News, Events, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Fashion, Beauty, Inspiration and yes… Gossip! The Only Place It Happens!
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria on Friday granted permission to former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, to travel abroad for medical treatment. Fayose is standing trial for alleged money laundering of N2.2 billion. The presiding judge, Chukwjekwu Aneke granted the order following an application filed before the court by Fayose’s […]
Continue ReadingSome of the people who are claiming to be victims of the October 20 gunshot incident at the Lekki tollgate appeared before the Lagos state government judicial panel of inquiry on Friday December 4. The said victims who appeared before the panel were 15 in number. 14 of them said they were shot at Lekki […]
Continue ReadingJustice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court Abuja has ordered the remand of Abdulrasheed Maina at Kuje Correctional Centre pending the conclusion of his trial. Maina who was extradited from Niger Republic to Nigeria on Thursday, December 3, was brought before the court this morning by a combined team of policemen and operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission […]
Continue ReadingFormer governor of Jigawa state, Alhaji Sule Lamido, has said that President Buhari has failed Nigerians and needs to wake up at midnight and pray to Allah for forgiveness. Alhaji Lamido said this in an interview with BBC Hausa while reacting to the gruesome murder of 43 farmers by Boko Haram members in Borno state […]
Continue ReadingNigeria Police Force (NPF) have instituted a lawsuit to stop the judicial panels of inquiry setup by different Governors in various states in the country to probe allegations of rights abuses and other acts of impunity against police officials, particularly operatives of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The lawsuit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1492/2020 and filed for […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Special adviser Reno Omokiri posted this on his Instagram account. During the civil war, Biafra made her own weapons, including guns, armoured cars and the famous ogbunigwe. Biafra also refined her own petrol. Please don’t take my word for it. Research it. 50 years after defeating Biafra, Nigeria can’t make her own weapons […]
Continue ReadingEx-Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, and some leaders of Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, met in Lagos on Wednesday over the challenge of insecurity facing the Southwest. The meeting was held at the residence of one of the Afenifere leaders, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, in Lekki, which was also […]
Continue ReadingAn amateur video clip purportedly showing Nigerian Senator, Elisha Abbo slapping a young man in his hometown has been shared online. In the video, a man who looks and speaks exactly like the senator is seen angrily scolding a young man before exiting his car to slap the man repeatedly in a place said to […]
Continue ReadingFormer Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrashid Maina, who was arrested on 30th November, 2020 in Niger Republic has been extradited back to Nigeria from Niamey, Niger Republic. to face his court case. The team from INTERPOL Nigeria, led by the Commissioner of Police INTERPOL, CP Garba Umar, having completed the necessary […]
Continue ReadingClement Ruth, a female final year Political Science student of the Nwafor Orizu College of Education, Nsugbe (NOCOED) Anambra State, has reportedly been found dead a few days to her graduation. The deceased student was last seen alive on Thursday November 26, after writing one of her final exams. According to Ruth’s friend, Ugochinyere Precious […]
Continue ReadingSome suspected killers of the traditional ruler of Ifon in Ose local government, Oba Israel Adeusi, the Olufon of Ifon, have been arrested. Identities of the suspects were not made public because of the ongoing investigation into the killing. They were arrested by a combine team of security operatives that stormed Elegbaka forest after the […]
Continue ReadingThe Chinese expatriate, who was abducted by some unknown gunmen in Ado-Ekiti, has regained freedom, after payment of N100m ransom, Vanguard reports quoting News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The Chinese, simply identified as Wang, was one of the Engineers handling the dualisation of the new Ado-Iyin road. He was abducted last Friday evening at the […]
Continue ReadingAn application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for the arrest of former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode was on Wednesday December 2 rejected by a Federal High Court in Abuja. This came after EFCC’s prosecuting counsel, Mr Mohammed Abubakar asked for an arrest warrant from the court against the ex-minister following his absence from Wednesday’s […]
Continue ReadingDeputy President of Nigerian Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, has told Nigerians on Wednesday, when he hosted members of the -Alliance of Nigerian Patriots, led by Ambassador Umunna Orjiako, in Abuja, that those who are agitating for a brand new constitution in the country should perish the thought as the National Assembly lacks the powers to do […]
Continue ReadingThe Police Command in Cross River State, Nigeria has confirmed the killing of an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Mr Egbe Edum, by gunmen in the early hours of Wednesday in Calabar. The command`s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Irene Ugbo, confirmed the death in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]
Continue ReadingThe wanted ex-chairman of Pension Reform Task Force Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, who jumped his bail at the Federal High Court, Abuja, was on Monday evening arrested in Niger Republic by the operatives of Niger Republic intelligence service in collaboration with Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. According to PR Nigeria, the […]
Continue ReadingFormer Senate President and ex-SGF, Anyim Pius Anyim has alleged that there is a plot to kill him for not defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Anyim who petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari, Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu and the Department of State Services (DSS) over the alleged […]
Continue ReadingIn a press statement by his Special Adviser to the Governor (Media and Communication), Muyiwa Adekeye, the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, says some people are scared that restructuring would affect their political viability. The statement was titled, ‘Restructuring is a national endeavour, let’s realise it together’, and shared by the governor on his […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Government has filed terrorism charge against the leader of Aswani International Market in Lagos State, Chief Taoreed Farounbi, alias Baba Alado, and six others. In the three-count charge filed before Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court in Lagos, Farounbi and his co-defendants were accused of conspiring and participating in acts of terrorism, […]
Continue ReadingFor kidnapping three Reverend sisters in June 2016 and collection of N1million ransom before releasing them, an Akure High Court, has sentenced three persons to death by hanging. They were found guilty of kidnapping the Reverend sisters at Onipetesi area along the Ore-Sagamu Expressway and kept them for 11 days before they were released after […]
Continue Reading