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In a statement released on Sunday, Playwright and Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka blasted the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) for banning Eedris Abdulkareem’s song, ‘Tell your Papa’, against President Bola Tinubu’s government. Soyinka describes the development as a return to the culture of censorship and a threat to the right to free expression. In the piece […]
Continue ReadingYet again, another former Green Eagles player, a forward, Charles Bassey, has passed away. He died at the age of 71. Bassey died in Eket, Akwa Ibom on Saturday April 12, after a long illness. He shared this same date of passing with Christian Chukwu. He was a member of the Green Eagles AFCON 1980 […]
Continue ReadingFormer Captain of the Green Eagles of Nigeria and Enugu Rangers International, Christian Chukwu, has passed away. He died on Saturday morning, April 12, at the age of 74. Chukwu’s Eagles and Rangers teammate, Emmanuel Okala, confirmed the death of the former player and coach of the Nigerian senior national team. He rose to fame […]
Continue ReadingRenowned human rights lawyer and activist, Femi Falana, SAN has urged youths to reclaim the country. Falana gave the advice on Saturday in Lagos, during sixth Annual Youth Leadership Conference, tagged ‘Resilience, Innovation, Social Responsibility and Entrepreneurship (RISE 2025),’ held at the University of Lagos. Falana said things were not how they used to be, […]
Continue ReadingUnited States District Court sitting in Columbia has ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to release records relating to the criminal investigation of President Bola Tinubu over alleged drug trafficking. Judge Beryl Howell, in a ruling dated April 8, which can be found on the court’s website, directed […]
Continue ReadingEkiti State Police Command has taken into custody an officer accused of stabbing a civilian in the Ise-Ekiti area of the state after an altercation which involved his girlfriend and the victim’s son. The arrest followed the circulation of a viral video in which the victim’s daughter claimed that the officer, who was allegedly a […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian vice president and 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar; ex-Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai; and ex-Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal; have visited former President Muhammadu Buhari at his Kaduna residence. Those who also visited Buhari on Friday included the former Minister of Communications, Isa Pantami; former governor […]
Continue ReadingNigerian man, Akinbobola Akintunde Folajimi, who recently lost his pregnant wife due to the hospital’s alleged demand for a N500k deposit, has responded to senior journalist Reuben Abati, who criticized him for not having a saving set aside for his wife’s antenatal and delivery. Senior journalist, Abati, had sharply criticized the man for what he […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has barred Nigerian radio and television stations from airing the trending song “Tell Your Papa” by veteran rapper, Eedris Abdulkareem, citing its “objectionable nature.” In a memo dated April 9, 2025 and issued by the Coordinating Director of Broadcast Monitoring, Susan Obi, the commission declared the track Not To Be […]
Continue ReadingHuman rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, has described the case of Alabi Quadri, a minor detained at the Kirikiri Minimum Security Custodial Centre in Lagos since January, as another example of the failings of Nigeria’s criminal justice system. In a statement released on Wednesday his X handle, Effiong disclosed that he visited the Magistrate Court of […]
Continue ReadingPresident Tinubu’s Rivers State emergency Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd.), has approved the appointment of administrators for the 23 Local Government Areas of the state. Appointment of the 23 LGs administrators came less than 24 hours after a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt reportedly restrained him from appointing administrators to oversee […]
Continue ReadingEleven Nigerian governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have approached the Nigerian Supreme Court through a summon, to challenge what powers President Bola Tinubu possessed to suspend a democratically elected structure of a state. The plaintiffs who predicated the summon on eight grounds in their suit marked: SC/CV/329/2025, are – Adamawa, […]
Continue ReadingNatasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the suspended Senator for Kogi Central, has instituted a N5billion defamation case against her colleague, Onyekachi Nwaebonyi for alleging that she had six children for different men. In the suit she filed through her team of lawyers led by Mr. M. J. Numa, SAN, Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan described Nwaebonyi’s claim as false, saying it […]
Continue ReadingDirector-General (DG) of the Institute of Law Research and Development of the United Nations (ILAWDUN), US, Cyprian Edward-Ekpo, has asked President Bola Tinubu to reverse the state of emergency imposed in Rivers State. The professor of international environmental law warned that the emergency rule in the south-south state is a threat to Nigeria’s democracy and international reputation. […]
Continue ReadingNigerian gospel music industry has been thrown into mourning as four young and popular Nigerian gospel singers lost their lives when they were involved in a fatal auto accident along the Ikorodu/Sagamu Road in Ogun State, Nigeria. In a statement, the Ogun State Commander and Public information Officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), […]
Continue ReadingFormer Governor of Oyo State, Dr. Victor Omololu Olunloyo, has passed away. He died on Sunday, just days before his 90th birthday. His death was confirmed in a statement issued by Barrister Oladapo Ogunwusi on behalf of the family. The statement read: “With a heavy heart but gratitude to the Almighty, we announce the passing […]
Continue ReadingA United States court has sentenced a 47-year-old Nigerian, Imafedia Adevokhai, to 46 months in prison over his involvement in a multi-year stolen identity tax refund fraud amounting to $4,945,886. This was disclosed in a statement by the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, Abe McGlothin Jr., according to reports by Punch […]
Continue ReadingThe 46th Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Akeem Owoade has been crowned. Owoade succeeds the 45th Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Atanda Adeyemi, who died on April 22, 2022, at the age of 83. The coronation event took place on Saturday at Oliveth Baptist High School in Oyo, where Governor Seyi Makinde led a […]
Continue ReadingVeteran Nigerian actress and winner of 2008 Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress, Kate Amaka Henshaw, simply called Kate Henshaw, has lamented that she doesn’t find it funny when people call her a prostitute. She took to her X handle to slam trolls for always calling her olosho, prostitute and the like because she […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Supreme Court has on Friday removed Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party. A five-member panel of the Supreme Court, in a unanimous judgment, set aside the decision of the Court of Appeal in Abuja, which had recognised Abure as the party’s national chairman. In its decision, Nigeria’s final court held […]
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