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Veteran Nigerian actor, Patrick Okoye, popularly known as Energy, has reportedly passed away. The passing of Okoye, also a lecturer at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), was announced around 11:00 am on Thursday, May 28, 2026. According to reports, the actor passed away in the early hours of Thursday, May 28, 2026. A post, made […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement posted on Kwankwaso’s official page, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, former Kano State Governor, has announced the emergence of Comrade Aminu Abdussalam Gwarzo as the Kano governorship candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), ahead of the upcoming 2027 elections. According to the statement, Dr. Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna was also selected to contest for […]
Continue ReadingThe federal government borrowed N1.54 trillion more than it had projected for the first nine months of 2025, yet left 82 per cent of its capital budget unspent — a fiscal paradox that analysts said raises serious questions about how Nigeria’s growing debt stock is being deployed. Official data from the 2025 third-quarter budget implementation report, […]
Continue ReadingThe political parties that have so far held their presidential primaries have either descended into absurdity or dissolved into the usual bitterness. In high-stakes politics, elections at all levels will be highly contested, and there will be bitter feelings among those who lose. That is expected. The real shame here is that, at the rate […]
Continue ReadingAtiku Abubakar, former Vice President has secured the African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential ticket for the 2027 general election after defeating former Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi and former banker Mohammed Hayatu-Deen in the party’s primary election. Collated results of the exercise were announced on Wednesday night in a statement posted on the party’s official […]
Continue ReadingThe English Premier League ended yesterday with Arsenal crowned champions. But that triumph almost slipped away because, two weeks earlier, a stolen goal arrived disguised as a legitimate one. I watched the West Ham–Arsenal match of Sunday, May 10, 2026. It got me thinking about Nigeria’s past and coming elections. Deep into stoppage time, there […]
Continue ReadingGeneral Secretary of the National Democratic Coalition, Ayo Opadokun, has unveiled the names of prominent political, military and technocratic figures he alleged signed a document that paved the way for the nullification of the June 12, 1993, presidential election won by Chief MKO Abiola. The revelation is contained in Opadokun’s newly launched 509-page book titled […]
Continue ReadingFour hours before Rotimi Amaechi rejected the results of ADC presidential primary, the third contender, Mohammed Hayatu-Deen had stated that he would boycott the collation and announcement center of the party’s presidential primary results. Hayatu-Deen boycotted the collation and declaration ceremony citing alleged vote rigging. Taking to his verified X handle, @Mohayatudeen, the economist-turned-politician said: […]
Continue ReadingFormer Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has rejected the outcome of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential primaries. The former Rivers State Governor also alleged widespread voter disenfranchisement and electoral malpractice during the exercise. In a statement issued on his X handle after the primaries on Tuesday, Amaechi described the results announced by the party […]
Continue ReadingWhen the Electoral Act 2026 was passed into law in February 2026, the expectation was that it would be the deus ex machina (the fool-proof, mechanical, solution as in complex Greek tragedies of old) to Nigeria’s electoral problems since the return to civilian rule in 1999, but the newest law merely followed the old pattern, incomplete and […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday declared former President Goodluck Jonathan eligible to participate in the 2027 presidential election. Delivering judgment in a suit filed by a lawyer, Johnmary Jideobi, the presiding judge, Justice Peter Lifu, held that Jonathan could contest the election. Jideobi had approached the court seeking an order restraining […]
Continue ReadingIn the often-chaotic theatre of Nigerian public discourse, genuine transformation rarely makes headlines until the results become impossible to ignore. Yet, under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration, a silent but profound transformation has been unfolding in our tertiary education system, one that deserves commendation. Far removed from the familiar cycle of strikes, protests, and policy […]
Continue ReadingChairman of the Alliance for Economic Research and Ethics LTD/GTE, Dele Oye, has lamented the unprecedented rise in public debt under the current administration, noting that the N65.9 trillion borrowed by the Bola Tinubu administration in the last 24 months exceeds more than five times the total debt Nigeria incurred in the first 55 years […]
Continue ReadingGhanaian actress, and entrepreneur, Beverly Afaglo, has died after battling cancer sickness for two years, according to her manager, Abu Iddris. Iddris, in an interview on Sunday, May 24, disclosed that the actress passed away on Saturday night at the International Maritime Hospital in Tema. “She has been battling cancer for two years. It’s been […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu has secured the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential ticket with 10,999,967 votes, defeating his only rival, Stanley Osifo (16,504 votes) for the 2027 general elections. If you thought you knew where President Tinubu’s strongest political backing ought to come from, these 2026 APC primary figures might make you rethink everything. The North-west […]
Continue ReadingNigerian actress, and and filmmaker, Yusuf Omoshalewa Adeola (sometimes written as Yusuf Omoshalewa Kafilat) best known by her stage name, Basira Beere has once again opened up about the challenges she faced in her marriage during an interview on Biola Adebayo’s podcast. Basira recalled a painful experience during her pregnancy, saying that a car she […]
Continue ReadingNigerian actress and blogger, Temiloluwa Elizabeth Otedola, simply known as Temi Otedola, has revealed that she and her husband, Afrobeats star Oluwatosin Ajibade, widely known as Mr Eazi, discovered they were expecting their first child during their honeymoon. The couple shared the news of expecting their first child together by posting maternity photographs on social […]
Continue ReadingFor more than a year, a conscientious, cosmopolitan retired senior military officer from the North has told me that his worst fear for Nigeria is the prospect of terrorists and bandits from the North extending their bloodstained tentacles into Yorubaland. He said it would provoke the sort of communal convulsion that would take on a […]
Continue ReadingIn a post shared on his X handle, Presidential aspirant in the 2027 general elections, Mr Peter Obi has said that after meeting with Nigerians in South Africa, he met with some South African Ministers to discuss how to resolve the migration problems being faced by Nigerians in that country. See his text below: “After […]
Continue ReadingA young friend said something that I considered an eye-opener! What led to the interaction was a blog link she sent to me, in which a popular influencer’s husband was being called out on social media by young girls, who claimed that he was fond of asking them to bring along their friends for a […]
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