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Tomorrow, 28th July, will mark exactly five months since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was elected. Yet he still does not have his cabinet in place. This says a great deal about his preparedness for office as well as the nature of ministerial appointments in our country. If the basis for appointment was about service to the people […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Super Falcons defeated Australia 3-2 at the Brisbane Stadium on Thursday. Nigerian female national team beat their opponent to record their first win in the competition and the fifth win in the history of the Women’s World Cup. The Nigerian side came from a goal down to hand the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup […]
Continue ReadingOfficials of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) and operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), on Tuesday, fought over the custody of suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria Currently suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigeria’s once-powerful central bank chief was charged with illegally owning a shotgun and hundreds […]
Continue Reading1. Diversion of N40 billion from Federation Account A company, Continental Transfert Technique had been hired by the Ministry of Interior to collect the Combined Expatriate Residence Permit and Alien Card (CERPAC) Fee of $2,000 per annum from every expatriate in Nigeria. The revenue from 2019 comes to an average of N40 billion per annum. […]
Continue ReadingSub-Saharan African Skills and Apprenticeship Stakeholders Network (SASASNET) has explained why the Dangote refinery engaged 11,000 skilled workers from India while neglecting youths from Nigeria and other African countries. The network, on Wednesday, noted that the reason for the neglect was that youths from Nigeria lacked the adequate skills needed to be engaged in the […]
Continue ReadingPeter Obi and Nigeria’s Labour Party (LP) legal team, led by Livy Uzoukwu SAN, on Thursday, filed their final written address in response to the 2nd and 3rd respondents, President Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima, respectively. In the full written address (download credit: Parallel facts), Dr Uzoukwu faulted the response of Tinubu’s lawyer to the […]
Continue ReadingStar actor Odunlade Adekola premiered his movie, ‘Orisa’ at the Circle Mall in Jakande, Lekki, Lagos State, Nigeria, a few days ago. The event witnessed the presence of popular faces in the Yoruba speaking movie industry and it equally reunited many who haven’t seen one another for a long time. A moment that many people […]
Continue ReadingAfter a long detention and massive condemnations by Nigerians, the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele has finally been arraigned for illegal possession of firearm and ammunition. Emefiele arrived at the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos for his arraignment on two counts charges. He was brought to court by officials […]
Continue ReadingNigerian philanthropist, Chigozie Effe, is seeking advice on what to do after a critically ill woman who is in dire need of urgent surgery in Delta State declined blood transfusion as it’s against her belief as a Jehovah’s witness. “Update. Lydia has bluntly refused to accept blood transfusions saying it’s against her belief as a […]
Continue ReadingGiven today’s state of the nation, it is likely that both Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Mr Peter Obi are thanking their stars that they were not the ones declared as our elected president on March 1, 2023. If they were, each of them would have done what Bola Tinubu did with petrol subsidy with consequences […]
Continue ReadingFormer aide to ex-Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri earlier on Monday disclosed on his Twitter handle that there was a threat on the life of former vice president Atiku Abubakar. Officers of Nigeria police have confirmed arresting two suspected Boko Haram terrorists on a mission to attack the former vice president, Atiku Abubakar’s residence […]
Continue ReadingA total of 529 foreign-trained medical and dental graduates failed the assessment examination conducted by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN), according to the examination report obtained from the MDCN on Sunday. The two-day assessment examination was conducted on Wednesday, July 12, and Thursday, July 13, 2023, at the University College Hospital, Ibadan […]
Continue ReadingEight Nigerian teachers have been sponsored to travel to the United States (US) to teach Yoruba language and culture in the universities and colleges for one academic session. Vanguard reports that the teachers will travel to the US under the 2023 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program (FLTA). This was disclosed by the US Missions […]
Continue ReadingIn some way, I pride myself as someone in touch with the trends and slangs on social media. But I was caught napping when I was discussing Brighton & Hove Albion FC in the Premier League (I once schooled in Falmer, Brighton) with a friend. I told her that “we will be playing in the […]
Continue ReadingTwitter’s owner Elon Musk and its new CEO said Sunday that the social media network would ditch its bird logo, be rebranded with the name X and move quickly into payments, banking and commerce. Founded in 2006, Twitter takes its name from the sound of birds chattering, and it has used avian branding since its […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s International electricity customers- ers-Togo, Benin and Niger are owing Nigeria $18.29 million for electricity consumed in 2022, the Ni- Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), has said. The international customers include Compagnie Energie Electrique du Togo of Benin Republic, (CEET); Société Béninoise d’Energie Electrique (SBEE) and NIGELEC-electric power generation and transmission utility in Niger. New […]
Continue ReadingGovernor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved the mass burial of at least 103 protesters who were allegedly massacred by joint forces of the Nigerian Army and the police during the October 2020 mass protest against police brutality tagged #EndSARS. In a letter seen by Peoples Gazette and dated July 19 by the public […]
Continue ReadingInitial applauses from Bretton Woods and some local economists that greeted the economic reforms of the Bola Tinubu presidency were deafening. The reforms were termed bold and courageous. The most surgically painful of them, which drilled deep down into the marrows of Nigerians, was the removal of fuel subsidy. In a country that is almost […]
Continue ReadingNigerian actor, model, singer, voice-over artist and television presenter, Joseph Benjamin and his Ghanaian wife, Odo, celebrated their wedding anniversary on Wednesday, July 19. The Nollywood actor who moved to the US sometime back, took to his Instagram page to celebrate his wife. He stated that his wife has made him a better man and […]
Continue ReadingDoes size matter? Popular Ghanaian actress, Nikki Samonas has explained why she doesn’t like big dicks. Appearing on GH One TV’s Duvet Show, Nikki Samonas categorically stated that the type of men she enjoys having intercourse with are men with the average penis size of 6-7 inches. She also disclosed that she prefers to have […]
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