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Nigeria’s Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinaya Abaribe, knocked the Nigerian Bar Association on Tuesday for “failing to speak up” when President Muhammadu Buhari suspended former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen. Abaribe stated that the Senate waited in vain for the NBA and the judiciary to act in order to save the situation, because […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement, the United States Embassy in Nigeria has said that, effective from Thursday, August 29, 2019, Nigerians applying for tourism, student and business (non-immigrant) visas will not only pay the N59,200 fee but will have to pay an extra $110 (N40,700) after the visa has been issued to them bringing the total cost […]
Continue ReadingA Federal High Court judge in Nigeria, Justice Idrissa Saleh, has been declared missing after he went out in a taxi and has not returned home since Saturday. It was learnt that his family, who are worried about his safety, reported the incident to the police after Saleh failed to return home after discharging himself […]
Continue ReadingThe founder of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo, is being interrogated by detectives from the Nigerian Police over the rape allegations leveled against him by Busola, a photographer and wife of popular singer, Timi Dakolo, according to Punch. The Punch reports that the Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Frank Mba, said this […]
Continue ReadingVeteran actress and Nurse, Regina Askia, joined the conversation of FBI’s arrest of 77 Nigerians for cyber fraud by revealing the aspersion it has cast on the Nigerian community in the United States. Regina also told honest hardworking Nigerian-Americans to brace up, as they all will now have to “walk in the shadow of suspicion […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s electricity generation companies (Gencos) at the weekend produced “lowest generation of 2,854.3MW.” The System Operation of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) that disclosed this on its website also said the peak generation that was recorded on August 23, 2019, was 4,439.8mw. It added that energy recorded in that day was 86,033.72mwh, which is […]
Continue ReadingA prominent Catholic Bishop kidnapped in Cameroon has been released by his abductors in the country’s volatile English-speaking Northwest region. “Bishop George Nkuo of the Catholic Diocese of Kumbo has been released by his captors. He is back in the parish and in good health,” the officials said in a statement. Armed separatists claimed responsibility […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Wole Soyinka has accused the Buhari-led administration of using security agencies to silence Nigerians. The Nobel Laureate made this claim at the unveiling of an art gallery in commemoration of his 85th birthday. Insisting that such move only shows that the government is afraid, Soyinka added that it also reduces those running the government. […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian senator, comrade Shehu Sani has said that the controversy surrounding the arrest and re-arrest of kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Bala aka Wadume proves Gen. TY Danjuma, a former minister of defence, right about his comment in 2018 that the armed forces collude in the killing of Nigerians. Gen. Danjuma, while speaking at the maiden […]
Continue ReadingThe Mosuo people of China. Photo credit: Christian Girault Many people will be shocked to know that there are communities around the world where women are bosses over men. Some of these communities are matrilineal and matriarchal with women regarded as more important than men. We have researched and here is our findings: 1). Mosuo […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal Government on Saturday promised to address the housing deficit by delivering one million houses per year to close the 17 million shortfall by the year 2033. The Minister of State, Works and Housing, Mr Abubakar Aliyu, disclosed this in Abuja on Saturday during an inspection of the Federal Housing Authority mass housing project […]
Continue ReadingIts like 50 Cent is not done dragging Wendy Williams anytime soon, as he fired up his Instagram to go off on the daytime show host. Reacting to a photo of Tiffany Haddish and Wendy Williams, 50 Cent described The Wendy Williams Show host as a ‘monster and an ugly motherf*cker’. He wrote: “Tiffany wait, […]
Continue ReadingFormer national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on Friday said the party will have challenges in retaining the ruling party status in 2023 general elections. The ex-national chairman of the ruling party said this in an interview with Arise News. He said the issues will arise because President Muhammadu Buhari, […]
Continue ReadingWife of the Anglican Bishop of Ikeduru Diocese, Emmanuel Maduwuike has been kidnapped. She was kidnapped on Thursday by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers in Imo State, Nigeria. The victim Mrs Anuri Maduwuike was abducted while she was going home from Owerri, the State capital. Reports say that Maduwuike’s wife was waylaid at Ekemele and […]
Continue ReadingIn spite of the fact that Nigerians believe so much in prayer to succeed in their daily endeavours, former Lagos State Governor, now Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola has a contrary view. No doubt, Fashola shocked all on Friday when he told members of Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s cabinet to throw prayer […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has said that no tariff increase has been approved by the commission yet. In a statement, Mr Usman Arabi, NERC’s General Manager, Public Affairs, on Friday, in Abuja, said it was still consulting with stakeholders. He said that the commission wished to notify the public that no tariff increase had been […]
Continue ReadingThe National and State Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Lokoja, has on Friday sacked Senator Dino Melaye as the Senator representing Kogi West at Nigeria’s National Assembly. In its judgement, the Tribunal ordered that fresh elections should be held in the senatorial district, according to TheCable. Details coming….
Continue ReadingOyo State House of Assembly has confirmed Seun Fakorede, a 27-year-old, as commissioner for youth and sport, according to PM News. Governor Seyi Makinde had sent Fakorede’s name to the Assembly alongside that of Professor Raphael Afonja, and Faosat Joke Sunni in a list of his second batch of cabinet nominees. The three were screened […]
Continue ReadingThe lawmaker representing Denge/Shuni State Constituency at the Sokoto State House of Assembly, Aminu Magaji Bodai, has been kidnapped. A close relation of the lawmaker said that he was kidnapped by suspected hoodlums around 1:15 a.m. between Dange and Bodai town on Thursday morning. “I can confirm to you that my brother was kidnapped by […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal Government through the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has increased the tariff payable by power consumers across the country. Findings from various documents obtained from the NERC on Wednesday in Abuja showed that beginning from next year, power consumers will have to pay an additional sum of between N8 and N14 for every kilowatt-hour […]
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