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Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s ex-media aide, Mr. Reno Omokri, has said that it is too early to criticise Godswill Akpabio, a serving senator and two-time former governor of Akwa Ibom State, who is on the verge of dumping the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC). Mr. Omokri is presuming that Akpabio […]

Nigeria’s Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, is currently in a closed-door meeting with Ahmed Lawan, Majority leader of the Senate. Lawan, representing Yobe North Senatorial District at the National Assembly, arrived the villa in the afternoon and proceeded straight to the Acting President’s office. Also attending the meeting is Mr. Ita Enang, Senior Special Assistant […]

Introduction The crisis of misgovernance in the country has been accentuated by the official impunity of members of the ruling class. Hence, the executive is justifying disobedience of court orders, while legislators regularly suspend their colleagues and carry out the impeachment of governors outside the ambit of the Constitution. Even though it has been decided […]

It was sometime in 2001. The political temperature of Kwara State had reached a troubling zenith. The godfather and his godson had declared a world war. Swords menaced swords, provoking fiery reverberations across Nigeria. Rear Admiral (rtd) Mohammed Alabi Lawal, now late, apparently egged on by his military pedigree, had put on acts like the […]

23-year-old housewife, Damilola Ayeni, who was said to have stabbed the 36-year-old husband in the chest, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police command. Damilola Ayeni who got married to her husband two years ago, with two children, stabbed her husband, Olumide, to death following a disagreement on Friday at their house on Bamgbose Street, Lagos Island. The […]

Deputy governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Moses Ekpo is reported to have resigned his position as the state’s number two person. He is also reported to be moving with Senator Godswill Akpabio, immediate past governor of the state, to the All Progressives Congress, APC, this week. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that though […]

Taraba State Police Command has confirmed the death of 7 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), who died on Saturday during a picnic party at River Mayo-Selbe in Gashaka Local Government Area of Taraba State. The state Police Command’s spokesman, ASP David Missal, who confirmed the incident in a statement to newsmen, said […]

National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has overruled the Governor Nasir el-Rufai-led Kaduna State party chapter on the suspension of the senator representing Kaduna Central senatorial district, Shehu Sani, lifting the suspension order. Overruling the suspension, in a statement, signed by the Acting National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Yekini Nabena, […]

A breastfeeding mother has shocked the public after revealing that her husband drinks all the milk she keeps for their baby. According to this mother, her husband not only drinks the milk kept in the fridge for their young one but also suckles her breasts when she’s asleep. She says she’s fed up with her […]

Before King Ahmed Ottoman went to war, he locked his beautiful wife, Queen Ottoman, in a private room and gave the key to his best friend, Mousa, telling him: if I’m not back in four days, open the room and she’s yours. Ottoman got on his horse and went to war. Half an hour later, […]

Kano State Deputy Governor, Mr. Hafiz Abubakar, has resigned from his position. In a letter dated August 5, 2018 and addressed to the state governor, Mr. Abdullahi Ganduje on Sunday, Abubakar tendered his resignation, according to Daily Independent. Abubakar said he had desired to remain in office as deputy governor until the end of their […]

Former governor of Akwa Ibom state and PDP chieftain, Godswill Akpabio will decamp to APC anytime from now. Cementing this, the Special Assistant on Prosecution to President Muhammadu Buhari, Okoi Obono-Obla, posted on Facebook, Saturday night, a message saying Akpabio will be received into APC on Thursday by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo and other top […]

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro emerged on his country’s national TV hours after what he called an “attempt against his life” on Saturday and pointed blame at far-right elements and Colombia’s outgoing president, Juan Manuel Santos. “I’m alive and victorious,” he said. Maduro spoke to the nation a few hours after being evacuated from a stage […]

Today, Apple Inc became the first private company in the world to be worth in excess of $1 trillion. To put things in perspective, let us note that this amount is more than the combined Gross Domestic Products of Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya. Becoming a trillion-dollar company is a landmark achievement because, by this […]

Former Nigerian Minister of Education and convener of BBOG, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili and her hubby, Nedu, are celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary today August 4. We say happy wedding anniversary to them! Celebrating their union on her twitter page, Ezekwesili wrote: ”Praise OUR AWESOME GOD with us. My Guy .?@neduezeks? and I are 30 YEARS TODAY! […]

A senior pastor of the Light City Church, Egan branch,  Pastor Gabriel Ajeaga, has been sacked for allegedly sleeping with female members of the church in Lagos. That was the submission of the head of the church, Pastor (Mrs.) Goodness Onyebuchi, at the court during trial. She told the court what informed her decision to […]

Murtala Mohammed, Ajoke, his young wife and his two kids. (TIN Nigeria) He was whipping up a popularity that had fizzled out since Nigerian politicians in the First Republic discarded the trust of the Nigerian people, but that counted for nothing when 42 years ago, on the 16th of February 1976, General Murtala Ramat Mohammed, […]

Ex-Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, has slammed former Ghanaian President, Jerry Rawlings, for commenting on the affairs of Nigeria. The former Ghanaian president was quoted yesterday in a statement by some supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari under the auspices of APC Volunteers thus: “Buhari is fighting for your sake, he is stepping on […]

The romance between the All Progressives Congress (APC)  and Senator Godswill Akpabio, the PDP Minority Leader in the Senate,  has unsettled the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Akpabio might defect to the APC any moment from now once the “terms” are wrapped up, The Nation has reported. The APC is upbeat about the prospect, which analysts believe will […]

Your Excellency, it is with every sense of love and patriotism that I have decided to write you again despite the frustration of knowing that you may not hearken to my sincere advice to you, as I have written to plead with you on several occasions, but my entreaties have been to no avail. I […]