Plateau United talented player dies in road accident one week to wedding

Fresh from the controversy over the sacking of its coach, Plateau United Football Club of Jos on Sunday, lost one of its most resourceful players, Soboye Shehu in an auto crash. Shehu, a mid-fielder with the club, died in an auto crash along Kaduna Jos road, a week to his wedding. Shehu joined the tin […]

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Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris, uses moving tattoo to pay tribute to him

Paris Jackson was just 11 years old when her father, King of Pop, Michael Jackson died. She marked her 18th birthday with a tattoo featuring the words “Queen of My Heart” in her late father’s handwriting. And less than two months later, Paris Jackson has got another inking in honour of the late music legend […]

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Unity Schools Old Boys reject the outcome of Queens College probe

Unity Schools Old Students Association (USOSA) has rejected the investigation conducted by the Federal Ministry Education into the widely publicised allegations of sexual molestation in Queens College, Lagos. The association took the decision after its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held in Abuja at the weekend. President General of the association, Dr Chidi Odinkalu, who […]

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EFCC obtains contentious court order to further remand Femi Fani-Kayode

SA Media to Chief Femi Fani-Kayode’s Press Release: Despite having been served court notices for the enforcement of his fundamental human rights, the EFCC today sneaked Chief Femi Fani-Kayode into an Ikeja magistrate court where they obtained a highly contentious warrant to keep him in their custody for another three weeks even though EFCC requested […]

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Ras Kimono’s daughter graduates from St. Cloud University, Minnesota, US (Photos)

  Reggae star, Ras Kimono’s second daughter, Sennami Onwubuya, graduated from the St. Cloud University, Minnesota US recently. Her proud father shared the photos on his Facebook wall and wrote “Hip, Hip, Hip, Hurray my second daughter Sennami graduated from St. Cloud-University in Minnesota, U.S.A. We Give Thanks To The Most High Almighty JAH”. See […]

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NNPC refuses to remit $3.8bn to Federation Account -NEITI report

An audit report by the Nigeria Extractive Industries and Transparency Initiative (NEITI) is accusing the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of refusing to remit 3.8 billion dollar and 358.3 billion Naira to the federation in 2013. The Minister of Solid Minerals and Chairman of the NEITI board, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, said that the audit showed […]

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Court repeats order that FG must allow neutral place for Dasuki to brief lawyers

An Abuja High Court has overruled the Federal Government in its decision to confine the detained former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (Retd.), to the premises of the Department of the State Security Service (DSS) to access and brief his lawyers in the on-going trial of criminal charges on corruption brought against him. […]

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The Nigerian woman, Obiamaka Aduba, who was allegedly strangled to death by her husband (Photos)

This is a photo of 26-year-old Obiamaka Aduba who was allegedly strangled to death by her husband, Anthony Lopez, 31. Her husband, Anthony Lopez, 31, is the man police believe wheeled her lifeless body down a Mariners Harbor street a metal dolly on Friday after he allegedly strangled her to death. Arraigned in Richmond County Supreme Court […]

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3-storey building collapses at Oko, Anambra State, Nigeria (Photos)

A 3-storey uncompleted building collapsed at the permanent site of Federal Polytechnic Oko, Amaokpala, in Orumba North LGA of Anambra State on Sunday. The men of Anambra State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, are currently on ground with excavators and other equipments to ensure that no one is trapped or killed. Governor Obiano arrived at the […]

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Man seen wheeling dead body of a Nigerian woman on trolley in New York arrested

A man has been arrested after he was reportedly seen wheeling a woman’s dead body along a street in New York. The New York Police Department (NYPD) said an off-duty detective saw Anthony Lopez, 31, using a metal dolly to transport the corpse of 26-year-old Aduba Obiamaka on Friday, May 20. Officers tried to question […]

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Indiana woman convicted for having an abortion appeals

Purvi Patel was bleeding through her layers of clothing when she arrived, alone, at the emergency room in Mishawaka, Indiana on the night of July 13, 2013. “I was feeling very disoriented, weak,” she later testified. “Physically, I was in pain.” She told medical staff she had passed “clots.” She said she thought she was […]

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BREAKING: Fayose makes history, bans cattle movement and grazing in Ekiti

Press Release The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has banned grazing and rearing of cattle in the state, saying those interested in cattle farming should get their own private cattle ranch. The governor, who became the first ever state executive to take such a drastic measure in the country, also said a bill to make […]

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Nigerians lambast Femi Adesina for referring to his critic, Pius Adesanmi, as Chief Wailer

Nigerians on Facebook called out Presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina, for referring to one of his critics, US Based Professor of English, Pius Adessanmi, as a Chief Wailer. Adesanmi shared a post on his Facebook page condemning Adesina’s seeming distance from Nigerians whom he is meant to be feeding with information about President Buhari. When Femi […]

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We removed Ali Modu Sheriff as chairman to save PDP –Fayose

Press statement: The Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said the former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu Sheriff-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the party was dissolved and caretaker committee appointed at the last Saturday National Convention held in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State to save the party. The governor said […]

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Okonjo-Iweala heads for court over ‘missing’ N30 trillion, rebukes SERAP

Immediate past Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has instructed her lawyers to take steps to set aside the judgment of a Lagos High Court as it affects her with regard to a purportedly missing N30 trillion. Her Media Adviser Paul C Nwabuikwu disclosed this in a statement issued this morning in Abuja. Nwabuikwu was […]

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FIFA President, Gianni Infantino Congratulates Joseph Yobo

With barely four days to the grand ceremony to formally pull out former Super Eagles captain Joseph Yobo from football in Port Harcourt, President of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, has sent in a congratulatory message to the Ogoni-born ex international. The much-talked about testimonial tagged the Joseph Yobo Centenary Game slated for Friday in the Garden City and […]

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My reason of protest against fuel subsidy removal under Jonathan -Tunde Bakare

Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly has stated that he and other pro-democracy groups protested against the fuel subsidy removal in 2012 because they wanted former President Goodluck Jonathan to investigate the subsidy regime and recover stolen funds before commencing the discourse on subsidy removal. “In 2012, we were not against the economic […]

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Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has reportedly cancelled his Monday trip to Lagos

According to Sahara Reporters, Buhari has canceled his planned two-day official trip to Lagos state billed to start on Monday over what some of his aides’ claimed was a disturbing “ear infection”. Also, the cancellation has a political connotation as President Buhari was reportedly unhappy with a meeting the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader […]

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