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Months after being named the oldest living person in the United States, New York resident Alelia Murphy has died at the age of 114. Murphy’s death was announced Wednesday by United Healthcare Workers East — a union organization which attended the supercentenarian’s birthday celebration July 6. “It is with great sadness that we share news of […]
Continue ReadingThe main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has, in a statement released by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, called on the Chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to resign. PDP accused INEC and its leadership of canceling results where elections are peaceful and allegedly allocating fabricated results to its favored political […]
Continue ReadingIn a letter addressed to President of Senate, Ahmad Lawan, President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, re-sent the $29.96bn 2016-2018 external borrowing plan to the Senate for its consideration and approval. The letter reads: “Request for the National Assembly to reconsider and approve the Federal Government’s 2016 and 2018 External Borrowing Plan. “Pursuant to section 21 […]
Continue ReadingRenowned economist and public intellectual, Dr. Henry Olajide Boyo, has passed away. He died in London on Monday, November 18. He was aged 72. Dr. Boyo was the Managing Director of Cocosheen Nigeria Limited, Lagos. He wrote extensively on the Nigerian economy in his syndicated columns which appear in several national newspapers, like Daily Independent, Punch, Vanguard, etc. […]
Continue ReadingNew Jersey’s Senator Robert Menedez and Josh Gotheimer, a member of congress have written the Nigerian government over reports of the country’s security services assaulting and detaining journalists, using excessive force on non-violent protesters and taking other actions that inhibit freedom of expression. In the letter dated November 25 and addressed to Sylvanus Nsofor who is Nigeria’s […]
Continue ReadingCivil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has commended Zamfara House of Assembly in Nigeria for abolishing ‘despicable’ life pension law in the state. The body, in a statement made on Wednesday by its Executive Director, Mr Auwal Rafsanjani, encouraged other states with similar laws in the country to also scrap such benefit. Rafsanjani said: “We […]
Continue ReadingThe hate speech Bill being proposed by Nigerian Senate, Wednesday received another vituperation, as a legal icon, Chief Afe Babalola SAN, described it as a slide to dictatorship. While receiving the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ekiti chapter, led by its Chairman, Com Rotimi Ojomoyela, the legal icon noted that the provisions of the proposed […]
Continue ReadingAlfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart and Ransom Watkins had been sentenced to life in 1984 for killing a 14-year-old boy a year earlier. They were freed in Baltimore on Monday after a judge cleared their convictions following a review of their case. The case was reopened this year after Mr Chestnut sent a letter to Baltimore’s […]
Continue ReadingThe Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, has taken a swipe at the order of a Federal High Court in Abuja barring the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from prosecuting a former Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Dikko. In a release issued by CACOL’s Executive Chairman, Mr. Debo Adeniran and signed […]
Continue ReadingAn Ibadan-based truck driver, Azeez Hakeem, on Tuesday, told an Ile-Tuntun Customary Court in Ibadan that his wife, Mufuli, was fond of sleeping with their landlord. Hakeem, who lives at Popo Yemoja area of Ibadan, stated this while reacting to his wife’s allegation of battery before the president of the court, Henry Agbaje. He said […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested the Deputy Controller of Kirikiri maximum correctional centre, Emmanuel Oluwaniyi and Hemeson Edwin, also a DC, for allegedly procuring an exaggerated medical report for a convict and suspected cyber scammer, Olusegun Aroke. Aroke, who is serving a 24-year jail term was allegedly given a referral for […]
Continue ReadingMike Ozekhome SAN, has slammed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over its alleged cold feet in investigating a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Bola Ahmed Tinubu, following a petition written against him after bullion vans were spotted at his Bourdillion residence on the eve of the 2019 presidential election. While […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, showed his displeasure at the Senate’s plan to amend the proposed death penalty clause in the hate speech bill pending before the chamber. Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, who sponsored the ‘hate speech bill’ had, on Sunday, said that the Senate may amend the proposed death penalty clause […]
Continue ReadingFormer vice president and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last presidential election, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku arrived Nigeria in the early hours of Monday, according to Thisday. According to his media aide, Mr. Paul Ibe, the former vice president, who had been out of the country for about seven months, arrived Abuja, Nigeria, […]
Continue ReadingVeteran and very popular Nigerian actor, Mr. Saidi Balogun has lost his mother and the actor has taken to his Instagram page to announce the sad news. Mr Balogun shared a photo of himself with his mother and wrote: “Good night Mama mi Jolade Omo Olomu Aperan. Rest in peace.” May her soul rest […]
Continue ReadingTwo Roman Catholic priests were each sentenced to more than 40 years in prison in Argentina for sexually abusing deaf children, a court in the western city of Mendoza ruled Monday. Argentine priest Horacio Corbacho was sentenced to 45 years in jail, while a 42-year sentence was imposed on Italian Nicola Corradi for the abuse […]
Continue ReadingSegun Awosanya a.k.a Segalink has reacted to report of a special panel being constituted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and charged with investigating the $44.9 million wire fraud and money laundering case against Air Peace Chief Executive, Allen Onyema. Reacting to the report, Segalink wondered why the anti-graft agency was quick to set-up a […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday admitted Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, defunct Pension Reform Task Team, to a bail in the sum of N1bn. Justice Okon Abang who gave the ruling also ordered that Maina must produce two sureties who must be serving senators. The two lawmakers, according to the judge, must not be […]
Continue ReadingTwenty-three bodies were recovered on Sunday after a small plane crashed on takeoff into a densely populated area of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, rescue workers said. The aircraft crashed in the Mapendo neighbourhood after “missing” its take-off from the city’s international airport, North Kivu regional governor Nzanzu Kasivita said. He said there […]
Continue ReadingVeteran Nollywood actor and director, Theodore Anyanji, has died. According to reports, Theodore died at a prayer healing church in Festac, Lagos State, yesterday November 23, after a prolonged battle with heart and kidney disease. His friends and colleagues in the Industry have taken to social media to mourn his death. May his soul rest in […]
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