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Nigerian media personality, actress, author, reality TV show host, and entrepreneur, Toke Makinwa is expecting her first child and we, as her well-wishers, are very excited for her. Toke revealed this big news on her Instagram page with a stunning video clip of her baby bump. Calling motherhood “the biggest project of my life and the […]
Continue ReadingMr. Peter Obi, former Anambra State Governor and LP (Labour Party) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, recently pledged he would serve only one term if elected president in 2027. Essentially to reassure political leaders from a section of the country of his commitment to the zoning arrangement. “Longevity in office is not a mark of success; rather, […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Government has imposed a seven-year ban on the establishment of new federal universities, polytechnics and colleges of education, citing the proliferation of under-utilised institutions, overstretched resources, and a drop in academic quality. The decision was approved at Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, followed […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Bar Association (NBA) has strongly condemned the treatment meted out to Ms. Comfort Emmanson in the incident aboard an Ibom Air flight on 10th August 2025, and the subsequent lifetime flight ban imposed on her by Ibom Air and the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON). Viral video clips on social media captured an enraged […]
Continue ReadingThe biggest affliction that Nigerians suffer from, individually and collectively, is encapsulated in the common, familiar saying: “Do you know who I am?” It is a statement, a question, rooted in a feeling of superiority towards the other to whom it is directed, a subtle reminder that the person speaking is important, a big man […]
Continue ReadingThree-time Nigerian Minister, Chief Audu Innocent Ogbeh, has passed away. He died peacefully on August 9, 2025 at the age of 78. Ogbeh’s passing was contained in a statement signed and issued by the late Elder Statesman’s family on Saturday. The statement reads in part: “It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing […]
Continue ReadingMy literature teacher told me that situational irony is a fire station burning down, or a Babaláwo dying of Mágùn. Some 40 years ago, Fuji musician, Wasiu Ayinde, cursed his enemies in a song that they would challenge a moving vehicle, stand arrogantly in its front and then lose their limbs to the fury of […]
Continue ReadingSidney Holmes, a Florida, United States man, is set to receive $1.7 million in compensation after being wrongfully imprisoned for 34 years. Holmes was initially convicted of armed robbery in 1989 and sentenced to 400 years in prison. However, his conviction was overturned in 2023 after a thorough review of his case by the Broward […]
Continue ReadingNigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has said popular Fuji musician, Wasiu Ayinde, also known as KWAM1 or K1 de Ultimate, will be blacklisted from flying within Nigeria for six months over alleged misconduct at the domestic terminal of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection (PACP) at the NCAA, […]
Continue ReadingOne month ago, in Abuja, a small circle of friends, literary enthusiasts, human rights activists, politicians, public intellectuals and thinkers gathered to listen to Chidi Odinkalu read from his latest offering, The Selectorate: When Judges Topple the People. It was a private reading, but the ideas Chidi graciously espoused belong in the public domain. They […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Super Falcons goalkeeper, Chiamaka Nnadozie, has been named among the top female goalkeepers in the world as a nominee for the 2025 Ballon d’Or Yachine Trophy. The Falcons star, on Thursday, was listed alongside Cata Coll (Barcelona), Ann-Katrin Berger (Germany), Hannah Hampton (England), and Daphne van Domselaar (Netherlands). Nnadozie’s commanding presence in goal during […]
Continue ReadingWhen the Super Falcons, the Nigerian women’s national football team, won their tenth WAFCON title in Morocco recently, the President splashed them with a $100,000 prize, conferred the national honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger on all 24 players, and then gifted each of them a three-bedroom apartment. Staff of the team’s […]
Continue ReadingNigerian disc jockey (DJ) and billionaire Femi Otedola’s daughter, Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola, popularly known as DJ Cuppy, has said no husband, and mocked suitors in her DM for their inability to spell properly. She shared this in a post she made on her X handle. “Making it big… but mother of Dúdú and FünFün, no […]
Continue ReadingPopular socialite, model, and entrepreneur, Sophia Chinwe Egbueje, simply called Sophia Egbueje, has taken delivery of a 2025 Range Rover SV Autobiography. This comes months after she also acquired a Lamborghini. Sophia shared a video showing the moment she took delivery of the Range Rover. Watch the video below: View this post on Instagram A post […]
Continue ReadingIn the age in which we live, parents are able to choose their child’s country of birth. Assuming they have the financial means to do so. In most cases, it could also be a path to the acquisition of citizenship of those countries. But no matter how rich parents are, the ancestry of these children […]
Continue ReadingMorayo Afolabi-Brown, host of the popular TV show, ‘Your View’, has resigned from TVC Communications after 12 years with the network. Her resignation was made public in a statement released by Edward Akintara, TVC Manager, PR, Corporate Communications & Marketing, on Monday, August 5. Going by the statement, her decision to resign is to enable […]
Continue ReadingFormer Minister of Information and erstwhile President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, has cautioned that Nigeria risks disintegration before the 2027 general elections unless urgent steps are taken to restructure the country. Delivering a keynote lecture titled ‘How Did We Get Here?’ at the public presentation of two books by veteran journalist Ike […]
Continue ReadingLagos lawyer and rights activist, Femi Falana, SAN, has lamented that politics in Nigeria is now in the hands of criminals and touts, who care little about investing in the country’s economic prosperity and the well-being of its citizens. He equally decried what he described as bad governance and sheer infrastructural decay in the Southwest, […]
Continue ReadingIn a newspaper interview last Sunday, Shehu Sani, a former senator from Kaduna State, said that if Peter Obi is given the ADC’s presidential ticket, most Northerners will (for “regional and cultural reasons”) set aside their differences and re-elect Tinubu in 2027. What Sani REALLY means is that most Northerners would rather tolerate another four years of […]
Continue ReadingMeta on Tuesday, August 5, said it shut nearly seven million WhatsApp accounts linked to scammers in the first half of this year and is ramping up safeguards against such schemes. “Our team identified the accounts and disabled them before the criminal organisations that created them could use them,” WhatsApp external affairs director Clair Deevy […]
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