Lagos a glorified village, no water, no roads – Amaechi says in fresh audio leak

Fresh audio clip of Rotimi Amaechi, Director-General of President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign organisation, has leaked with the embattled Minister of Transport heard describing Lagos as a ‘glorified village’. The present audio tape was released by Phrank Shaibu, an aide of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In one of the earlier recordings, […]

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Waist dance/buttock shaking in Nigerian churches will make Angels bringing gifts from God to turn back

Reacting to the types of dances seen in the church today, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Abayomi Shogunle, stated that angels bringing gifts from God will turn back upon seeing some waist dance/buttock shaking. According to the ACP, Church elders should try to discourage secular/worldly dance steps in churches this year. He further prayed that we don’t miss […]

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Millionaire man discovers he is not the biological father of 3 children after raising them for 21 years

Millionaire MoneySupermarket.com co-founder, Richard Mason has revealed that he discovered the three sons he had raised for 21 years were not his when he was diagonsed with cystic fibrosis and doctors told him he had been infertile since birth. Mr Mason who was a devoted father, never doubted he was the boys’ biological dad until […]

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Bridging the Trust Gap in Governance, By Femi Falana

It is an undeniable fact that professionals have played a crucial role in the struggle of the Nigerian people for democracy, development and political stability in the last 100 years. The struggle for political independence was actually led by Mr. Herbert Macaulay, a civil engineer; Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa and Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti […]

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Obasanjo, Atiku, Adebanjo, Saraki strategise to defeat Buhari

Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo; former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar; Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki; and other prominent persons, held a crucial meeting in Lagos yesterday, to perfect strategies for the coming presidential election. The meeting came on the heels of the call by the PDP Presidential […]

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Presidential Campaign Council: Buhari’s full speech

Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, has, on Monday, inaugurated the All Progressives Congress (APC), Presidential Campaign Council. While inaugurating the council at the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Abuja, Buhari gave a national leader of the party, Mr. Bola Tinubu, the leeway to be in full charge of his re-election campaign. Even Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, Buhari’s Minister […]

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Military seizes power in Gabon, controls national radio station

The military in Gabon, on Monday, claims it has seized power from the President Ali Bongo-led government in the country. According to BBC, soldiers in the West African country said they launched a coup to restore democracy. Reports say, they took control of the national radio station in the early hours of Monday to read […]

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The Amina Zakari Storm, By Simon Kolawole

In 2010, when Dr. Goodluck Jonathan assumed office following the death of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, he promised us electoral reform. He launched a campaign on “one man, one vote; one woman, one vote; one youth, one vote”. He started to speak about “credible elections”, staring our vocabulary away from “free and fair elections”. This […]

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Amaechi in secret tape: Under Buhari, Nigerians are hungry, poverty is growing (Tape)

Nigeria’s transport minister, Rotimi Amaechi, has been heard in an audio recording to be expressing shocking pessimistic views about Nigeria and the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, whose re-election bid he leads. The recording was shared with PREMIUM TIMES by Phrank Shaibu, a spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar campaign. Mr Abubakar, billionaire former vice-president, of […]

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Omokri releases full audio clip where Amaechi ‘abuses’ Buhari (Tape)

Reno Omokri, ex-presidential aide on new media to former president, Goodluck Jonathan, has released a full audio recording of the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, referring to President Muhammadu Buhari as an ignoramus who neither takes advice nor reads to acquire information. Omokri made the full audio by Amaechi available on Sunday in a post […]

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Buhari’s sister who married an Emir gave birth to INEC’s Amina Zakari -Junaid Mohammed insists

Nigeria’s Second Republic lawmaker, and member of the 2014 National Conference, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, has rejected Amina Zakari’s claim, that President Muhammadu Buhari was neither her uncle nor cousin. Mohammed also lambasted the Presidency for “trying to distance President Muhammadu Buhari from Amina.” He insisted that Amina is a blood-relation of the President, and made […]

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One fish sold for $3 million in New Year Tuna auction (Photos)

Owner of a Japanese sushi restaurant chain on Saturday set a record by paying more than $3 million for a bluefin tuna in the New Year tuna auction at Tokyo’s new fish market. Kiyoshi Kimura, who owns the Sushizanmai chain, paid 333.6 million yen (£2.5 million) for the 278-kg (613-lb) fish caught off the coast […]

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Woman in coma for 14 years delivers a baby at a nursing home

A woman who has been in coma for 14 years, got pregnant and gave birth at Hacienda Healthcare, a nursing facility. This has led to Phoenix police launching an investigation into the possible sex abuse of the patient. The woman stunned workers when she went into labor on Saturday because they didn’t even know she was pregnant. […]

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Nigeria’s population is no blessing, By Abimbola Adelakun

Now and then, a Nigerian leader raises the issue of our population problem but somehow, it slides without a sustained discussion. In June 2012, President Goodluck Jonathan hinted the possibility of birth control legislation. He drew the ire of people who waved their religion as the reason they would reproduce as they wished. That retort […]

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