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The Board of Editors of THISDAY/ARISE News yesterday accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council’s (PCC) Director of Media and Publicity, Mr. Bayo Onanuga and its Director, Strategic Communication, Mr. Dele Alake of attempting to silence independent media, cower as well as bully free press ahead of the 2023 general elections in what […]
Continue ReadingA lady was filmed performing what appears to be oral sex on her man inside a canteen in a place said to be inside the University of Lagos (UNILAG) campus, in broad daylight on Friday, December 9. An eyewitness who reportedly recorded the video and sent the video to Linda Ikeji Blog said the two […]
Continue ReadingOlusegun Obasanjo, 85, wowed guests when he jumped off a high podium. The former Nigerian President attended the White Christmas festival and climbed the podium to give a speech. When he was done, he showed how fit he is by jumping off the podium while two men stood beside him in case he needed support. He […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday afternoon departed Katsina State for Washington DC to attend US-Africa Leader’s Summit scheduled to hold on December 13 and 15. The summit which is at the instance of US President Joe Biden seeks to work with “African governments, civil society, diaspora communities across the United States, and the private sector […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has mourned the death of his niece, Hajiya Laraba Dauda. Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, December 9, 2022. “President Muhammadu Buhari, on his second day at home, has condoled with his extended family members on the demise […]
Continue ReadingTwo democratic institutions of the United States – the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and International Republican Institute (IRI) – have expressed concern about the activities of separatist groups and informal security outfits in the South-east and South-west of Nigeria, warning that they could be recipes for election violence in 2023. The international delegation of the […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola SAN, has ordered the second Niger Bridge will open to traffic from December 15, 2022, to January 15, 2023, as part of measures being taken by the Federal Government to ease the movement of goods and services for the Christmas festivities. Speaking to newsmen on behalf of […]
Continue ReadingA man claims he was kidnapped, drugged, and raped by a group of young women. The leather factory worker in his early twenties says four females bundled him inside a vehicle as he was walking in the city of Jalandhar in Punjab, India, on Monday, Dec. 5. He claims he was then subjected to several […]
Continue ReadingThe London-based policy institute and think-tank forum, Chatham House, has invited the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, to present his plans for Nigeria and Nigerians if elected in the country’s February 25, 2023 presidential election. The invitation to Obi, a former two-term Governor of Anambra State, Nigeria, was made public […]
Continue Reading27-year-old man and father of three children, Emmanuel Sanwo-Olu, has expressed a strong desire to see the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, whom he claims to be his biological father. According to him, his mother had just told him that the Lagos governor was his father. Making the assertions while speaking with journalists at the […]
Continue ReadingCentral Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has imposed fresh cash withdrawal limits on individuals and organisations, which will become effective on January 9, 2023. By virtue of a memo issued by the CBN to banks on Tuesday, individuals will only be able to withdraw N100,000 per week (from over-the-counter, point-of-sale machines or automated teller machines), while […]
Continue ReadingElon Musk has lost his title as the world’s richest person after selling Tesla stocks to fund the $44 billion purchase of Twitter. Bernard Arnault, the chief executive of luxury brand Louis Vuitton’s parent company LVMH, and his family took the ‘world richest’ title with a personal wealth of $185.4 billion, according to Forbes. Musk, who […]
Continue ReadingSerial defector and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Dogara was received into the party during the presidential campaign by the party’s presidential candidate and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar in the nation’s commercial capital, Lagos State. This […]
Continue ReadingA Kenyan woman and her two children have been killed by her husband in Louisville, Kentucky, United States in what police suspect to be murder-suicide. Around 9:30a.m. on Saturday, December 3, 2022, Louisville Metro Police officers were called to respond to the 4500 block of East Pages Lane on a report of a shooting with […]
Continue ReadingFootball legend, Pele has been moved to the palliative care unit in the hospital as the 82-year-old Brazilian is not responding to chemotherapy on his bowel cancer, reported Brazilian Daily Folha. Pele is admitted at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo since Tuesday and the last official medical bulletin from the hospital said he […]
Continue ReadingAhead of the 2023 general election, Mr. Ray Ugba Morphy, former special adviser to one-time National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun, has dumped the party. The APC chieftain was also a member of the APC Presidential Council in 2019, a member of APC National Campaign Councils to many states and a […]
Continue ReadingPresidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, and his running mate, Dr. Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed have in conjunction with the party, released a 72-paged manifesto titled “Pact with Nigeria” in which they outlined 7 priority areas if elected into office come 2023. The document was made public by the LP leadership late […]
Continue ReadingHis Holiness, Pope Francis on Tuesday expressed his condolences to the family of late Bishop Richard Kuuia Baawobr of Ghana and his diocese of Wa in the north of the West African country. The Bishop died on Sunday at the age of 63, three months after his appointment as cardinal by Pope Francis. The Holy […]
Continue ReadingOn the eve of the Presidential Town Hall meeting organised by Arise News for candidates of the major four political parties, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, on Saturday morning, left the country for United Kingdom. A statement issued on Saturday by Director of Media and Publicity for APC Presidential Campaign Council, […]
Continue ReadingMrs. Aisha Buhari has withdrawn the criminal defamation case against Aminu Mohammed, a student of Federal University, Dutse, who was arrested for allegedly defaming her on Twitter sometime back, following pressure and condemnation by activists, Amnesty International, the National Association of Nigerian Students, and other citizens. Her lawyer, Fidelis Ogbobe, was at the Federal Capital […]
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