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“What’s gwan inna wa cwantry?” “What language is that?” “English of course.” “Sounds like Creole to me. Why don’t you just talk straight?” “Nobody talks straight in this country anymore.” “I still talk straight. I can’t start twisting my tongue because some people have lost it.” “Okay, I was asking what is going on in […]

Alter Ego, since opening in cinemas across the nation on Friday, July 21 has gone on to claim the number 1 spot in Nigeria. Prior to Alter Ego’s opening, Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dunkirk ‘ held the number 1 spot before being displaced by the Moses Inwang directed movie. Alter Ego is expected to retain the coveted […]

Nigerian Senate has commenced debate on the review of some major parts of the 1999 Constitution stated for amendment. This is sequel to the presentation of the report of the Senate committee on the review of the 1999 constitution, presented by Deputy Senate President Ike Ekwerenmadu, during the plenary session on Tuesday. Important highlights of the amendment include the reduction […]

Seven governors will meet with President Muhammadu Buhari in London on Wednesday, more than 80 days after he left the country for medical attention. Media aides to the President, Femi Adesina and Shehu Garba, told State House correspondents that the governors would meet with President Buhari by 3pm and hold a series of discussions with […]

Photos of this Nigerian man smiling in front of his house in Makoko which was flooded during the heavy downpour in Lagos last weekend, have gone viral. Many are hailing him for still finding something to smile about despite his situation, which was so bad that the rain water got up to his chest. Wetin man […]

Model and video vixen, Sira Kante goes topless for a racy Calvin Klein campaign. See more of her photos below: Photo credit: Sira Kante, Calvin Klein, LIB

Femi Adeshina, Special Adviser to Nigerian President on Media and Publicity, issued a statement that President Muhammadu Buhari has written to thank the President of Guinea, Alpha Conde, for the nationwide prayers held last week by Guineans for his recovery and good health. In a letter dated July 24, 2017, President Buhari, who had earlier made a phone call to Conde, who […]

As posted, this was the looks of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Surulere, Lagos on Saturday after a heavy rainfall. Twitter user Dr. Anne Muyiwa asked: How will emergency cases receive immediate attention?

Some youths have stormed the Nigeria’s National Assembly in a protest, shutting down the main entrance after security officials allegedly denied them access. Reports say the protesters are members of the ‘I support #NottooYoungtoRun’ movement who seek a constitutional backing for young Nigerians to be able to vie for elective positions. The protesters who had […]

Some inmates of Okaka Prisons in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, on Monday detonated an improvised explosive device in an attempted jail break. But six of them were said to have been rearrested even as sources near the facility say some prisoners may have escaped given the time it took for reinforcement. Nigerian Prison authorities habitually cover […]

It is time to expand the dialogue on creating a new kind of leadership for the Yoruba by laying the foundation for identifying, selecting, creating and electing authentic leaders. There are many issues facing the South-West as a region, as a people and as Yoruba. Like we did in a time past, we must focus […]

Princess Zainab Abba, wife of late Business Mogul, Alhaji Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo, celebrated her 75th birthday with friends and family on Saturday, at her Ikoyi, Lagos residence. Her son, Mr. Segun Awolowo Jnr, Chief Rasak Okoya, Justice Oguntade, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, Tunde & Reni Folawiyo,  Aliko Dangote, Femi Otedola, Yeye Oge of Lagos -Oprah Benson, Erelu Abiola […]

Yoruba actor, Olurotimi Isaiah Ayinde popularly known as Abu Olododo has died. According to reports, he died this morning in his hometown Abeokuta, Ogun State after a brief illness. His death comes barely 48-hours after veteran actor and poet Adebayo Faleti died in Ibadan over the weekend. May his soul rest in peace, amen. (LIB)

On May 1, 1959, the Nigerian Airways Limited was inaugurated during the tenure of Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola (1910-1966) as minister of Aviation, giving Nigeria its fledging national airline. Chief Raymond Amanze. A. Njoku (1915-1977) succeeded Chief Akintola as the first supervisory minister to midwife the new airline. The first board appointed by the government […]

The Naira on Monday regained strength against the US dollar at the parallel market, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The Nigerian currency gained one point to exchange at N365 to the dollar at the parallel market, stronger than N366 posted on Friday, while the Pound Sterling and the Euro traded at N475 and N420 respectively. At the Bureau […]

Students of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) on Monday barricaded the main gate of the institution to protest against alleged extortion by one of the lecturers in the institution, Dr Dosu Malomo. The students were also demanding that the institution’s authorities should put machinery in motion that would facilitate the conduct of elections into its Students’ […]

Until two months ago, I had never entered a morgue. Also, I had never seen a corpse at close range. I’ve passed by accident scenes but I’ve never been lucky enough to catch a glimpse of the victims; I wasn’t lucky enough to come to the world with the sharpest of eyes. On rare occasions, […]

Nigeria’s acting president, Yemi Osinbajo, on Monday evening, had a closed door meeting with Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima, Minister of Defence Masur Dan-Ali and all the service chiefs at his office in the presidential villa Abuja. The Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. Gen. Gabriel Abayomi Olonishakin, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen. Tukur Buratai and the […]

Remember Victoria Inyama? When women were still girls, She was one of the movers and shakers in Nollywood. She looks great in these photos. Photo: LIB

The picture of a handful of APC Governors and President Muhammadu Buhari, which was purportedly taken in London yesterday, is old and fake. I have been reliably informed that they were taken during Ramadan in Abuja some time back and not yesterday in London. Quite apart from that even though the picture was meant to […]