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Since mid-January, there has been a concatenation of events whose denouement would decide, one way or another, the fate of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 election. In no particular order, the events include herdsmen incessant attacks on farmers and destruction of farmlands and the federal government’s inability, if not refusal, to stop it, culminating […]

Fellow Nigerians, please, let’s continue our 2019 Presidential race permutations today. Since those who subscribe to the idea and possibility of a third force to neutralise and replace the former ruling party PDP and the current APC are beginning to swell by the day, I believe that it is apposite to give some kind of […]

Those days young people went to church because it was something they had to do. It was a family Sunday morning ritual but that has changed over time.  Nowadays, people go to church because they actually want to be there. So what better way to go than looking your stunning best. Here are 5 of […]

Introduction The Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015 is an act of the National Assembly signed into law by the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan in May 2015. With 48 parts of 495 sections, the Act repealed the two principal legislations that governed the administration of criminal justice in Nigeria’s post-independence era, namely: the Criminal […]

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Revd Dr Matthew Hassan Kukah, has said that the Coalition of Concerned Nigerians proposed by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo in his 18-page letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, to take Nigeria out of the woods, is a continuous coup against democracy in the country. In this online interview with Sunday […]

Kenyan-born French athlete, Kiprotich Abraham, breased the tape in 2 hours, 13 minutes, 4 seconds to emerge winner of the third edition of Access Bank-Lagos City Marathon yesterday, carting away the grand prize of $50,000. Abraham’s time set a new Lagos Marathon record, three minutes better than the record set by his fellow compatriot, Abraham […]

Three University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) lecturers abducted by Boko Haram terrorists in Magumeri, Borno State have been released. This was disclosed in a statement by Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu. Buhari in the statement expressed delight at the development while being briefed by the Department of State Services (DSS). Also […]

Idris Elba is officially off the market. On Friday, the 45-year-old British actor popped the big question to his 29-year-old girlfriend Sabrina Dhowre at the Rio Cinema in Dalston, London. The Rio Cinema was hosting a screening of Idris’s directorial debut Yardie when the actor got on stage to propose to his beauty queen girlfriend. […]

The government of Kogi State, its governor Yahaya Bello as well as the Commissioners of Justice and Lands in that State, have been dragged to court over their decision to provide land for the nomadic herdsmen who in recent times have been in the news for allegedly killing dozens of Nigerians across the country. The case […]

Behind the money, fame and power that popular Nigerian billionaires exude at all times are some women of steel who you may never have heard of. While trying to discover the success secrets of some of Nigeria’s richest men, it is also pertinent to explore the pillars behind their success stories. Below are 6 Nigerian […]

A Nigerian man with the username, @walejana on Instagram, has hit us with an interesting opinion – he says according to his own research, it’s the women who are well behaved and are respectful to men that snatch other women’s husbands. Wale says it’s not the ugly and trashy women as is usually expected, not […]

The United Nations (UN) Secretary General’s envoy on Youth, Jayathma Wickramanayake, has urged Nigerian government to make room for greater inclusion of youths in governance in order for the country to fully benefit from the dividends of the youth demography. Ms. Wickramanayake, who made the appeal at a press conference in Abuja on Saturday, said […]

General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye and many other christian leaders in Nigeria will on Tuesday, February 13, meet over the current state of Nigeria. The meeting, to include a special intercession, will have over 30 Christian denominations in attendance. In a notice circulated on Friday, the gathering […]

Britain’s export finance agency will add the naira to its list of “pre-approved currencies”, allowing it to provide financing for transactions with Nigerian businesses denominated in the local currency. The naira will become one of three West African currencies that UK Export Finance has pre-approved for its programme of funding transactions that promote trade with […]

A mystery snake is said to have sneaked into the accounts office of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, in Makurdi, the Benue State capital and made away with N36 million cash. Before now, JAMB candidates purchased scratch cards from JAMB state offices and other designated centers, to gain access to the Board’s website […]

Comedian, Ali Baba just posted his own candid thought on Instagram concerning the viral video of former actor, Femi Ogedengbe working as a security guard in the US. The comedian wrote, “let me say, my respect for this guy cant be measured right now. He has blown me away with his handling of the realities […]

PRESS RELEASE: ONE STATEMENT, MANY ORDEALS BY KASSIM AFEGBUA In the last six days, I have gone through traumatic experience when I was declared wanted by the Nigeria Police. By the strength of that unprofessional declaration, I was treated like a common criminal and fugitive until I showed up at the Police Headquarters Abuja to […]

So sad as it has been reported that 20 year-old beautiful and rising Ghanaian female artiste, Ebony Reigns, real name Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng, died in a fatal car accident that happened late Thursday night on the Sunyani-Kumasi road, Ghana. The young singer was reported to be on her way to Accra in a jeep with her three […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has in a new report, lamented how corruption in most federal universities such as unfair allocation of grades; contract inflation, truncation of staff’s salary on the payroll; employment of unqualified staff; Senator Dino Melaye’s certificate scandal saga; examination malpractices; sexual harassment; issuance of results for expelled student to graduate; […]

Justice Adedayo Akintoye of an Igbosere High Court in Lagos on Friday dismissed the no-case submission by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Rickey Tarfa. The judge also refused to award the N520 million damages applied for by the defendant against the EFCC for “malicious prosecution”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Economic […]