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Showing their concern about some of the events culminating in Nigeria’s next year’s general elections, 4 United States senators; Jeff Flake, Cory Booker, Johnny Isakson and Christopher Coons came out strongly in the week and insisted that Nigeria must build off on the peaceful transfer of power she pulled off in 2015 as she gears […]
Continue ReadingThe traditional ruler of Isaoye Ekiti in Moba Local Government Area of Ekiti state, Oba Gabriel Olajide and his subjects are at war over his opposition to certain traditional rites. According to The News, the allegations leveled against the monarch by the community’s chiefs and indigenes included high handedness, incessant harassment of subjects using the […]
Continue ReadingUnion Bank, one of Nigeria’s oldest financial institutions, on Friday night, admitted ownership of a large consignment of cash which anti-graft operatives said they intercepted at the international airport in Enugu, Nigeria. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) announced in a statement Friday evening that two men were arrested at Akanu Ibiam International Airport […]
Continue ReadingTwo individuals have been intercepted carrying $2.8million cash at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu. They were arrested by the officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Enugu Zone. The suspects, identified as Ighoh Augustine and Ezekwe Emmanuel, claimed to be workers of Bankers Warehouse. The EFCC said the two men concealed the cash […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari commissioned the new terminal at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Nigeria, on Thursday. The President said, the event represents yet another significant milestone for international air travelers in and out of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Buhari stated that it gives him “great pleasure to be here for the formal […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Senate, Thursday, confirmed the appointment of Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye as the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). The upper chamber also confirmed eight others as members of the ICPC board. They are: Grace Chinda from Delta, Okolo Titus (Enugu), Obiora Igwedebia (Anambra), Olubukola Balogun (Lagos) and Justice Adamu […]
Continue ReadingGhanaian President, Mr. Nana Akufo-Addo, has sacked 3 High Court Judges, indicted for corruption and bribe-taking three years ago. The sacked judges are Ayisi Addo, Uuter Paul Dery and Mustapha Habib Logoh. The trio were among those implicated by Ghanaian investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas for acts of corruption and bribe-taking in 2015. The judges were removed […]
Continue ReadingHistory of Nigerian aviation will be incomplete without the mention of Maiduguri and Kano city, where the first aircraft landed in Nigeria on November 1, 1925. A book by Vincent Orange: “Coningham: A Biography of Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham”, vividly captured the expedition. Led by the then Flight Lt. Coningham, the air trip began […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Appeal Court, Ibadan Division, has sacked Senator Buruji Kashamu and other ‘candidates’ in the Dayo Adebayo-led faction of the Ogun State PDP, leaving Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu and others who emerged through the party’s primaries as the authentic candidates of the party in the 2019 elections. The 3-man appeal panel delivered judgement today, Tuesday, December 18, […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has responded to Garba Shehu, who earlier Monday claimed that the former President is to be blamed over Buhari’s failure to appoint ministers on time. Garba Shehu appeared on a Channel’s TV show and said, the refusal of Jonathan’s government to cooperate with the transition committee had a negative effect on the […]
Continue ReadingPresidential flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has posed ten questions President Muhammadu Buhari must answer. In a statement by his media team, Atiku, while criticizing Buhari’s anti-corruption war, cited some cases Nigerians needed answers. Atiku, citing cases of abandoned corrupt cases, condemned the appearance of Babachir Lawal, Buhari’s former […]
Continue ReadingStatistician General of Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics, Dr. Yemi Kale, has responded to the comment by the presidency that his agency’s high unemployment statistics was wrong. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, on Channels Television programme, on Sunday, said Kale failed to reflect the rising rate of […]
Continue ReadingAs they begin on Monday, the National Assembly workers under the umbrella of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) have made good their threat to embark on a four-day strike. The workers, who are demanding mainly for the payment of arrears of 28 per cent increase in their salaries since 2010, stormed the National Assembly […]
Continue ReadingIt has been 10 years of mutual love. No wonder the former Super Eagles player, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, has to surprise his wife, Yvonne, with a Range Rover as her Christmas gift. An excited Yvonne shared the photo of the SUV on her Instagram page and thanked him. Yvonne and Yakubu got married in 2008.
Continue ReadingA veteran Nollywood actor, Elder Ifeanyi Ikenga Gbulie has passed away. Elder Danda, as he was famously called, died three days ago after battling stroke for years. He died in Enugu, Nigeria. Confirming the sad news of his demise, member of the Directors Guild of Nigeria (DGN), Chima Okoroji, said the late actor would be greatly […]
Continue ReadingINEC is reported to have shown how President Buhari benefited from manual verification during the 2015 presidential elections. According to TheCable, a report on the commission’s website, shows that President Buhari got most of the votes cast without bio-metric verification during the election. INEC report as explained above, is that 13,536,311 votes were cast manually during the […]
Continue ReadingNotable Nigerians are already backing a bi-partisan bill by 71 members of the House of Representatives to push for a constitutional amendment that will return Nigeria to parliamentary system of government. Led by Hon. Nicholas Osai (Delta, PDP), the lawmakers, who spoke with National Assembly correspondents on Thursday, said they were already collecting signatures to […]
Continue ReadingActing Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, said on Thursday that he was glad the Senate refused to confirm him as the substantive chairman of the anti-graft agency. EFCC acting chairman said this at the Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja where he was testifying in a libel suit he filed […]
Continue ReadingArgentine football legend, Diego Maradona, has allegedly been kicked out of the house he shared with his young fiancée, Rocio Oliva, even though he owns it. Maradona and Oliva have reportedly split. Argentine journalist, Lio Pecoraro, broke the news on the ‘Todas Las Tardes’ programme on the El Nueve channel. Pecoraro said: “The ex-footballer was […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has said that his government was in support of increasing the retirement age for teachers from 60 to 65 years. The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, standing-in for the president on Thursday, said Nigerian teachers, to some extent required a reasonable retirement age like their counterparts in India, Canada, Belgium. Adamu […]
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