An investigation has begun in Paris into the cause of last week’s crash of a Nairobi-bound Boeing jet that killed all 157 passengers and crew, Ethiopian Airlines said. “An Ethiopian delegation led by the chief investigator of [the] Accident Investigation Bureau has arrived in the French Safety Investigation (BEA) facilities and the investigation process has started in Paris,” the airline wrote on Twitter. The two black boxes from the plane that came down just six minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa on Sunday were…

On a chilly Champions League night, Angel Di Maria came back to haunt the Red Devils in the Theatre of Dreams. Throughout 90 minutes, he was the kind of nightmare they could never have dreamed of, and his presence certainly outweighed the absence of Neymar. Di Maria was conspicuously not welcome to the party by Manchester United fans; as he was relentlessly booed and was the target of pelted objects. And like a man who typifies the sentence; “What doesn’t…

The words contained in this piece of writing will have an underlying trait, or else a source, of sorts: glasses, eyeglasses! The idea for this came from a meme, an image of which is shown above, below or somewhere along this. I do not know what this is. Yet. Maybe a narrative. Or an exposition. But I am one of the bespectacled, and we’ll see if that has anything to do with what matters. Harry Potter struck a chord with…

While Nigerians were still engrossed with the aftermath of elections in their country, the 91st Academy Awards ceremony held on the 24th of February, 2019 at the Dolby Theater, Los Angeles, California, United States. The Oscar’s organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2018. Though Roma and The Favourite led the nominations with 10 each, it was Green Book that took the best picture gong, with Rami Malek and Olivia Colman…

No fewer than 64 serving senators and 151 members of the House of Representatives will not be in the 9th National Assembly in June when it will be inaugurated. Only 45 senators and about 209 members are returning to the federal legislature, according to the results of the elections released so far by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Fifteen of the newly elected senators are former state governors. Forty-two of the 64 non-returning senators lost out in October last…

The previous postponement of the Nigerian elections may have disenfranchised some but not me. I was armed with the needed essentials after reading the voter’s guide to a ‘comfortable’ voting (face cap, a head set, comfortable shoes, a bottle of water and common sense). They forgot to add bring food or snacks because the queue would be long and they might not start on time. Accreditation was to last from 8am-10am and afterwards, the election proper. Thank God that did…