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President Donald Trump of the United States was as active as ever on Twitter yesterday as he continued the rhetorical assaults on his angry fellow citizens protesting racism. The American president elected to do that on the day of the funeral of George Floyd rather than douse the fire on the streets with a unifying […]
Continue ReadingThe Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami SAN has been dragged to court by Ekiti state government alongside the Attorneys General of Lagos and Ogun States following the implementation of virtual court proceedings. Ekiti state’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Wale Fapohunda, in the lawsuit which challenged the constitutionality […]
Continue ReadingA Yaba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos has freed a 16-year-old girl (name withheld) charged with the killing of a 51-year-old man, Babatunde Ishola who allegedly tried to rape her. The young girl, a Senior Secondary School (SSS) three pupil, was arraigned by the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) before Mrs A Adedayo of the Ebute-Meta Chief Magistrates’ […]
Continue ReadingThe Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah has described “Almajiri children” as the victims of northern Muslim elites. The cleric who made the blistering remark in a paper in which he also accused northern Muslims of perpetrating the “domination” and “persecution” Christians in the region, averred that the almajiri system was ordinarily […]
Continue ReadingSenator Ali Ndume, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, has said the presidential system of government was not designed for poor countries like Nigeria. Ndume, therefore, advocated the reversion to the parliamentary system of government as a means of reducing the cost of governance in the country. The Senator, who stated this in an interview […]
Continue ReadingNigerian actress, singer, songwriter and humanitarian Tonto Charity Dikeh popularly called Tonto Dikeh, has gotten a new car gift from somebody she called a friend on her birthday, Tuesday June 9. Recall that the mother of one had taken to Instagram earlier today to share beautiful photos of herself in celebration of her 35th birthday. Sharing […]
Continue ReadingThe woman you see above in those pictures is dead. Yes she is dead! She didn’t die of a natural causes, nor by accident, but was brutally murdered by her partner, the father of her two kids. Though details of the brutal murder hasn’t been made available, her friends and other women pained by her […]
Continue ReadingNigerian actress, singer, songwriter and humanitarian, Tonto Dikeh is celebrating her 35th birthday today June 9, and she has released stunning photos of herself to mark her special day. In one post, Tonto wrote: ‘APPY BIRTHDAY TO ME..I’M GRATEFUL #35 NEVER LOOKED SO GOOD.’ See more of her photos below:
Continue ReadingSince February 27, 2020, when the first index case of COVID-19 was reported in Nigeria, and that satanic, virulent virus overwhelmed our lives, Nigeria has had cause to deal with other convergent afflictions: the first in my view, is the pandemic of irresponsible governance as evidenced by the kind of poor leadership responses that we […]
Continue ReadingThe crisis rocking the Edo state chapter of the All Progressives Congress has taken a different turn as a Federal High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo state on Monday June 8 granted an order restraining the All Progressives Congress and its national chairman from conducting any primary election in Edo State. Six aspirants drawn […]
Continue ReadingBurundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza, aged 55, has died after suffering a cardiac arrest, the government says. He was admitted to hospital on Saturday after feeling unwell, his condition improved but on Monday he had a cardiac arrest and efforts to revive him were unsuccessful, officials say. After 15 years in power, Mr Nkurunziza was due […]
Continue ReadingThe Lagos state police command has arrested a police Sergeant, Okema Azuquo, for allegedly stabbing an Inspector, Francis Adekunle, to death and injuring another victim while under the influence of alcohol over the weekend. The erring officer who is currently being detained at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) Yaba, lives in the same […]
Continue ReadingSenator Orji Uzor Kalu on Tuesday morning returned to the senate to resume as the chamber’s Chief Whip, the position he held before he was sentenced which has now been quashed by the Supreme Court. The former Abia state governor was given a rousing welcome by his colleagues and staff of the National Assembly […]
Continue Reading“The ability to extract maximum value from resources while creating minimum waste is a profitable skill to have.” ― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic “The former administrations wantonly wasted the state’s resources. Just to go to Abuja, they spent N50m. It is there on record….. If you take N50m […]
Continue ReadingFormer Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Abubakar Tsav is dead. He was 83. He died at the Federal Medical Centre, Makurdi, Benue State after a brief illness. His son Mohammed announced on Facebook: “Inna Lilahi wa inna ilahi raji’un. WE lost our beloved father Alhaji Abubakar B. Tsav today. May the Almighty Allah have mercy […]
Continue ReadingThere was a mild drama at the Senate on Monday when the Director-General of the Raw Materials Research and Development Council, Professor Hussain Ibrahim, identified the development of Kilishi technology as its major breakthrough since the agency’s creation, 33 years ago. Ibrahim, who appeared before the Senate Committee on Science and Technology to brief the […]
Continue ReadingA chief superintendent of police, CSP Lasaka Habila, has been confirmed dead after he was electrocuted in the federal capital territory (FCT), Abuja, Nigeria. Habila’s death was confirmed in a statement released by the FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Sunday June 7. The policeman who was electrocuted while cutting branches off a tree opposite the […]
Continue ReadingTwo sets of Nigerian triplets got married to each other on the same day over the weekend in Ngwo, Enugu state, Nigeria. The triplets who walked down the aisle on Saturday June 6 got married in this order: Chinedu Weds Dumalu, Chukwuebuka Weds Okwuoma, Kenechukwu Weds Chinwe. We do not know whether the two sets […]
Continue ReadingAdamu Atiku-Abubakar, the son of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has said his father will contest the presidency again in 2023. Atiku’s son said this while presenting the scorecard of his ministry as the Commissioner for Works and Energy in Adamawa State as the administration of Governor Ahmadu Finitiri, of the Peoples Democratic Party clocked […]
Continue ReadingIn spite of protests by patriots, the Senate on Tuesday still went ahead to confirm Muheeba Dankaka from Kwara State, as the Board Chairman of the Federal Character Commission (FCC). With that approval, the two top positions in the FCC – Chairman and Secretary – are now occupied by a section of the country. The […]
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