I really feel for Peter Obi ―Nigerian Catholic priest writes

Rev. Fr. Kelvin Ugwu, Nigerian Catholic priest, has seemingly taken a dig at people who said they will teach the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, a lesson during the 2023 general election. In a Facebook post last week Saturday, the priest wrote: “We will teach Obi a lesson,” they said. […]

Continue Reading

Nigeria’s EFCC asks Presidency, FJC, MDAs to submit anti-corruption strategies on abuse of contracts

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has asked the Nigerian Presidency, the Federal Judicial Commission, and other Ministries, Departments and Agencies, to submit their anti-corruption strategies, as part of the agency’s efforts to stop the abuse of contracts. The Ministries, Departments and Agencies have up to March 1, 2024 to submit their strategies to […]

Continue Reading

Photo news from the burial of former Ondo State governor, Rotimi Akeredolu

Funeral service of the late Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu was held at the St. Andrews Church, Imola Street, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria, on Friday February 23, 2024. The governor died on 27th December 2023 after a protracted illness. The funeral service was attended by Vice President Kashim Shettima, many state governors, APC National […]

Continue Reading

Nigeria’s INEC releases 526-page document on 2023 general election

Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed that it has published a comprehensive 526-page document on the 2023 general election. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, in a statement issued Friday, said the report showcases the election’s unparalleled diversity in party representation, demonstrating significant democratic progress. He said: […]

Continue Reading

At Akeredolu’s burial service, Bishop urges Tinubu to reduce current hunger and hardship

Anglican Bishop of Ikwerre Diocese, in River State, Nigeria, Dr. Blessing Enyindah, has called on President Bola Tinubu to as a matter of urgency address the increasing hunger and hardship currently facing Nigerians. Many Nigerians have been begging the government to find solutions to the continued increase in the prices of food in the country. […]

Continue Reading

Police arrests Labour Party national chairman, Julius Abure

National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Julius Abure, has been arrested by security operatives in Edo State. Abure was arrested on Wednesday, by operatives of the Zone 5 police headquarters in Benin, a few days before the party’s primary election in Edo State. It was gathered that his arrest was the result of […]

Continue Reading

Guinean military junta dissolves government, closes country’s borders

Guinea’s military junta, which seized power through a coup in September 2021, has officially dissolved the government, as announced through a presidential decree read on state TV by the presidency’s Secretary General, Brig Gen Amara Camara. Very sketchy was the announcement, as it was not followed by details regarding the rationale of this dissolution, or […]

Continue Reading

Nigeria’s EFCC investigators discover new N17bn fraud in humanitarian ministry

Final word is not here yet about the allegation of fraud rocking the Ministry of Humanitarian and Social Inclusion as operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigating the issue have uncovered a fresh fraud of N17bn linked to the ministry. Sunday Tribune confirmed on Saturday in Abuja that the EFCC officials, who were […]

Continue Reading

Hafsat Bakari nominated to replace Modibbo at NFIU

In a statement, President Bola Tinubu has nominated Ms. Hafsat Abubakar Bakari as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU). The statement was released on X (Twitter) handle on Tuesday, by Mr. Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser Information and Strategy to President Tinubu. It reads: “President Bola Tinubu has nominated […]

Continue Reading

Ohanaeze warns Igbo not to join the hardship protests in the country

Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, the socio-political group of Nigerians of southeast extraction on Monday in Enugu directed that Nigerians from the geopolitical zone should not partake in a planned national protest. There had been plans by some groups that Nigerians at home and in the diaspora should embark on protests over their declared economic hardships in […]

Continue Reading

You snatched power, now perform your Lagos miracles —Dalung lambastes Tinubu

Former Nigerian Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung has lambasted the Tinubu-led government for consistently attributing Nigeria’s economic challenges to ex-President, Muhammad Buhari. Taking to his X handle in a series of posts on Monday, Dalung argued that if Tinubu’s administration devoted the same resources and effort used during elections and tribunals to tackle […]

Continue Reading

Tinubu captured sleeping at the African Union summit

President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria has been sighted sleeping during the 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) earlier on Saturday. During the 37th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a photograph surfaced capturing Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu who apparently slept off. The image, […]

Continue Reading

Nigerian lawyer who allegedly brutalised 11-year-old maid surrenders to police

After a N2m bounty placed on her by Nigeria’s Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, female Nigerian lawyer, Adachukwu Okafor, who allegedly abused her 11-year-old maid has surrendered herself to the police and will be arraigned in court. Chidimma Ikeanyionwu, the media aide to the State Women and Social Welfare Commissioner, Hon Ify Obinabo, who […]

Continue Reading

Court orders Nigerian govt to re-open prosecution of Dele Giwa’s alleged killers

A Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja Nigeria, on Friday, ordered Nigerian government to investigate, prosecute and punish perpetrators of the murder of founder of Newswatch Magazine, Dele Giwa, and other journalists in the country. Mr Giwa was 39 years old, when, on October 19, 1986, he was blown to smithereens by a parcel bomb […]

Continue Reading

Nigerian govt withdraws treasonable felony case against Omoyele Sowore

Nigerian government has applied to withdraw the treasonable felony charge that the former President Muhammadu Buhari-led government filed against a civil rights activist and convener of the #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, in 2019. Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, in a letter dated February 14, which he wrote […]

Continue Reading

Russian opposition leader and President Putin’s critic Alexei Navalny dies in prison

Russia’s most significant opposition leader and President Vladimir Putin’s critic has died in an Arctic Circle jail at the age of 47. According to the Russian prison service, he collapsed and died on Friday, February 16, after a walk at the “Polar Wolf” Arctic penal colony where he was serving a three-decade jail term. The […]

Continue Reading

Jealous nurse slices off her boyfriend’s penis in his sleep, accuses him of infidelity

A jealous nurse sliced her boyfriend’s penis off with a kitchen knife as he slept following a heated row over his alleged infidelity in Peru. The healthcare worker, named Marleni Rimarachin Colunche, is said to have carried out the bloody attack on Iván Céspedes, her partner of four years. The couple, both aged 39, worked […]

Continue Reading