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Nigerian Minister of Mines and Steel, ​Kayode Fayemi, walked out of the meeting which Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and some other party leaders held with the Ekiti state APC governorship aspirants on Tuesday. The meeting took place at the Lagos state government house in Asokoro, Abuja. Some of […]

Nigerian Senate, Wednesday, declared that the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris was not fit to hold any public office both within and outside the country. The senate also described Idris as an enemy of democracy. This development followed the continuous refusal of the Police IG, Idris, to honour the upper chamber’s invitations to brief the […]

Why should God do this for a sinner like me who does not pay tithes? I was standing in the parking lot of the building where I lived in Lagos, talking to Bimbo Dada, now Director of Library, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, when a man walked through the gate and came to talk to […]

Nigeria’s Minister of Education during Obasanjo’s era, Ms. Oby Ezekwesili, Wednesday, reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s latest medical trip to the UK. Ezekwesili, a co-converner of BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) advocacy group, described the President’s medical trips abroad as annoying and shameful. She said this as she shares Buhari’s past comment viz: “It was wrong for a […]

As much as sex is a basic instinct and an inbuilt phenomenon of the spirit, soul and body, it has been observed that many couples do not know where it all begins from. The lack of this knowledge has made many couples to believe that sex cannot be very sweet, fantastic and pleasurable with just […]

Dying will be ‘optional’ within just 27 years and the ageing process will be ‘reversible’, according to two genetic engineers during the presentation of their new book in Barcelona. José Luis Cordeiro, born in Venezuela to Spanish parents, and Cambridge (UK) mathematician David Wood, founders of the operating system ‘Symbian’, have just published The Death of […]

Ekiti State incumbent deputy governor, Prof. Kolapo Olusola Eleka, has emerged as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate for the July 14 gubernatorial election. He polled 1,191 votes to beat former party spokesman, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, who polled 770 votes. Total number of votes were 1,968 out of which 7 were canceled. We reported that […]

The National Working Committee NWC of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC has cancelled the results of last Saturday’s botched gubernatorial primary election in Ekiti state, and has consequently fixed this Friday for the conduct of fresh primaries. The NWC which took the decision after a marathon session between Monday and Tuesday however barred the […]

President Buhari, in all his wisdom, recently described the youths of Nigeria as lazy, unproductive, expecting everything in their lives to be free without putting in any effort since they were born into an oil-rich nation. In a sense I agree with him, but…… The Oxford dictionary describes ‘lazy’ as unwilling to work or use […]

11-year-old Akasha Urhobo has steadily been placing the Nigerian flag at a very outstanding point in the world of  tennis, a feat that recently earned her a proclamation where May 1, 2018 was declared as Akasha Urhobo Day in the City of Fort Lauderdale in the United States. The proclamation was made by the Mayor of City […]

When vehicle manufacturers make their vehicles, they make them with a specific load limit. However, this has never stopped some people from overloading their vehicles beyond the wildest imagination of the vehicle manufacturers. Whatever vehicles they are, trucks, motorbikes, tricycles even horse-drawn carts, they are often overloaded. Autojosh presents 20 examples of some rather funny […]

Reports coming in say the senator representing Ekiti South, Mrs. Abiodun Olujimi, has stepped down for a former Nigerian Minister of State for Works, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, in the race for the Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship flag bearer for the July election. According to reports, Mrs. Olujimi said she sacrificed her ambition for peace, progress, […]

AGENDA FOR ACTION “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore.” One of the seminal quotes of Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel laureate, was written while he, a Yoruba man, was in prison, fighting the injustice meted against the Igbo. Said Soyinka: “The man dies in all who keep silent […]

Some people said it is already a done deal. But Ekiti PDP has brought in some fun in its primary election to pick the party’s flag bearer in the July 14 governorship election. The delegates for the gubernatorial primary were earlier seen eating rice together as they appear in Aso Ebi according to their wards. […]

Nigerian Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has said that Nigeria recovered about N7.8 billion, $378 million and £27,800 through the Whistle-blower’s policy launched by President Muhammadu Buhari in December 2016.

Southern Nigeria (Southeast, Southwest, Southsouth) and Middle Belt took their message, a demand for restructuring in Nigeria to the Senate. Watch the video below: https://youtu.be/ZxjLzUhDzXo?t=4 Video credit: Oak tv, Youtube

Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari has been scheduled, to, Tuesday, embark on a four-day trip to the United Kingdom where he will see his doctors. A press release by Garba Shehu, his Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity Monday night, said the president had a meeting with his doctor last Thursday when he had a “technical […]

The Petroleum Act 1969 (as amended) grants powers to the Ministry of Petroleum, acting through the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to administer the licensing of oil blocks in the country. These include Oil Prospecting Licence (OPL), Oil Mining Licence (OML) and Oil Exploration Licence (OEL), which allow the awardees, local and foreign, to explore […]

Founder and Senior Pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has again spoken on the campaign against corruption, stressing that Nigerian government’s approach to the fight under Buhari was defective and yet to produce any serious conviction after three years. The global anti-corruption watchdog, Transparency International (TI), had in February ranked Nigeria low in […]

Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Festus Keyamo SAN, and 6 others as members of the board of the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC). This was made known by President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, at the Nigerian Senate on Tuesday. Saraki read the letter from Buhari at the plenary on Tuesday after which he […]