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Immediate past Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Boss Mustapha, on Tuesday, appeared as a witness in the ongoing trial of the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, and that $6.2m was released from the CBN in February 2023 using a forged document. Mustapha stated this […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement on Tuesday, the board of Directors of Access Holdings Plc has announced Bolaji Agbede as the Acting Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) following the unfortunate death of former GCEO, Herbert Wigwe. “Further to its announcement dated February 11, 2024, the Board of Directors of Access Holdings Plc (‘the Company’) has today announced […]
Continue ReadingThis is what Kurumi’s Ijaye looked like after it was attacked and defeated by Ibadan forces in 1860/61: “Old people, men and women and young children were being carried to the river Ose to die,” wrote John Iliffe in his Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Yorubaland. He continued: “Whilst many others were left to perish in the streets. […]
Continue ReadingFollowing Super Eagles of Nigeria’s loss to Ivory Coast in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament final, the team’s midfielder, Alex Iwobi, has removed all his photos and videos from his Instagram page. Nigeria was defeated 1-2 by the host country on Sunday, putting an end to the team’s hopes of clinching a […]
Continue ReadingBeautiful, popular, award-winning Nigerian actress and film director, Sarah Martins, has claimed that a random man sent her N1m for lunch just for looking like his late wife According to Sarah, the man sent a DM message to her that he has been on her Instagram page glancing through her photos for two weeks and that the […]
Continue ReadingThe last premier of the Western Region, Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola, asked his guest what the town was saying. The guest told him the town was solidly behind him. The guest backed his claim with a cassette which he said contained the adulation with which the people of Ibadan welcomed every step so far taken by Chief […]
Continue ReadingWorld marathon running record holder, Kelvin Kiptum has passed away after driving his car into a big tree, it has been revealed. Kiptum, the marathon runner, died on Sunday at the age of 24 in his native Kenya, with his coach, Rwanda’s Gervais Hakizimana, 37, also killed in the road crash near Kaptagat, an area […]
Continue ReadingNew crisis has hit a faction of the Labour Party (LP) being led by Julius Abure after its National Treasurer, Oluchi Opara, at a news briefing in Abuja on Monday, demanded the accountability of about N3.5 billion in party finances. According to her, the finances were proceeds from the sales of forms and other fundraising […]
Continue ReadingIn an interview with Arise News television on Sunday evening, president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, has stated that if the ongoing inflation continues unabated, organised labour might push for a new minimum wage of up to N1 Million for Nigerian workers. Ajaero said the demand from organised labour would be influenced […]
Continue ReadingOn Wednesday, Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of the federal high court, Lagos, ordered federal government to fix the prices of milk, flour, salt, sugar, bicycles, motorcycles, motor vehicles, and their spare parts. This looks like a judicial attempt to address the biting inflation and the harsh economic climate caused in the main by naira devaluation. My […]
Continue ReadingSon of late pastor Daniel Taiwo Odukoya, the co-founder and former senior pastor of the Fountain of Life Church, Pastor Jimmy Odukoya, has tackled women who believe they are not supposed to make any effort to support their husbands. Preaching in his church recently, Odukoya said many women want to be brides but do not […]
Continue ReadingSuper Eagles of Nigeria have lost to the Elephants of Ivory Coast in the final of the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament. Ivory Coast won the Africa Cup of Nations after coming from behind to defeat Nigeria in the final at the Alassane Ouattara Stadium. The host started as the better, more aggressive team, creating […]
Continue ReadingToday, Nigeria is in a place where everyone – government, opposition, and the people – should work together. It is not a time for divisive or self-servicing conversations and engagement. There is fire on the mountain in Nigeria, even though many who should know do not seem to realise it. This is why I find […]
Continue ReadingChief Executive Officer (CEO) of Access Holdings Plc, Herbert Wigwe, has reportedly died following the crash of a helicopter conveying him and five others on Friday night near the California-Nevada border in the United States of America. The chartered Airbus EC130 helicopter was flying from Palm Springs, California, to Boulder City, Nevada, just outside of […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), on Friday, declared that it would deduct N10,505,286,072 from the annual allowed revenues of the 11 power distribution companies during the next tariff review as part of sanctions over their non-compliance with the capping of estimated bills for unmetered customers. NERC disclosed this in a notice obtained in Abuja, stressing […]
Continue ReadingThe searing torment that everyday folks are going through in Nigeria right now is so dire, so unbearably extreme, and so unexampled in its rawness that even diasporan Nigerians like me who live tens of thousands of miles away from home can feel it not just vicariously but also experientially. The unending streams of requests […]
Continue ReadingGrammy Award-winning Nigerian star singer, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, is billed to perform at the 2024 Billboard Women in Music Awards. In a post on X (Twitter) platform, Billboard revealed that Tems will perform at the event scheduled for March 6 at the YouTube Theater in California, United States. “BREAKTHROUGH honoree @temsbaby will take […]
Continue ReadingAward-winning Nigerian singer and songwriter, Inetimi Alfred Timaya Odon, popularly known by his stage name Timaya, has given his reasons why dating a Nigerian woman or man is pointless. Timaya said this while revealing why he doesn’t have a Nigerian girlfriend and expressing reservations that if he were a woman, he would not date any […]
Continue ReadingAt a recent function in Abuja, Vice President Kashim Shettima expressed his disappointment that some Nigerians would rather be amused by the free fall of Naira value than pour ashes on their heads. According to him, “It is not only disheartening and disenchanting but also heartbreaking that yesterday when the Naira culminated to N1,500 to […]
Continue ReadingConsequent upon the recent directive by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), restricting the operations of International Money Transfer Operators (IMTOs) to only inbound transfers, IMTOs have decided to halt dollar transfers to Nigerians, meaning, they will now only pay recipients in naira. In the published document addressed to IMTOs on January 31, CBN ordered […]
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