What Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa can learn from USA and Canada, By Azuka Onwuka

The relationship between Nigeria and Ghana or Nigeria and South Africa can be embarrassingly petty. Forget the usual rivalry that exists among nations when it comes to sports, as exemplified in the recently concluded Africa Cup of Nations, which was hosted and won by Ivory Coast. Nigeria does not share borders with Ghana or South […]

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My marriage to a hype man has made me better —Actress Anita Joseph

Nigerian actress, dancer, television personality, and philanthropist, Anita Joseph, has said that her marriage to a hype man, Fisayo Michael Olagunju better known as MC Fish, has made her a better person. Expressing herself in an interview with Saturday Beats, the actress, who celebrated her fourth wedding anniversary during the week, said, “Marriage has influenced […]

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On the eve of a revolution?, By Sonala Olumhense

On May 29, 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari and his wife, Aisha, arrived at the Abuja venue of his second term inauguration in luxury and style: a customised 2019 Mercedes-Maybach S-Class S 560. Value: over N61m. President Buhari, in his decades-long self-advertisement, was not a corrupt man. Which was probably why a car, which inflicted such an egregious […]

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Tinubu captured sleeping at the African Union summit

President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria has been sighted sleeping during the 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) earlier on Saturday. During the 37th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a photograph surfaced capturing Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu who apparently slept off. The image, […]

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Rosy Meurer releases new poses to mark her birthday (Photos)

Gambian-born Nigerian actress and film producer, Rosaline Ufuoma Meurer popularly called Rosy Meurer has released new photos to celebrate her birthday. Actress Rosy Meurer was a year older on Thursday, February 15. And she released beautiful new photos of herself to the delight of her fans on her Instagram page. Captioning the photos, she wrote: “God […]

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Christians from other denominations will bow before you ―Pastor Adeboye prays for his congregation (Video)

An X (Twitter) platform user, Oo Nwoye @OoTheNigerian, has shared a video clip which shows Pastor EA Adeboye making a prayer at the 2021 youth convention of his church, the RCCG. In the prayer, the cleric made reference to how the sons of the prophet bowed before Elisha after he was endowed with the double […]

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Nigerian lawyer who allegedly brutalised 11-year-old maid surrenders to police

After a N2m bounty placed on her by Nigeria’s Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, female Nigerian lawyer, Adachukwu Okafor, who allegedly abused her 11-year-old maid has surrendered herself to the police and will be arraigned in court. Chidimma Ikeanyionwu, the media aide to the State Women and Social Welfare Commissioner, Hon Ify Obinabo, who […]

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Teachers, lecturers now required to sign sexual harassment prevention form in Nigeria

Teachers and lecturers in various institutions of learning across Nigeria are now required to sign the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Code of Conduct form. The requirement is part of measures to check the alarming rate of sexual-related violence in learning institutions across the country. According to the standard operating procedure for the prosecution […]

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Jimi Solanke, Wasiu Ayinde and the cartoon called Nigeria, By Tunde Odesola

Aníkúlápó is the man who bears death in a pouch, not Jimi Solanke. Solanke knew a braggadocious name couldn’t stop death. So, when death came calling, Solanke followed it without fear. But Solanke wasn’t afraid of death, he was afraid of life – this he told me many years ago at the backstage of the […]

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American singer Usher, longtime girlfriend Jennifer Goicoechea, wed (Photos)

Grammy Award winning American singer, songwriter, dancer, actor, and entrepreneur, Usher Raymond IV simply called Usher, and his longtime girlfriend, Jennifer Goicoechea secretly said “I do” on Sunday, February 11, 2024, after the Super Bowl halftime performance. According to People magazine, Usher, 45, who headlined the 2024 Super Bowl, married his music executive girlfriend, 40, […]

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Court orders Nigerian govt to re-open prosecution of Dele Giwa’s alleged killers

A Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja Nigeria, on Friday, ordered Nigerian government to investigate, prosecute and punish perpetrators of the murder of founder of Newswatch Magazine, Dele Giwa, and other journalists in the country. Mr Giwa was 39 years old, when, on October 19, 1986, he was blown to smithereens by a parcel bomb […]

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Nigeria’s capital importation plunges 26.4% to $3.9bn in 2023

Foreign capital inflow into Nigeria dipped by 26.4% to $3.9 billion in 2023, plunging to a 17-year low since 2007 when capital importation stood at $5.3 billion. Latest data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed that foreign portfolio investment (FPI) in 2023 was $1.15 billion, indicating 29.5 percent of the $3.91 billion […]

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Nigerian govt withdraws treasonable felony case against Omoyele Sowore

Nigerian government has applied to withdraw the treasonable felony charge that the former President Muhammadu Buhari-led government filed against a civil rights activist and convener of the #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, in 2019. Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, in a letter dated February 14, which he wrote […]

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Russian opposition leader and President Putin’s critic Alexei Navalny dies in prison

Russia’s most significant opposition leader and President Vladimir Putin’s critic has died in an Arctic Circle jail at the age of 47. According to the Russian prison service, he collapsed and died on Friday, February 16, after a walk at the “Polar Wolf” Arctic penal colony where he was serving a three-decade jail term. The […]

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Nigerians slam two Nigerian women who flaunt their love on Valentine’s Day (Photos)

Nigerians on the social media platform, X (Twitter) have reacted to photos shared by two women who seem to be Nigerians in a relationship. The agreement on X this year is that lovers would be brief with their Valentine’s Day message. A template was shared to this effect and people followed the template on Thursday […]

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