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Taking into consideration the harsh economic recession in the land, the wife of the Benue State Governor, Mrs. Eunice Ortom has called on traditional rulers to discard all the unnecessary charges that has made marriage too expensive for the people. Wife of the Benue State Governor, Mrs. Eunice Ortom, has appealed to Tor Tiv-elect, Prof. […]

About 1.4 million children are at imminent risk of death from severe acute malnutrition this year, as famine looms in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, UNICEF said on Tuesday. “For more than a million children, time is running out” said UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake. “We can still save many lives. The severe malnutrition and […]

Nigeria’s deputy leader is making wide use of powers granted by President Muhammadu Buhari, who is on extended sick leave abroad, as the country seeks to avoid a debilitating power vacuum while it confronts its first recession in 25 years.   The West African oil-producing nation was gripped by instability in 2010 when then President […]

Tragedy struck Monday, February 20, as around 74 African migrants drowned after human smugglers intercepted them at sea and stole the motor of their boat at gunpoint, leaving them to their fate.  Bodies of the migrants, who were trying to reach Italy, washed up on a beach in the northwestern coastal city of Zawiya, around […]

The South-West has the fastest disappearing rainforest in the world! International groups like the Rainforest Action Network, the Rainforest Alliance and the Borneo have told us the earth’s rainforests continue to disappear at an astounding 80,000 acres each day! Since 1960, much of the rainforest in Nigeria has seen incremental destruction, and it gets worse […]

A witness in the ongoing trial of a Federal High Court judge, Adeniyi Ademola, has told the court that operatives of the State Security Service did not investigate an alleged gift of N500,000 given to Mr. Ademola by President Muhammadu Buhari’s lawyer. Mr. Ademola is facing trial for alleged abuse of office alongside his wife, […]

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned one Usman Muhammad Dajji of the Gombe State Sharia Court of Appeal before Justice Sa’ad Muhammad of the Gombe State High Court on five count charges bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and forgery. The suspect who is the Chairman of Sharia Court of appeal staff […]

Nigerian Deputy  Senate President, Mr. Ike Ekweremadu, has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration of making the Naira the worst currency in Africa. Ekweremadu said the economy had suffered more crisis under the new government than any government. Ekweremadu stated this at the Peoples Democratic Party’s national stakeholders’ meeting held at the Ekiti State Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro, […]

A crucial meeting called by the All Progressives Congress Governors’ Forum (APC-GF), was shunned by the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo and 21 of the 24 state governors elected on the party’s platform. The Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, who spoke on the botched meeting, blamed the development on the inability of Osinbajo to attend the […]

Amnesty International (AI) has reported that a total of 240 people, including children and babies, died in military cells in Maiduguri, Borno State in 2016. Also, it said a military clampdown on agitators for Biafra resulted in 177 deaths in the South-east last year. In its 2016/17 report released yesterday, the group said mass arrests […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said results of the series of medical checkups he carried out in the cause of his medical vacation had shown that he needed longer period of rest. He said this necessitated his staying back in London, United Kingdom longer than initially planned. The President said this in a four-paragraph statement made available to journalists […]

When 15 million plus Nigerians voted for President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 General elections, their expectation was that he would be available to serve them 24/7/365, and that those who fielded him as their candidate had done their home work to avoid what is curiously becoming the Katsina problem in Nigerian politics.  Katsina! But we have now found ourselves […]

Every s*xual activity has its own pros and cons. Although oral s*x is considered as an important part of s*x life, the act varies from person to person. But, note the following few facts about the dangers in indulging in oral s*x: 1. HIV and other STDs A person who is already infected with STDs or HIV […]

Thirty-two years after the Akingbaiye family and 23 others took the Lagos State Government to court, the Supreme Court has affirmed the 1958 Lagos State acquisition of land along Ilasamaja/Oshodi Expressway now Isolo Industrial Estate and Matori Estate. The government of Western Region had in 1958 acquired a vast area of land measuring 5000 acres […]

The United Nations Headquarters in New York on Monday mourned the death of the Russian Ambassador, Vitaly Churkin. The Deputy Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, Mr Farhan Haq, told UN Correspondents that Churkin died suddenly in New York on Monday, a day to his 65th birthday. “The General Assembly today held a moment of silence […]

Again, gunmen on Monday went on rampage in Ashim village in the Takad chiefdom of Kaura Local Government Area of southern Kaduna State. Reports put the number of those killed at between 14 and 22, while many others were injured in the attack. Mr Alexander Iya, chairman of the local government’s interim management committee, who […]

The Senate Committee on Anti-Corruption and Financial Crime has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), of abusing the process of getting funds from the Service-Wide Votes. Appearing before the Senate Committee to defend his agency’s 2017 budget, Acting EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, told the lawmakers that the EFCC approached the presidency and secured […]

Rich and Sexy American reality television star, who just clocked 50 chose no other way to celebrate her day than to pose bare in her birthday suit. The American model, actress and reality television star, Cynthia Bailey, who is known for her role in ‘The Real Housewives of Atlanta’, is feeling fabulous as she turns 50. To celebrate […]

Presiding Chief Magistrate, Mrs Kofo Ariyo, ordered the remand of the accused pending receipt of legal advice from the state Director of Public Prosecution. The Prosecutor, Cpl. Hafsat Ajibode, had told the court that the accused committed the offence on Feb.  7, at about 6.00 p.m, at No. 2, Ade-Odofin Estate, Sangotedo, Lekki, Lagos. Ajibode said […]

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday reassured of its commitment to increase the availability of Foreign Exchange “in order to ease the difficulties encountered by Nigerians in obtaining funds for Foreign Exchange transactions.” CBN Acting Director, Corporate Communications, Isaac Okorafor, said in a statement issued in Abuja: “The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is […]