Guinness World Record officially names Monday ‘worst day of the week’

The world’s authority on record-breaking achievements since 1955, Guinness World Records, has officially named Monday the worst day of the week. Guinness World Records tweeted this on Monday, October 17, 2022. “We’re officially giving Monday the record of the worst day of the week,” reads the post. See below: Twitter users reacted, with many saying […]

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My experience when I was rushed to a Lagos hospital ―BBNaija’s Angel

Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) star, Angel has shared her experience at a hospital where co-reality show star, Rico Swavey was allegedly rushed to before his death. Angel shared the name of the hospital after a video of its nurses talking while Rico Swavey was unconscious, was shared online after his death. According to Angel, she […]

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Obasanjo vacates his seat for Peter Obi in an event (Video)

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo vacated his seat and placed Presidential aspirant Peter Obi on it in a move considered symbolic by supporters of Obi. Obasanjo and Peter Obi were at an event recently and, just before leaving, Obasanjo gave a short speech then elevated Peter Obi by placing him on his seat, and the […]

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Nigerian woman jailed for trafficking women for prostitution

Nigeria’s National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) says it has secured a one-year jail term against a 42-year-old woman, Ogierarakhi Joyce Amemze, aka Mama Blossom, who specialised in human trafficking. In a statement on Monday, October 17, 2022, the agency said its Benin Zonal Command secured the conviction on October 13. […]

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Nigerian doctors in UK lament exploitation, slave labour

Nigerian medical doctors and their counterparts from developing countries working in the United Kingdom have lamented exploitation in the course of their work. This was revealed by BBC on Tuesday adding that an investigation proved that Nigerian doctors recruited by a British healthcare company are expected to work in private hospitals under conditions not allowed […]

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Abiodun Oyebanji sworn in as new Ekiti State Governor (Photos)

Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who won the last governorship election in Ekiti State, Mr. Abiodun Oyebanji has taken his oath of office as the new Ekiti State Governor. Oyebanji was sworn in by the Chief Judge of Ekiti State, Justice John Oyewole Adeyeye, on Sunday, October 16, 2022 amidst applause from the […]

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El-Rufai is an expert in turning a rotten situation to a bad one ―Tinubu says at Kaduna Summit

Former governor of Lagos state and candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the 2023 general election, Bola Tinubu gave a speech but mis-spoke at the Kaduna Economic and Investment Summit in Kaduna State on Saturday. During his speech at the Summit, Tinubu said: “El-Rufai has the capacity to turn a rotten situation into a […]

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Man locked up inside a room for 20 years rescued in Kaduna

A middle-aged man who was reportedly locked up inside a room for twenty years has been discovered by environmental officers in Kaduna state. According to Nigerian Tribune, the officers found the man in a house in Benin street, in the central part of Kaduna metropolis on Wednesday, October 12. Their spokesman, who pleaded for anonymity, […]

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At last, ASUU calls off its eight-month old strike, releases statement

In a statement, the mainstream union of public University teachers in Nigeria, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its eight-month old strike. The academic union embarked on strike action on Monday, February 14, 2022 to protest the non-implementation of the 2009 Memorandum of Understanding reached with it by the Nigerian Government. The […]

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Appeal court acquits Nnamdi Kanu, quashes all govt’s terrorism charges against him

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 […]

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Chimamanda Adichie declined the Nigerian national honours ―Media aide

Award-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 […]

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Ariwoola sworn-in as substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (Photos)

Nigerian 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 […]

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Nigerian govt official, Assistant Chief Surveyor murdered by kidnappers

A 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 […]

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Wife smashes bottle on her husband’s side chic’s head (Graphic video)

It 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 […]

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Peter Obi releases his manifesto to Nigerians

Presidential 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 […]

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I was hurt, I wept when Atiku Abubakar deleted his tweet condemning the killing of Deborah Samuel for alleged blasphemy ―Actor Chidi Mokeme (Video)

Veteran 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, […]

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Angry APC Christians to dump Tinubu, Shettima over Muslim-Muslim ticket

Northern 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 […]

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