Discovering another life in Nigeria.

Hello guys, I think I owe it to every reader of Jide Salu Diary (JSD) to explain why I have been off the radar for some time, which is quite unusual. Considering I always had something to blog about every day. Well, I did hint you my dear readers that this habit might be terminated…

May 29, 2010 in NEWS.

….and Nigerian Billionaire Aliko Dangote denies rumour of stake in Arsenal.

Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote has denied rumours linking him with buying a stake in Arsenal. Reports over the weekend linked Dangote, his country’s wealthiest man, with buying a 16 per cent share from Nina Bracewell-Smith, the Gunners’ fourth biggest investor. With Gunners boss Arsene Wenger notoriously frugal with his funds in the transfer market, and…

May 24, 2010 in NEWS.

Who is the Nigerian billionaire who wants to buy into Arsenal football club?

One of Africa’s richest men is plotting to buy a stake in Arsenal in a move that could trigger a full-blown takeover battle for the Premier League football club. Aliko Dangote, a billionaire Nigerian industrialist, is in talks to buy the 16% stake being sold by Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith, the club’s fourth-largest shareholder. Dangote is…

May 22, 2010 in NEWS.

On A Lighter Note – Volume 39

Jide Salu says it’s time to chill….. I must say that, it has been a while since I’d posted the hit series “On a Lighter Note”. No fault of mine. So much has happened, is happening and will continue to happy (sorry, happen). But hey, what is life without a joke. I have learnt, and…

May 21, 2010 in NEWS.

Ola Orekunrin the “Flying Nigerian Doctor” – An Exclusive Interview that will inspire the blind to feel, the lame to move and the Critics to Act and Nigerians in Diaspora to take ACTION inspite of …..

I dare not assume that you all have read my previous post on Ola Orekunrin, if you haven’t, then you better do. Today, you can read why this 23 year old Medical Doctor left a prestigious position in the UK, a fast car, good flat, influential committees and great friends, all for a “risk” in…

IBORI, the chief accumulator, what a bloody fool you are after all. Has he been arrested in Dubai?

Am I sorry to call an ex-convict former Governor of an Oil rich State in Nigeria a bloody fool? You bet I am not. What a bloody fool this coward of a man is. You see, some will stand their corner and fight. They will defend their actions. They will postulate all sorts of arguments,…

May 13, 2010 in NEWS.

Introducing INEC’s Acting Chairman, SOLOMON SOYEBI who was once credited to have conducted “the freest and fairest Election in Abia State in 2007.” Hope at Last?

According to a report as published by the Sun Newspapers in Nigeria, Prince Solomon Soyebi, the Abeokuta indigene INEC commissioner in Abia state, who was reportedly slapped by a defeated Gubernatorial candidate and abused by the Nigeria’s last Foreign Affairs Minister – Chief Ojo Maduekwe, who was then the PDP national secretary stood his ground…

May 11, 2010 in NEWS.