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Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay, has advised President Buhari and Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, to allow ordinary Nigerians to bear firearms in order to protect themselves. Prof. Sagay gave this advice while chatting with Daily Independent. He said the Federal Government was overwhelmed by various […]
Continue ReadingYoutube star, Grace Victory, has been placed in a medically induced coma a day after giving birth to her son. According to the message posted to the British vlogger’s Instagram on Monday, Dec. 28, Grace tested positive for COVID-19 two weeks ago while in the third trimester of her pregnancy. Her condition worsened and doctors […]
Continue ReadingThe police in Ondo state has launched an investigation into the suspected assassination of a businessman, Babatunde Adeluka Olubasa, at a hotel in the Ijapo area of Akure, the state capital on December 26. According to reports, Babatunde was trailed to the hotel by three armed men after attending a function in Akure. “The killing of […]
Continue ReadingNigerian singer, songwriter, performing artist and record producer, David Adedeji Adeleke better known as Davido has threatened to leave the music industry. This comes hours after his alleged faceoff with another Nigerian singer, Burnaboy, in Ghana. In a tweet posted on his handle on Monday afternoon, the DMW record boss wrote: “I go leave this […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement by Yinka Odumakin (South-West), Chief Guy Ikoku (South East), Senator Bassey Henshaw (South-South) and Dr. Isuwa Dogo (Middle Belt), the Southern Nigeria and Middle Belt Forum (SMBLF), on Monday condemned the outbursts of the Presidency, the Northern Elders Forum and Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), over the Christmas Day message of the Catholic […]
Continue ReadingAttorney General and Commissioner for Justice of Zamfara State, Nigeria, Nura Zarumi has asked the federal and state governments to enact laws that will punish any politician that engages youths as political thugs during elections. Speaking at an event in Gusau, the state capital, Zarumi said the law should be backed with full-scale enforcement on […]
Continue ReadingOhirenua Giwa-Amu, the Nigerian lady who publicly accused her popular pastor-dad, Femi Giwa-Amu for allegedly repeatedly raping her when she was 7-years-old has committed suicide. Ohirenua’s death was confirmed by her friends who penned down their tribute to her on social media. Her uncle, Ozolua Giwa-Amu who confirmed her death in a Facebook post wrote: […]
Continue ReadingA survey by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences has found that an estimated N9.4bn bribes exchanged hands in the judicial sector between 2018 and 2020. The report said the level of corruption in the justice sector was heightened by the “stupendously high amounts of money offered as bribes to judges by lawyers […]
Continue ReadingCoalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has warned that Nigeria is drifting into a failed state under the regime of the President, Muhammadu Buhari, according to Punch. The CNG’s spokesman, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, said apart from the comatose economy, poverty, corruption, ineffective governance, crime, violence, forced displacement and sectarian and ethnic conflict, the erosion of legitimate authority […]
Continue ReadingSuspected kidnappers have abducted a cleric, Apostle Emmanuel Egoh Bako and his wife Cindy Bako. Bako, who is the Kaduna State Chairman of the Penticostal Fellowship of Nigeria and his wife were kidnapped in Jema’a local government area on Christmas Day. The State Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, who confirmed the […]
Continue ReadingNigerian actress, a social media influencer, comedian, film maker and internet celebrity, Etinosa Idemudia, has welcomed a baby girl. Etinosa shared the good news on her Instagram page on Saturday December 26. “This year, I received the best gift ever…..The Gift of Motherhood I am eternally grateful to God” she wrote. While congratulating her, her […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal Government says it is graceless and impious for any religious leader to use the period of Christmas, which is a season of peace, to stoke the embers of hatred, sectarian strife and national disunity. This was a veiled reference to the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, who in his 2020 […]
Continue ReadingThe Owa of Igbajo, His Royal Majesty, Oba Olufemi Fashade has joined his ancestors . He died after an illness at the age of 81. The late monarch was crowned king of Igbajo in 1990, a town in Boluwaduro Local Government Area of Osun State. Fashade was born on April 17, 1939, in Abeokuta, Ogun […]
Continue ReadingCatholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, says the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has sacrificed the dreams of Nigerians on the altar of nepotism by allegedly pursuing agenda of Northern hegemony. The fiery critic bishop also said, Nigeria appeared to be heading for darkness under Buhari’s regime, noting that the government must explain […]
Continue ReadingA popular Nigerian filmmaker, Chico Ejiro, has passed away. He died on Friday the Christmas Day at about 2am. The President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Emeka Rollas, confirmed the filmmaker’s death. He said, “I just learnt of his death. The news of his death is so devastating. I do not know the cause […]
Continue ReadingFormer spokesman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh was released from Kuje prison on Thursday December 24. His release from prison followed the nullification of a seven-year jail sentence handed down to him by an Appeal Court sitting in Abuja. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned Metuh on seven counts […]
Continue ReadingA Singaporean woman, Siti Aslinda Binte Junaidi is facing death penalty in China and will be executed by firing squad within weeks unless a court overturns the judgment. 35-year-old Junaidi and another Singaporean, Mohd Yusri Bin Mohd Yussof, 44, were arrested in 2015 in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on suspicion of drug trafficking […]
Continue ReadingServing overseer of Citadel Global Community Church (CGCC), formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly (LRA), Pastor Tunde Bakare, has described former Governor of Lagos state and All Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola Tinubu as a man who has fought many wars for the Yoruba people. In his latest message titled: “An Idle Man’s Brain Is The […]
Continue ReadingA former Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture and Eesa of Inisa town in Odo-Otin Local Government Area of Osun State, Chief Enoch Ajiboso has died while presiding over a peace meeting between Muslim groups. It was gathered that Chief Ajiboso, who was also a former chairman of Agege Local Govt, Lagos State, slumped while settling a […]
Continue ReadingA female councilor from Ogu-Bolo Local Government Area of Rivers State, Hannah Alasomuka has been abducted by suspected kidnappers. Alasomuka, who represents Ward 6 in Ikpokiri town was kidnapped by three gunmen at a wharf in the community on Sunday, December 20. The Chief Whip of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Evans Bipi, who confirmed […]
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