolation centre in Lagos. Kashamu, who represented Ogun-East senatorial district between 2015 and 2019, reportedly died at First Cardiology Consultants, Lagos. The hospital is the same facility where a former Governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi; and the President’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, died. It was learnt that Kashamu, who had diabetes and…

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Seye Arowolo writes for National Infinity

Jide Ige

Prolific writer and respected social commentator, Oluseye Arowolo, has joined the editorial board of National Infinity Magazine as a guest columnist. The column titled ‘Saturday Life Lines’ is a commentary on happenstances in Nigeria’s political scene and national landscape but laced with humour and satire. Oluseye is a 1985 Set, of Government College Ibadan (GCI), and was the best graduating student from the Faculty of Law, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife in 1997. He is a Petroleum Technology Development Trust Fund (PTDF) Scholar and obtained his LLM (with Distinction) in Energy…

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Our National Comedy Series

Jide Ige

On the 6th of August 2012, I posted on my Facebook wall, “Nigeria: A country of comedians in government”.  8 years after, neither the comedy nor the tragedy has abated.  Laughter is definitely good medicine in Nigeria (the country of the supposed happiest people on the earth) and that is why the stand-up comic sector keeps expanding with the entry of new acts almost on a daily basis.  Thus when the monstrous, the unbelievable, the incredible happens and you expect the most severe outrage from Nigerians, what you get are…

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