Nigeria and the Question of “Leadership”, By Lande Omo Oba

“To whom much is given, much is expected” is an idiom that most live by. Employees are expected to deliver results in exchange for a salary. Doctors are expected to treat patients back to good health in exchange for fees. Children are expected to perform very well in exams because we pay fees to schools […]

Continue Reading

Nigeria can still have good elections with the extant Act -INEC

Nigeria’s INEC has declared that although the rejected bill would have addressed controversies that trailed the 2015 exercise especially the place of technology and others that the amendments seek to address, Nigeria can still have good elections with the extant Act. Mr. Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, INEC’s Director of Voter Education and Publicity, addressed reporters on the […]

Continue Reading

Ex-Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria marks birthday with stunning Photos

  The former Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (MBGN) and stunning celebrity, Omowunmi Akinnifesi says she is 31 years of age today. Much has changed in appearance and beauty of the young lady over the years as seen in the picture below compared to the one above. The former beauty queen, took to her Instagram […]

Continue Reading

Connecting the Dots of Corruption: How Individual Greed Has Crippled Nigeria (1), By Bamidele Ademola-Olateju

Last week I was introduced to a young man who just “won” his party primary election and will be on the ballot in 2019, representing his constituency in the Oyo State House of Assembly on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). I was told he was given his father’s “slot”. This young man […]

Continue Reading

Kidnappers kill lawyer in Nigeria after receiving N3million ransom

Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association, Ikole Ekiti branch, Adeola Adebayo who was kidnapped on Saturday, November, 17, 2018 at Erio, Ekiti State, has been found dead with several bullet wounds. Adebayo was returning from Osogbo, Osun State, with his wife and parents where they attended an event when he was stopped and kidnapped. A […]

Continue Reading

Young and pretty lady found dead naked in Nigeria (Photo 18+)

An unidentified lady was found dead and naked near a market in a metropolis in Kaduna state as no one knows what really happened and caused her death. The authorities were notified before police officials arrived the scene and evacuated the corpse which was deposited at Gwamna Awan General Hospital. Efforts are being made both physically and […]

Continue Reading

How about 3 Sitting Presidents for Nigeria?, By Tony Ogunlowo

The 2019 Nigerian Presidential elections are just around the corner and the electorates are going to be faced with the age-old problem of electing one from the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (- and I’m not providing any clues to who is who!) Whoever gets elected will face the age-old problem of tribalism, Corruption […]

Continue Reading

213 new broadcasting outfits get operating licences in Nigeria

Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari has approved the issuance of operating licences to 213 new public and private broadcasting outfits in the country. Director-General of National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Ishaq Modibbo-Kawu disclosed this on Tuesday in Port Harcourt at the opening of the 71st General Assembly of Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON). Giving the breakdown, Modibbo-Kawu […]

Continue Reading

Dedication of world’s biggest church hall in Nigeria in Pictures

The 100,000 capacity church auditorium of the Dunamis International Christian Center, Abuja, believed to be the largest church auditorium in the world was dedicated on Saturday, 24th of November. In attendance were former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor E. A Adeboye, Bishop David Oyedepo, […]

Continue Reading

Pastor, his friend beheaded in Nigeria (Graphic photos)

A pastor, simply identified as George Lifted and his unidentified friend, are the latest victims of communal conflict in Bahumono, Abi Local Government Area of Cross River State. The pastor and his friend are believed to have been killed by yet to be identified persons and beheaded. A Facebook user, Rajuno Ohen, took to social […]

Continue Reading

All professions are practiced with impunity in Nigeria -Justice Ayo Salami

Former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Issa Ayo Salami, yesterday hinted that Nigeria is heading for a doom if it fails to address the growing corruption in the polity. Also, the Auditor General of the Federation, Mr. Anthony Ayine, has said corruption, a global phenomenon, is becoming endemic in Nigeria, as an estimated […]

Continue Reading

Atiku presents his 2019 action plan for Nigeria (Video)

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has launched his campaign for the 2019 presidential elections. Alhaji Abubakar launched the presidential campaign on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter simultaneously. See the live #TheAtikuPlan broadcast below: Atiku Abubakar✔ @atiku My plan to get Nigeria working again. #TheAtikuPlan #LetsGetNigeriaWorkingAgain https://www.pscp.tv/w/bsKPPTFvUEtMWWVXbEJYamR8MW1yR21ZWGFNelFHeRtlBmVS2VAuPWg4z8Ob8-ud4YZft7zzAC09hUrk9zju … 5:00 AM – Nov […]

Continue Reading

Too many people talking lazily about restructuring in Nigeria -Buhari

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has told Nigerians in diaspora that ‘there are too many people talking lazily about restructuring’ in Nigeria. Buhari who is in France for the Paris Peace Forum, spoke during his interactive session with the Nigerian community, made up of Nigerian Diaspora Organization, NIDO, All Progressives Congress, APC, members in France, students […]

Continue Reading

Fani-Kayode mocks Oshiomhole for rushing out of Nigeria

Former Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, has made mockery of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, for rushing out of the country. Oshiomhole, former Edo State Governor, left the shores of the nation hours after he was reportedly grilled by the Department of State Services (DSS) in Abuja. In […]

Continue Reading

Meet the highest ranking female police officer in Nigeria (Photos)

Ibrahim Idris, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Thursday, decorated Patience Ibekwe Abdallah, a police officer, promoted to deputy inspector-general of police (DIG). The Police Service Commission (PSC) had approved the promotion of three assistant inspectors-general of police (AIGs) to the position of DIGs. Among these officers, Abdallah is the only woman, meaning she is an inch […]

Continue Reading

1999 Constitution must be jettisoned for Nigeria to make progress -Akin Oyebode

Emeritus Professor of International Law and Jurisprudence, Akin Oyebode, has said the 1999 Constitution must be discarded in whole before the country can make progress. He said, no matter the number of amendments made to the constitution, it cannot work for Nigeria because it is entirely faulty. He said Nigeria must heed the call to […]

Continue Reading

American model, Blac Chyna to visit Nigeria

American model and celebrity, Blac Chyna has announced that she’ll be visiting Nigeria for the first time at the end of this month. If she is talking about October, that will be between today and tomorrow. Describing Nigeria as ‘motherland’, she wrote, ‘Hello Nigeria!!! I’m visiting the motherland finally to party with you in Abuja’.

Continue Reading

FG must recover $12.7bn for oil stolen from Nigeria under previous govt – Falana

Lagos lawyer and rights activist, Femi Falana SAN, has said that former President, Goodluck Jonathan was presiding over the country when $12.7 billion worth of crude oil was stolen from Nigeria. While speaking at the 40th-anniversary celebration of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, in Abuja, on Thursday, the Human […]

Continue Reading

Head Or Tail, Is Nigeria Doomed?, By Zainab Suleiman Okino

Since Nigeria attained independence 58 years ago, the nation has been running from pillar to post, in varied attempts to take the country out of the woods, and push it to an appreciable level of development befitting a country with its plethora of human and material resources. From a parliamentary system to unitary (military) government […]

Continue Reading