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Senior Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, was a guest on Channels TV this morning where he spoke on the new photo of President Buhari meeting with some APC governors and party chieftains in the UK yesterday July 23rd. Adesina during the interview said after two years in office, Nigerians […]

In an attempt  to raise much needed funds, the Finance Minister, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, has come up with the most ludicrous suggestions of all time : she plans to tax even beggars on their ‘earnings’. She made this perfectly clear at a news conference in Lagos recently. May I remind the Honourable Minister that ‘begging’ […]

Here’s what the capital of Rivers state, Port Harcourt looks like after some hours of downpour! Someone said it looks like Venice, an Italian city built on water! Kikikiki! More photos below:   LIB

Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai was pictured taking off his shoes outside a mosque in Kagarko Local Government Area where he performed Juma’at Prayers last Friday. The Governor received a rousing welcome from the residents. See photos below. LIB  

After years of all of us wondering who was the masquerade behind all those funny and witty tweets from the official twitter page of EFCC, the EFCC twitter handle this afternoon revealed @FshawKingFisher as its handler. From the tweet shared and his response, it seems ‘The Handler’ has resigned and moved on from the job. There […]

Nigeria’s Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday, visited the12-12 Polo and Turf Club in Abuja dressed in a polo kit that made him look boyish. He was accompanied by FCT Minister Mohammed Bello, where he named the designated horse “Alala” meaning “dreamer” as he said “every great thing starts with a dream.” See more photos of the […]

According to LIB, President Buhari met with the National Chairman of APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and some state governors in London earlier Sunday. In a telephone conversation following the meeting, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, said the President was very cheerful and has not lost any bit of his sense of humour. Okorocha said […]

Star singer, Wizkid performed at the 4th anniversary of Barbeque live in Nairobi, Kenya. Wizkid performed all of his hits ranging from Come Closer, African Bad girl, This kind Love and so on. Despite the heavy downpour, Wizkid made sure his performance would go down as one to remember. Nairaland

Britain has expressed its readiness to invest in pipeline infrastructure, renewable energy, gas and power of the Nigerian oil and gas industry. British High Commissioner, Mr. Paul Arkwright, made this promise when the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, visited the Chancery of British High Commission […]

The National Council on Information (NCI) has recommended the “setting up of a Council to regulate the use of social media in Nigeria.” The recommendation is contained in a communique issued at the end of Extraordinary Meeting of NCI on Hate Speeches, Fake News and National Unity held on Friday in Jos. In the communique […]

Fellow Nigerians, I didn’t know whether to cry or laugh when I got a call early this week from Ambassador Dayo Israel, one of the brightest youths I had mentored in my own modest way some years ago. It was a plaintive cry for help after the debacle of a failed local government chairmanship aspiration […]

Robbers in custody at a police station in Isheri Osun, Lagos escaped from their cell at night by removing the station’s roof without the knowledge of the officers on duty. The notorious robbers were arrested by police with the help of residents, however, by morning, police revealed they had escaped from their cell. Residents of […]

For a long time, Jesus was a big problem in my life. I simply could not handle the truth of God that he reveals. Before I met Jesus, I was convinced I was righteous. I lived my life under a strict code of principles and precepts, which I believed set me apart from the rest […]

The Gamaliel and Susan Onosode Foundation, GAMSU, has donated N400 million to the Lagos Business School toward the enhancement of the institute’s research activities. The LBS said in a statement that the donation was the second and last tranche of GAMSU’s disbursement in fulfillment of its pledge to the school. It said the donation was given by the Onosode […]

The Igbo Man’s Interview The other day, I caught part of a television interview of a young man of Igbo extraction. He lamented that the South East Geographical Zone had been cheated, because it only has 5 States, as opposed to the other zones which have 6 States, except the North West which has 7. […]

Have you noticed that one of the most difficult men to live with are those without jobs or those who are broke? If you don’t, wait until your man loses out in a business deal and has to depend on what you earn to keep body and soul going; then, you ‘ll see how he will […]

Nigeria’s Minister of Communications, Barrister Abdul-Raheem Adebayo Shittu has declared that the proposed first Information and Communications Technology (ICT), University in Nigeria will have only 30% admission opportunities for undergraduate students. The Minister, however, informed that the remaining 70% will be the training and retraining of graduates in courses such as Post Graduate Diplomas, Masters […]

Former Lagos State Governor and now Minister of Power, Works, and Housing, Babatunde Fashola​, ​did not vote on Saturday ​during the Lagos Local Government election​s.​ ​Reporters and residents around Ward G3, Unit 002, State Senior Grammar School, Itolo, where he normally ​cast his vote, waited endlessly for the Senior Advocate of Nigeria​. ​Fashola did not […]

Renown and veteran Yoruba actor, broadcaster, poet and writer, Chief Adebayo Faleti has passed away. Faleti, an old student of Ibadan Boys High School died Sunday morning at University College Hospital, Ibadan at about 6. am according to sources. Chief Adebayo Faleti who happened to be one of the pioneer staff of the first television […]

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, says efforts are ongoing to develop a universal cure for HIV and cancer through collaboration. Barre-Sinoussi, a co-discoverer of the HIV, said this in Paris while conducting some select journalists on a tour of the sophisticated laboratories at Institut Pasteur. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Barre-Sinoussi and […]