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Nigerian Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has led a four-man legislative delegate to visit President Muhammadu Buhari who is currently on vacation in London. Others on the team include the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, Deputy Speaker Lasun Yusuf and Senate Leader Ahmed Lawan. The team left for London on Wednesday morning to meet […]

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo who has ruled Nigeria both as a military ruler and a civilian recently described the saddest day of his life. Obasanjo said the saddest day of his life was when he appeared before the military tribunal that tried him for alleged complicity in a coup against late former military dictator, Sani Abacha. While […]

A 25-year old year man, Israel Bassey has been arrested and charged before a Lagos court for allegedly attacking a lady, Azeezat Adigun and inflicted an injury on her head with a cutlass for refusing to befriend him. The incident happened at Olabisi Street off Liasu Road in Idimu, Lagos where both the victim and […]

It seems that this Government thrives on generating unnecessary controversy. Is it a diversionary tactic to make us forget that Government is not doing all that it should be doing, to alleviate the suffering of Nigerians? Practically every week, there is one issue or the other. Finally, at the “00 hour” as they say, the […]

“Happy Valentine’s day, my friend” “You don’t wish someone Happy Valentine’s day with ordinary mouth, my friend” “Are you a woman?  The gifts are for women, not male friends.” “You see, yourself?  You are a bush man just like one of my friends who got a text message from his girlfriend, and he started asking […]

Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai has disclosed that the Nigeria Army would recruit 12,000 men in 2017 to help fight insurgents and other uprisings across the country. Buratai was speaking during a budget defence session with the House of Representatives Committee on Army. According to him, the recruitment exercise would […]

Power Africa, an initiative by the US government to light up Africa, on Tuesday said it was planning to invest about one billion dollars on the power sector in Nigeria, the programme’s coordinator, Mr Andrew Herscowitz said. Herscowitz announced this in Abuja at a news conference on strengthening the power sector in Nigeria.   The […]

Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Ahmed Idris, has revealed that the sum of N5.244 trillion has so far been realised as inflows into the TSA account following the moping-up and direct debits of Accounts by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Idris made this disclosure during his welcome address at the opening of a two […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Kano presided over by Justice Zainab B. Abubakar Tuesday ordered the forfeiture of the sum of $9,772,000 and £74,000 recovered from a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mr. Andrew Yakubu to the Federal Government. The order was sequel to an ex parte application […]

Two accused persons, Elijah Oyebode, 22, and Yusuf Ajibade, 25 were on Tuesday ordered to be remanded in Ilesa prison custody by an Osogbo Chief Magistrate Court over alleged murder of UNIOSUN undergraduate student, Miss Rofiat Adebisi. The Prosecutor, S.P Mireti Wilson, told the court that the accused persons committed the offense on December 22, 2016 […]

Nigerian Presidency, Tuesday, said it did not record Monday’s reported telephone conversation between President Muhammadu Buhari and his United States counterpart Donald Trump, because doing so would be “undiplomatic”. Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant, Media to the President, said this today on a live TV programme while responding to the request being made in some quarters for […]

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Nigerian initiator of Amputee United, Adenike Oyetunde is embracing her body as she embarks on a new adventure…learning how to swim. She posted these photos on her Instagram page and wrote: “It’s easier for people like me to wear tank tops, sleeveless tops, above-knee skirts (because I don’t have fat arms, or stretch marks); but, […]

A Zimbabwean woman who suffered a number of miscarriages early in her marriage has offered her daughter as tithe to her church leader. The woman identified as Convictions Mapfumo from Sally Mugabe Height gave her child, a grade three student to Bishop Susan Zika Dube, the founder of  Holy Baptist Apostolic Church. Mapfumo is said […]

Sisi Vee,  a general hand at a clinic in the Nkomazi region of Mpumalanga in South Africa, was mobbed by an angry crowd who accused her of being a witch. The lady who confessed to committing the said act, was marched naked through the streets before being handed over to the police. Here’s how an […]

Nollywood star actress, Tonto Dikeh has revealed she and her husband, Churchill Olakunle are no longer together and he has not called to check up on her and their son since she left. She wrote: “Dear ‘concerned’ fan, Good day. How are you and your family? My regards, love and greetings to them. Now to […]

Former Rangers Int’l player who currently plays for Nassarawa United, Henry Onweazu Obiekwu has reportedly died during a training session this morning in Nassarawa state. According to the source, the Delta state born player who is popularly called Obun ngogo, slumped at the pitch during a training session with his colleagues and died instantly. Source: […]

London Bureau Chief of a Nigerian Daily on fact-finding mission to the Nigerian High Commission in London, where President Muhammadu Buhari is said to be spending his medical vacation, was threatened and pursued by officials and securitymen guarding the premises. Located in the posh Campden Hill area of the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in […]

The trial of Air Marshal Umar Dikko (retd.), opened on Monday before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) presenting its first witness, Commodore S. A. Yushau (rtd), who narrated how the defendant used NAF funds to acquire properties in Abuja. The defendant, […]

President Donald Trump’s embattled national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned late Monday night, following reports that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other officials about his contacts with Russia. His departure upends Trump’s senior team after less than one month in office. In a resignation letter, Flynn said he gave Vice President Mike […]