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Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari’s advance team convoy, was attacked by terrorists on Tuesday July 5, near Dutsinma, Katsina State, Nigeria. The terrorists reportedly attacked a “convoy of cars carrying the Advance Team of security guards, protocol and media officers ahead of the President, Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to Daura for the Sallah celebration.” Mr. Garba Shehu, […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement on Wednesday, Nigeria Prisons National Public Relations Officer (Service spokesperson), Umar Abubakar, said the terrorists who attacked Kuje prison facility, used explosives on the center’s fence and its main entrance to gain access to the facility. One Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps personnel and four inmates have been confirmed dead during […]
Continue ReadingThe outgoing Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo, is dead. He died at about 11pm on Tuesday July 5. He was aged 63. His death was announced in the early hours of of Wednesday July 6, by NNPC GMD, Mele Kyari, who described his departure as a great loss […]
Continue ReadingBy the way there is historical evidence, from a well-placed non-Nigerian source, that the Igbo-Yoruba Cold War was needlessly unleashed by Zik in 1948, and not, as Igbo mythology has it, by Awo through the Carpet crossing in 1951. Here is the story of how Zik declared war on the Yoruba in 1948 It was […]
Continue ReadingOne Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Aminu Umar Dayi, in charge of Dutsinma Area Command in Katsina State, Nigeria, was ambushed and killed by bandits in a fierce gun duel on Tuesday, July 5. According to reports, the late Aminu led a police team to Kurfi where they killed one of the bandits’ commanders. Angered […]
Continue ReadingKuje Medium Prison came under heavy bombing and gun attack by unknown terrorists on Tuesday night, July 5, manifestly to free jailed criminals. The terrorists were said to have fired gunshots and threw high-capacity bombs in the area in order to achieve their aim. Reports say a source from the prison stated that the State […]
Continue ReadingA professor friend who works abroad is home-sick. He recently asked me: “I want to visit home. I am scared. What do you think? Will I be safe?” I didn’t know what to tell him. Those of us at home carefully select where to go in Nigeria and when to go there. Our country is […]
Continue ReadingLagos State government has said it has fired a customary court judge, Mr Ishola Razaki Adeyemi, who allegedly dissolved a marriage and snatched the wife of a complainant, Mr. Olayemi Ayeni. In a video, Ayeni was seen narrating how Adeyemi, who allegedly had interest in his wife, dissolved their marriage and denied him access to […]
Continue ReadingEkiti State government said on Monday that the community leader, Alhaji Abashe Adamu, arrested by the police in the state for alleged kidnapping was never an appointee of Kayode Fayemi administration. Ekiti State Police Command said on Sunday that its personnel arrested Adamu and one Toyin Ibrahim on June 29 for allegedly coordinating numerous high-profile […]
Continue ReadingUS Pastor, Creflo Dollar, has denounced his position on tithing. For many years, Creflo had preached on the importance of Tithing and had informed his congregation that failing to tithe opens the door for devourers to come in and destroy a person’s life. Speaking to his congregation recently, Creflo mentioned that he was still growing […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Senator, comrade Shehu Sani took to his Twitter handle to ask an opposition party what it intends to achieve by attacking another opposition party’s candidate. He may be directing his question to two personalities in the biggest opposition party in Nigeria who are presently attacking the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi. […]
Continue ReadingOn Monday, June 27, General Muhammadu Buhari swore in Olukayode Ariwoola as Nigeria’s third Chief Justice in as many years, the fourth of his seven year-old tenure as president with electoral legitimacy. Ariwoola’s predecessor, Tanko Muhammad, departed from office earlier on the same day, the second successive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) to be forcibly “resigned” from […]
Continue ReadingVeteran Nigerian-British actor and film executive, Oludotun Baiyewu Jacobs, known professionally as Olu Jacobs, might have turned 80 on Monday July 4. Though his wife, veteran actress Joke Silva, posted his photo on her Instagram page for his 79th birthday on July 11, last year. His biography on Wikipedia also shows that he was born […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday expressed concerns over what it described as unprovoked attacks on its offices, with Enugu State office which was set on fire on Sunday night, being the latest. Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr. Mahmood Yakubu, in an interview with newsmen said it was […]
Continue ReadingA Canadian lady couldn’t contain her joy as she arrived Nigeria to meet her Nigerian lover for the very first time. In a video shared online, the lady was so excited that she wept for joy when she met her man and they took a ride together. Watch the video of them together HERE
Continue ReadingThe social media, where most political debates take place these days and where brickbats are exchanged between protagonists and antagonists per nanosecond, has caught fire again with reports that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), told the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that he did not attend a […]
Continue ReadingThe beautiful female member of the Nigeria’s National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Stephenie Se-Ember Terungwa, who was allegedly kidnapped and murdered in Abuja has been laid to rest. The 25-year-old corps member was laid to rest in her hometown, Mbakumbur, Mav-Ikyov in Ushongo Local Government Area of Benue State, Nigeria, on Thursday, June 30. She […]
Continue ReadingTo one sees Kigali and remains the same. In many ways, Rwanda embodies Africa’s real triple heritage: the curse of colonial injustice, the tragedy of African misrule and the possibility of redemption and real African renaissance. The capital, Kigali, is at once a place of past regrets, a theatre of recent blood- letting and indeed […]
Continue ReadingJust weeks after the death of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, one of his wives, Olori Kafayat, has also died. It was gathered that Olori Kafayat, who was the mother of Prince Adebayo Adeyemi, popularly known as D’Guv, died on Friday night. Details of her death were still sketchy as of the time […]
Continue ReadingAs electioneering heats up, the tensed debates around the religion of the presidential candidates will steam. Presently, the religious dialogue is about the savviness of a “Muslim-Muslim” ticket which, as we have been told, is the only combination that guarantees electoral success for a candidate whose regional supporters are apparently too close-minded to vote for […]
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