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Suspected members of Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) have reportedly caused the death of Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the dreaded Boko Haram, officially known as Jama’at Ahl as-Sunnah Lid Da’wah Wa’l- Jihad (JAS) during a fierce battle between the rival groups in their Sambisa Forest hideouts on Wednesday, May 19, Vanguard Nigeria […]
Continue ReadingThe irony of life is that sometimes we find wisdom in the most unlikely places. And often from the most unlikely persons. That precisely was the point of a tweet last week and two of the responses that followed. First, from @nzesylva: “Cab guy just dropped an epic proverb: ‘This world na standing fan. If […]
Continue ReadingThe United States Track and Field confirmed Lee Evans death on Wednesday, May, 19. This platform reported last week that Lee Evans, 74, was on life support in Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, after suffering “an unusual kind of stroke,” Evans was an assistant track coach at Odegbami’s International College and Sports Academy and had coached on […]
Continue ReadingThe Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria, witnessed an explosion on Thursday, leaving two persons feared dead. The explosion occurred around 11.00 am at the Marcque event centre within the Presidential Library. As a routine cleaning was being done, one of the gas cylinders in the event centre exploded. The occurrence […]
Continue ReadingA new study has found that there is no such thing as a ‘safe’ level of drinking. In the observational study carried out by researchers from the University of Oxford, scientists studied the relationship between the self-reported alcohol intake of some 25,000 people in the UK, and their brain scans. They found that drinking had […]
Continue Reading47-year-old-woman, Olanshile Nasirudeen, pictured above, has been apprehended by men of Ogun state police command, Nigeria, for allegedly stabbing her 51-yr-old husband to death. A statement by DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, spokesperson of the state police command, says the suspect was arrested, following a distress call received by the DPO Obalende divisional headquarters, ijebu ode, that […]
Continue ReadingGovernor of Cross River State, Nigeria, Prof. Ben Ayade, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to join the All Progressives Congress (APC). The governor announced his decision to join the APC on Thursday morning in a meeting with six APC governors who visited him at the Government House according to Punch. Some governors in […]
Continue Reading“And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. – Genesis 10: 8, 9. Before now, I did not want to comment on the brouhaha that erupted when Pastor […]
Continue ReadingA bill seeking to prohibit the payment and receipt of ransom for the release of any person kidnapped, imprisoned or wrongfully confined in the country was on Wednesday May 19 considered by the Nigerian senate. The bill titled Terrorism Prevention (Amendment) Bill, 2021 which stipulates a 15-year jail sentence for anyone found guilty of such action is […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Felicia Adebola Adedoyin, a renowned Professor of Education and composer of Nigeria’s National Pledge, is dead. Professor Adedoyin died on May 1 after a brief illness and Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has paid a heartfelt tribute to her. In a statement released by his media aide, Femi Adesina on Wednesday May 19, President Buhari […]
Continue ReadingHave you asked why every saviour always ends up worse than his bad predecessor? King Dionysius (430 BC—367 BC) was famously called the tyrant of Syracuse. He conquered Sicily and southern Italy and made Syracuse the most powerful Greek city west of mainland Greece. But Dionysius was a very cruel king. Almost every citizen of […]
Continue ReadingNigerian actress, Nkechi Blessing Sunday has taken to social media to share the one thing she is addicted to. According to Nkechi in her recent post on Instagram, she is addicted to travelling and she described it as the healthiest addiction.. Sharing a photo of herself inside an airplane, the 32-year-old wrote: “Traveling is my healthiest […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Minister of aviation, Mr. Hadi Sirika has said that the new national carrier which he unveiled at the Farnborough International Airshow in London in 2018, will now take off in the first quarter of 2022. The Minister made the announcement while addressing state house correspondents after the weekly federal executive council meeting in Abuja on […]
Continue ReadingFormer Chief Judge of Jigawa State, Justice Aminu Sabo Ringim, has died. He died in a lone accident at about 1.00pm on Tuesday, May 18 in Shafar village, Ringim Local Government Area of the state. Confirming the incident to newsmen, the Public Relations Officer, Jigawa Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), […]
Continue ReadingComptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammed Babandede, on Tuesday said the turnaround time for issuance of passports is now six weeks. NIS’ Public Relations Officer (PRO), Sunday James, disclosed this in a statement titled: ‘NIS promotes senior officers’ made available to journalists. James quoted Babandede as saying this at the NIS headquarters in […]
Continue ReadingA Russian woman allegedly killed her husband by “strangling him with her buttocks” after she sat on him during a row. Tatyana O was charged with murder after she sat on her husband, Aidar, and refused to let go of him until he “begged forgiveness”, it is claimed. The man’s daughter saw her father pinned face down on […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Senate on Wednesday suspended plenary for one week to enable its members to participate in the zonal public hearing on constitution review across the country. The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, who stated this at plenary said the exercise will hold in 12 centres across the country on 26 and 27th May, 2021. […]
Continue ReadingNigerian actress, Moyo Lawal is in the news again. This time, she is doing the unusual and it looks like what they call polyandry. The beautiful and A-list actress was seen in the video getting married to twin guys, bragging that she’s the first woman to get married to twins and people are wondering whether […]
Continue ReadingBitcoin plunged below $40,000 for the first time in more than three months Wednesday after China said cryptocurrencies would not be allowed in transactions and warned investors against speculative trading in them. The comments sent the unit diving more than 10 per cent and dealt it another blow soon after being battered by comments from […]
Continue ReadingDestruction of government buildings in Nigeria continues as two offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ebonyi State have been set ablaze by unidentified persons. The offices are located in Ebonyi and Ezza North Local Government Areas of the state. Although no casualties were recorded but there were extensive damages to the building […]
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