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Nigeria Union of Journalists has condemned in the strongest of terms the remarks made by Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Mahmud Gumi on Arise TV on Wednesday, February 24, where he labeled Journalists as criminals for calling bandits criminals. The Sheik during his interview with Arise TV said: “You are emphasising on criminality, I don’t know. Even the […]
Continue ReadingNigerian songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist, Chinedu Okoli, better known by his stage name Flavour N’abania or simply Flavour has surprised his childhood friend, Asuwa Dede, with a car to support him. Asuwa, who is also a musician, took to Instagram to share photos of Flavour surprising with the car. In one post, he wrote:”Thanks 2nite Flavour […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) has denied reports that it had attempted to arrest Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho, in Oyo State on Friday February 26. Public Relations Officer of DSS, Dr. Peter Afunanya, debunked the report in a statement released this evening. The statement reads: “The Department of State Services wishes to refute the […]
Continue ReadingThere is a deep-seated inter-ethnic hate in Nigeria that’s not going away. The animus, gall, and grudge are frenetically heating up the polity. Although Nigerians may seem to still be going about their daily businesses of buying and selling, frequently, they are looking over their shoulders for the unexpected. As it is now, fiery intertribal […]
Continue ReadingIt was chaotic along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Friday when a joint team of policemen, soldiers and the Department of State Services (DSS) attempted to arrest Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho. The Yoruba Youth Leader (YYL) put off his top shirt and dared them. Watch the video of the chaotic situation […]
Continue ReadingGunmen believed to be bandits have abducted over 300 schoolgirls at Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in the Talata-Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State, Nigeria. According to a staff of the school, who begged for anonymity, the bandits arrived in the school around 1.00am on Friday with Hilux vehicles and motorcycles and forcefully evacuated […]
Continue ReadingJustice Abdul Kafarati, former Chief Judge of Nigeria’s Federal High Court, has passed away. Although the details of his death were sketchy at this time, he was said to have died of cardiac arrest on Thursday evening after his Magrib prayer in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. Chief Information Officer of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, […]
Continue ReadingA High Court sitting in Owerri, the Imo state capital, Nigeria, presided over by Justice F. Njemanze on Thursday February 25, granted an application filed by Louis Alozie SAN, seeking the interim forfeiture of all properties allegedly illegally acquired by immediate past Governor, Senator Rochas Okorocha. The suit, with case No. HOW/191/202, had the former […]
Continue ReadingNigerian fashion designer, Xarah, has reminded ‘e-feminists’ that she planned on cooking three times for her husband unless he chooses to let her rest. “I ‘m here to remind these e-feminists that I will cook 3 times for my husband unless he chooses to let me rest” she wrote. Twitter users reacted to the tweet and reminded […]
Continue ReadingTwin sisters, Amesha Thuesday Grant and Amela Latahsa Thuesday on Wednesday, February 24, gave birth to their babies some 13 minutes apart at the New Amsterdam Regional Hospital in Guyana. Both infants, a girl named Cassidy Miracle Grant and a boy named Myron Kingsley Rajgopaul arrived at 9:10hrs and 9:23hrs respectively. Both babies weighed some […]
Continue ReadingYet-to-be-identified Greendale woman has been arrested after she was caught red-handed having sex with a 13-year-old boy at the teenager’s parents’ home in Houghton Park, Zimbabwe. The minor’s mother got the shock of her life when she returned home on Tuesday February 23, and caught her son being sexually abused by the woman. She immediately […]
Continue ReadingI received several telephone calls, asking about my opinion on some of the recent occurrences which have taken place in our land, and why I have made no comment. My response has been that most of the issues which are occupying the front burner today, have happened before in recent times, or we have had […]
Continue ReadingUnited State president, Joe Biden, on Wednesday February 24, revoked Donald Trump’s suspension of many green card applicants from entering the United States. The now revoked order (Proclamation 10014) had suspended the entry of certain immigrants and non-immigrants into the U.S. since late April 2020 on grounds of protecting the U.S. labour market in the […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday February 25, met with the newly appointed chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa. President Buhari met with Bawa at the state house in Abuja, barely a day after his nomination as head of the anti-graft agency was confirmed by the Nigerian Senate. Photos from […]
Continue ReadingIf, by now, Islamic cleric, Sheik Abubakar Gumi, has not categorically denied he told the Muslim bandits he has been meeting in recent times that their enemies are Christian “outsiders,” it means he said what he said, and he is not taking it back. Gumi has been garrulous since he gave himself the job of […]
Continue ReadingFormer beauty queen, Helen Prest-Ajayi has debunked the report that she was the reason her late husband, Dr. Oluwatosin Ajayi left his first family 35 years ago. It will be recalled that there was a mild drama during the funeral of Dr. Ajayi when his older children struggled with Helen for the shovel at the grave […]
Continue ReadingNollywood actress, Lala Akindoju is celebrating her husband, Chef Fregz, who turned a year older today February 25. Taking to Instagram to share lovely photos of them posing together, the pregnant actress wrote: “My partner in love, life and purpose. My constant reminder of what it means to love selflessly and wholly. Oritsegbubemi Edward, you are […]
Continue ReadingRecently inaugurated Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Prof. Sunday Abayomi Fasina, was on Wednesday promised a stuanch and total support by the host community, Oye-Ekiti when he paid a courtesy visit to the monarch of the town, Oloye of Oye-Ekiti, Oba Micheal Oluwole Ademolaju Adugbole III at his palace. The August visit was […]
Continue ReadingAbductors of the 27 students and 15 workers of Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State, have threatened to starve them to death if the ransom they are demanding is not paid on time. One of the abductors stated this in an audio recording made available to Punch correspondents on Wednesday by a prominent Islamic cleric, […]
Continue ReadingIn response to my piece entitled “Coup In The Capitol Hill And The Divided States of America” which was focused on the insurrection by extremists who stormed the Capitol on January 6, a security expert in the USA was so riled by my reference to the country as “Divided States of America (DSA)” that he […]
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