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Former Nigeria under-23 striker, Ibezito Ogbonna, was hospitalized after his house in Ashdod, Israel, was hit by a rocket fired from Gaza last week. The 38-year-old, who won the Israeli Cup with Hapoel Tel Aviv in 2006 and 2007, was at home with his wife and two young daughters when the building was hit by […]
Continue ReadingProf. Itse Sagay SAN, Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), has said the 1999 Constitution should be scrapped and the 1963 Republican Constitution should be amended and adopted as the country’s constitution. Sagay spoke on Monday evening while featuring on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme. The 80-year-old Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) believed that […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian Air Force is the youngest arm of the Nigerian military having been established only on April 18, 1964. In the course of its 57 years of operation, defending the air space of Nigeria and the country’s territorial integrity, the NAF has seen action in many theatres of operation: the Nigerian Civil war, Liberia, […]
Continue ReadingLagos monarch, Oba Saheed Ademola Elegushi, Kusenla 111 of Ikateland, HRH Oba Saheed Elegushi and his first wife, Olori Sekinat, celebrated their 18th wedding anniversary on Monday. To celebrate the special day, the monarch took to his Instagram page to shower praises on his wife. He wrote: “My friend from the beginning, my wife later […]
Continue ReadingPerhaps if Alois Hitler, father of a man who would later be the albatross of the whole human race, had performed a ritual which the Yoruba call the Ẹsẹ̀ntáyé – a traditional earthly journey investigation – on his son Adolf, six million Jews who were exterminated in excruciating circumstances decades later by same man who […]
Continue ReadingCommissioner for Agriculture in Sokoto State, Nigeria, Arzika Tureta, is dead. The Commissioner died at the Usmanu Danfodiyo Teaching Hospital (UDUTH) on Monday morning. One of the aides of the Sokoto State Governor, Mr. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, described the late Commissioner as humble, amiable and grassroots politician who made his mark as a politician in […]
Continue ReadingIlana Omo Oodua, the umbrella body for Yoruba self-determination groups, has responded to the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, and other Southwest All Progressives Congress leaders for opposing the agitations for Yoruba freedom. The spokesperson of Ilana Omo Oodua, Maxwell Adeleye, in an interview with The PUNCH described the APC leaders’ decision […]
Continue ReadingThe way we mourn tells something about our humanity. I read the Nigerian Army’s three-paragraph, late-night statement announcing the crash of an air force plane on Friday. It said the Chief of Army staff, Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru “and ten other officers” died in the crash. There was another follow-up three-paragraph statement from the Defence […]
Continue ReadingSouthern Governors have gotten the support of national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu and other chieftains of South-West chapter of the party like Olusegun Osoba and Bisi Akande, who met in Lagos on Sunday May 23. On Oduduwa Nation, the political leaders who discussed the issue of insecurity facing the Southwest and Nigeria as a […]
Continue ReadingTen siblings, all children of prominent Nigerian Islamic preacher and Chief Imam of the University of Maiduguri, Dr Imam Sheikh Muhammad Goni Ali Gabchiya, will wed same day. The wedding Fatiha will be held on June 25th, 2021 at the University of Maiduguri, Central Masjid. Sheikh Gabchiya is a Kanuri man but born and brought […]
Continue Reading“When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn’t 4%, it is 100%” –Thomas Freidman “There is no such thing as acceptable level of unemployment because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable and a ruined life is not acceptable” – Hubert H, Humphrey Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics […]
Continue ReadingThe late legendary Afrobeat maestro, Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s first child, Ms Yeni Kuti, turns 60 on Monday, May 24. She has released new photos to celebrate her diamond jubilee. We say congratulations to her. See more photos below:
Continue ReadingNigeria’s House of Representatives is considering discontinuation of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Alteration Bill, 2020, which is seeking to repeal the NYSC Act, is billed for the second reading. In the explanatory memorandum of the proposal, the sponsor, Mr. Awaji-Inombek Abiante, listed the various […]
Continue ReadingGunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted a female lecturer with the Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), Ijebu-Ode, Mrs. Lateefat Abimbola; a student of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) Toyinbo Olayinka, and two others. It was gathered that Olayinka, a 400-level student of Aquaculture and Fisheries Management was abducted on Saturday, May […]
Continue ReadingNigerian lady, said to be a recent graduate of University of Abuja, Otunla Blessing, has been found dead. The deceased who is believed to have been raped before she was killed, was found naked inside a gutter at Student village in Iddo Sarki, Abuja, on Saturday May 22, 2021. Blessing, who was reported to have […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Richard Olatunde, on Sunday, Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, said he does not believe in any entity aside from the Nigerian State and that Sunday Igboho and other secessionist agitators were on their own. Akeredolu was reacting to a statement made at a rally in Akure […]
Continue ReadingThe president’s condolence message was contained in a statement issued by his spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Sunday May 23. Buhari said: “It is very sad to lose such a promising young man, with so much potentials and passion for youth involvement in the socio-political development of Nigeria.” He added: “The nation will […]
Continue ReadingBillionaire Kogi prince, Malik Ado-Ibrahim has lambasted the State Governors, Ministers and other politicians who were pictured laughing at a wedding ceremony while the burial of Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru, and the 10 military officers who died in a plane crash on Friday was ongoing on. Governors of Sokoto, Kano, Kebbi, […]
Continue ReadingTwo Nigerian men have drowned in Malta in a tragic incident that involved one of the men trying to rescue the other. Above is the photo of the one who tried to save the other. It was gathered that the incident happened at Dawret il-Gzejjer in St Paul’s Bay around 12.15am on Saturday, May 22. […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Rapper, Ikechukwu Onunaku, got married traditionally on Saturday May 22. Ikechukwu and his wife got engaged in February this year. Celebrities including Dbanj, Don Jazzy, Naeto C, Wande Coal, DJ Big N, Omawumi, Chigul, Waje, Sasha, among others attended the wedding. See more photos and videos below:
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