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A 1970s model wagon car ran into a jubilating crowd welcoming the victory of Kayode Fayemi on Sunday morning, hitting a seven-year-old boy and leaving him ghastly wounded. Medical personnel were not optimistic about the boy’s high chances of recovery, only urging his family and relatives to be fervent in their prayers. The driver was […]

Over the centuries, the phrase “the pen is mightier than the sword” has come to define the power of the written word in statecraft. Those words have since stepped out of the pages of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Conspiracy, a play written in 1839, to become words on marble. At the heart of this notion of […]

Led by about 19,000 votes, the candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Kayode Fayemi, cruised to a win over his closest rival, Professor Kolapo Olusola Eleka of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, in the governorship election held Saturday in Ekiti State. The results announced Sunday morning by the Independent National Electoral Commission […]

I had planned to devote my column today to paying tributes to two great Nigerians of the same generation: Alhaji Adamu Ciroma who died last week at 84 and Prof. Wande Abimbola, who recently marked his 85th birthday. But against the background that Nigerians are unwittingly being told that it doesn’t matter if those who […]

Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is currently meeting behind closed doors with the Peoples Democratic Party national chairman, Uche Secondus, the party’s former deputy national chairman, South West, Chief Olabode George, and members of the National Working Committee of the party. The meeting is holding inside Oke Ona hall, at the Green Legacy wing […]

Nigerian Senator and comrade, Shehu Sani, has said he is yet to decamp from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to any other party. He made this known on Friday in a press statement made available to his Facebook and Twitter pages. “I’m yet to defect or decamp or migrate from the APC to any other […]

Everybody wants to go to Heaven. After our earthly lives are spent and finished we all want to go to a place of peace and happiness for eternity. It’s what inspires us to live Godly lives. Some fraudulent pastors will have you believe that if you don’t pay your tithes you won’t go to heaven. […]

Since the beginning of this year, violence of all forms have pervaded Nigeria and resulted in a massive number of casualties, the scale of which is almost unthinkable. Violence is not an alien in Nigeria; it has been a part of our national life as long as the country has existed. However, the cruel manner […]

According to Premium Times, a day after making the same demand on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC) has asked a federal high court in Abuja to declare the purported election of All Progressives Congress National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, and the entire national executive committee invalid, null and void. […]

Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC) has released names of 31 senior lawyers conferred with the prestigious rank of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) for the year 2018. It appears that the list contains the name of only one woman. See the full list below: List credit: The Guardian. Wig image: Informationng

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flays President Muhammadu Buhari and what it called his dysfunctional All Progressives Congress (APC) for attempting to claim credit for the Abuja Light Rail Project, even when Nigerians are aware that the project was conceptualized, initiated and policy-propelled by the PDP. The party said: “President Buhari’s showboating and rushing to commission […]

About 50 people were gruesomely murdered in villages around Gandi in Rabah Local Government of Sokoto State on Tuesday according to latest reports. President Muhammadu Buhari, while reacting to attack, condemned the act saying he will spare no effort in stopping killings in the country. Buhari said his administration will not allow any group of barbarians and […]

Married to a young lady four months ago, elder brother of a former governor of Delta state, James Ibori, and former Unugbrogo of Oghara kingdom, Chief Williams Ibori is dead. He reportedly passed away very early this morning, according to some online sources. Some others say he might have died late last night. Mourning his […]

A retired Director of Mobilisation at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mr. Anthony Ani, has cited reasons why the purported ‘Certificate of Exemption’ owned by Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, is not genuine and “wouldn’t have emanated from the NYSC.” Mr Ani, who appeared on Channels Television’s breakfast show, Sunrise Daily, said the certificate has footprints […]

Kolapo Olusola Campaign Organisation (KOCO) of the Ekiti State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Thursday, alleged that the Federal Government of Nigeria has moved N18 billion cash with bullion vans into Ekiti State through Akure airport with the purpose of allegedly inducing the electorate with the money during Saturday’s poll. Lere Olayinka, Director, Media and Publicity […]

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus, has led the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to the National Assembly to protest against the alleged assault by men of the Nigeria Police on the Gover‎nor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose. Also at the protest, which held at the main gate to […]

Nigerian Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Mr. Solomon Dalung said he has summoned the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Suleiman Kazaure, over the controversy trailing the authenticity of the Exemption Certificate tendered by the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun. Dalung explained that the summon was for Kazaure to come brief […]

President Emmanuel Macron of France was in Nigeria recently. One of the things his trip achieved was bringing out his host, President Muhammadu Buhari, to speak to Nigerians at a press conference. It is ironical that Nigerians needed the French leader to prise their President out of his hiding place, but the reality is also […]

The system of government favoured by Nigerians has always been the democratic system. Even military governments in Nigeria seize power ostensibly in the interest of upholding or promoting democratic structures. We even had a period, under Ibrahim Babangida, when a military government at the federal level orchestrated democratic structures and elections at the state and […]

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has described the death of Nigerian ambassador to Sao Tome and Principe, Queen Imaria Worlu, as unfortunate. The Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Olukunle Bamgbose, stated this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja, on Wednesday, saying that the ministry received the sad news of […]