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First Lady or wife of Nigerian President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, returned to Abuja on Sunday morning, two months after she left the country for the United Kingdom. The president’s wife announced her coming back to Nigeria at about 8.56pm Saturday night while leaving London. She tweeted her homeward journey on Saturday night, thanking Mrs Modupe […]
Continue ReadingSeveral schools and communities have been submerged by floods in Ondo State as a result of the torrential rains being experienced in many parts of the country. This made the State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu to direct public primary and secondary schools submerged by the floods to proceed on three weeks of holiday from Monday, October 14. […]
Continue ReadingJogor Event Centre, Ibadan, the capital city of Oyo State and the administrative headquarters of Yoruba Land on Thursday 10th October 2019 hosted the maiden meeting of Yoruba World Congress (YOWCO), an umbrella of all Yoruba Socio-cultural, self-determination and advocacy groups worldwide. The meeting, presided over by new Yoruba Leader, Emeritus Professor (Senator) Banji Akintoye, […]
Continue ReadingThe Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II got quite emotional during his speech at the United Nations meeting to reach Sustainable Development Goals in Lagos. The Kano monarch lamented over the inequality witnessed across the country as he recounted how a sick child died in his mother’s arms at his palace. According to Emir Sanusi, the […]
Continue ReadingEkiti State Government has finally expressed its readiness to build an airport facility as part of efforts to attract investors to the state and make it the economic hub in all facets. To actualise the dream, the state is at an advanced stage of discussions with the World Bank and African Development Bank (AfDB) for […]
Continue ReadingFloods swept an 11-year-old boy and his rescuer, simply identified as Wasiu away at Aboru and Iyana-Ipaja in Alimosho area of Lagos on Saturday. The duo were swept away at a canal linking Aboru and Iyana-Ipaja on Ige Road. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent, who visited the scene of the accident observed a […]
Continue ReadingBy the time President Muhammadu Buhari turned up at the jummat prayer at the Presidential Villa Mosque on Friday, a lot of Nigerians were probably eagerly waiting to see him take the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, as his second wife. What they were expecting, however never happened, […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Court of Appeal on Friday sacked the Senator representing Kogi West, in Kogi State, Dino Melaye. A three man panel of the appellate court in a judgment delivered upheld the decision of the Kogi State National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal which nullified his election as Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District on account of […]
Continue ReadingA leaked memo has revealed how President Muhammadu Buhari is said to have recently ordered the Nigeria Police Force to extend by three years, the service of his nephew, Abdulkarim Dauda, in the force. A memo to that effect was shared on Twitter and self website by Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D, a critic of Buhari and […]
Continue ReadingThe Lagos State House of Assembly on Thursday threatened to issue a warrant of arrest on the former governor of the state, Akinwunmi Ambode and four others who served under the ex-governor as commissioners. This decision followed two preliminary reports presented by two different ad-hoc committees set up by the House to investigate the 820 […]
Continue ReadingCharly Boy announces the death of his mother, the Oputa matriarch, Mrs Margaret Ntianu Oputa. He writes: “I wish to announce the death of our Mother Mrs Margaret Ntianu Oputa nee Onumonu which occurred Tuesday the 8th of October, 2019. My dearest Mother, You couldn’t just wait for me to come back before you sneaked […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday declined to comment on the outcome of his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the agenda of the meeting between President Buhari and Jonathan, which lasted for about 15 minutes, was unknown to newsmen. The former president, […]
Continue ReadingThe Ekiti state governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has suggested that Nigeria can scrap the senate and arguing that all the country really needs is a unicameral legislature. Contributing at the just concluded 25th edition of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group conference, the governor said Nigeria has to look into the size of government. He said: […]
Continue ReadingEarlier Wednesday, Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari received in a courtesy visit, at the State House, former Nigerian ministers who served him when he was military head of state from 1984 to 1985. Some of the former ministers who visited Buhari included; Brig. Gen. Ahmed Abdullahi, Dr Emmanuel Nsan, Amb. Ibrahim Gambari, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Magoro […]
Continue ReadingThe mayor of Las Margaritas in Mexico, Jorge Luis Escandón Hernández got humiliated by angry villagers for failing to fulfill his campaign promise of repairing a local road. A video which has gone viral online captured moment he was dragged out of his office, tied to a pick-up truck and dragged through the streets of Santa Rita, a […]
Continue ReadingSenator Bernie Sanders’ family is in mourning after his daughter-in-law Dr. Rainè Riggs suddenly died over the weekend at 46. Rainè Riggs, a mother-of-three, died on Saturday, October 5, just two days after she was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer, according to her obituary from the Lee & Martin Funeral Home in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. According to her family, Riggs, who was married to Levi […]
Continue ReadingConference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has thrown its weight behind a suggestion by former governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha that Nigeria should adopt a reduced Parliamentary representation from each state of the federation as part of efforts to decrease government’s running costs. Reacting to the proposed reduction of the numbers of legislative […]
Continue ReadingItaly’s parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved slashing the number of lawmakers, a move the left-leaning government hopes will help keep the far-right from power. Reducing the number of MPs and senators in Italy by 345 was a flagship manifesto promise of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, which rules in coalition with the country’s centre-left, and promised voters it would […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian Army, on Tuesday, released the report of an inquiry into the killing of policemen and civilian by soldiers at a check point in Taraba state in August. The report was released to the newsmen by Col Onyema Nwachukwu, Nigerian Army’s Director of Defence Information. Soldiers of the 93 Battalion had shot dead 3 […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, laid the 2020 appropriation bill before a joint session of Nigeria’s National Assembly. The President presented N10.7trillion for the year 2020 budget estimates. Buhari, who arrived the National Assembly chambers at about 2 p.m., presented the budget to lawmakers under atmosphere free of booing, rancour or disruption as it […]
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