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Nigeria Correctional Service, Oyo State Command, says 837 awaiting trial inmates escaped from the Abolongo Correctional Centre in Oyo Town, when suspected gunmen attacked the facility. Its Public Relations Officer, Olanrewaju Anjorin, made this known in a statement on Saturday in Ibadan. Suspected gunmen invaded the facility on Friday at about 9.30 p.m after they […]
Continue ReadingA 17-year-old student at Gathiruini boys secondary school in Kiambu county of Kenya has been lynched after he sneaked into a dormitory of female students in a nearby school at night. The form four student and five others, allegedly sneaked out of their school and crept into a girls dormitory at Komothai girls secondary school, at […]
Continue ReadingLondon-based news magazine, The Economist, has described the government of the President, Muhammadu Buhari, as inept and high-handed, adding that he had also failed to tackle corruption. The 178-year-old magazine said this in an editorial titled, ‘The Crime Scene at the Heart of Africa,’ which was published in its October 23, 2021, issue. It said due […]
Continue ReadingA young female secondary school student has been caught on camera trying to force her male classmate to kiss her during school hours. While the girl attempted to kiss the boy, he pushed her away and tried keeping his lips away from her. The female student’s friend who was filming the whole incident, was heard saying […]
Continue ReadingChief Yomi Alliyu SAN, one of the Counsels to Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, has faulted the claims made by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, SAN. Malami had linked Igboho to a terrorism sponsor, claiming that the activist is being financed by a lawmaker. But responding, Alliyu SAN […]
Continue ReadingRight after the treaty ending the Kiriji War was signed, a renaissance of Yoruba culture, norms and economic development was induced. The logical end result to cement the advances was the 1948 formation of the Egbe Omo Oduduwa, which eventually transformed into the Action Group, a political party. The Action Group ascended into power under […]
Continue ReadingDavido’s cousin and rapper, Sina Adeleke who is professionally known as Sina Rambo has held his court wedding with his heartthrob. The private ceremony was held in Lagos on Friday October 22, and was followed by a lunch which was graced by mostly family members. See more photos below:
Continue ReadingTwo remaining aides of the embattled Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, alias Sunday Igboho, who have been in Nigeria’s Department of State Services’ (DSS) custody since July 1 have finally been released. Amudat Habibat Babatunde popularly known as Lady K and Jamiu Noah Oyetunji have been in the custody of DSS custody since July, even […]
Continue ReadingVeteran Nigerian award-winning film actress, activist and youth advocate, Hilda Dokubo turns a year older on Saturday, October 22. The beautiful actress released new photos of herself on her Instagram page to mark the day and captioned it: “Wondering what this is about? “Today I celebrate the goodness of God in my life. “It’s my […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has on Thursday confirmed that the rail tracks for the Kaduna-Abuja train services were in the evening of Wednesday blown up by explosives planted on the tracks by yet to be identified persons. Speaking to newsmen, the Managing Director of the NRC, Engineer Fidet Okhiria explained that the explosives damaged the […]
Continue ReadingThe Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC) has on Thursday announced the elevation of 72 persons to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). A breakdown of the list included ten academics and 62 advocates. A statement issued in Abuja by the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court and Secretary of the LPPC, said the […]
Continue ReadingNigerian star singer, David Adedeji Adeleke, popularly known as Davido shared photos from his American and Nigerian passports to show the difference in one’s state of mind while one is in America and while one is in Nigeria. In the photos, Davido looked relaxed and settled in the photo on his American passport. He however […]
Continue ReadingOn October 12, I received a message on WhatsApp, which the platform flagged as being “forwarded many times,” about how former Emir of Kano Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (or whatever he calls himself these days) caused Governor Nasir el-Rufai to fire his Chief of Staff for the “offence” of referring to Sanusi as the “former emir […]
Continue ReadingBetween 2018 and 2019, I travelled around Africa and Asia. There is no part of Africa I have not been to. One of the things that shocked me on my travels was the astonishing levels of poverty I saw in Africa, and even more surprisingly, in Asia. I was moved by what I saw, and […]
Continue ReadingLeader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, was today re-arraigned at the Federal High Court in Abuja, Nigeria over charges of treasonable felony and terrorism which the Federal Government amended last week to amount to a seven-count charge. He was brought to court by the Department of State Services (DSS) on Thursday unlike […]
Continue ReadingShortly before the 2011 general election which he lost to President Goodluck Jonathan, then candidate Muhammadu Buhari (now president) was dismissive of subsidy in the downstream sector of the petroleum industry. “If anybody says he is subsidising anything, he is a fraud. So all these people talking about subsidy, who is subsidising who?” he famously […]
Continue ReadingPresident of Turkey, Recep Erdogan has said that the terrorists who tried to remove him through a coup in 2016 are still active in Nigeria. He said this on Wednesday at a joint press conference with Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, on the occasion of his two-day official visit to the country. Erdogan had in 2016 […]
Continue ReadingKenyan socialite, television and social media personality, celebrity, video vixen and entrepreneur, Vera Sidika has welcomed a daughter with her musician husband, Brown Mauzo. The couple welcomed their child on Wednesday, October 20, and have named her Asia Brown. This is the first child for Vera but the third child for Brown, who already has a […]
Continue ReadingNigerian man who flew in from Canada and was at the Lekki tollgate to mark the one-year anniversary of the shooting during the #EndSARS protest of 2020 has been arrested by the police. A video of him being grabbed and hit by the police while he was speaking to the Press has been shared online. […]
Continue ReadingHistory was made on Monday in Fort McMurray, Alberta Canada when a person of colour was elected for the very first time into the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo government. Nigerian-Ekiti girl, Mrs Funke Banjoko (nee Ogunsuyi), a princess from Ipoti/Igogo-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria, garnered the highest votes among the 6 elected in a crowd […]
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