Congratulations to Barrister Israel Adekunle Adeniyi, the Overall Best Graduating Student of the Nigerian Law School for the 2026 Call to Bar, capping an outstanding academic journey that began at the University of lorin.
The Offa-born, Adeniyi, who completed his Bar Part I| programme at the Lagos Campus of the Nigerian Law School, was named the overall best graduating student at the 2026 Call to Bar ceremony.
Before proceeding to the Nigerian Law School, he graduated as the best graduating student in the Common Law programme at the University of Ilorin with a cumulative grade point average of 4.83, the highest ever recorded in the faculty's history.
RIP to Lt. FA Isaac, who was killed in the early days of this rescue operation💔
In a heartbreaking twist of events, he was laid to rest today that the victims were finally released
This is one of the names I hope will be immortalized by the AFN, Oyo state, & the Nigerian government.
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— The cohort included Jay Ellis, Eduardo Camavinga, Siphiwe Tshabalala, Ryan Bertrand and executives from Universal and Warner Music 👏🏽
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£21.5m fee invested on talented winger by #BHAFC. 🔵⚪️
Mama Nike was one of 15 wives. When she left her husband to make art, the other 14 wives chose to follow her...
Artist Nike Davies Okundaye - better known as Mama Nike - grew up in an area of Nigeria where polygamous marriages were common. Her own father had three wives.
The women in her family were makers of traditional adire cloth. From the age of six, Mama Nike's great grandmother, mother, and aunt taught her how to spin, weave and dye.
"I didn't know it was my own future food," says Mama Nike - because, despite her family's craft, money was scarce.
At the age of 13, her father decided to marry her off to someone who already had several wives.
But her great grandmother wanted her to choose her own marriage - and so did Mama Nike. She escaped from the men who had come to take her away, and trekked for five days back to her village.
"It's the biggest risk I ever took," she says. "I didn't care if I died."
She arrived home exhausted and covered in bee stings. Even so, her father tried to marry her off again. This time, Mama Nike ran away and joined a travelling theatre, until police arrested her and brought her back.
Eventually, she agreed to marry a well-known artist and musician from Oshogbo, a town renowned for its artistic community.
She used her sewing and embroidery skills to make costumes for her husband's band - while trying to make her own art.
"The men didn't want a woman to be an artist. So, I worked in the night, and worked for them in the day," she says.
Her husband went on to marry 14 other women.
Tradition demanded those who were already wives accept each new marriage - but Mama Nike says they didn't always want to.
On one occasion, the husband took the women to a church where they were denied food, water, or access to their children.
Mama Nike says she was forced to agree to her husband marrying an addition woman: "By the third day we said, 'Bring the wife, we're not jealous anymore.' Our mouths were like boards - dry,".
She says living with her husband made her feel "like a lion with no teeth. You have no power."
She began to teach her co-wives traditional adire making skills, and soon, each of them was able to make their own money.
Sick of her husband's control and abuse, Mama Nike left him as soon as she'd saved enough to buy her own place - and the other wives chose to follow her.
She opened her first formal gallery in Oshogbo in 1986.
She is now an internationally renowned artist, with a huge gallery in Lagos where she teaches others and makes her own colourful, beautiful art.
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Copied from at BBC world service
Can we all just take a moment to talk about fake drugs and fake drinks in Nigeria especially in the Southwest ?
Some people are getting rich from it, while countless innocent people are getting sick, damaged for life, or dying because of it. The rate of kidneys disease and death is now at its highest. Unfortunately each time they are being clamped down on, some tribes involve make it a tribal issue by saying “ they are after our business” , “ they hate us”. How does stop fake drugs from killing innocent means you are hated ?
Imagine working hard for your money only to buy medicine that won’t heal you or a drink that could destroy your health. This is not “smart business” you wicked people and many influencers are avoiding this topic because they are related to this people by kin or tribe.
The scary part is that these fake products are everywhere in the markets, shops, pharmacies, clubs, even online. And the victims are mostly everyday Nigerians just trying to survive.
If NAFDAC will not do something at Federal level, it’s time the Southwest Corridor of the Country does something about it with laws that are merciless.
Nigeria deserves better. Lives are more important than profit. But no , these people worship money.