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Former aide to ex-Nigerian president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. Reno Omokri has spoken on the governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom’s quitting the All Progressives Congress (APC). Governor Ortom announced on Monday at the banquet hall of the government house in Makurdi that he is no longer with the APC. While swearing-in the newly appointed […]

PDP National Chairman, Mr Uche Secondus The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Uche Secondus, has said that the results from the Ekiti governorship election which the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) emerged as the winner cannot stand. He asked Nigerians who believe in democracy and rule of law not […]

A Chief Magistrate sitting in Akure, Ondo state, Monday, remanded 27- year-old Seidu-Shakiru Adeyemi in Olokuta prison for allegedly killing his 25-year-old girlfriend, Khadijat Oluboyo. Police prosecutor, Sgt. Mary Adebayo, told the court that the accused person and others at large conspired together to strangle Khadijat to death and buried her in his room. She […]

A coded joint in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, where men and women go to hire men to give them good quality sex has been discovered. An investigation carried out by Punch, showed that the joint which is three months old, is located in the government reserved area and is owned by a lady who resides in […]

Former Nigerian Education Minister, Oby Ezekwesili, has spoken on the allegations of vote-buying leveled against party agents by voters in some polling units during Ekiti Governorship election. The All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate in the Ekiti State governorship election, Kayode Fayemi won in 12 out of 16 Local Government Areas in the poll held on Saturday. […]

PRESS STATEMENT Fellow citizens of Ekiti State Leaders and members of our great party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Election Monitoring Groups (Local and International) Nigerians – Home and Abroad; and The International Community Greetings! I REJECT THE INEC RESULTS OF THE JULY 14, 2018 EKITI GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION You are all aware of the unfortunate […]

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 […]