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Nigeria’s Department of State Service (DSS) has freed embattled former EFCC chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, after spending over 134 days in custody. Reports say the ex-anti graft boss was released on Wednesday night. Bawa was arrested by the Department of State Service (DSS) on June 14, 2023, hours after his suspension from office as EFCC Chairman […]
Continue ReadingOyo State High Court sitting in Ogbomoso, on Wednesday, upturned the appointment of the new Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba Ghandi Olaoye. The stool had become vacant since the demise of HRM, Oba Jimoh Oyewumi Ajagungbade III, in December 2021, at the age of 95 years after he reigned for 48 years. On September 8, 2023, […]
Continue ReadingAhead of the coming elections in Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa States, the White Witches and Wizards of Nigeria have predicted the outcome of the gubernatorial polls slated for November 11 in three States. Speaking with journalists at the weekend in Lagos, Okhue Iboi, the spokesperson of the group, warned Imo Governor, Hope Uzodinma of the All […]
Continue ReadingAbout 30 years ago, I slept at the Murtala Muhammed Airport for four days. No, I was not a homeless vagabond. I had bought the Nigeria Airways ticket to fly to the United States for a one-year sabbatical leave. But when I arrived at the airport, I realized that my ticket was not honored, though I […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Supreme Court has fixed Thursday for the judgment in the appeals filed by the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi against President Bola Tinubu. Atiku and Obi are praying the Supreme court to set aside the judgment by the presidential election petition tribunal […]
Continue ReadingOne of the most common sites of pain anywhere in the body is chest pain, and ironically it is one of the problems we have never discussed on this page. Chest pain is the reason for some of the most frequent visits to the emergency room in many countries around the world and it is […]
Continue ReadingLagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence sitting in Ikeja on Tuesday sentenced the Medical Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation (OCCF), Doctor Olufemi Olaleye, to life imprisonment for the defilement of his wife’s niece. Justice Rahman Oshodi sentenced him after he found him guilty of the offence of defilement and sexual penetration of a […]
Continue ReadingGhanaian government has reacted to claims by a Nigerian investigative journalist, Mr. David Hundeyin, that the Nigerian government was putting pressure on Ghanaian authorities to extradite him to Nigeria. The Nigerian journalist, Mr. Hundeyin who fled Nigeria in 2020 and following his application in 2021, is currently a refugee in Ghana, where he fled for […]
Continue ReadingA woman from Anambra State, Nigeria is going viral after welcoming nonuplets (nine babies) at a single birth, according to LIB. Obianuju Anthonia Ibeanu, from Neni in Anambra state, Nigeria, welcomed the babies back in August 2023, but she is just now going viral after she edited her Facebook bio. Her bio reads: “Mum of […]
Continue ReadingThe ailing Nigerian comic actor, John Okafor popularly known as Mr Ibu has undergone two surgeries. The plumpy actor who had cried out on social media for financial assistance was said to have had successful surgeries. Jazmine Okafor, the actor’s adopted daughter, confirmed this as she shared an update on Ibu’s health via Instagram on […]
Continue ReadingExchange rate between the naira and dollar opened the week at N1,200 per $1 on P2P platforms on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. Effect of this is that the naira is 3.41 percent weaker than on Friday, Oct. 20, when it closed at N1,170 on the same market. This week, on the black market where the […]
Continue ReadingFather of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, must have had the conversation last week between Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and the recently cleared Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) Ola Olukoyede in mind. While propounding the theory of what is now known as Freudian slips in his 1901 book he entitled The Psychopathology of Everyday […]
Continue ReadingA businessman, Mallam Umar Tasiu, was allegedly flogged to death by his former in-laws in Minna, Niger State, Nigeria. Daily Trust reports that a neighbour told City & Crime on condition of anonymity that the Al Azhar University, Egypt graduate had gone to see his children who live with his ex-wife at her father’s house. “He […]
Continue ReadingNigerian woman identified as Annie Nwozuzu Chinyere, has been reportedly arrested in Malawi in connection with the murder of a female banker, Agnes Katengeza who was found dead in her car a day after she was reported missing. The deceased, an employee of the Reserve Bank of Malawi, left home on September 23, 2023, to […]
Continue ReadingBusiness and Property Court in London on Monday halted the enforcement of the $11bn arbitration award in favour of P&ID against Nigeria in a case marked CL-2019-000752, according to Punch. In a judgment delivered by Justice Robert Knowles, it was held that the process through which P&ID secured a 2010 contract to build a gas […]
Continue ReadingNigerian rapper and songwriter, Cynthia Ikponmwenosa Morgan, popularly known by her previous stage name Cynthia Morgan, now Madrina, has demanded a DNA test from her father. In a post shared on her Instatories, Cynthia said a father that doesn’t cater to his daughter’s pain is not a father. She mentioned that her father’s popular phase […]
Continue ReadingInternet search engine technology, Google has celebrated legendary Super Eagles and international footballer, Rashidi Yekini with a special doodle on his 60th posthumous birthday. The doodle also put out a bio about the iconic striker: “Today’s Doodle celebrates iconic Nigerian footballer Rashidi Yekini, an accomplished forward nicknamed the “Goalsfather” for his ability to sneak shots […]
Continue ReadingThe Supreme Court of Nigeria has reserved judgment in the appeal filed by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, seeking to dismiss and set aside the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) ruling. The court similarly reserved judgment in the appeal filed by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter […]
Continue ReadingSusanne Wenger was famous as Adunni Oloriṣa. The BBC in 2008 described her as “white priestess of ‘black magic.’” A Nigerian said she was “white priestess of an African goddess.” Until her death in 2009, she was the custodian of Osun Osogbo grove and everything connected to its sacredness. But that task was not what […]
Continue ReadingWomen football international and Super Falcons star, Asisat Lamina Oshoala, simply called Asisat Oshoala, paid tribute to late singer, Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba, known professionally as Mohbad, on Saturday October 21, after she scored two goals against Granada FC. She shared a photo of herself wearing a shirt with Mohbad’s picture on it and wrote: “Double […]
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