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Pretty Nigerian actress, Moyo Lawal, Nigerian singer, Oladipupo Oladimeji popularly known as Oladips, and Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 Nigerian elections, Peter Obi top the list of Google’s 2023 Year in Search for Nigeria. Others on the list include Hilda Balci, Mudryk, Mr Ibu, Simon Ekpa, Sam Larry, Anita Brown, and Esther Raphael. […]
Continue ReadingThis is not the best of times for the Nigerian judiciary. Then serving minister, Mrs Pauline Tallen, sucker-punched a court decision last year, describing it as a ‘Kangaroo judgement’ and the echoes now reverberate. A respected former Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) president, Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, alleged last week that Supreme Court Justices operate like a […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Labour Congress (NLC), the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and other unions walked in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria, in support and in solidarity for the embattled governor of the State, Siminalayi Fubara. The governor has been in the eyes of the storm since October when the members of Rivers State House of Assembly started […]
Continue ReadingFormer Rivers State Commissioner for Works and now a member of the Rivers Elders’ Forum, Chief David Briggs, has alleged that President Bola Tinubu imposed the resolution concerning the crisis in the state on Governor Siminalayi Fubara. Briggs, who said he attended the resolution meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, insisted that the governor […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Senate has confirmed the appointment of 11 Supreme Court justices appointed by President Bola Tinubu to fill the justice vacancies at the apex court. The confirmation followed the consideration and adoption of a report by the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters during Thursday’s plenary. President Bola Tinubu had asked the […]
Continue ReadingA High Court Judge in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, Hon. Justice Joy Unwana, has been kidnapped while her orderly was killed in the process. Justice Unwana and her driver, Idorinyin Ekanem, while returning to Uyo after a long and last court session for the year, were at about 8 pm kidnapped on Monday along the […]
Continue ReadingIn a communiqué read to newsmen after an emergency meeting on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State elders and leaders including a former Governor, Chief Rufus Ada-George, and former Deputy Governor, Gabriel Toby, have rejected President Bola Tinubu’s intervention in the political crisis rocking the state. Responding to the presidential directive aimed at resolving […]
Continue ReadingIn 1973, writer and dermatologist, Professor Anezi Okoro published a novel for young adults titled “One Week, One Trouble.” It tells the story of Wilson Tagbo, a secondary school student, who from the first day he got enrolled until he got to senior secondary 3 grade, had one trouble or the other in what was […]
Continue ReadingNigerians have taken to social media to react to reports of the Rivers state governor, Sim Fubara, signing a peace deal with his predecessor and godfather, Nyesom Wike. Both men have been at loggerheads over the governing of the state and this has led to crisis in the state. Last night, both men had a […]
Continue ReadingAt the weekend, I was relishing a statement issued by Defence Headquarters, saying its troops confirmed the killing of “four notorious terrorist commanders in airstrikes within the week.” It named them as Machika, Haro, Dan Muhammadu and Ali Alhaji Alheri, popularly called Kachalla Ali Kawaje. Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba, described […]
Continue ReadingVeteran Nigerian actor, Emeka Ike, has revealed how his ex-wife, Suzanne Emma, made him lose all his properties. On the 3rd of March, 2017, a Customary Court sitting in Lagos Island dissolved the marriage between Emeka Ike, and his wife, Emma over alleged incessant battery. Emeka Ike, while speaking during a live interview on Rubbing […]
Continue ReadingTwo persons have been confirmed dead following a fire incident in one of the buildings in the Opadoyin compound of former governor of Oyo state, late Adebayo Alao-Akala, on Monday morning. The fire incident occurred around 7:50am and it is suspected that it was caused by a power surge, according to The Nation newspaper. One […]
Continue ReadingIn my adopted home state of Rivers, they do not “play” politics. They wage bitter “fights” over politics. Political outcomes are more of spoils of murky wars than victories of democratic rituals. While the contest for power and supremacy rages, instruments of violence are fair. People are killed routinely. Even long after a political battle […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu has accepted the resignation of Nigerian Minister of Labour and Employment, Simon Lalong. He will now proceed to the National Assembly as Senator representing Plateau South Senatorial, a seat he won as affirmed by an appeal court ruling dated November 7, 2023. “Lalong has resigned. But it was not at the FEC […]
Continue ReadingCritical stakeholders meeting convened by President Bola Tinubu to address the political crisis in Rivers State has instructed the immediate cessation of the impeachment proceedings against Governor Siminalayi Fubara, withdrawal of suits and six other resolutions. It also mandates the withdrawal of all court cases initiated by the governor, while recognizing the leadership of Hon. […]
Continue ReadingThere are very good people in our courts; there are very bad people there too. Unfortunately, a one-eyed man gained prominence in a town and the whole town got called the town of the blind. The courts below can be both bad and incompetent. We will still be safe if the Supreme Court is a […]
Continue ReadingNigerians are among the four healthcare workers (if all are not Nigerians), who have been jailed after they were caught on camera physically and emotionally abusing an elderly patient, reports The BBC on Thursday. While Ame Tunkara and Morountaro Adefila were found guilty of ill-treatment and wilful neglect and sentenced on December 8 to four […]
Continue ReadingNigerian man, John Paul Ugwu, who advocates for polygamy, has said that only people with brains of bats believe in monogamy. Ugwu stated this in a Facebook post on Saturday, December 16, 2023, when he shared a video of some ladies who were outside at night. According to him, he likes stopping to talk to […]
Continue ReadingAmerican rapper, Cardi B broke down in tears during an emotional rant about her estranged husband, Offset, in which she slams him for toying with her emotions at her ‘most vulnerable time’. She slammed Offsett in an emotionally charged video rant amid their nasty split. In an Instagram Live video, Cardi accused Offset of treating her […]
Continue ReadingThree things are certain in life: death, taxes and face-offs between godfathers and godsons in Nigerian politics. The open war between Chief Nyesom Wike, former governor of Rivers state, and Mr Siminalayi Fubara, whom he handpicked as his successor, is the latest in the catalogue of godfathers vs godsons which, I reckon, is as old […]
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