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President Bola Tinubu has written to Nigerian Senate seeking its support for military intervention and the already cutting off of electricity to the country against the military junta in the Niger Republic. Nigeria’s president and the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Tinubu, had on Sunday met with some fellow ECOWAS […]
Continue ReadingEven though they entered the tournament as clear favourites, given their past performances, European powerhouse Germany, Olympic champions Canada, perennial top performers Brazil, and Italy, have been shockingly eliminated from the ongoing FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand just after the group stage. Second-ranked Germany in the FIFA Women’s World Ranking kicked […]
Continue ReadingThe immediate past Chief Judge of Bayelsa State, retired Justice Kate Abiri, has passed on. She died at the the age of 65. Like the late justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Justice C.C Nweze who died on Sunday July 30, Justice Abiri also belonged to the Nigerian Law School class of 1984. Her […]
Continue ReadingDays after a military junta ousted Niger’s elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, the Nigerian government has cut off power supplies to the neighbouring country. Niger’s electricity company, Nigelec, noted on Wednesday that the development followed an emergency meeting by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), where sanctions, including freezing utility services, were imposed on […]
Continue ReadingSuccessive administrations in Nigeria start out by apprehending demons, or enigmatic forces, against which they will test their political strength and define the character of their government. Those forces are the factors on which all evil bedevilling the nation must necessarily be blamed. From coup speeches to inauguration addresses, each administration launches itself by stating […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has through his media aide, Tai Obasi, said that his mobile phones were not stolen but in the custody of his aide at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPC) in Abuja on Tuesday. Media space had been awash with videos and memes of the perplexed former […]
Continue ReadingECOWAS member countries’ defence chiefs met in Abuja, Nigeria, but Defence Chiefs from Mali, Niger, Guinea Bissau, Burkina Faso, and Guinea were conspicuously absent. Defence Chiefs from Ghana, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Senegal, The Gambia, Cote D’Ivoire, and Cape Verde were in attendance at the meeting, which took place at the Defence Headquarters […]
Continue ReadingVwaere Diaso, medical doctor, died on Tuesday, at the General Hospital, Odan, Lagos Island, Nigeria, after an elevator she took crashed. According to findings and report, the hospital elevator that killed the late Dr. Diaso crashed from the 10th floor to the ground floor. It was also gathered that the late doctor was rushed to […]
Continue ReadingLast week, the Department of State Services created some embarrassment for Nigeria with the show of shame it displayed at the Federal High Court in Lagos State. And sadly, it was obvious that the DSS had the blessing of President Bola Tinubu, because there was no statement from the presidency condemning that act, neither was […]
Continue ReadingBig Brother Naija Season 7 winner and All-Stars season housemate, Phyna, has seemingly confessed her feelings for male housemate, Pere Egbi. She admitted that she loves tall dark-skinned men. On her Twitter handle, Phyna wrote, “It’s as if @PereEgbi is entering my eyes oooh how we go do this one bayi, I love em dark […]
Continue ReadingNigerian writer and award-winning author, Chimamanda Adichie on Tuesday, August 1, joined the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi; and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja. Adichie walked into the court room before the tribunal resumed hearing on the adoption of written address by LP […]
Continue ReadingOne of the major sore points in the Nigerian story has been the negative role played by non-state actors in the making and the unmaking of Nigeria – those characters who drag the country back and down, those who seize state assets, those who steal our crude oil, the merchants of death and disgrace who […]
Continue ReadingA helicopter with four persons onboard, including the pilot, crash-landed in front of a bank on Oba Akran Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos on Tuesday. Cause of the crash which occurred around 1600hrs is still unknown. Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said all four persons onboard who sustained varying degrees of injuries had been rescued and […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian man identified as Uchenna Jonathan Ohiem, 27, has passed away in Mağusa, Northern Cyprus according to reports emanating from the country. The man was found dead in his apartment on Monday, July 31, 2023. A statement by the Cyprus police read: “On July 31, 2023, at approximately 11:00 AM, Uchenna Jonathan Ohiem, aged […]
Continue ReadingA newly appointed Magistrate, Ammaari Musa Semwogerere has been arrested and sacked for disguising as a woman to sit for exams for his girlfriend at the Law Development Centre (LDC) Lira, Uganda. According to local media, Semwogerere was promoted by the Judicial Service Commission to the position of Magistrate Grade One on probation two weeks […]
Continue ReadingNigerian star actress and mother of two, Stella Damasus has revealed that she found out on Youtube that her marriage had ended. The actress who was married to filmmaker, Daniel Ademinokan, disclosed this during an interview with Teju Babyface. Stella said she got several calls from people asking her what had happened between them and […]
Continue ReadingA Federal High Court Judge in Nigeria, Justice Peter Hoommuk Mallong, has passed away. Mallong died on Sunday, July 30, in Abuja, Nigeria. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Mallong died on Sunday after a brief illness. Also, Chief Registar of Nigeria’s Federal High Court (FHC), Hassan Amida Sulaiman, in a statement, announced […]
Continue ReadingThe government of Lagos State denied it, as did the federal: that in the #EndSARS incident of October 20, 2020 at the Lekki tollgate, people were shot and killed. They denied that corpses had been hurriedly evacuated. No government or official was guilty of anything, they insisted. But protesters and other witnesses at the toll […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), in a public notice released on July 31, 2023, announced that it has initiated the striking off process for a list of companies that did not meet the requirements specified in the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2020. The comprehensive list titled “Strike off List-Batch-001 July-2023,” includes a total […]
Continue ReadingMali and Burkina Faso, in a significant move, have jointly refused to enforce the “illegal, illegitimate, and inhuman” sanctions imposed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) against the people and authorities of Niger. Both countries, which are currently led by putschists, made their stance clear in a joint press release, emphasizing that […]
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