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Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC) has released names of 31 senior lawyers conferred with the prestigious rank of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) for the year 2018. It appears that the list contains the name of only one woman. See the full list below: List credit: The Guardian. Wig image: Informationng

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flays President Muhammadu Buhari and what it called his dysfunctional All Progressives Congress (APC) for attempting to claim credit for the Abuja Light Rail Project, even when Nigerians are aware that the project was conceptualized, initiated and policy-propelled by the PDP. The party said: “President Buhari’s showboating and rushing to commission […]

About 50 people were gruesomely murdered in villages around Gandi in Rabah Local Government of Sokoto State on Tuesday according to latest reports. President Muhammadu Buhari, while reacting to attack, condemned the act saying he will spare no effort in stopping killings in the country. Buhari said his administration will not allow any group of barbarians and […]

Married to a young lady four months ago, elder brother of a former governor of Delta state, James Ibori, and former Unugbrogo of Oghara kingdom, Chief Williams Ibori is dead. He reportedly passed away very early this morning, according to some online sources. Some others say he might have died late last night. Mourning his […]

A retired Director of Mobilisation at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mr. Anthony Ani, has cited reasons why the purported ‘Certificate of Exemption’ owned by Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, is not genuine and “wouldn’t have emanated from the NYSC.” Mr Ani, who appeared on Channels Television’s breakfast show, Sunrise Daily, said the certificate has footprints […]

Kolapo Olusola Campaign Organisation (KOCO) of the Ekiti State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Thursday, alleged that the Federal Government of Nigeria has moved N18 billion cash with bullion vans into Ekiti State through Akure airport with the purpose of allegedly inducing the electorate with the money during Saturday’s poll. Lere Olayinka, Director, Media and Publicity […]

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus, has led the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to the National Assembly to protest against the alleged assault by men of the Nigeria Police on the Gover‎nor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose. Also at the protest, which held at the main gate to […]

Nigerian Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Mr. Solomon Dalung said he has summoned the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Suleiman Kazaure, over the controversy trailing the authenticity of the Exemption Certificate tendered by the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun. Dalung explained that the summon was for Kazaure to come brief […]

President Emmanuel Macron of France was in Nigeria recently. One of the things his trip achieved was bringing out his host, President Muhammadu Buhari, to speak to Nigerians at a press conference. It is ironical that Nigerians needed the French leader to prise their President out of his hiding place, but the reality is also […]

The system of government favoured by Nigerians has always been the democratic system. Even military governments in Nigeria seize power ostensibly in the interest of upholding or promoting democratic structures. We even had a period, under Ibrahim Babangida, when a military government at the federal level orchestrated democratic structures and elections at the state and […]

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has described the death of Nigerian ambassador to Sao Tome and Principe, Queen Imaria Worlu, as unfortunate. The Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Olukunle Bamgbose, stated this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja, on Wednesday, saying that the ministry received the sad news of […]

Awhile ago, Croatia just defeated England in the semi final of the 2018 world cup football tournament. Early in the second period of extra time. A ball nodded back in with a tiny gap behind the England defense, and Mandzukic summoned whatever he had left and went for it. The ball fell, Mandzukic beat his […]

Some Nigerians have spoken on social media about the claim by the Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State that policemen slapped him. Fayose had alleged that the entrance to the Ekiti State Government House was blocked by the Nigeria Mobile Police personnel who were also shooting guns sporadically in the area. The governor further alleged […]

Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari has told Ekiti State voters to embrace the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Kayode Fayemi in the next Saturday’s election, and not allow themselves to be demeaned by the concept of stomach infrastructure. But the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described Tuesday’s rally by the APC in […]

You should have seen me shaking my head in self-pity, as if somebody had just mercilessly slapped me. I had just landed at the “little” Kotoka International Airport, Accra, Ghana, and needed to use the rest room. What I saw startled me. There were about a dozen toilet cubicles. All the doors were standing tall […]

Adeyemi Alao, the boyfriend and suspected killer of Miss Khadijat Oluboyo, daughter of the immediate past Deputy Governor of Ondo State, has been arrested by the Ondo State Police Command. Photo showing the room where he buried her beneath his bed has also emerged. 20-year-old Khadijat, a final year student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, was found dead in […]

A randy couple were spotted having sex on a packed beach in Lincolnshire on Friday in full view of families who were enjoying a day out. Sarah Carrington spotted the pair in the act as she walked along Ingoldmells beach during the day with her partner. She said her jaw dropped when she realised what […]

Two lovers identified as Ikechukwu Egbulefu and Vera John, have been apprehended by officials of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly trafficking young ladies to Lagos for prostitution. Speaking while parading the suspects on Monday, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, said the suspects allegedly trafficked girls from Imo, Akwa-Ibom and River […]

A lawyer, Mr Francis Obalim, and a political party, Action Peoples Party, on Monday, filed separate suits asking the Federal High Court in Abuja to order the sacking of the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, on the grounds of her alleged failure to possess a valid discharge certificate issued by the National Youth Service […]

Immediate past deputy governor of Ondo State, Alhaji Lasisi Oluboyo, the bereaved father of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko final year student, Khadijah, who was allegedly killed for ritual purpose, has resigned to fate over the death of his first child. The deceased was murdered under mysterious circumstances by her Abuja-based boyfriend, Adeyemi Alao, in […]