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According to Saturday Punch, over N172bn fraud cases are against some senators-elect who were formerly governors. Over 15 ex-governors won senate seats in the March 28 election with many of them having cases of corruption ranging from misappropriation of public funds to money laundering hanging over their necks. Some ex-governors have been in the senate […]

Gov Adams Oshiomhole kisses his wife during their wedding reception today. See more photos especially of breakdancing and all when you continue reading. Images: Bayo Omoboriowo.

Commercial drivers’ unions operating  in Ekiti State have  warned the All Progressives Congress lawmakers in the state House of Assembly against displaying “power-drunk syndrome’’ over their insistence to impeach Governor Ayodele Fayose, saying they would resist any act to subvert the mandate freely given to the governor. The drivers  also handed down  a warning to […]

Reports reaching us now indicates that a lecturer at Ekiti State University, Dr. Mrs Alade and two other women were few minutes ago, kidnapped along Igbole-Ifaki road. The kidnapped women were on their way to a wedding ceremony with the husband of Dr. Mrs Alade, Bayo Alade in a Toyota RAF 4 vehicle when the […]

President Goodluck Jonathan has signed the Administration of Criminal Justice Bill 2015 into law. The bill, which was passed by the Senate on May 5, seeks to among other things, address the problem of delayed criminal trials. Reuben Abati, President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, confirmed this development in an interview with Journalists in […]

The Ekiti State Government has described as “evil, wicked and insensitive” claim by the All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers in the State that the ‘stop and search’ operation ordered by the State Security Council to stem cases of kidnapping in the State was an orchestrated plot by the governor to track them for kidnap to stall Governor Ayodele Fayose’s impeachment […]

The struggle by Osun civil servants to ensure the payment of their outstanding six months salaries took a new dimension on Tuesday, as the state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), issued a 14-day ultimatum to Governor Rauf Aregebsola’s government to pay the salaries or risk full blown strike […]

Social media platforms have changed the face of journalism as almost everyone with an active Internet computer or smart phone charges into news reporting on the World Wide Web. It is undeniable that the social media has helped shrink the world further into a global village. The relative selling point of social media comes with […]

Five years after his unassuming first wife Clara left mother earth after a battle with cancer, Edo Governor Adams Oshiomhole is set to begin a second journey into marital life. The Comrade Governor has found happiness in the arms of Iara Fortes and is ready to embark on a journey with the beautiful white-skinned lady. […]

A portion of the federal secretariat housing the Police Service Commission in Abuja was this afternoon gutted by fire, a report from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) said. A report in the online edition of the Abuja-based Daily Trust quoted a witness as saying that he was in the office with his colleagues when they […]

The much awaited Dangote oil refinery has approved Universal Oil Products Limited Liability Company, UOP LLC technology to operate its world-scale integrated refinery and petrochemical plant slated for the Lekki area of Lagos State. UOP LLC, a sister company of Honeywell International Incorporation made this known in a statement on its website, asserting that its […]

Duke Odogbo, one of the four armed robbers recently arrested by the police in connection with the Lekki bank robbery in March, says he was given N500,000  from the N15 million they stole from the bank. The four robbers, Duke Odogbo, 38; Lawrence Kingsley, 31; Ebi Tosan, 20, & Ekelemo Kuete, 30 were paraded before […]

Boko Haram members this evening launched fresh attacks in Maiduguri, Borno state. According to reports, the sect members entered the town through an area known as “Cashew Plantain” which is behind Giwa Barracks, housing the 7th Division of the Army. Residents say were taken unawares as the sect members stormed their community, shooting sporadically and […]

Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola has denied reports that one of his sons has been arrested for money laundering. The Director, Bureau of Communication & Strategy, Office of the Governor, Mr Semiu Okanlawon in a statement on Wednesday said the allegation that Governor Aregbesola’s son was arrested at Muritala Mohammed Airport by security agents on […]

Enugu State chapter of All Progressives Congress, (APC) yesterday, scuttled the desperate move by former governor, Jim Nwobodo and Power Minister, Prof. Barth Nnaji, to defect to the party, saying it was not in a hurry to admit any member of Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) into its fold. State Publicity Secretary of APC, Mrs. Kate […]

Deputy governor of Akwa Ibom State, Lady Valerie Ebe (left), Wife of the Vice President-Elect Mrs. Dolapo Osinbajo (center) and the Lagos State Deputy Governor, H.E, Hon Victoria Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire (right) after collecting their award for African Women of Worth, at the 7th edition of African women in Leadership organization conference 2015 In Lagos

In 1970, Sunny Ade and Fela Kuti were already making waves in their music careers. That was when men were still boys. Those were the days of Fela’s “Jeun ko ku o, ode. Waki and die, o de… Onigbese, e ba mi le lo o” and Sunny’s “Sunny tide, e simi ariwo pelu agbaja… Anjonu […]

Former labor leader, and Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole will this Friday May 15 marry stunning former air-hostess Lala Fortez. She is said to be an Ethiopian and in her 30s. Oshiomhole is 63 years old. Oshiomhole lost his first wife to cancer few months after he became governor of Edo State. We wish them […]