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Nigerians must not lose their sense of expectancy in the face of electoral disappointments. Last Monday, a friend sent me videos of some Nigerians tearing their international passports into shreds. My response to her was spontaneous: “Clinical depression may have set it. So, so sad. Well, I don’t have another passport/country yet, so I won’t […]
Continue ReadingTwo policemen were reported to have been shot dead when unknown gunmen attacked a checkpoint in Uwani, Enugu State, Nigeria. It was gathered that the attack occurred at a police checkpoint between Kenyatta market and the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, (UNEC) stadium gate around 12:00 pm on Sunday, March 26, 2023. The policemen, said […]
Continue ReadingUnited Kingdom (UK) has condemned former Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, for saying that Nigeria will be ungovernable if the victory of President-elect Bola Tinubu is annulled. Ben Llewellyn-Jones, British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, during an interview with Nigeria Info, a radio station, said the APC presidential campaign spokesman made derogatory remarks. Marketing […]
Continue ReadingDuring lunch with a Fulani friend some weeks ago, he sounded so relieved that power was shifting to the south with the election of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the next president. “It is now the turn of Yoruba people to be profiled and stigmatised. The captions would soon change to ‘Yoruba terrorists’ and ‘Yoruba […]
Continue ReadingSpokesperson of the Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), ex-Nigerian Senator, Dino Melaye, is back to showing off his opulence on the social media. Melaye took a break during the presidential campaign period as he campaigned vigorously for his principal. Campaigns and elections are now over and aggrieved parties are now at the election tribunal Melaye […]
Continue ReadingA well-known Nigerian actress, Omobewaji Asake Richards-Oyediji, simply known as Mo Bewa, has claimed that it is very difficult for actresses to find real love since certain people in Nigerian society and culture think that acting is not a noble profession. Mo Bewa made this disclosure in a recent, exclusive interview with Punch Newspaper. Although […]
Continue ReadingNigerian actress and entrepreneur, Dorcas Anjola has died. The 33-year-old actress had been battling Ovarian cancer. She was diagnosed in 2021 and had to undergo chemotherapy in Dubai for months. She later returned to Nigeria and continued her acting career after she was declared cancer-free. Sadly, she began complaining of feeling ill in recent months […]
Continue Reading“If you are unlucky not to have a representative in the judicial council, even if you are innocent, you can be found guilty – B’eyan o l’eni ni’gbimo, bo ro’jo are, ebi lo mi a je.” This very profound saying of the Yoruba, translated into a pithy musical line in one of the tracks of Ayinla […]
Continue ReadingAn aspirant under the platform of Labour Party (LP) in the upcoming Governorship primaries in Imo State, Chief Humphrey Anumudu has been found dead in his house. Chief Anumudu died in his house in Lagos after he had returned from an LP meeting at the party national headquarters in Abuja on Friday. A native of […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Vice President, General Donaldson Oladipo Diya is dead. He died at the age of 78. Diya’s death was announced in a message that went viral on social media and signed by one of his children, Prince Oyesinmilola Diya, on behalf of the family, that Diya died in the early hours of Sunday, March. […]
Continue ReadingPresidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting in Abuja, Nigeria, on Friday, ordered that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, should be served with copies of petitions seeking to nullify his election, through substituted means, on APC. The ruling followed separate ex-parte applications that were brought before the court by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, […]
Continue ReadingPeoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose; former Senate President/Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Anyim Pius Anyim; and other party officials like Prof. Dennis Ityavyar and Dr. Aslam Aliyu from the party for alleged anti-party activities. The party also referred Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom to […]
Continue ReadingAll Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council (PCC) has said there was no plan for a meeting in London between Bola Tinubu, president-elect, and Olukayode Ariwoola, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN). In a statement on Thursday, Bayo Onanuga, media director of the campaign council decried an attempt to create doubt about the legitimacy of the […]
Continue ReadingAs the 2023 election cycle comes to a close, the battle for the various political offices will shift to the Tribunals and the courts. Ordinarily this should be a reason for relief. However following some recent decisions of the Supreme Court, what we have is a feeling of trepidation and a fear of the unknown. […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Friday, set aside the tribunal judgment that nullified the election of Ademola Adeleke as governor of Osun State, with N500,000 awarded as cost against the All Progressive Congress (APC) and its candidate, Gboyega Oyetola. In a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of justices, led by Justice […]
Continue ReadingBritish High Commission has said the UK Minister of State for Development and Africa, Andrew Mitchell MP, is prepared to take action against those who engaged in or incited electoral violence during the just-concluded general elections in Nigeria. The high commission, which said it deployed observers in six states, said the UK was already collating […]
Continue ReadingMallam Mamma Daura is easily one of the most powerful Nigerians today. Not only because he occupies the amorphous ‘Office of the First Nephew’ as the supreme commander of ‘Aso Rock Cabal’ but also because he knows how to play the power game. Daura is hardly ever seen in public neither does he court media […]
Continue ReadingChief Spokesman for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council (LP) (PCC), Yunusa Tanko, has described the allegations in the petition sent to the Department of State Services (DSS) by his counterpart in the All Progressives Congress (APC) PCC, Festus Keyamo, as baseless. Tanko responded hours after Keyamo wrote to the DSS accusing the presidential candidate of […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice, have been found guilty of organ trafficking in the United Kingdom. After a six-week trial at the Old Bailey, the duo alongside their daughter, Sonia, and a medical doctor, Dr. Obinna Obeta, were found guilty of facilitating the travel of a young man to Britain […]
Continue ReadingIn retrospect, one should have expected that the ethnic attacks that blow up in Lagos State around election seasons would be intense this time round. First, this election was the first time since 1999 that another party came close to blowing the lid off the All Progressives Congress’ much-vaunted “structure.” From the traditional rulers to […]
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