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During the course of the week, I stumbled on a trending video containing the recorded interview of the late Premier of Northern Nigeria, Ahmadu Bello with a foreign journalist shortly before his assassination by Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu’s coup of January 1966. The short interview clip had the journalist asking the premier: Why northerners have the […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian basketball player has become one of the most discussed topics in basketball, with basketball greats talking about him, after a video of him started popping off on social media. Abiodun Adegoke (who so much resembles a Sudanese), 18-year-old, is 7ft 9ins and can slam dunk with his two feet on the ground. The […]
Continue ReadingA High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun state, presided over by Justice Ayokunle Rotimi-Balogun, has sentenced a 39-year old labourer, Mohammed Ibrahim, to death by hanging for killing a two-year-old baby and also found him guilty of attempting to kill the mother, Rabi Yakubu. The Prosecuting counsel, Oluwabumi Akinola, had told the court that Mohammed […]
Continue ReadingA civilian, Emmanuel Odaudu, has allegedly spent no fewer than eight months in the Nigerian Military Special Investigation Bureau underground cell in Abuja over an old Facebook video. Emmanuel’s ordeal reportedly started when he posted online shot videos of himself rapping in his uniform while he was in the army. It was learnt that the […]
Continue ReadingFormer big brother Naija housemate, Abiri Oluwabusayomi popularly known as Koko who is currently in Turkey, shared the photos on her Instagram page on Tuesday March 2. She wrote: “Cold hands, warm heart, can’t lose ⛄️ ⛄️⛄️⛄️⛄️ it may seem as though i’m adding more weight in the right place … 😝💃🏾” See her post […]
Continue ReadingThis article by Ahuraka Isah is a Rejoinder to that of Yemi Gbolade of last week titled ‘Appointment of Court of Appeal Justices: FJSC’s List Versus PCA’s Lists’. For some time, there have been some complaints against the ongoing exercise of appointing Justices to fill the 20 vacant positions on the Court of Appeal Bench. […]
Continue Reading25-year-old passenger who was allegedly raped at gunpoint by a taxi driver and a conductor in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa on Monday, said she was scared to reveal she is HIV-positive. The woman‚ who was dumped in a cane field after the ordeal‚ told Reaction Unit SA (Rusa) security officers on Monday, she wanted to let […]
Continue ReadingThis article by Yemi Gbolade discusses the issue of the recruitment process for Judges vis-a-vis that which was adopted recently to shortlist candidates for the position of Justices of the Court of Appeal, insisting that the process which was followed is flawed, because the list painstakingly compiled by President of the Court of Appeal was […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has requested Bola Tinubu’s asset declaration documents from the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), in a politically-charged inquiry that could see the former Lagos governor and the ruling party chieftain arrested and prosecuted before 2023. The anti-graft office in November 2020 asked the asset fraud investigation office to […]
Continue ReadingThe General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, turns 79 on Tuesday March 2. His wife of over 50 years took to social media this afternoon, to express her gratitude to God for giving him to her as a husband. According to the clergywoman, Pastor Adeboye is the husband […]
Continue ReadingThere is rising disgust among young people of Nigeria, finding themselves in a land where members of the legal profession and politicians have been deceiving them since 1999 with the make believe that the country has a Constitution. The Nigerian Bar Association, the Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs), and politicians serving since 1999 to date […]
Continue ReadingIt was dramatic at the Wuse, Zone 2 Magistrate Court premises, Abuja, Nigeria, on Tuesday, when one Babalawo (traditional spiritualist) who dressed in full regalia, accompanied the human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore to the court premises in solidarity. Sowore was arrested alongside four others on New Year’s Eve for organising a candlelight procession and charged […]
Continue Reading35-year-old woman, Ebere Precious Ogbodo and her four children, Rejoice, Merkel, Harmony and Engel were killed in a deadly fire house fire in Jos, Plateau state. The very sad incident occurred in Gyel community, Jos South Local Government Area of the state on Thursday night, February 25. The children died instantly while their mother was rushed to Dee […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of the new service chiefs following the consideration of the report of the Committee on Defence which recommended their confirmation. The new service chiefs are Maj. Gen. Lucky Eluonye Onyenuchea lrabor as Chief of Defence Staff; Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru (Chief of Army Staff); Rear Admiral Awwal Zubairu […]
Continue ReadingNigeria has received its first batch of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and shipped through the COVAX Facility, in a working partnership with CEPI, Gavi, UNICEF and WHO. The 3.92 million doses of the vaccines arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport on board an Emirates Boeing 777-300 on Tuesday afternoon […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, is presently in a closed-door meeting with ex-Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. Saraki arrived Obasanjo’s Penthouse in the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta this afternoon The former senate president is presently in a closed-door meeting with the former president. Reason or reasons for the closed-door meeting is […]
Continue ReadingPresident Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha and other prominent Nigerians will be receiving the COVID-19 vaccine on live television on Saturday March 6. Executive Director/CEO, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib disclosed this on Monday March 1 at the joint […]
Continue ReadingNigerian prolific writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has lost her mother, Mrs. Grace Ifeoma Adichie. The mother of the renowned Nigerian novelist died on Monday, March 1, in Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria. She was 78 years old. “It was very sudden and we are devastated,” a family spokesperson said according to Guardian. She is survived by […]
Continue ReadingA middle-aged man, Hassan Saka, was arrested in Ondo state for being in possession of two human heads on Monday, March 1. The arrest was effected by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in the state. The exhibits were discovered in a vehicle along Owo/Akure road, concealed in a brown carton. Confirming the arrest, […]
Continue ReadingIt is most unfortunate that the proposed appointment of new judges for Nigeria’s Court of Appeal has been controversial since the announcement of a shortlist in December 2020. The President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem has now found herself in an uncomfortable situation where she has to defend the integrity of her […]
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