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“He came and he said, ‘I just annulled June 12.’ We both looked at each other and we looked at him, and said: why would you do that? And he said ‘you are too young to understand the intrigues of governance.’ And we said, but it is about you and your administration. And he said, […]
Continue ReadingFormer Military Administrator (MILAD) of Oyo State, Nigeria, Brig-Gen. Tunji Ishola Olurin (rtd), has passed away. He was aged 76. Olurin died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital in the early hours of Saturday after a brief illness. His death was confirmed by his brother, Funso Olurin, on Saturday in Abeokuta, according to reports […]
Continue ReadingThe first lady of Nigeria, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, played host to the first lady of Gambia, Mrs. Fatoumata Ban Barrow and her entourage on Friday August 20. According to a statement she posted on her social media handles, the Gambian first lady and her entourage were in Nigeria to attend her son’s wedding. See more […]
Continue ReadingThere are different accounts of how ‘Afghanistanism’ became an English word. But the most popular is the one that traces its origin to the 1947 American Society of Newspaper Editors Convention in Washington DC. In their column, ‘Behind the Front Page’, Robert H. Stopher and James Jackson wrote that it was coined by Jenkin Lloyd […]
Continue ReadingAmerican reality television personality, Kim Kardashian and music star Kanye West had a lunch date in Malibu. This is the first time the pair have been seen together without their kids after Kim filed for divorce. Despite being in the middle of a divorce, the ex-couple grabbed food together Thursday, August 19, in Malibu with […]
Continue ReadingRadio personality, actress and former Cool Fm presenter, Destiny Amaka, has posted a ”memo” online to her future husband. In the post she shared on her Instagram page, Destiny stated that the man that would propose to her must ensure that the proposal is done in a place where they can have passionate sex. She indicated […]
Continue ReadingA female prison officer has quit her job after video of her kissing a Scottish prison inmate was leaked. K.H., an inmate at HMP Addiewell, in West Lothian, Scotland, secretly set up a camera, then when the warder, who is in her 20s, entered his cell, he pulled her towards himself and kissed her. Insiders […]
Continue ReadingFive persons have been crushed to death in a fatal accident along Tombia-Amassoma road, leading to the newly opened Bayelsa State Airport. The accident which happened on Thursday evening, August 19, was said to have involved a Venza car and two tricycles heading towards Amassoma community. According to an eyewitness, Mr Stephen Jones, the driver of […]
Continue ReadingMultidimensional media queen, consultant, Feminist and body positivity activist, Latasha Ngwube showed off her curves in sexy bikini photos shared online. The media personality posed in a two-piece animal print. She paired it with a colourful wrap. See more photos below:
Continue ReadingThe wedding Fatiha of Yusuf Buhari, the son of Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, and Zahra Bayero, the daughter of Nasiru Ado Bayero, the Emir of Bichi took place in Kano State on Friday. The ceremony was of course attended by the father of the groom, President Buhari and graced by Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. […]
Continue ReadingEducation Rights Campaign (ERC) has lamented the death of a student activist and 2020 graduate, Nurudeen Alowonle, popularly known as Omomeewa, some hours after he was invited to face a disciplinary panel set up by the Lagos State University. Alowonle was shot dead around LASU U-turn, Iba road, Lagos on Wednesday, according to a release […]
Continue ReadingThe rich also cry. In spite of 17 years of togetherness and 7 years of marriage, Entrepreneur & Children’s Retailer, Anita Okoye has filed for petition to divorce her husband, Paul Okoye of former music duo group ‘P Square’. The former couple share 3 children together. Anita and her kids are reported to have relocated […]
Continue ReadingAare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, on Thursday claimed that not less than N3bn was paid as ransom to rescue about 400 people kidnapped in the Southwest in a period of two years. Adams also lamented that over 200 persons were killed in the Southwest region by the kidnappers within the years under review. […]
Continue ReadingNot quite long ago, Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, quietly withdrew his son, Abubakar Al-Siddique, from Capital School, Malali. This was after scoring a cheap political point by enrolling him in a public school in 2019. Al-Siddique’s enrolment was characterised by both political and media stunts, with photo ops of him and his father dominating the […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday, arrested a former governor of Abia State, Theodore Orji. Mr. Orji, who had for long been on the Commission’s watch list, was intercepted at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at about 10am, and driven to the headquarters of the EFCC in Abuja. He is currently […]
Continue ReadingReality TV star, Victoria Adeyele popularly known as Vee, turns 25 today August 19, and her boyfriend, Emuobonuvie Neo Akpofure simply called Neo, has taken to his Instagram page to celebrate her, promising to ride with her forever. Neo shared loved up photos of them with the caption: “Words can’t explain, feelings may not fully […]
Continue ReadingProfessor of Political Economy and Management expert, Pat Utomi, has said that alternative roads must be created if tollgate fees are going to be reintroduced. Utomi also stated that the idea to scrap the toll gates in the first place was a very unwise one as government spent tens of millions of dollars knocking them down. […]
Continue ReadingThe family of late human rights lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, has said that his first son, Mohammed, who passed away on Wednesday, August 11, actually died from COVID-19 related complications. The family gave the clarification at a briefing in Lagos on Thursday, August 19. Saheed Fawehinmi, the second son of Chief Gani Fawehinmi, who spoke on behalf of the […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Naira fell further against the dollar at the parallel market on Wednesday after staying steady at 515/$ in recent days. It now fell to 517 against the US currency at the parallel market. The Naira weakened at the Investors and Exporters’ window by 0.06 per cent to close at 411.75/$ on Wednesday, according to […]
Continue ReadingThere was this conversation between President Muhammadu Buhari and Al Jazeera television held in Quatar in March, 2016. That interview explains the imperialness, the Kabiyesi-ness in Buhari and his feudal reasoning which often clashes with the constitutional requirements of his office as president of Nigeria. It also rubbishes Nigerians’ hoopla against the president’s oft recourse to medical exile in […]
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