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According to Punch newspaper, former President Olusegun Obasanjo   has said the country is currently facing economic problems due to the failure of the Goodluck Jonathan administration to plan for a rainy day. He told Iyalodes and eminent women leaders   from the South-West, who visited him at his   Hilltop residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State, that the […]

According to The Punch, the Independent National Electoral Commission on Saturday said only the courts could disqualify a former Head of State and Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), ahead of the 2015 general elections. The commission, which said there was nothing it could do in the matter, also said […]

According to Leadership newspaper, fresh facts emerged yesterday on why the fiery Catholic priest and founder of the highly regarded Enugu-based Adoration Ministries, Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka, last week warned the electorate not to vote for the candidate of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP), President Goodluck Jonathan, in the forthcoming February 14, 2015 presidential […]

Fr. Mbaka received wife of the President, Patience Jonathan, few months ago, but said the Holy Spirit spoke to him that day saying something was not right. Before his blistering New Year eve attack on President Goodluck Jonathan, with a demand he resigns or be voted out over Nigeria’s alarming insecurity and corruption, outspoken Catholic […]

According to CKN, the pretty Olive Nebo wrote the quote below on her facebook page at exactly 3.37 am on New year day,1st January 2015. “OMG!!! Its 2015….. Is anyone feeling this vibe with me? Am sure you are! Lets celebrate together! We are blessed…. Hip Hip Hip!!!” And few hours later, she died while […]

According to BBC, the militant group Boko Haram has seized a town and key multinational military base in north-eastern Nigeria, officials and eyewitnesses say. A senator in Borno state said troops had abandoned the base in the town of Baga after it was attacked on Saturday. Residents of Baga, who fled by boat to neighbouring […]

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has disclosed that the Office of the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Arbitrary or Summary Executions, led by Mr. Christof Heyns has stated that “appropriate action including communication to the government of President Goodluck Jonathan is being considered regarding the 54 soldiers recently sentenced to death in Nigeria.” […]

According to LIB, a baby girl and five adults died on Sunday, January 4  evening in an accident that occurred along the Koba stretch of the Abeokuta – Siun expressway. The accident involved a Space wagon, a Toyota car and a Hilux Van. According to eye witnesses, the driver of the Toyota car who was heading into […]

Sunday, January 4, the APC Presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari joined Governor of Lagos state Babatunde Fashola, The RCCG General Overseer, Pastor E A Adeboye and his wife and other Lagosians to give praise to God for the year 2015 at the State House arena in Ikeja . Among the other dignitaries present at the thanksgiving […]

According to LIB, members of The Redeem Christian Church of God Victory house in Festac town and other branches were asked to show their Permanent Voters Cards during church service on Sunday January 4. Pastor Adeboye,was reported to have on Friday night, reiterated his call on members to ensure that they get their permanent voter cards, […]

According to Vanguard newspaper, the Convener of the Save Nigeria Group, SNG, Pastor Tunde Bakare has called for the postponement of the 2015 general elections by six months to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, review the election timetable as well as the imminent disenfranchisement of Nigerians following its inability to distribute the Permanent Voters’ […]

According to Vanguard newspaper, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has announced the passing away of his beloved younger sister, Mrs. Nancy Jonathan-Olei. A statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati said Mrs. Jonathan-Olei passed away earlier sunday at a hospital in Yenagoa after a brief illness. Aged 52 […]

The Director, Amy Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Olajide Laleye, has said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd) has his credentials with the Nigerian military. The Nigerian Army spokesperson said the procedure for the retrieval or collection of the certificates was known to all serving or retired officers of the […]

The Punch reports that the step-mother of the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, Mrs. Adunni Bankole, is dead. The paper’s correspondent gathered that she died of a heart-related illness. She reportedly fell into a coma for five days. She was said to have been ill for over a month, and had […]

This entrepreneur who runs Amala.dot.com and Tiannah’s Place, which boast a few subsidiaries in health, beauty and fashion said she had been in business since she was 16. She is now around 30 and also has her hands in other businesses. She is a stylist, a restaurateur, runs a salon, spa, travel agency, a designer […]

The Octogenarian mother of Austria-based Benin woman, Ms. Rose Aifuwa, who was allegedly killed by her Edo lover/business partner Festus Aimufua, on Christmas day 2014 has cried out for justice over the gruesome murder of her daughter. Rose was brutally killed and her body dumped at the Upper Mission road extension in Benin city in […]

That is Prof Yemi Osinbajo with Mama HID Awolowo at Ikenne, home of the late sage Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Mama was said to have endorsed Prof Osinbajo and GMB for the February election. We think that is normal and should be expected. (Photo credit: LIB)

Former Head of State and All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate in the forthcoming elections, retired General Muhammadu Buhari, has said that the certificate saga against him was meant to ridicule him and his quest to wrest power from President Goodluck Jonathan. Buhari, who spoke with The Guardian through his media aide, Mr. Rotimi Fashakin, […]

According to News Express, the Director of Media and Publicity of President Goodluck Jonathan’s Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has declared that the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) is in trouble in connection with next month’s general elections. In one of his early comments following his appointment on January 1, Fani-Kayode last night likened himself […]

Nollywood celebrity, Moji Olaiya told Vanguard newspaper today that she quit her marriage because her husband was physically abusing her. Hear her: “I have no regret leaving my marriage but I regret not being under a man’s roof. It is not respectable in this part of the world. But I try to comport myself even […]