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A female Abuja-based music talent, Ifunanya Nwangene, has died after she was bitten by snake. Nwangene, a soprano singer with the Amemuso Choir, passed away on Saturday at the Federal Medical Centre, Abuja. The Amemuso Choir confirmed her death in a statement issued on Sunday afternoon and signed by its Music Director, Sam Ezugwu. “We […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s state visit to Türkiye this week dramatized two uncomfortable realities: the visible toll of age or ill health on the president and the conspicuous absence of his wife in the intimate sphere of his personal care and public self-presentation. This was not supposed to be a problematic visit. Tinubu was in […]
Continue ReadingA retired Nigerian Army General, Mohammed Ibrahim Gana, has been reportedly arrested along with serving military officers and civilians over allegations of plotting to overthrow the government of President Bola Tinubu. Niger State indigene, Gana, the Danmagayaki of Nupe, was reportedly arrested about a week after his son, Lieutenant Colonel Sadiq Ibrahim-Gana, was detained by […]
Continue ReadingAfrobeat star, David Adedeji Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, and Afrobeat legend, Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti, popularly known as Femi Kuti, were among the distinguished guests at the Grammys Honors Party in Los Angeles, California, United States, celebrating the legacy of the late music icon Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Organised as part of Grammy Week activities, […]
Continue ReadingTinubu’s presidency must be closely watched. At inception, it hurriedly sacked ambassadors like it had a clear foreign policy direction to salvage the country. Then for two and half years, it couldn’t nominate ambassadors, leaving the embassies rudderless. In the midst of that baffling shiftlessness, the president globetrotted unperturbed, with the all-knowing ease of a magician. Had […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) president Amaju Pinnick has insisted the Super Eagles would have qualified for the 2026 FIFA World Cup if he were still in charge of Nigerian football. Pinnick, who led the NFF from October 2014 to October 2022, guided Nigeria to the 2018 World Cup in Russia but also presided over […]
Continue ReadingNigerian movie industry was thrown into unexpected anxiety during the week after news came out that actor, filmmaker and former chairperson of the Enugu state chapter of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Stanley Amandi, had been arrested, alongside a number of serving military officers, over their alleged link to a failed coup plot against President […]
Continue ReadingAt least 25 people were killed when suspected Boko Haram militants attacked a town in northern Nigeria, relatives of victims said, the deadliest reported Islamist attack since U.S. President Donald Trump ordered air strikes on Christmas Day. The victims were labourers who had travelled to Sabon Gari town in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno State to work at […]
Continue ReadingInspector General of Police (IGP) has re-arraigned Nigerian actress Angela Okorie before the Federal High Court, Abuja, on a 7-count amended charge of cyberstalking. When the charge was read to her during the court proceedings, Ms Okorie pleaded not guilty to the charge. The prosecution prayed the court for a short adjournment to enable them […]
Continue ReadingWhy is the ADC withering and seeming like it’s dead on arrival? The fanfare with which Mr Peter Obi and key politicians gathered in Enugu to declare for the African Democratic Congress at the end of January had lit up the political arena, giving hope of a tsunami about to wake. But alas, it has […]
Continue ReadingDrama reportedly occurred during the burial of late gospel singer Bunmi Akinnaanu known simply as Omije Ojumi today after a man claiming to be the biological father of her children surfaced in an emotional phone call that stunned attendees. In a viral video circulating online, the incident happened during the funeral rites where mourners were […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement posted by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong, on X account on Friday, the Turaki-led faction of the has announced plans to appeal a judgment delivered on Friday by the Federal High Court in Ibadan, following the court’s refusal to grant an order of mandamus. The Federal High Court […]
Continue Reading‘Abami Eda’, the Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo Kuti has received a major global honour nearly three decades after his death. The BBC reported on Friday that the Recording Academy will posthumously confer a Lifetime Achievement Award on the Nigerian music legend at the Grammy Awards, making him the first African to receive the honour. BBC […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Senate has constituted a seven-member ad hoc committee to harmonise and distil senators’ inputs on the proposed amendment of the Electoral Act, as the two-house national assembly intensify efforts to strengthen Nigeria’s electoral framework leading to the 2027 general elections. This came about after a three-hour closed-door executive session held on Thursday, during which […]
Continue ReadingA covert intelligence operation coordinated by the Army Headquarters and the State Security Service (SSS), helped thwart a deadly plot to overthrow President Bola Tinubu’s government and assassinate key political figures, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report. Multiple senior administration insiders said the plot began to unravel in late September 2025 after an unnamed military officer with […]
Continue ReadingThe New York Times of January 18, 2026, published an explosive story showing how unverified and methodologically questionable data produced by a little-known Onitsha screwdriver seller who moonlights as an NGO activist, Emeka Umeagbalasi of Intersociety, traveled upward into US Republican politics and helped shape a narrative of “Christian genocide” in Nigeria, culminating in Trump-ordered airstrikes in Sokoto […]
Continue ReadingNigerian man, Egwunye Fidelis Goodluck has told his group on the social media platform that he is looking for a beautiful woman as his wife. Egwunye took to a singles Facebook group to seek a beautiful woman as a wife. He wrote: “Please admin. I need a beautiful wife from this group, very urgent.” See […]
Continue ReadingSequel to his nomination by his royal family, the veteran Nigerian actor, Prince Abdulrafiu Babajide Akanni Kosoko, simply known as Jide Kosoko, has been elected as the new Oloja of Lagos. The election was carried out on Tuesday, January 27, 2026, at the Kosoko Palace in Ereko, Lagos Island, where members of the royal family […]
Continue Reading“Judge not, that ye be not judged.” These words of Jesus Christ, recorded in Matthew 7, are among the most abused passages in public discourse. They are routinely invoked by those seeking immunity from accountability, as though Christianity demands moral silence in the face of wrongdoing. It does not. Christ was condemning hypocrisy and not […]
Continue ReadingThe Ojora family of Lagos has announced the passing of their patriarch, Otunba Adekunle Ojora, the Olori Omo Oba of Lagos. Ojora was said to have died early Wednesday morning at the age of 93. The family said he will be buried in Lagos according to Islamic rites and called on members of the public […]
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