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Immediate past Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council (LP) (PCC), Doyin Okupe, has been arrested by Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) at the Muritala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. This was disclosed on Facebook by one of his lawyers, Tolu Babaleye, on Thursday. The lawyer also disclosed that Okupe was on his way to […]
Continue ReadingIn order to celebrate her new age well, former BBNaija housemate, Chinenyenwa Desire Okoebor, popularly known as Chichi, acquired a brand new BMW. The reality star has been dragged online since she announced her 23rd birthday celebration on the 9th of January 2023. Many trolled the exotic dancer and even went as far as digging […]
Continue ReadingSeveral weeks ago, my 80-year-old paternal uncle, who is a community leader, called me to ask whom between Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu he should vote and canvass support for. That was a strange request considering that in 2019 he resisted my entreaty to him to not vote or campaign for Buhari because of the […]
Continue ReadingThe female police corporal attached to Ekiti State Police Command, Olajide Omolola, who was sacked for getting pregnant outside wedlock, has been awarded N5million in damages. Justice D. K. Damulak who delivered a landmark judgment at the Akure Judicial Division of the National Industrial Court on Wednesday, January 11, struck down Regulation 127 of the […]
Continue ReadingA pretty lady from East London died suddenly in the morning of her dream wedding in Trinidad, according to MyLondon. Nadia Joseph-Gosine, who was described as ‘beautiful’, ‘caring’ and ‘happy’ by her distraught partner and sister, passed away on December 7, 2022, due to liver failure. The 33-year-old from Beckton had travelled to Trinidad to […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has described the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, as a vigorous fighter. The fiery cleric was among the executives of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria who paid a visit to the President at the State House in Abuja, on Wednesday. The visit came weeks after Kukah, […]
Continue ReadingNigerian passport has gone down by 38 places in a global passport ranking in the last 17 years. This is according to the Henley Passport Index reports between 2006 and 2022 collated by Punch The Henley Passport Index ranks passports according to the number of countries their holders can access visa-free or with a visa-on-arrival […]
Continue ReadingBig Brother Naija (BBNaija) female star, Nigerian media personality, singer, actress, artists and repertoire (A&R) professional, brand ambassador, socialite and entrepreneur, Tolani Shobajo, aka Tolani Baj has given an insight on how she conducts herself while in a romantic relationship. This came in a tweet where she asked if men are really to be blamed […]
Continue ReadingIt isn’t usual for me to devote an entire column to celebrate the birthday of an individual. But Professor Toyin Falola, a far-famed endowed professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin whom I have called the patriarch of African academics in North America, isn’t an everyday individual. He is an institution, a […]
Continue ReadingOn January 1, the former president of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, published a letter addressed to the Nigerian youth. In that letter, he said a number of things, one of which was that the presidency of Major General Muhammadu Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has been catastrophic. The letter read inter alia: “The last seven and a half […]
Continue ReadingLess than two months to Nigeria’s 2023 general election, a Yola High Court, Adamawa State, Nigeria, on Tuesday, January 10, 2023, sacked Senator Elisha Abbo as the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senatorial candidate for Adamawa North senatorial district for the 2023 election. The presiding judge, Justice Mohammed Danladi, held that the senator, having been expelled […]
Continue ReadingLabour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi has taken a swipe at his political opponents, saying that Nigerian presidency is neither a retirement home nor a place where people wait for their turn. Mr. Obi who was in Anambra, his home state, for a three-in-one town hall meeting with students, a private meeting with […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement released on Tuesday, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Terver Akase, has debunked reports which claimed that the G-5 governors has endorsed the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, in the 2023 elections. An online report claimed that the PDP G5 Governors […]
Continue ReadingThe Police in Kenya have arrested and identified Jackton Odhiambo as the main suspect in the murder of LGBTQ activist, Edwin Chiloba. Odhiambo, who was in a relationship with the LGBTQ activist confessed to killing him and depositing his body by the roadside over allegations that he cheated on him. Three more suspects were also […]
Continue ReadingEmir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, has married a second wife, Hauwa’u Adamu Abdullahi Dikko. News of the marriage between the monarch and his long term girlfriend was reported late last year. The 60-year-old monarch had been married to only one wife for over three decades and they have four children together. It was […]
Continue ReadingVeteran Nigerian actor, Chief Sunday Akanbi Akinola, popularly known as Baale Feyikogbon, has passed away. He died at the age of 80. The thespian hit the limelight in the 1980s and 1990s with his popular weekly sitcom, the Feyikogbon series, which aired on NTA Channel 7 Lagos for over 13 years. The actor, who was […]
Continue ReadingSome Yoruba Nation agitators held a rally at Ojota area of Lagos State on Monday, January 9. According to reports, the Yoruba Nation group had planned to hold a mega rally at Ojota to press for self-determination from the Nigerian federation. Based on videos and photos shared on social media, Ojota was the scene of […]
Continue ReadingAs part of his three days tour of prisons within the State, the Chief judge of Oyo State, Nigeria, Justice Munta Abimbola, said on Monday at the Agodi correctional centre, that any prolonged incarceration is a breach of the constitutional rights of persons. According to Justice Abimbola, it is undisputed that the law recognises certain […]
Continue ReadingFollowing tradition, the new congressional Democrats minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries was to pass the gavel to the congressional Republican majority leader, Kelvin McCarthy who had just got the votes, and he spoke. Watch and listen to Hakeem in the video below: Mark my words, last night will be better remembered not for the chaos, rather […]
Continue ReadingIt is said that a people deserve the leaders they get, but one wonders if Nigerians deserve their leaders. Since 1960 when Nigeria got her independence, Nigeria has moved from one mediocre leadership to another. The people are usually desirous to have transformative leaders, but somehow, they keep getting disappointed. Between February and March of […]
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