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Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja has dismissed the Accord Party’s petition challenging the victory of Monday Okpebholo and the All Progressives Congress in the September 21, 2024 election. The three-member tribunal ruled on Wednesday that the Accord Party and its candidate failed to prove their claims beyond reasonable doubt, and that […]
Continue ReadingEdo State governor, Monday Okpebholo and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) have secured an initial victory in the legal battles challenging their win in the September 21, 2024, Edo State governorship election. The Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal dismissed a petition filed by the Action Alliance (AA) and Adekunle Rufai Omoaje, ruling […]
Continue ReadingA short four minutes, thirty three seconds video of what looks like Kogi senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, worshipping at the Osun shrine in Osogbo is trending. If she is truly the one in the video, then her traducers better back off before the deluge comes with its fury. You do not beat the child of the […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu has approved a sweeping reconstitution of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited board, removing the Chairman, Chief Pius Akinyelure and the Group Chief Executive Officer, Mallam Mele Kolo Kyari. According to a release issued in the early hours of this morning by presidential spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, the President also removed all […]
Continue ReadingAn unsigned document, purported to be copies of the judgment of the Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, have allegedly surfaced online, stirring uncertainty and controversy. That document, which has the petition number of the case filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship candidate, Asuerime Ighodalo, against Monday Okpebholo of the All […]
Continue ReadingThe killing last Friday of 16 Northern travellers along the Uromi-Ubiaja road in Edo state is an event that will live in infamy. Twenty-five travellers from Port Harcourt going home to the North, Kano specifically for the Eid el-fitri celebrations were intercepted by vigilantes along the way on the suspicion that they were kidnappers and […]
Continue ReadingNigerian doctor based in United Kingdom (UK), Dr Kelvin Alaneme, was secretly filmed by the British Broadcasting Corporation in an undercover investigation, allegedly selling fake job opportunities to foreign nationals. BBC documentary described Dr Alaneme as a psychiatrist who had worked for the National Health Service, is the founder of CareerEdu, an agency based in […]
Continue ReadingAliko Dangote, Mike Adenuga, Abdulsamad Rabiu, and Femi Otedola, have emerged as the only Nigerians on the 2025 ‘Africa’s Billionaires List’ compiled by Forbes, which was released on Saturday, March 29. The four businessmen are the only Nigerians to feature on the prestigious lineup, with Dangote leading the continent’s wealthiest individuals. Dangote, the owner of Dangote […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian presidency is an energizing elixir. It has proven to be very effective in breathing life into dry bones. To old creaky engines, it gives deep cleaning; it replaces worn parts and upgrades the lubrication system. Olusegun Obasanjo went in there and got transformed from an imprisoned stork to a clean-shaven ladies’ egret. The […]
Continue ReadingEdison Ehie, Chief of Staff to the suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has alleged that he was offered the sum of N5 billion to coordinate the impeachment of his principal. Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, Ehie claimed he has evidence of the bribe offer stored on his phone. “I can also open my […]
Continue ReadingPublisher and CEO of Ovation international magazine, politician and member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dele Momodu, has condemned President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State, calling it “anti-democratic.” Speaking on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Monday, Momodu said, suspending Governor Siminalayi Fubara, Deputy Governor Ngozi Odu, and […]
Continue ReadingIn recent weeks, we seem to have been wrestling with the very idea of democracy. After all, our political system has passed through the Westminster parliamentary system and over three decades of the Washington type presidential system. There is a prolonged assumption that we are indeed a thriving democracy and ought by now to have come […]
Continue ReadingA female member of the Edo State House of Assembly, Natasha Osawaru has added the last name of her fiancé, the Nigerian star singer, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2Face or 2Baba, to her Instagram bio. Her Instagram bio currently reads, “Honourable Natasha Idibia.” This is coming days after Annie signed off in a post […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s boxing community has been thrown into mourning as the former National and West African light-heavyweight champion, Segun ‘Success’ Olanrewaju, collapsed during a boxing match in Ghana and died on Saturday. Olanrewaju lost consciousness while facing Ghanaian boxer Jon Mbanugu at Fight Night 15 of the Ghana Professional Boxing League at Bukom Boxing Arena. It […]
Continue ReadingGhanaian president, John Mahama, in his first official visit to Nigeria since his inauguration on January 7, 2025, has explained to journalists why he visited President Bola Tinubu on Thursday at the State House, Abuja. Mahama said he was in Nigeria to thank Tinubu for honouring him with his presence during his swearing in, and […]
Continue ReadingI have a very close friend whose father made him an executor to his will ahead of his much older siblings in a large, but affluent polygamous family. That was rather uncommon in a typical African setting. It gets even more uncommon. The very detailed will gave mere stipends from a rather expansive estate to some of […]
Continue ReadingUnited Kingdom (UK) government has published a list of unclaimed estates and properties belonging to 5,806 individuals who resided and died in the UK. Among them are 58 Nigerians. Released on Monday, the list details the names, dates of death, places of death, marital status, and Bona Vacantia (BV) reference numbers of the deceased. Some […]
Continue ReadingHundreds of unclaimed estates reveal untold stories of African migration, wealth, and family ties left behind. Thousands of people die every year in the United Kingdom without leaving a will or identifying next of kin, and among them are many Nigerians and other Africans whose estates—ranging from property to savings—remain unclaimed. The UK government’s latest […]
Continue ReadingNigerian music diva, Teniola Apata, popularly called Teni, has narrated how she was down with malaria for two weeks but still had to attend a music performance in Ondo State. The ‘For Your Case’ crooner, in a video via her Instagram page on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, jokingly said she almost wanted her mother to […]
Continue ReadingDuring an interview on Channels TV on Monday, Professor Wole Soyinka responded to critics who have been taunting him to “say something” about the present administration. In the interview, he said, “People should stop trying to work on my timetable for me. I had not swallowed an alarm clock. I don’t see why I should […]
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