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A lecturer at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Prof. Samuel Oluwalana, has said Nigeria is losing a huge amount of money for its failure to export human faeces, cockroaches, as well as, scorpions to foreign countries. The lecturer noted that the American government gets $3.5 billion every year because it is used to protect astronauts […]
Continue ReadingThe Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, during the board policy meeting on Friday, listed the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE) alongside the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and the Lagos State University (LASU) as the most-sought universities following an appraisal of its 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation […]
Continue ReadingThe countries with the largest breast sizes in the world have been revealed, and Nigeria failed to make the top 20. While many might think bigger is better when it comes to breast size, new research says this might not be so. According to information collated by World Data on the average breast size worldwide, […]
Continue ReadingA Senior Magistrate’s Court sitting in Aba South, Abia State, Nigeria, on Tuesday remanded 60-year-old Chukwuemeka Orji at the Correctional Centre over the alleged rape of a minor. Mr. Orji, a pastor of the Assemblies of God Church in Aba is facing a one-count charge of serially raping a 13-year-old girl that lived with him. […]
Continue ReadingThe gory image that was sent to me a few days back was that of a stab victim. But what drew my ire was the multitude of people that surrounded the victim, yet it didn’t occur to any of them to make an effort or mobilise for support to rush him to a hospital. In […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian referee identified as Mustapha Bello has been killed when he was struck by lightning during a friendly football match in Madalla town, Niger State, Nigeria. The deceased popularly known as Mustafa Coach 02 among football fans, and a member of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFA) met his tragic end on Tuesday evening, June […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu has signed the Nigeria’s Student Loan Bill into law. Giving out student loan was one of Tinubu’s campaign promises and he said at the time that it was part of his effort to develop the education sector and also build the youth capacity. Chief of Staff to the president, Femi Gbajabiamila; a […]
Continue ReadingAs a popular Nigerian chef, Hilda Effiong Bassey, aka Hilda Baci, is waiting to be certified as Guinness World Record holder for longest cooking marathon by an individual with her 100 hours, another Nigerian chef, identified as Damilola Adeparusi has begun 120 hours cooking marathon in Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State. Adeparusi simply […]
Continue Reading500-Level Mechanical Engineering male student of the Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Ekiti State, Ayomide Oduntan, last Thursday, slumped and died on campus, throwing his family into mourning. There is a short video clip of the student celebrating after writing his final examination shortly before he reportedly slumped and died. Ayomide, a final-year student, who […]
Continue ReadingA chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Plateau state, Samuel Kwamkur, on Sunday warned former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, not to set Nigeria on fire with his utterances At a press conference in Jos on Sunday, Kwankur, a former National Director of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), was reacting to […]
Continue ReadingNational Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has directed its members to withdraw their services nationwide on Wednesday, June 7 and join the strike action proposed by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) over the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal government. In a memo signed by its acting general secretary, Dominic Igwebike, the NUEE urged […]
Continue ReadingA High Court, sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria presided over by Justice Gabriel Ette, has on Friday, June 2, sentenced three women to death for specialising in kidnapping and selling of children in the state. The women identified as Enobong Nsikak Sunday (38), Gertrude Thompson Akpan (48), and Mary Okon James (49) were […]
Continue ReadingDo you know that one of the most famous names in the history of Nigerian football, described as one of the best strikers ever, scored only two goals for the national team of Nigeria? Do you know that a certain famous Nigerian player captained the national team, yet played only once for the country in […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s U-20 otherwise known as Flying Eagles sent hosts Argentina out of this year’s FIFA U-20 World Cup after recording a 2-0 win in the round of 16 match. Second half goals from Ibrahim Muhammad and Haliru Sarki saw Ladan Bosso’s side edge out the record of U-20 World Cup winners. This is the first […]
Continue ReadingYesterday, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, was sworn in as the 16th President, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria along with his Vice President, Kashim Shettima, GCON, at the 7th major transition ceremony since the return of Nigeria to civilian democratic rule in 1999. The event was held at the Eagle Square, Abuja. […]
Continue ReadingForget their pretensions and volte-faces, when outgoing Nigerian public officials wake up tomorrow, 29 May, they will wake up into emptiness. That void cannot be filled by the wealth they have acquired in office. Nor can it be eliminated by Muhammadu Buhari’s reported haste to flee Aso Villa tomorrow. At the launch of a book […]
Continue ReadingMy Lord, I write, as a concerned member of the Nigerian bar, regarding a subject which has generated controversy among members of the bar and indeed the larger public in the past week. Confidence in the judiciary is at an all-time low. On 22 May 2023, at the opening ceremony of the annual conference of […]
Continue ReadingHuman rights lawyer, Inibehe Efffiong, has slammed clergyman Pastor Enoch Adeboye over the prayers he has offered for Nigeria in the last four years. Inibehe was reacting to a news headline quoting Adeboye as saying that ‘’There shall be a new Nigeria.” In a series of Tweets, Inibehe asked what positive impact Adeboye’s prayers have […]
Continue ReadingIn a series of tweets, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has faulted the call made by the US Secretary of the State, Antony J. Blinken, to President-elect, Bola Tinubu, adding that he ought to let the court decide the legitimate president of Nigeria. Obi said: […]
Continue ReadingAnambra state Commissioner of Police, CP Echeng Echeng, has on Thursday, during a press conference in Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria, released the names of those in the United States (US) government vehicles when the gunmen attacked them and said, three US embassy officials and four policemen were killed in the attack. He also said that two […]
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