Author: Bode Dolu

The Nigerian Bar Association, has shortlisted 12  candidates for appointment as Justices of Court of Appeal, after screening a total of  187 Expression of Interest  applications from Nigerian Lawyers across the world. The successful candidates include: (1)Nnamdi Ibegbu, SAN       Year of Call :1979       State.           : Anambra (2) Enewa Rita Ifeyinwa,        Year of Call :1980        State.          […]

A South Carolina woman who spent two months chained inside a large metal container says her captor raped her daily and warned that if she ran or tried to hurt him, she would die. “He told me as long as I served my purpose, I was safe,” Kala Brown told Phillip McGraw, the host of […]

Wasiu Aliyu, a driver at Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), is in trouble after he woke up at his lover’s house on Assfood street, Oriola, Alapere, Lagos and discovered that the staff bus, N23m Toyota Hiace, had been stolen. Punch reports that, Aliyu, a casual worker, was arraigned on Monday on two counts of stealing […]

According to Chidera, he wants to know how he will be when he dies… Just as he asked for, Nigerians commented. Read that below: Chidera, Lailas

The National Examinations Council, NECO, has released the November/December 2016 Senior School Certificate Examinations results. Addressing journalists yesterday at the Council’s Headquarters in Minna, the Registrar and Chief Executive of NECO, Prof. Charles Uwakwe, disclosed that the release of the results was coming exactly sixty days after the examinations were conducted. In the analysis for […]

Lagos lawyer, Kola Awodein SAN, counsel to President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday admitted giving Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, the sum of N500,000.00 but said it was not a bribe and was not given at the behest of the President. Justice Ademola, who is standing trial for alleged corruption, was the judge that presided over […]

Zimbabwean President, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, turned 93 years old yesterday and got a birthday party organized by his staff at his Munhumutapa offices in Harare to celebrate. Below is a video of the unsmiling Robert Mugabe blowing out the candles on his 93rd birthday cake as a choir crooned “How old are you now Baba […]

Who owns the Ecobank account in which N8.4billion has been found? This is the puzzle EFCC and the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation detective are battling to resolve, following the discovery of the bank account which has no signatories. The huge deposit has been traced to a bank which is believed to have […]

Los Angeles based plus-size model and radio host Simone Mariposa has made the decision to re-claim the word ‘fat’ after being attacked by cruel body shamers. She revealed that she has had the photo saved in her drafts but was scared to post it online. See what she wrote and more of her photos below: “I’ve […]

In a case that has left many people in shock, four female sperm harvesters pounced on an unsuspecting Zimbabwean male teacher last Friday evening  and reportedly kidnapped, drugged and “gang-raped” him. After the attack, the teacher was left naked in a bush with bruised private parts and woke up feeling extremely weak on Saturday morning. […]

Taking into consideration the harsh economic recession in the land, the wife of the Benue State Governor, Mrs. Eunice Ortom has called on traditional rulers to discard all the unnecessary charges that has made marriage too expensive for the people. Wife of the Benue State Governor, Mrs. Eunice Ortom, has appealed to Tor Tiv-elect, Prof. […]

About 1.4 million children are at imminent risk of death from severe acute malnutrition this year, as famine looms in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, UNICEF said on Tuesday. “For more than a million children, time is running out” said UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake. “We can still save many lives. The severe malnutrition and […]

Nigeria’s deputy leader is making wide use of powers granted by President Muhammadu Buhari, who is on extended sick leave abroad, as the country seeks to avoid a debilitating power vacuum while it confronts its first recession in 25 years.   The West African oil-producing nation was gripped by instability in 2010 when then President […]

Tragedy struck Monday, February 20, as around 74 African migrants drowned after human smugglers intercepted them at sea and stole the motor of their boat at gunpoint, leaving them to their fate.  Bodies of the migrants, who were trying to reach Italy, washed up on a beach in the northwestern coastal city of Zawiya, around […]

The South-West has the fastest disappearing rainforest in the world! International groups like the Rainforest Action Network, the Rainforest Alliance and the Borneo have told us the earth’s rainforests continue to disappear at an astounding 80,000 acres each day! Since 1960, much of the rainforest in Nigeria has seen incremental destruction, and it gets worse […]

A witness in the ongoing trial of a Federal High Court judge, Adeniyi Ademola, has told the court that operatives of the State Security Service did not investigate an alleged gift of N500,000 given to Mr. Ademola by President Muhammadu Buhari’s lawyer. Mr. Ademola is facing trial for alleged abuse of office alongside his wife, […]

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned one Usman Muhammad Dajji of the Gombe State Sharia Court of Appeal before Justice Sa’ad Muhammad of the Gombe State High Court on five count charges bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and forgery. The suspect who is the Chairman of Sharia Court of appeal staff […]

Nigerian Deputy  Senate President, Mr. Ike Ekweremadu, has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration of making the Naira the worst currency in Africa. Ekweremadu said the economy had suffered more crisis under the new government than any government. Ekweremadu stated this at the Peoples Democratic Party’s national stakeholders’ meeting held at the Ekiti State Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro, […]

A crucial meeting called by the All Progressives Congress Governors’ Forum (APC-GF), was shunned by the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo and 21 of the 24 state governors elected on the party’s platform. The Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, who spoke on the botched meeting, blamed the development on the inability of Osinbajo to attend the […]

Amnesty International (AI) has reported that a total of 240 people, including children and babies, died in military cells in Maiduguri, Borno State in 2016. Also, it said a military clampdown on agitators for Biafra resulted in 177 deaths in the South-east last year. In its 2016/17 report released yesterday, the group said mass arrests […]