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As a popular Nigerian chef, Hilda Effiong Bassey, aka Hilda Baci, is waiting to be certified as Guinness World Record holder for longest cooking marathon by an individual with her 100 hours, another Nigerian chef, identified as Damilola Adeparusi has begun 120 hours cooking marathon in Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State. Adeparusi simply […]
Continue Reading500-Level Mechanical Engineering male student of the Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Ekiti State, Ayomide Oduntan, last Thursday, slumped and died on campus, throwing his family into mourning. There is a short video clip of the student celebrating after writing his final examination shortly before he reportedly slumped and died. Ayomide, a final-year student, who […]
Continue ReadingA chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Plateau state, Samuel Kwamkur, on Sunday warned former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, not to set Nigeria on fire with his utterances At a press conference in Jos on Sunday, Kwankur, a former National Director of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), was reacting to […]
Continue ReadingNational Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has directed its members to withdraw their services nationwide on Wednesday, June 7 and join the strike action proposed by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) over the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal government. In a memo signed by its acting general secretary, Dominic Igwebike, the NUEE urged […]
Continue ReadingA High Court, sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria presided over by Justice Gabriel Ette, has on Friday, June 2, sentenced three women to death for specialising in kidnapping and selling of children in the state. The women identified as Enobong Nsikak Sunday (38), Gertrude Thompson Akpan (48), and Mary Okon James (49) were […]
Continue ReadingDo you know that one of the most famous names in the history of Nigerian football, described as one of the best strikers ever, scored only two goals for the national team of Nigeria? Do you know that a certain famous Nigerian player captained the national team, yet played only once for the country in […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s U-20 otherwise known as Flying Eagles sent hosts Argentina out of this year’s FIFA U-20 World Cup after recording a 2-0 win in the round of 16 match. Second half goals from Ibrahim Muhammad and Haliru Sarki saw Ladan Bosso’s side edge out the record of U-20 World Cup winners. This is the first […]
Continue ReadingYesterday, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, was sworn in as the 16th President, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria along with his Vice President, Kashim Shettima, GCON, at the 7th major transition ceremony since the return of Nigeria to civilian democratic rule in 1999. The event was held at the Eagle Square, Abuja. […]
Continue ReadingForget 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 ReadingMy Lord, I write, as a concerned member of the Nigerian bar, regarding a subject which has generated controversy among members of the bar and indeed the larger public in the past week. Confidence in the judiciary is at an all-time low. On 22 May 2023, at the opening ceremony of the annual conference of […]
Continue ReadingHuman rights lawyer, Inibehe Efffiong, has slammed clergyman Pastor Enoch Adeboye over the prayers he has offered for Nigeria in the last four years. Inibehe was reacting to a news headline quoting Adeboye as saying that ‘’There shall be a new Nigeria.” In a series of Tweets, Inibehe asked what positive impact Adeboye’s prayers have […]
Continue ReadingIn a series of tweets, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has faulted the call made by the US Secretary of the State, Antony J. Blinken, to President-elect, Bola Tinubu, adding that he ought to let the court decide the legitimate president of Nigeria. Obi said: […]
Continue ReadingAnambra state Commissioner of Police, CP Echeng Echeng, has on Thursday, during a press conference in Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria, released the names of those in the United States (US) government vehicles when the gunmen attacked them and said, three US embassy officials and four policemen were killed in the attack. He also said that two […]
Continue ReadingThe video of the verbal and physical assault of a police officer by Seun Kuti, Afrobeat musician and son of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, was not just embarrassing but shameful. It captures, in moving pictures, the level of impunity that pervades Nigeria, which has made it almost impossible for the country to progress. The video, which was […]
Continue ReadingClerk of Nigeria’s National Assembly (CNA) has been directed by the Nigerian senate to transmit a constitution alteration bill No. 58 to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent in line with the provisions of the Authentication Act. The bill seeks to provide for independent candidacy in presidential, governorship, national and state assemblies and local government councils […]
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 Reading95-year-old man identified as Alhaji Muhammad Sabo has reportedly married a young girl said to be 14 years old in Abuja community, Nigeria. The wedding fatiha was held on May 5, 2023, at Dogon Ruwa under Gawu in Abaji Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, Nigeria. People earlier expressed skepticism over the […]
Continue ReadingFive political parties and their candidates are respectively challenging the outcome of Nigeria’s February 25 presidential election on grounds of non-compliance with the electoral laws as well as the guidelines of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Names of the Justices who will be presiding over the various presidential election petitions that will arise are: […]
Continue ReadingOfficers of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command have arrested a 16-year-old boy, Emmanuel John, over the killing of his father, Monday John. It was gathered that Emmanuel, around 10pm on Tuesday, May 2, used a pestle to kill his father during a fisticuff between the deceased and his mother, Mrs Mercy John. A […]
Continue ReadingGolden Eaglets of Nigeria have lost 0-1 to Morocco in their second Group B game at the 2023 U-17 AFCON on Wednesday. Early strike by Abdel Maali secured Morocco’s second win in the group. The Eaglets are expected to bounce back from the loss when they face South Africa on Saturday. Morocco got off to […]
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