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Nigerian Senator representing Imo East Senatorial District, and a member of the Labour Party (LP), Ezenwo Onyewuchi, has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Senate President, Godswill Akpabio read his defection letter during plenary on Tuesday, July 23. Imo state governor and chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Hope Uzodinma, was in the […]
Continue ReadingGabonese President has invited Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote to explore investment opportunities in their country’s Cement and Fertiliser sectors. This is coming amidst his row with Nigerian authorities over the operation of his private refinery. The Dangote group shared a photo of Aliko with the Gabonese President and wrote: “President/CE of Dangote Industries Limited, […]
Continue ReadingA set of identical twin sisters from Michigan, United States celebrated their 100th birthday together in good health. Sisters Loris Pryor and Doris Ward were born during in 1924. On Wednesday, July 17, they marked a century of life together. “We are always together with everything. She ain’t go without me. I ain’t go without […]
Continue ReadingElon Musk has denied reports that he was donating $45 million a month to a fund backing former US president Donald Trump’s latest White House bid. In a Tuesday post on X, Musk called the report he was funding a so-called political Super-PAC “ridiculous.” Super PACs are specially designed groups that can spend unlimited amounts […]
Continue ReadingGiven the constitutional history of Nigeria and appreciating that the 1999 constitution is essentially unitary, agitations for devolution of powers, from the national government to the subnational government or the constituent or federating units, will continue without break until devolution is achieved. What many may not appreciate is that there may not be restructuring to […]
Continue ReadingNigerian star singer, songwriter and record producer, David Adedeji Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has shared an old but beautiful photo of his late mom, Mrs. Veronica Adeleke, on his Instastories on Tuesday evening. In his caption, the signer stated that his mum was a “baddie” when she was alive. See Davido’s and his late mom’s […]
Continue ReadingLabour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections in Nigeria, Mr. Peter Obi, has given the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Communication and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, a 72 hours notice to apologise to him and pay N5bn damages for defamation. Obi, in a letter written to Onanuga through his counsel, […]
Continue ReadingWhat a difference a debate can make! It just made a big difference in the United States in the lead up to that country’s November 5, 2024 general elections. For months, the White House fended off insinuations that President Biden at 81, had become too old for the job, and that the Democrats should look […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has upheld the conviction of a Dane National, Peter Nielsen who was sentenced to d3ath in 2022 for k!lling his Nigerian wife, Zainab and their daughter, Petra. The appellate court dismissed the appeal filed by Nielsen for lacking in merit. Delivering the judgment, the appeal court held that […]
Continue ReadingFederal 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 […]
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