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Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has told President Muhammadu Buhari to begin his anti-corruption fight from those that sponsored his election to reveal their sources of income. You cannot sit with corruption to fight corruption because as it is today, President Buhari is sitting among corrupt people and he must first extricate himself from the comity of […]

The Ekiti state governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose was seen dancing with his people at Ikere Ekiti today where he attended the ground breaking ceremony of ultra modern Elegberun Market. See another photo of his Agidigbo or Manbo or Native Ekiti dance below. Image: LIB

The German government on Wednesday pledged to assist the Federal government in rebuilding the insurgency ravaged North-East. Mr Burghard Brinksmeier, the consular Political Affairs and Human Rights of the German Embassy disclosed this when he visited an Internally Displaced People’s (IDPs) camp  at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Yola. Brinksmeier said the gesture was to reduce […]

Bureau De Change may soon be out of work in Nigeria as Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has banned the payment of cash into domiciliary accounts. CBN in its circular  advised individuals that wish to source foreign currency for eligible and legitimate purposes such as BTA, PTA medical, mortgage, school fees, goods to do so […]

Barely 24 hours after a new group Managing Director was appointed for NNPC, all the Executive Directors of the oil corporation have been sacked effective immediately while their replacements have been appointed by the Federal government . The Group Executive Directors fired are Mr. Ian Udoh leading Refining and Petrochemicals, Mr. Adebayo Ibirogba leading the […]

When Tambuwal emerged as speaker, then ACN, now APC said it was democracy. It is still democracy now. They should swallow their pride and move on. A leader of the Yoruba group, Afenifere and a top member of the defunct Action Group, led by the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, in the first republic, Chief Ayo […]

Following protests by workers of the national secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja, policemen have taken over the secretariat. The workers are protesting alleged corrupt practices of the party leaders and they have threatened to drag them to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). According to the protesters, a circular signed […]

According to Punch, the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State has accused the leaders of the All Progressives Congress of begging some notable monarchs and other influential indigenes of the state to intervene in the murder cases filed against its members. The party alleged that the APC in the state had approached about five first-class […]

Former member of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa has denied claims by the Nigerian Deposit Money Banks that a company in which she is a director, Thriller Endeavours, is owing Diamond bank the sum of N122million. She tweeted that she doesn’t even know the said company. See more of her tweets below.

Yesterday, Bobbi Kristina Brown was laid to rest next to her mother Whitney Houston as family and friends gathered to say their final goodbye to her at Fairview Cemetery in Westfield. Many members of the Houston family gathered for the ceremony as well as some from the Brown family; though, Bobbi Kristina’s father Bobby Brown did not […]

A woman has been sentenced to three and a half months in prison after being found guilty of using one of her breasts to assault a police officer. Ng Lai-ying, 30, was at a protest in Hong Kong in March when she claimed chief inspector Chan Ka-po had groped her left breast when he tried […]

An 89-year old Elizabeth Govern, called Nana Betty by her family, was asked by her grand daughter Christine to be one of her four bridesmaids – and Nana Betty stole the show. The happy bride shared the photos of her grandma, who she calls her BFF, on her Facebook page and the photos went viral. […]

As you would see in very many pictures below, Rihanna proved she’s still the reigning carnival queen of Barbados on Monday. O yes. The singer, 27, returned to the Caribbean for one of her favourite annual events – the Kadooment Day parade. She wore an elaborate outfit for the occasion which featured a barely-there diamond […]

This story had been on since last week but one should be cautious in order not to low the esteem of anybody’s character. But when a lawyer, Emeka Ugwuonye who runs the Facebook group page called The Due Process Advocates could authoritatively say he can be quoted anywhere that the reports are true, we then think it is safe […]

While we support the intention of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to probe the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, we are of the opinion that the officials who served in the past administrations of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida up till that of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua should be given the opportunity to return the “excess […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of the Executive Vice Chairman of ExxonMobil Africa, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, to head Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Kachikwu was expected to take over from Joseph Darwa at the NNPC headquarters in Abuja around 3:00 pm Nigerian time. The NNPC is the state-run oil company which oversees Nigeria’s oil […]

According to Punch, the Nigerian Deposit Money Banks on Monday continued with the policy of naming and shaming their delinquent debtors with further publication of the names of firms and their directors whose loans have become non-performing for more than one year. While nine banks published the names of the loans defaulters on Monday, four […]

The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, Mr. Linus Awute, says Nigeria has the poorest exclusive breastfeeding rate in Africa with only 17 per cent of the children being exclusively breastfed. Awute made this known at the ministerial launch of the 2015 World Breastfeeding Week in Abuja on Monday. Represented by Dr. Bridget Okoeguale, Director […]

Some Boko Haram elements have tabled a fresh request for dialogue, routing it through the Centre for Crisis Communication (CCC), an independent Non-Governmental Organisation based in Abuja, the Nigerian capital. Executive Secretary of the Centre, Air Commodore Yusuf Anas (retired), disclosed this while addressing the press this morning in Abuja. While expressing support for the […]

According to Punch, President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said his administration had taken efforts to recover looted Nigerian resources a step further by searching for the banks keeping the proceeds of stolen oil. Buhari said his government had started identifying banks, financial institutions and countries in which payments for stolen Nigerian crude oil had been […]