News, Events, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Fashion, Beauty, Inspiration and yes… Gossip! The Only Place It Happens!
Forget 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 ReadingExtra cleaning took place as the podium where Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima were scheduled to take oath of office as President and Vice President of Nigeria, was hit by heavy rain. It was reported earlier that a heavy downpour was witnessed at the Eagle Square where the inauguration of Bola Tinubu as 16th President […]
Continue ReadingNigerian singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, has said that he did not perform at the Tinubu inauguration concert held on Thursday, May 25, in Abuja because the organizers of the event wanted to offer him N5 million instead of N10m for his performance. According to the artist, he was told that N10 million […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday May 25, conferred the titles of Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR) and Grand Commander of the Order of Niger (GCON) honors on the president-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his VP-elect, Kashim Shettima in Abuja. The GCFR is the highest honour to be conferred on anyone in Nigeria. […]
Continue ReadingAfter failing to stop him from emerging as APC’s flag bearer in 2022 and mounting steep hurdles for him in the 2023 election, Muhammadu Buhari increasingly comes across as intentionally charting courses of action designed to provoke pre-inauguration confrontation with Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Or am I missing something? Take, for example, Buhari’s request to the National […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), sitting in Abuja, has disclosed plans to merge the three separate petitions seeking to nullify the outcome of the 2023 presidential election by virtue of paragraph 50 of the First Schedule of the Electoral Act to merge all the petitions and decide them together. This view was supported by […]
Continue ReadingBola Tinubu, Nigeria’s President-elect has on Monday, in Paris, capital of France, met with Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, one of his opponents in the February 25, 2023 elections. The former Kano State governor’s wife, Hajia Salamatu and Abdulmimin Jibrin, an NNPP lawmaker-elect, accompanied him to the meeting, Tinubu’s wife, Sen Oluremi Tinubu and Femi Gbajabiamila, outgoing […]
Continue ReadingFormer deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has confirmed that a peace meeting did hold between him and some elders together with community leaders in Lagos State The peace parley was brokered by retired Justice Isola Olorunnimbe and had in attendance Prince Tajudeen Olusi, the leader of the Governance […]
Continue ReadingAbout 17 days to the scheduled swearing in of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, five residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Nigeria, have approached the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court for an order to halt the ceremony. The five plaintiffs behind the suit, who identified themselves as “registered voters of the […]
Continue ReadingFormer aide to ex-Nigerian president, Mr. Reno Omokri as described President elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as a political scholar which PDP need to study and learn from in order to defeat his political base. Reno share this thought on his official Twitter Page where he wrote: “Tinubu has been preparing for 2023 since 1998. He […]
Continue ReadingThe Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) has on Wednesday dismissed the petition of the Action People’s Party (APP) challenging the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election and subsequent declaration as the ‘president-elect’. The dismissal of the petition followed an application by the party to withdraw its petition challenging the […]
Continue ReadingI possess neither the intellect of Albert Einstein nor the anointing of Apostle Matthew, the tax collector and Jesus’ disciple. I’m only a Lagos-born hunter from Igbajo, the Citadel of the Brave — an inheritance of Osun State. Unlike Einstein and Matthew, I’m no Jew, no scholar, no philosopher. Never can I hold a candle […]
Continue ReadingTwo weeks after he returned to the country from a trip to France and London, Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, left Nigeria for Europe again, purportedly on a working visit. This was contained in a statement signed by his media aide, Tunde Rahman. The statement read: “Already, meetings with multi-sectoral actors in Europe’s business […]
Continue ReadingAs the hearings of presidential election petitions started on Monday, DEBORAH TOLU-KOLAWOLE examines the profiles of five justices who are members of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal The Presidential Election Petition Court on Monday began hearing the election petitions filed by five candidates in the last presidential poll. The candidates are challenging the victory of the President-elect, […]
Continue ReadingAction Alliance (AA) and its Presidential candidate, Solomon David Okanigbuan, on Monday, withdrew their Petition challenging the declaration of Bola Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election. At the commencement of the pre-hearing session of the Presidential Election Petition Court sitting in Abuja, counsel to the petitioners, Oba Maduabuchi SAN moved a […]
Continue ReadingIn Port Harcourt, Rivers State last week, as guest of Governor Nyesom Wike, President-elect Bola Tinubu promised to fight corruption. To delink judicial officers’ minds from corruption, Tinubu’s blueprint of fighting this goblin, he said, would be to further incentivise judicial officers. “You don’t expect your judges to live in squalor, to operate in squalor and […]
Continue ReadingAkinyemi Onigbinde, a professor of political philosophy with a speciality in public policies, politics and governance, has stated that the election that produced President-elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was not free and fair. Onigbinde, who is also the Executive Secretary, Centre for Development and Policy Studies, in an interview with Nigerian Tribune, said the elections […]
Continue ReadingLabour Party (LP) has on Tuesday raised the alarm over an action taken by a self-acclaimed factional chairman of the party, Lamidi Apapa, asking the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) to dismiss all cases by his party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi against the victory of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has arrived Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, on Monday. His flight touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, and was welcomed by a crowd of supporters. Tinubu arrived from France in the company of his wife, Oluremi Tinubu, at the presidential wing of the airport to a rousing […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu, is currently finding himself at the center of a fresh controversy as allegation of holding dual citizenship has surfaced. A photo of the bio-page of a Guinea Conakry passport allegedly belonging to Mr. Tinubu has surfaced online after popular influencer, David Hundeyin […]
Continue Reading