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The leadership crisis rocking the Labour Party deepened on Tuesday as it suspended a factional leader, Mr Lamidi Apapa, its National Deputy Chairman (South) and some other officials. The party also appointed acting executive members according to a statement signed by Ms Ladi Iliya, National Deputy Chairperson and Mr Kenedy Ahanotu Deputy National Secretary. They […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Ahmadu Fintiri as the winner of the Adamawa State governorship election. The Returning Officer, Muhammed Melee, declared incumbent Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winner on Tuesday after polling 430,861 votes to defeat his major counterpart Aisha Binani of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who polled […]
Continue ReadingA Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, refused to hear an ex-parte motion filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the Adamawa governorship election, Senator Aisha Ahmed, popularly called Binani. Justice Inyang Ekwo, instead, ordered the APC candidate’s counsel, Mohammed Sheriff, to address the court on the issue of jurisdiction before hearing the […]
Continue ReadingWith the way the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (INEC) is carrying on under the watch of Professor Mahmood Yakubu as Chairman, it would take a miracle for the present Chairman of that controversial and embattled body, not to end up on the wrong side of history. Some jobs within the public space are […]
Continue ReadingNigerian star actor, prolific filmmaker and movie director, Tchidi Chikere is married again. This one is his third at the trial. Tchidi, a lover of marriage, was first married to Sophie, before separating from her and got married to Nuella Njibigbo. Nuella was a known famous Nollywood actress, and Sophie had accused her of snatching […]
Continue ReadingFor Africa’s vibrant entertainment industry, it’s been a fantastic year so far. From movies and series, to documentaries and thumb-stopping social media content, our talent in West, East and Southern Africa has risen to the occasion both in front of camera and behind – and now, it’s time to give them their well-deserved accolades. Dr […]
Continue ReadingKongi, Nigeria’s Nobel Laureate, a deity before whom many Nigerians tether goats, sprinkle oil, pour libations and offer ekuru of appeasement, is going through ferment. It is a period comparable to that low moment which, the Yoruba say, when big misfortunes wrestle one down, smaller travails defecate into one’s mouth – Ti iya nla ba gbe’ni san’le, kekeke […]
Continue ReadingOfficers of Ekiti State Police Command have arrested a chieftain of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) for alleged gangrape of a female student of Bamidele Olumilua University of Education (BOUE), Ikere-Ekiti. Spokesperson of the command, Sunday Abutu, who confirmed the arrest in a statement on Thursday, April 13, 2023, said the suspect […]
Continue ReadingSexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, sitting at Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria, on Monday, April 17, remanded a clergyman, Bishop Daniel Oluwafeyiropo, for allegedly raping two of his church members. Oluwafeyiropo, who is the founder of ‘I Reign Christian Ministry’, was remanded in Kirikiri correctional centre pending the fulfillment of his bail conditions. The suspect […]
Continue ReadingIsraeli ambassador to Nigeria, Michael Freeman, has stated that direct flights from Nigeria to Israel will begin on April 20, 2023. Freeman said before, a Nigerian intending to go to Israel had to go through Ethiopian, Turkish, or British airlines and experience 13 hours of delays but now a direct flight will take 5 hours. […]
Continue ReadingIn its publication of 23rd May 2022, The Punch newspaper published a story that Kayode Ajulo, a lawyer and rights activist wrote a secret memo to president Buhari warning the All Progressives Congress (APC) not to field candidate with dual citizenship and or criminal records and that 22 of the 25 APC candidates jostling for […]
Continue ReadingResidents in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Monday, April 17 woke to the sounds of artillery and bombardment by warplanes, as intense fighting continued for a third day with death toll reaching 100, while hundred more are injured. Clashes first erupted on Saturday April 15, between the country’s military and the paramilitary group, Rapid Support […]
Continue ReadingLand grabbers would seize your land at gunpoint and ask you to go to court. What would make one of INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioners (REC) do what he did in Adamawa State yesterday (Sunday) other than the effrontery of land grabbing? Who asked him to do it? Declare a winner even while vote collation is […]
Continue ReadingBBNaija star, Erica Nlewedim, on Sunday, April 16, shut down a Nigerian medical doctor’s imagination of marrying her. Doctor and popular online commentator, @drpenking shared a photo of Erica on his Twitter handle with the caption that many have assumed was to mock her. “Mummy, this is Erica, the woman I want to marry. Reply […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu, is currently finding himself at the center of a fresh controversy as allegation of holding dual citizenship has surfaced. A photo of the bio-page of a Guinea Conakry passport allegedly belonging to Mr. Tinubu has surfaced online after popular influencer, David Hundeyin […]
Continue ReadingEx-Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Akwa Ibom, Mike Igini, in a now-viral video was quoted saying Nigeria’s Constitution mandated a candidate to score 25 percent of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) before being declared winner in presidential poll. Many Nigerians had interpreted the relevant section of the constitution, […]
Continue ReadingJamaican-born British rapper, Stephanie Victoria Allen, better known by her stage name, Stefflon Don, has said that a woman is not entitled to half of a man’s earnings if she didn’t struggle with him. The beautiful ex-girlfriend of Nigerian Afropop singer, Burna Boy, stated this on her Twitter handle on Saturday, April 15, 2023. No woman […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo SAN, has celebrated the illegal declaration of the Adamawa State governorship candidate, Aisha Dahiru, as ‘governor-elect’. “Just woke up in the US to this wonderful news. I am screaming my head off here! This is such a glass-shattering watershed for the women of Nigeria! Huge […]
Continue ReadingParents of a four-year-old boy, Chukwuemeka Okoro, family and their neighbours are currently troubled over their inability to retrieve the boy’s body almost one week after he was swept away by flood in a Lagos community, Nigeria. The incident happened last week Tuesday when Okoro fell into a canal at Nobel Street and washed away […]
Continue ReadingDear Ma, I must let you know you’re the only apostle of chastity I have ever known in my entire life. Many know God, but they don’t talk about sexual purity and abstinence. They only preach what people want to hear. But mummy, you say the truth even when people are not ready to accept […]
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