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In the last election cycle, I was a strident supporter of President Jonathan. I wrote extensively in support of his re-election. Elections are never about choosing the best people for positions of authority. They are about choosing the best of the available candidates. This means we are often required to choose the best out of […]

The center is refusing to hold for the All Progressives Congress (APC) as Senate President, Bukola Saraki; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; and a former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso who are members will soon announce their exit from the party. These foremost members of the former new PDP bloc are […]

Five teachers of the Polytechnic Academic Staff Secondary School, Birnin Kebbi, have been sacked for impregnating an SS3 student of the school. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt on Wednesday that the girl was also expelled from the school. Sources confirmed that the decision to dismiss the five teachers followed the recommendation of a committee […]

Most of our top female celebrities were at the New Afrika Shrine attending the ‘Celebrate African Culture’ event with the French President, Emmanuel Macron last night, the 3rd of July 2018. It was a night of quiet elegance, class, superb cuisine and good wine. Of course, the music was spectacular. 1. Omotola Jalade wearing this beautiful black […]

Reports coming in have it that a Federal High Court, sitting in Osogbo, Osun state, Nigeria, has ordered the National Assembly to immediately commence impeachment process against President Muhammadu Buhari. The court, presided over by Justice Maurine Adaobi Onyetenu gave the order, Wednesday, July 4 2018, while granting the prayers in the suit filed by […]

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, on Tuesday, confronted the Independent National Electoral Commission with video evidence of pre-loading of card readers in the state. The challenge came a day after a National Commissioner with INEC, Mrs Aminat Zakari, challenged the governor to prove allegations that she had conspired with three others to pre-load card readers, […]

Senator Shehu Sani (APC, Kaduna) has revealed plans by aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress in Kaduna State to leave the party. He told reporters in Abuja, on Tuesday, that the new APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole  assumed office at a time it had become too late to reconcile them with the party. Sani said, “I […]

The children of the late Afrobeat icon, Fela Anikulapo Kuti must be proud of their father, as French president, Emmanuel Macron was at the Afrika Shrine night club live, 21 years after the death of the founder. You can see simplicity at its best as Macron arrived the night club, Afrika Shrine, in a casual […]

Nigerian Police have named suspects in the Plateau and Benue killings. No fewer than 84 people were killed when suspected herdsmen attacked villages in three local government areas of Plateau State. There has been consistent killings in parts of Benue State, also by gunmen believed to be herdsmen. Police spokesman Jimoh Moshood named some of […]

French President, Emmanuel Macron, has urged Nigerian youths to get involved with politics to change the narrative of the country. Macron, while describing politics as important, said only Nigerians could change their image before the comity of nations. The French President, who was accompanied by Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, gave the challenge during […]

A sexy model yesterday posed topless in awe of Russia’s star goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev. Maria Liman, 24, stripped for the camera — and her 441,000 Instagram admirers — as she was so impressed with Akinfeev’s reflexes in Russia’s latest World Cup scalp. The stunning architect and model called the 32-year-old ‘keeper “superman”. She posted online: […]

Police officers had to be called in to settle a crisis which rocked Nigerian church, the Celestial Church of Christ, Staten-Island Parish, in New-York City. It was gathered that the members who are mainly Nigerians (judging from their Yoruba dialect), engaged themselves in a heated quarrel between two factions to the extent that the police […]

7 policemen have been killed and many civilians injured when gunmen opened fire on them in Abuja on Monday night. The policemen were on stop-and-search duty operation at Galadimawa roundabout, a suburb in Abuja. A resident of the community told journalist that the armed men were stopped for search by the police when they opened […]

A Channelstv’s video showing policemen protesting, Monday, in Maiduguri has disproved the denial by the police hierarchy of such protest. Some Police personnel on Monday barricaded the command headquarters located on Maiduguri-Kano expressway, causing disruption of traffic. “About 10,000 mobile policemen were deployed to the state from different commands but we have not received our allowances in […]

About now, Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, who returned last night from AU Summit in Mauritania, will be getting ready to hold bilateral talks with President Emmanuel Macron of France at the presidential villa, Abuja, Tuesday, at 4.00pm Nigerian time. NAN reports that the French leader would discuss issues bordering on security and terrorism with President Buhari. Macron had on […]

State of the nation: In the last two weeks, over 200 persons in Plateau State were reportedly killed by Fulani herdsmen, 45 villages were ransacked and sacked and those villages we are told have been taken over by Fulanis, and the original owners have had to flee from their homes. There has also been some […]

Veteran Nollywood and TV Soaps actor, Ignis Ekwe, who was popular for his roles in rested soap operas like “Behind The Clouds,” “Cockcrow At Dawn” and “Everyday People” etc, has passed away. The actor passed away on Monday, July 2, 2018, after a brief illness. His death was confirmed by his daughter and Nigerian singer, Susan […]

There was drama, last night, in Ilesha, Osun State, after a commercial sex worker fled for dear life due to the violent way her client handled her in bed, after promising to pay N5k for her service. In a video posted online, the lady, who ran out of the room, can be heard saying: “I […]

Here is the beautiful 23-year-old Sherrie Silver, who masterminded the dance choreography on Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America’. The ebony beauty, Sherrie spoke to BBC about coming to the UK from Rwanda, developing her interest in dance, and why Africa is still so important to her. Watch her interview below: Source and credit: BBC

Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), in a press release, Monday, said it was in doubt that Nigerian government was earnest in seeking ways to end the wanton killings of innocent people by Fulani herdsmen in the Middle-Belt and other regions of Nigeria. The press release states: “The latest horrendous massacre of scores of innocent […]