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Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President, has fired back at President Bola Tinubu, describing his attack on his proposed petroleum-sector intervention as the insolent sermon of a failed economic experimenter who mistakes Nigerians’ capacity to endure suffering for evidence that his policies are working. The former vice president had said he will restore oil subsidy if […]
Continue ReadingNigerian government has declared Tuesday, August 25, 2026, a public holiday to mark this year’s Eid ul Mawlid, commemorating the birth of the Holy Prophet Muhammad. Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, announced the holiday on behalf of the Federal Government in a statement issued on Friday by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Dr Magdalene […]
Continue ReadingBitcoin surged Friday on optimism over US cryptocurrency legislation and the US Treasury’s surprise move to buy back more of its own bonds, which fuelled a shift to riskier assets. The world’s biggest cryptocurrency by market value climbed 6.9 percent to $77,675.94, after reaching its highest level since May, and is up more than 20 […]
Continue ReadingIbrahim Babangida, former Nigerian military president has said that his regime was a saint compared to what is happening in the country at the moment. He said he removed a governor for only N300,000 and that today, there is N300 billion not accounted for. Watch and listen to his video below: "We are not corrupt. […]
Continue ReadingPRESS RELEASE SHOOTING INCIDENT/MURDER IN OSOGBO The Osun State Police Command has commenced a full-scale investigation into a shooting incident that occurred in Osogbo, Osun State. On Wednesday, 19th August 2026, at about 1600hrs, the Command received information that one Tajudeen Yusuf, male, aged 60 years, of Oke-Ayepe area, Osogbo, was shot by suspected hoodlums […]
Continue ReadingI was sixteen when I left secondary school. My father believed that education should be followed immediately by responsibility. A young man, in his view, had to begin to work, earn something and learn to fend for himself. He therefore found me a job in the old Ondo State Civil Service, and I was posted […]
Continue ReadingSome gunmen reportedly engaged in a gun battle with security operatives attached to the convoy of Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, at the palace of the Ataoja of Osogbo, Oba Jimoh Oyetunji, on Wednesday. The sad incident occurred shortly after Adeleke received his certificate of return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and visited […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Afrobeat star, David Adedeji Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has disclosed that top political and business leaders, including Senate President Godswill Akpabio and billionaire businessman Aliko Dangote, called him to delete his viral social media updates during the Osun State governorship election. Speaking during an exclusive interview on News Central TV on Tuesday, the […]
Continue ReadingA musical genre rarely dies on the day its last great musician dies. It dies more quietly, when generations stop hearing themselves in the music. This, most probably, may be the real trouble with Jùjú. Bathwater cascades from the head to the feet, says an ancient proverb from southwestern Nigeria. For decades, Jùjú was not […]
Continue ReadingUS District Court in Washington, D.C., has ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to process and release non-exempt records concerning a 1990s Chicago drug investigation linking current Nigerian President Bola Tinubu. US Attorney, Jeanine Pirro, has initiated action in federal court to comply with the US courts’ orders concerning […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Government, through the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), offers loan to eligible Nigerians seeking to buy, build, improve or renovate their homes under the National Housing Fund (NHF) scheme. Contents The Federal Government Loan is currently available to eligible contributors at an interest rate of up to six per cent per annum, with […]
Continue ReadingAPC leaders are falling over one another to own Ademola Adeleke’s victory — the same people who, barely 24 hours earlier, fired missiles to bring down his plane. They now say he had all along been their preferred candidate. Since when did the hawk and the chicken become playmates? Ẹyẹ ń bá ẹyẹ ṣeré, ẹyẹ […]
Continue ReadingDaughters of veteran Nigerian actor, Taiwo Hassan, popularly known as Ogogo, have cried out for help, saying hospitals have refused to continue treating their father, who they disclosed is battling stage-four cancer. The daughters, Lima and Kira Taiwo, made separate emotional appeals on their Instagram pages on Monday, appealing to Nigerians, well-wishers and medical professionals […]
Continue ReadingNigerian journalist and former Nigerian Senator who represented Ekiti Central Senatorial District, Babafemi Ojudu gave reasons he thought made Ademola Adeleke of Accord Party to win the Osun State governorship election. His reasons are: 1. Whoever was responsible for the hunger in the land. 2. The Edo State Governor, whose ill-advised and insulting outbursts against […]
Continue ReadingAcross the world’s seven continents and among its eight billion inhabitants, every creation story bears the same themes of void, force, and formation. The ancestries differ, the myths diverge, but the trilogy is forged on the same anvil of chaos-creation-calm. At the dusk of creation, even before the creative heat simmered, cackling, chirping, meowing, and […]
Continue ReadingFormer Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has filed a new N10bn fundamental rights suit against the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission over alleged denial of access to his wife and son while in custody. In the suit with number FHC/ABJ/CS/1852/2026 and filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja Nigeria on […]
Continue ReadingCandidate of the Accord Party (A), incumbent governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke, has won the governorship election held on Saturday, winning 19 of the 30 local governments. In spite of intimidation, he polled 511,067 votes to defeat his closest rival Bola Oyebamiji, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who won 11 local governments […]
Continue ReadingOlabanjo Felix, Ondo State-based pastor, who renounced Christianity and embraced Isese, an indigenous Yoruba spiritual tradition, has explained that the “deceit in Christianity” prompted him to abandon the faith to become an Ifa priest. According to Sunday Punch, Felix alleged that there was “no true pastor of the Bible in Nigeria”, adding that many pastors […]
Continue ReadingGovernor Ademola Adeleke has maintained his lead in the ongoing Osun State governorship election, as results from almost all the wards across the state continue to be collated. A check by Vanguard on the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) Result Viewing Portal (IReV) showed that results from 331 of the 332 wards in the state […]
Continue ReadingFor all the condemnations that followed the words of Islamic cleric Sani Jingir, who recently asked Muslims to support the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket in 2027, the man did not say what many are not already thinking. The justification he provided was no different from what we heard in 2023 when we were told that the […]
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