Gani: Ten Years On, Still The Finest, By Akeem Soboyede

Ten painful years after his demise from a very unexpected source (lung cancer, for a man who never smoked a day in his life) Chief Abdul-Ganiyu Oyesola Fawehinmi continues to bestride the Nigerian political, legal and humanitarian landscape like a colossus. The Shakespearean analogy is certainly not misplaced. No one else comes to mind when […]

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Princess Shyngle hooked, her boyfriend proposes to her (Photos)

Gambian born actress and Instagram slay queen, Princess Shyngle is officially off the market. According to the actress, her Senegalese boo, Frederic Badji proposed to her during their romantic dinner on September 1st 2019 and she said yes. Sharing a video from the proposal, Princess Shyngle wrote, ‘I said yessssssssss. Omggggg I’m literally still on cloud […]

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BBNaija star, TBoss’ dad, Engr Idowu passes away

TBoss is currently bereaved as her father, Engr Vincent Idowu, passed away on Friday, September 20. The former reality TV star’s brother, Christopher, announced the passing of their dad on Instagram this evening. Posting the photo above of their dad, Christopher wrote: “To say that I’m devastated is an understatement. Rest in peace Dad! We […]

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Alleged serial killer confessed to killing girls in hotels in Nigeria (Video)

A video which captured moment the alleged Port Harcourt serial killer, Gracious David West confessed to killing some girls in hotels across the state and tying white handkerchiefs on their leg and neck, has gone viral on social media. Confessing to the crime while being paraded before newsmen after his arrest, the alleged Port Harcourt […]

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Why Middle Belt is quitting Arewa Consultative Forum –Pogu Bitrus

Dr Pogu Bitrus, National President of the Middle-Belt Forum, has revealed the reason behind the move by the Middle-Belt to quit the hegemonic Northern arrangement led by the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), and work with the Southern socio-political groups like Afenifere, Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF). According to him, since Nigeria’s independence, […]

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Sowore charged with treason, cybercrime and money laundering

Nigerian government on Friday filed seven counts of treasonable felony and money laundering charge against the former candidate in the February 2019 presidential election and convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr Omoyele Sowore. Mr Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, an online newspaper, is charged along with Olawale Bakare, also known as Mandate. The charge was signed […]

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I have no objection to breaking up of Nigeria –Ayo Adebanjo, Afenifere Chieftain

A disciple of Chief Obafemi Awolowo and chieftain of the Yoruba apex socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has noted that constitutional crisis in Nigeria and the imbalance in the polity are the main causes of agitation for a break-up by different groups in the country. The elder statesman maintained that it would be better […]

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Tambuwal gives reasons why 6 PDP govs visited gov Wike

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal has explained that six of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors visited the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike to commend him for his sustained projects delivery. Tambuwal said the governors urged him to continue to sustain good governance for the development of Rivers State. The Sokoto governor spoke Friday night […]

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Who is Afraid of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo?, By Dele Momodu

Fellow Nigerians, please allow me to quickly apologise for not concluding the series I started last week on the importance of celebrity journalism, the basis of my Fellowship at The African Studies Centre, University of Oxford. The reason for this change of plan must be pretty obvious, and predictable. A subject of pressing, and urgent, […]

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Nigerian child star actress, Yomi Adeyemi-Wilson dies, aged 39 (Photo)

Popular Nigerian child star, Oluyomi Victoria Olaniyi-Toluwalope (née Adeyemi-Wilson) is dead. Late Yomi who became popular in the 1980s and 1990s with the popular TV series ‘Third Eye’ which aired on NTA died at the age of 39. Born on May 31, 1980, Yomi is an ex-student of Queens College, Lagos. She played the role of ‘Uze’, the […]

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Atiku breaks silence, pledges to fight to get justice in the presidential race

Nigeria’s former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has broken his silence since the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal delivered judgment against him, vowing to pursue case against President Muhammadu Buhari to a logical conclusion. Since the tribunal ruled against him on 11th September, 2019, Atiku has not […]

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Asiwaju Tinubu, Where Is Comrade Sowore?, By SKC Ogbonnia

It has been over 45 days since a presidential candidate in Nigeria’s 2019 election, Omoyele Sowore, got detained without bail by state agents, and one would have thought that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), could learn from recent events and begin to toe the path of honour […]

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Nigerian woman charged to criminal court for taking picture of her husband without his permission

33-year-old Nigerian woman, Adeola, who allegedly took photographs of her husband without his permission, was on Thursday charged before an Ogudu Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. Adeola is facing charges of causing a breach of the peace and disorderliness, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Prosecutor, Donjour Perezi, said that the defendant committed the […]

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Ex-Director, Ministry of Petroleum Resources, remanded in prison custody over P&ID $9.6bn

As the drama in the $9.6bn, Nigerian govt and P&ID continues, the Apo Division of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja, on Friday, ordered that the former Director, Legal Services of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Grace Taiga, charged with offences connected with the controversial P&ID $9.6bn judgment, be remanded […]

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Too Late To Save Divided, Hostile, Unequal Nigeria, By Bayo Oluwasanmi

We have witnessed the independence of Slovenia from the former Yugoslavia, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the division of the former Czechoslovakia, and the separation of both Eritrea from Ethiopia and South Sudan from Sudan. Numerous successful secessions have allowed people greater freedom and self-determination: Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire, the Hungarian split […]

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TB Joshua donates N12m to some Nigerian returnees from South Africa

Many of the Nigerians who voluntarily returned from South Africa in the wake of xenophobic attacks came to The Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN). They all testified that tensions had significantly reduced after T.B. Joshua’s tearful song ‘Africa Unite’ was released and thanked God for His intervention. They equally acknowledged they had forgiven the […]

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