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Federal Government of Nigeria has scheduled an emergency meeting for Wednesday morning in response to a planned nationwide protest slated for August 1. This is coming after President Bola Tinubu pleaded with the organisers to shelve the protests and give his administration more time to execute people-oriented programmes. A circular shared on Tuesday by sources […]
Continue ReadingMy major advice to people in Nigeria right now is to find, nurture and cherish a support system. If your support system comes from family (parents, siblings or a handful of relations), you are most blessed but if not, life is also capable of giving us a family in strangers. Have people you can lean […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s House of Reps member from Plateau State, Hon. Yusuf Gagdi, gave his teenage daughter a brand new SUV to celebrate her graduation from secondary school. Gadgi took to Facebook on Saturday, July 20, to celebrate his daughter. He shared photos of the graduand and wrote: “Today, I attended my amazing daughter’s graduation ceremony. Watching […]
Continue ReadingThe President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has disclosed that his friend who earlier warned him against investing in Nigeria is now taunting him for ignoring his advice. Dangote disclosed this in an interview with PREMIUM TIMES on Sunday just as reports quoted the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority as claiming that diesel […]
Continue ReadingPeople should be grateful for the little things their friends and family abroad send to them. It is hard to send money to Nigeria from abroad because of the challenges most people face there. If they open up about their struggles, you might raise funds to help them. People often see abroad as a place […]
Continue ReadingA High Court of Rivers State, sitting in Port Harcourt and presided over by Justice Augusta Chukwu has sent 12 suspects to the Port Harcourt Correctional Centre. They are accused of being involved in the killing of a female Police Inspector named Christiana Erekere. The suspects, including a groom named Efeoghene Uwheraka, were brought before […]
Continue ReadingAt the end of July 2017, the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) issued a joint report on the public experience of and response to bribery in Nigeria. Among its findings, the report ranked several institutions with reference to public perceptions or experience of demand for bribes from […]
Continue ReadingVeteran Nigerian actress and winner of 2008 Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress, Kate Henshaw has shown off her physique in stunning photos shared to Mark her 53rd birthday. The actress posed in a black halter-neck crop top, black leggings, and white Nike sneakers. In the caption, she gave gratitude to God for her life. See her post below: More […]
Continue Reading40-year-old Nigerian lawyer, Abayomi Oladire, was stabbed by his client’s husband while performing his legal duty in the Ondo West Local Government Area of the state. According to the state-owned newspaper, The Hope, the suspect identified as Kunle Kuteyi, used a broken bottle to stab the lawyer for allegedly helping his wife to prepare a […]
Continue ReadingUnited States President, Joe Biden has on Sunday, ended his reelection bid and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed him. The president said he will finish his term and will address the nation later this week. In a move that would give her access to the campaign funds, the Biden-Harris campaign amended filings with the Federal Election Commission to rename […]
Continue ReadingWhen information minister Mohammed Idris addressed the public on the Daily Trust’s recent controversial report, he took the worn path of adding moral panic to the existing one. Rather than address the matter at stake straightaway, he first went on self-justificatory explanations before whipping out the All Progressives Congress’s favourite allegations of ethnic bias and how everything […]
Continue ReadingCross River State House of Assembly has called for thorough investigations into the disappearance of a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Dorcas Paul Ojong, an indigene of the state, servicing in Anambra State. The assembly passed a resolution on Thursday, July 18, 2024, urging the Attorney-General of the federation and the Director-General, National Youth […]
Continue ReadingGeorge Ogunde, the first child of the late theatre legend, playwright, theatre manager, and musician, Hubert Ogunde, has passed away. His sister, Dayo Ogunde, shared the sad news in a Facebook post on Thursday. Dayo Ogunde wrote: “It’s hard to say goodbye Brother mi, our first child in the Ogunde clan. But we take solace […]
Continue ReadingThe controversy began in April 2004 following the creation of 37 Local Government Areas (LGAs) by then Lagos State Governor, now President Bola Tinubu. Riled by what he considered to be an impudent act, then President Olusegun Obasanjo directed that funds for the LGAs in the state be withheld until Lagos reverted to the 20 […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Abuja and presided over by Justice James Omotosho has reinstated Philip Shaibu as the Deputy Governor of Edo State, months after he was impeached by the state assembly. In the Wednesday judgment, Justice Omotoso declared the impeachment by the Edo State House of Assembly as illegal, unconstitutional, null, and […]
Continue ReadingPresident of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero on Thursday gave reasons why the Organised Labour accepted the proposal of N70,000 minimum wage from the President, Bola Tinubu. Ajaero, who spoke to State House reporters after the meeting with the President, said the unions agreed to the offer because of other incentives attached. He […]
Continue ReadingOver 600,000 Nigerians filed for asylum in other countries between 2016 and 2023, which were years under the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari was Nigerian President from 2015 to 2023 and handed over to President Bola Tinubu who was sworn in on May 29, 2023, after winning in the general elections the same […]
Continue ReadingUnited States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested and charged a Nigerian tech entrepreneur, Kingsley Inegbedion, for his alleged involvement in $1.5m romance scams and business email compromise schemes that witnessed him and an accomplice, Efemena Igbe, who is still at large, posing as legitimate business owners to defraud American citizens between April 2020 […]
Continue Reading“The judiciary has immense power. In the nature of things, judges cannot be democratically accountable for their decisions. It therefore matters very much that their role should be regarded as legitimate by the public at large.” — Jonathan Sumption, Law in a Time of Crisis, 121 (2021) FOR a cumulative period of 17 years between […]
Continue ReadingFormer Governor Abdullahi Ganduje and Bishop Mathew Kukah, the founder of The Kukah Centre (TKC), have attributed political corruption to dishonest poor Nigerians, INEC and other institutions. Mr Ganduje insisted that blaming politicians and public officeholders would not solve the problem of weak institutions in Nigeria. This was stated at a high-level meeting with national […]
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