Late actress, Moji Olaiya’s daughter remembers her 6 years after

Nigerian star actress, late Moji Olaiya’s first daughter, Adun Farombi, has remembered her late mum 6 years after her death. She shared a photo of her mother on Instagram, expressing how she missed her mother these past six years and she will continue to love her. She wrote: “6 years already love you forever.” Adun […]

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We will prove our claims of N1b damages against actress Halima Abubakar if she refuses to come to court ―Apostle Suleiman’s lawyer

Founder of Omega Fire Ministries International (OFM), Apostle Johnson Suleman, has challenged Nollywood actress, Halima Abubakar, to subject her allegation against him to trial in court. The clergyman, who spoke through his lawyer, Dr. Abdul Mahmud, said the actress should subject the purported claims against him to judicial scrutiny by filing a defence to a […]

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Buhari’s Last-Minute Provocations of Tinubu, By Farooq A. Kperogi

After failing to stop him from emerging as APC’s flag bearer in 2022 and mounting steep hurdles for him in the 2023 election, Muhammadu Buhari increasingly comes across as intentionally charting courses of action designed to provoke pre-inauguration confrontation with Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Or am I missing something? Take, for example, Buhari’s request to the National […]

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Nigerian man dies hours before his flight to the UK for Masters degree, friends mourn

Friends of a Nigerian man identified as Okpani Ugochukwu, have taken to social media to mourn him after he died today May 19, hours before his flight to the UK for his Master’s degree. According to his friends, late Okpani Ugochukwu secured a scholarship for a Masters program in a UK University and was to […]

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Tribunal moves to merge all petitions against Tinubu, APC and INEC

Nigeria’s Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), sitting in Abuja, has disclosed plans to merge the three separate petitions seeking to nullify the outcome of the 2023 presidential election by virtue of paragraph 50 of the First Schedule of the Electoral Act to merge all the petitions and decide them together. This view was supported by […]

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How VIPs Endanger Citizens’ Lives in The Air, By Mike Ozekhome

It was on Saturday, 22nd April, 2023, that it happened. At 12:30pm, I was airborne on Ibom Air, flight from Lagos to Abuja. We were simply about 10 minutes, or thereabout, to landing in Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja. Then the unexpected happened. The Pilot announced to bewildered passengers something we did not want to hear. […]

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Founder of FCMB, Otunba Subomi Balogun is dead

Founder of First City Monument Bank (FCMB) and Olori Omoba of Ijebuland, Otunba Michael Olasubomi Balogun, is dead. Balogun died in London on Friday morning at the age of 89. His death has been confirmed by media personality, Dele Momodu, who wrote on his Instagram page: “Diamonds are forever OVATION INTERNATIONAL magazine (since 1996)… Good […]

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Rihanna shares topless maternity poses (Photos 18+)

American singer, actress, and businesswoman, Robyn Rihanna Fenty, simply called by her stage name, Rihanna is looking back on her first pregnancy. Ahead of her second child’s arrival, the 35-year-old singer took to Instagram to share topless pictures. She shares both the thought and her baby on the way with her boyfriend, A$AP Rocky. In the […]

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Court lifts suspension order on Abure, other Labour Party national officers

Justice Hamza Muazu of a High Court in Abuja, on Friday granted an order of stay execution on the suspension of Julius Abure, Chairman of the Labour Party and others. Others are the National Organizing Secretary, Mr Clement Ojukwu and National Treasurer, Oluchi Opara, from parading themselves as LP national officials. The plaintiffs in the […]

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Court nullifies candidature of Labour Party’s Abia gov-elect, Alex Otti, others in Abia, Kano

Justice M.N Yunusa of a Federal High Court sitting in Kano State has nullified the candidature of the Abia State Governor-elect, Dr Alex Otti alongside the candidatures of all those who contested the 2023 general elections under the Labour Party (LP) in Abia and Kano States Guardian reports that the Court gave the ruling in […]

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Allow court to decide Nigeria’s legitimate president ―Obi tells US

In a series of tweets, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has faulted the call made by the US Secretary of the State, Antony J. Blinken, to President-elect, Bola Tinubu, adding that he ought to let the court decide the legitimate president of Nigeria. Obi said: […]

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The law of judicial deck chairs, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

On 17 August, 1980, the 6th Commonwealth Law Conference convened in Lagos, then capital of Nigeria. After the arrival courtesies were dispensed with, it fell upon Shehu Shagari, civilian president of Nigeria, then in office for ten-and-a-half months, to declare the conference open. The keynote speaker was Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and leader of the […]

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Nigerian chef, Hilda Baci slays in bikini poses (Photos)

Popular Nigerian chef, Hilda Effiong Bassey, simply known as Hilda Baci, has surpassed any Guinness World Record for the longest cooking marathon by an individual after hitting 100 hours distance record especially over the previous holder, an Indian, Lata Tandon, who kept a record of 87 hours 45 minutes. These bikini pictures showed that she […]

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National chairman of Labour Party, Julius Abure and 3 other national officers return to their offices

National Chairman of Labour Party (LP), Mr. Julius Abure, and three other national executive members, on Thursday, announced their return to the party secretariat. The development is coming one month after they were barred by Justice Hamza Muazu of Federal High Court in Abuja from parading themselves as national officers of the party. Muazu ruled […]

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Proud mom, actress Eniola Ajao celebrates son at 21

Nigerian star actress, Eniola Ajao’s son, Ayomide Okikiola marked his 21st birthday on Wednesday May 17. And the proud mom took to her Instagram page to celebrate him. She wrote: “I Blessed the Holy name of the covenant keeping God upon your life my dearest son OKIKIOLA AYOMIDE DANIEL @midetheegreat as we celebrate your 21st birthday today […]

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Judiciary on Trial: Televising Tribunal Proceedings to the Rescue?, By Magnus Onyibe

For too long, Nigeria and Nigerians have been choked by myriads of constraints and restraints put on them like a harness affixed on a horse to curtail its freedom enabling the rider to control it. And it is a pity that like a horse, Nigeria appears to have been ridden by a rough rider instead […]

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Pretty actress, Damilola Adegbite celebrates birthday, dancing (Video & stunning photo)

Nollywood star actress, author, philanthropist and celebrity, Damilola Adegbite is a year older today, May 18. To celebrate her special day, she shared a video where she danced and a stunning photo of herself to the delight of her fans on her Instagram page. In the dancing video, she wrote: “Happy birthday to me!!! “I […]

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Police release names of victims of US Embassy convoy attack in Nigeria

Anambra state Commissioner of Police, CP Echeng Echeng, has on Thursday, during a press conference in Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria, released the names of those in the United States (US) government vehicles when the gunmen attacked them and said, three US embassy officials and four policemen were killed in the attack. He also said that two […]

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Tales The Country Told Me: Hilda Baci and Seun Kuti, By Reuben Abati

Two major events dominated the headlines in the weekend that just passed in Nigeria: the heroism, determination and the example of Ms. Hilda Effiong Bassey, known as Hilda Baci for short, and the sordid drama of Seun Kuti, son of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the ternal music icon, pushing, slapping and assaulting a policeman in uniform. Both […]

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