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“This thing of being a hero, about the main thing, is to know when to die. Prolonged death has ruined more men than it ever made.”  –  William Penn Rogers, 1879-1935. Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke, Osun State’s first executive governor and two-term Nigerian  senator, has joined his ancestors. May God rest his soul! But for the […]

Leadership of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), under Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s fight against corruption as nothing but noise orchestrated to kill democracy in the country. The PDP also said that, through its previous governments, it laid the foundation and commenced the real fight against corruption in Nigeria through the creation […]

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, says he hadn’t met former Lagos state governor, Bola Tinubu, before the latter made him the state Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of the state during his administration between 1999 and 2007. Speaking at the gala night to celebrate Lagos at 50 over the weekend, Osinbajo said: “I did not […]

Many people are reportedly trapped in the rubble of a 3-storey building under renovation, that collapsed on Daddy Alaja street, Oke-Arin, Lagos Island this morning. Men of the Lagos state Emergency Management Agency and residents of the area are currently trying to rescue trapped victims. (LIB)

An unbelievable video has gone viral on Facebook and it features a newborn baby walking just as soon as she was born, to the amazement of nurses. The tiny tot was being cradled by the midwife as she attempted to give her her first bath but the baby had other ideas and bound out of […]

Forming part of activities lined up to rejoice with the Nigerian children and youth on this year’s Children and Youth’s Day, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has tasked the National Agency Against Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) to stop government officials from using their protocol officers to mobilise young girls in institutions of higher […]

A teacher and a classroom aide fighting it out in front of students at a Georgia middle school last week was caught on video. The women are seen throwing punches and pulling hair in the video shot May 19 by a student at Stone Mountain Middle School in downtown Atlanta, according to local media. DeKalb […]

Being the Democracy Day Speech by Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, commemorating the second anniversary of the Muhammadu Buhari administration, May 29, 2017 Dear Nigerians, I bring you good wishes from President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, who as we all know is away from the country on medical vacation. Today marks the second anniversary of […]

Africa loses an estimated $50 billion a year to illicit financial flows, leaving governments strapped for cash and dependent on development aid. The continent is “haemorrhaging” money because of the failure of countries to enact strong legislation to check money flows, says Rose Acha, Cameroon’s supreme state audit minister and secretary general of the African […]

After Funke Akindele called out AirFrance for losing her luggage in Paris, another superstar Nigerian film maker and actor, Kunle Afolayan who gave us movies like ‘Phone Swap’ and ‘October 1’, has taken to social media to cry out for help after he lost his luggage in same Paris. According to him, he forgot his […]

The star actress, Moji Olaiya family, through the burial committee have denied reports that the late actress died of poisoning. Read the full statement below: “The attention of the Burial Committee of late Moji Olaiya has been drawn to the rumour spreading around that the autopsy carried out on the deceased stated that the late […]

There is no mind on earth that is more enquiring, more difficult to impress, more difficult to navigate, more difficult to comprehend, more difficult to deconstruct, more difficult to intimidate and more difficult to manipulate or sway than that of the Anago and those that the world refer to as the Yoruba. He is accomodating, […]

Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Sunday advised Nigerian youths against wishing him and other elder statesmen dead. He gave the advice while speaking at the youth governance dialogue held by the Youth Development Centre of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, Ogun state. Obasanjo, who described the current agitations across the country as […]

The sacking and eviction of Presiding Chaplain of the Chapel of Christ the Light, Alausa by the Ambodes, has angered Church leaders, with Rt. Rev. Adeyemi, head of the African Church, Ifako Diocese, asking Bolanle Ambode to seek counsel from RCCG leader, Enoch Adeboye, over the incidence. “Mrs Ambode is a pastor in the Redeemed […]

After reportedly killing his elder brother with a heavy stick, a 35-year-old man Joseph Abifarin was reportedly found dead too in a statement released by Osun State Police Command’s Public Relation Officer Mrs Folashade Odoro this Sunday. According to Odoro, the incident happened on Tuesday at about 10.00 a.m. “One Abifarin Opeyemi reported that her father, one […]

Instead of responding to the words of Eric Joyce, the former British MP who told the world via his twitter handle on 19th May that President Muhammadu Buhari had died in a London hospital, Deacon Femi Adesina, the Special Advisor to the President on Media, in an essay titled “They Learnt Nothing and They Forgot […]

Oluwaremilekun who just graduated from Lincoln Community School – an International College preparatory school in Accra, Ghana and the only child from former Minister for Aviation Femi Fani-Kayode’s marriage to Regina-Hanson Amonoo in 1997, has been celebrated by her dad, who disclosed she will be having her University education in the United States. Femi Fani-Kayode who […]

A man who was allegedly caught having sex with a neighbour in the toilet told a Local Court in Lusaka, Zambia that he warned his wife that she will hear that he made love with a neighbour because she denies him conjugal rights. Oswald Mukando, 33, of Garden House compound was testifying in a case in which […]

Aituaje Iruobe, aka Waje, has the type of voice that can soothe frayed nerves. She is also blessed with a tall physique that many men would find attractive. However, the ‘I Wish’ singer in an interview with PUNCH, revealed that some men are intimidated by her height. Speaking on the type of man that catches her […]

Here’s all the details! Davido is currently with his crew in Accra, Ghana, where he performed at a wedding on Saturday. He met a new girl there, who followed him back to his hotel room. This apparently didn’t go down well with his Atlanta based babymama, Amanda, who then threw shade saying “Got a good girl…but […]