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Reports have it that some top officials of the Nigerian government are about to lose their jobs for alleged attempt to inflate the 2016 budget by over N1.7trillion. The unnamed officials are said to have embarrassed the Presidency by smuggling into the budget proposals such items as vote for Aso Rock Clinic and some communication equipment. […]

Former governor of Rivers State, now minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, the Senator representing Bayelsa East, Ben Murray-Bruce and a popular blogger, Japhet Omojuwa, engaged each other in twitter jibes over political and personal differences. Read their tweets below: Omojuwa tweeted ”The reason I will NEVER take people like Ben Bruce serious is because when […]

The Denver Broncos produced a defensive masterclass to upset the Carolina Panthers 24-10 and win Super Bowl 50. Carolina were heavy favourites, having lost only once all season and with the league’s Most Valuable Player of the season Cam Newton at quarterback. But Newton was smothered by the Broncos defence and gave up three turnovers […]

Mr Mansuma Issa, Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ilorin branch, has advocated capital punishment for corrupt public servants in the country. Issa, who made the suggestion in llorin, Kwara, on Sunday while speaking with newsmen, also said that the punishment should be extended to other African countries. He decried the level of corruption in Africa, especially in […]

A trailer carrying goats, motorcycles and about 100 passengers from the northern part of the country, collided with a parked bus along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway (immediately after Ibadan) resulting in the death of about 30 people. Somehow, and quite mysteriously, not one goat, out of the herd being ferried down South, died. However, Police Public Relations […]

The law firm of Rickey Tarfa & Co. in Lagos on Sunday disclosed how the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) tricked the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Augustine Alegeh (SAN), making him to wait in vain for six hours yesterday in a vain bail to bail its Principal Partner and Head of Practice, Rickey […]

Catholic priests in Nigeria have always captured the public imagination, some of them have served in government positions, some were prominent in the fight and struggle for democracy, some of them have proved their mettle as poets, teachers, musicians, social critics, and public affairs commentators, but Rev. Fr. Ejike Camillus Anthony Ebenezer Mbaka is a […]

Bukky Wright is famous. She’s an A-list Yoruba actress in Nollywood. Aside acting, she has a fashion line and a recording label. The first artiste she produced as producer and writer is her son, OJ Wright. The pretty actress said she just shot a film with Nigerians in the US titled Beasts Amongst Us. At […]

When some men clear their throats, their wives develop symptoms of tuberculosis. Those are men who are neither bullies nor mad dogs. They do not get a kick from kicking their wives around the house. They do not beat their women just to prove they are men. And their women know when to pull the […]

Jaafar Jaafar, a close associate of Governor Aminu Tambuwal’s new Maryam Mairo Mustapha, sets the record straight about the couple’s relationship in a piece titled “Celebrating Mrs. Tambuwal” “I know about Maryam Mairo Mustapha’s years of courtship with Sokoto State governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, since he was the Speaker of the House of Representatives,” I […]

This photo of a bride walking to her wedding was shared on Twitter today. The bride had to walk to the venue of her wedding due to the restriction placed on vehicular movement in Lagos on Saturday because of the Lagos marathon. Photo credit: Tolu Fawehinmi

According to LIB, the photo above shows Northern Nigerian police in parade in front of a police station (they called it charge office then) in 1948. Source and Photo: LIB

68 years old woman, Abiola Oshodi-Adeniyibada (middle) completed the Lagos 42km Marathon which held Saturday, February 6. The retired civil servant says she’s always been athletic right from her secondary school days and has even participated in marathons in other parts of the world. Photo credit: @drprels

Another day! Another wonder! So according to Sidney Sidney who shared this on Facebook, this Tanzanian pastor must be carried by his church members throughout service because it is forbidden for his feet to touch the ground during service. More photo below: Source and Images: LIB

Maryam Abacha, wife of former military leader, Gen Sani Abacha, who rarely makes public appearances, was pictured at a family’s graduation ceremoney recently. (LIB)

It’s a shame that most people will miss their funeral by a few days. As the funeral ended, her husband began to leave, but not before Runkundo hopped out of her car to surprise him. Five days earlier, the man had ordered a hit on his wife of 10 years. “When I get out of […]

Jay Z’s Tidal streaming service has announced it will donate $1.5 million to Black Lives Matter and social justice organizations aligned with the BLM message. The announcement comes on the day Trayvon Martin would have turned 21. According to EW: The money for the sizable donation was raised at Tidal’s sold-out charity concert in Brooklyn this October, […]

Trips to Paris Fashion Week, hobnobbing with Valentino and helping out with styling at Oscar de la Renta – sounds like all the trappings of a celebrity lifestyle. But it’s all in a day’s work for Lagos-born Temi Otedola, 19, the daughter of one of Nigeria’s richest men. Born in London, she returned to Nigeria […]

“If you steal, do not steal too much at a time: you may be arrested. Steal little by little.” – Mobutu Sese Seko to Ministers/party Delegates, 1971. I begin this piece with a question: Is every chief a thief? I ask this because in the biggest bazaar of corruption in our history, of which Dasuki-gate […]

President Muhammdu Buhari’s sudden vacation would be used to undergo medical check-up in London, United Kingdom, a report said this morning. In a report on the short vacation announced yesterday evening by the Presidency, Saturday PUNCH said it “learnt on Friday that Buhari may use the opportunity of the short holiday to undergo medical check-up […]