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Emeritus Professor, Second Republic senator and President-General of the Yoruba World Congress (YWC), Banji Akintoye, has announced that the Yoruba nation has been recognised as the 45th member by the Unrepresented Nations and People’s Organization (UNPO). Akintoye, who said this in a statement announcing the membership of the international body, said the latest development represents […]
Continue ReadingPopular Nigerian dancer and video vixen, Kodak is dead. She died in the late hours of Wednesday, April 29. According to reports, Kodak was electrocuted while charging her phone at a video director’s home in Omole Estate, Lagos. She was confirmed dead at a nearby hospital she was rushed to. Olamide who penned down a tribute […]
Continue ReadingOne 25-year-old man has died of coronavirus-related complications in Lagos State, Nigeria. Through his Twitter handle, the state’s Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, made this known on Thursday. Abayomi said: “87 new #COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Lagos on April 29, 2020. The total number of confirmed cases in Lagos is now 947. “The […]
Continue ReadingA Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, Nigeria on Wednesday sentenced a 23-year-old man, Alkasim Abdullahi, to two months in a correctional facility (prison) for stealing a laptop and other items. The magistrate, Abdulaziz Ibrahim, also ordered that the convict be given 10 strokes of the cane. The convict was facing a two […]
Continue ReadingEconomic Commission for Africa (ECA) has joined others in mourning one of its most distinguished Chief Economists, Mr Owodunni Teriba, who died and was buried on Tuesday in Chicago, Illinois in the United States of America. In a statement by its Communications Section on Tuesday, the United Nations agency lauded Mr Teriba’s contribution to the […]
Continue ReadingA jailbreak was recorded on Tuesday April 29, at the Nigerian Correctional Service custodial centre in Sapele, Delta State, few days after the same facility was set on fire by inmates who were protesting against an alleged ill-treatment. The inmates had protested against the amnesty which was granted to some inmates of the facility by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa. […]
Continue ReadingReno Omokri, former aide to ex-Nigerian president, Dr Goodluck Jonathan has come again with his usual teaser against president Muhammadu Buhari and his government. Listen to him below: “If Jonathan was President during #COVID19, and he refused to close Nigeria’s borders because his daughter and Chief of Staff were abroad, and he also focused sharing […]
Continue ReadingUnited Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister’s newborn didn’t quite generate the giddy hysteria of someone coming out from an environment of a powerful political office holder. But the BBC broadcaster alerted its viewers hours ago with a Breaking News that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancee, Carrie Symonds, had just announced the birth of their […]
Continue ReadingEighteen suspected commercial sex workers have been arrested by the Ondo State Task Force on COVID-19 for violating the curfew imposed by the state government. Governor Rotimi Akeredolu had announced a dusk to dawn curfew as part of efforts to limit the spread of the coronavirus disease. It was gathered that the violators were caught […]
Continue ReadingEx-Nigerian President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, has responded to reports that Nigerian government is planning to subpoena his and his wife’s bank records in the United States. Bloomberg had reported that Nigerian government requested for “all documents concerning any transactions to, from, or for the benefit” of Jonathan and his wife between 2009 and the present […]
Continue ReadingThe 30-year-old Nigerian lady, Busari Ufuoma Peace, who was put up for sale online by a Lebanese man, Wael Jerro, has been rescued. Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, shared the update on Twitter on Tuesday April 28. She said the Peace is currently at the Nigerian High Commission in Beirut. “Update on […]
Continue Reading31-year-old nurse, Mrs. Faith Obinna, has accused doctors at the St. Raphael Divine Mercy Hospital in Ikorodu, Lagos State, of stealing her baby, moments after delivery. In an interview with NewTelegraph, the new mum said she used the Catholic hospital for her pre-natal care and that during her many doctor’s appointment, three scans were conducted and it was […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s House of Representatives have, on Tuesday, resolved to declare the alleged maltreatment of Nigerians in China as Xenophobic attack with racial undertone. The House resolutions followed a motion moved by Benjamin Kalu from Abia State and 9 others. Kalu who led the debate on the motion, said that the Chinese under the pretext of […]
Continue ReadingThree young siblings (sisters) have drowned in a river at Amaeze in Ishiagu, Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Nigeria. The three siblings whose names were withheld got drowned mysteriously on Saturday after they left home to the river but never returned alive. Their bodies were found floating on the water while the circumstances […]
Continue ReadingA former beauty queen in Nigeria, Mrs. Helen Prest-Ajayi, has lost her husband, Dr Tosin Ajayi. Dr Ajayi died in Lagos on Monday, April 27, but details of his death are still sketchy. His family members are currently taking steps to bury him immediately. Dr Ajayi was the Founder of First Foundation Medical Centre, a […]
Continue ReadingNigeria has been ranked 115 out of 180 countries on the World Press Freedom Index as compiled by Reporters without Borders (Reporters sans frontières). The index, described Nigeria as a “climate of permanent violence.” The Index cited the killing, detention and brutalisation of journalists in Nigeria and campaigns of disinformation as some of the efforts […]
Continue ReadingA newly appointed Commissioner 1 in the Kwara State Local Government Service Commission, Olatunji Abel, has died in his sleep 48 hours to resumption. Abel, who hails from Igbaja in Ifelodun area of Kwara state, died on Saturday of suspected heart attack at his home town. The deceased was a Lagos-based businessman and politician. Gov. […]
Continue ReadingBelow is the full text of President Buhari’s address to Nigerians on Monday evening: ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE CUMULATIVE LOCKDOWN ORDER OF LAGOS AND OGUN STATES AS WELL AS THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY ON COVID- 19 PANDEMIC AT THE STATE HOUSE, ABUJA, MONDAY, 27th APRIL, […]
Continue ReadingAisha, one of the children of Abba Kyari, the late Chief of Staff of Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has asked her father’s critics to allow him to rest in peace. Aisha stated this on her Instagram status update on Monday. Aisha, who wrote with the user name, crackeddiamond, also slammed some users whom she claimed […]
Continue ReadingOver 200 medical doctors from Cuba have arrived South Africa to help fight the Coronavirus pandemic in the country. The doctors, including community health and infectious disease specialists, arrived early Monday morning, April 27, and were welcomed by military and health authorities. Overwhelmed with the increasing cases of Coronavirus, South Africa requested assistance from the […]
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