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Nigeria’s Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, Nigeria on Thursday upheld the appeal of the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. The court also discharged and acquitted the embattled leader of the proscribed group declaring as illegal and unlawful, the abduction Kanu from Kenya to Nigeria on July 9, 2021 […]
Continue ReadingAward-winning Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who was recently decorated with Harvard University’s iconic W.E.B. Du Bois Medal, has broken her silence over her non-appearance at the conferment of national honours ceremony by President Buhari on Tuesday, October 11. Putting the records straight, a member of Chimamanda’s communications team, Omawumi Ogbe, told The Guardian that she declined the […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari has sworn in Hon. Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). Justice Ariwoola took the judicial oath of office in a brief ceremony at the Council Chambers in Abuja before the commencement of the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by the President on Wednesday October […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian government official, Shamsideen Abayomi Alamu, has been murdered by kidnappers and his body is still missing days after he was killed. Alamu, the Assistant Chief Surveyor in the Office of the Surveyor General of the Federation (OSGoF), was abducted on October 3 near Yakwo Farms in Abaji while returning to Abuja from Iwo […]
Continue ReadingIt was chaotic at a hotel recently when a wife caught her husband with another woman at the hotel said to be in Accra, Ghana. In the trending clip, the wife spotted her husband with another woman, alleged to be his side chic, at the hotel, and she confronted them. However, as the man and […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, who is vying against experienced politicians like All Progressives Congress’ Ahmed Bola Tinubu, Peoples Democratic Party’s Atiku Abubakar and New Nigeria Peoples Party’s Rabiu Kwankwaso, last week released his manifesto by offering a new brand of transformative and purposeful leadership. He said the overall goal of his […]
Continue ReadingVeteran and Nigerian star actor, Chidi Mokeme appeared emotional as he expressed how hurt he was when presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar deleted a post he shared condemning the killing of Deborah Samuel. Deborah was lynched and set ablaze by her colleagues at Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, Nigeria, over alleged blasphemy After her death, […]
Continue ReadingNorthern Christian leaders in the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Northern Muslim political leaders said on Sunday that, to vote along religious lines in the 2023 general election may trigger negative consequences among Nigerians and threaten national development. By resolutions, they also agreed to adopt one of the presidential candidates in a bid to defeat […]
Continue ReadingGunmen on Sunday killed some policemen on a stop-and-search duty at Umuna on Owerri- Okigwe road in Imo State, Nigeria. A source who doesn’t want to be mentioned told newsmen on Monday that an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and a Police Inspector were killed by the fleeing gunmen who allegedly operated in military uniforms […]
Continue ReadingEkiti State Government has said that the World Bank’s $25 million School Improvement Grant (SIG) released to the state would spur enrolment, increase beautification and quality of education in the 203 benefiting schools in the State. The government urged stakeholders in the benefiting schools to take ownership of the World Bank projects being executed, for […]
Continue ReadingAs Nigeria marks her 62nd independence anniversary, the group that fought Abacha military junta to a standstill in the 90s, the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) has thrown its weight behind ethnic nationalities that have either declared their intentions to secede from Nigeria or vowed not to “participate in any purported elections under the disputed and […]
Continue Reading76 persons are reportedly missing after a boat carrying 85 passengers capsized in Umunnankwo community of Ogbaru Local Government Council of Anambra State, Nigeria on Friday, Octoner 7. Eyewitnesses told Daily Trust that the boat took off from Onukwu Bridge and was heading for Nkwo market and Ogbakuba; both in Ogbaru LGA, when it capsized. […]
Continue ReadingThe Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, says he will meet with state governors to agree on the mass release of at least 30 per cent of inmates from custodial centres across the country. Aregbesola made this known on Sunday when he appeared on the News Agency of Nigeria Forum in Abuja. The minister said […]
Continue ReadingNigerian-American suspected serial armed robber, Charles Chukwuma Onwuemelie, has been arrested in connection with over 60 armed robberies in the US, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) announced on Wednesday, September 27, 2022. LAPD say since October 2021, there has been a total of 68 armed business robberies linked to the 29-year-old suspect. Dubbed as […]
Continue ReadingA 30-year-old mother-of-three has been killed by her husband just one week after she posted a lengthy video of him abusing her in Buffalo, New York. Keaira Hudson married Adam Bennefield, 45, in February this year and she took to Facebook to say it was the happiest day of her life. She also called Adam […]
Continue ReadingFolasade Ogunsola, a Professor of Clinical Microbiology, has been appointed as the Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Nigeria. Her appointment was announced by the UNILAG governing council on Friday, October 7, 2022. Ogunsola is the first female Vice-Chancellor of the school in 60 years and the 13th vice-chancellor of UNILAG. She is […]
Continue Reading28-year-old, said to be a Nigerian woman identified as Amelia Pounds, has reportedly died following complications during liposuction surgery in India. It was gathered that the businesswoman died during the surgery at an undisclosed hospital in New Delhi, India on Friday morning, October 7, 2022. An Instagram user confirmed the incident to Kenyan socialite, Vera […]
Continue ReadingJust a week ago, 34-year-old Ibrahim Traore was an unknown, even in his native Burkina Faso. But in the space of a weekend, he catapulted himself from army captain to the world’s youngest leader – an ascent that has stoked hopes but also fears for a poor and chronically troubled country. Traore, at the head […]
Continue ReadingFormer chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, has accused Chris Ngige, Nigerian minister of labour and employment, of taking the industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) personal and turning it into a private dispute. Jega in an interview on Arise TV, alleged that Ngige is having […]
Continue ReadingCatholic Archbishop Emeritus of Abuja, Nigeria, His Eminence, Cardinal John Onaiyekan has shared his thoughts on the same faith presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress. Speaking at the 1st synod of the Catholic Diocese of Osogbo, held in Ede, Osun state on Wednesday October 5, Onaiyekan said the same faith ticket is a political […]
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