Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Vice President of Nigeria will be delivering the keynote address at the ‘Green with Creativity Conference 2016’, happening tomorrow, Saturday 7 May, 2016. Organised by UNBOXED 2.0, a human capital and enterprise development organization, the conference will help participants answer questions on innovation and reinventing their businesses. “We have selected an impressive...
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The New Media Conference (NMC) to chart growth in marketing and advertising standards in the Nigerian online/digital media space. The 2nd Conference on New Media –applicationsand technology will bring together key new media practitioners, corporate brands and digital media agencies for a comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding Digital Media space. The Conference will be...
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The Nigerian government is hoping to purchase up to 12 super Tucano attack aircraft from the United States of America, to help in prosecuting the war against Boko Haram terrorist sect. According to a Reuters news report, the US government also intends to help Nigeria in intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance. The US had for...
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Sai Baba, How far o. We no dey see your brake light again. Wetin happen now? How come you don’t talk to us anymore? Abi is our mouth smelling or is it the body odor? We apologize if it is the “BO,” it’s just that we have not had light for some days now. Plus...
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As if dealing with the scourge of the terrorist sect, Boko Haram and the rampaging Fulani herdsmen is not enough for the country, a new group of militants has reared its head in the Niger Delta. The group, which tagged itself ‘Niger Delta Avengers’ has claimed responsibility for the bombing of pipelines that link both Warri...
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It wouldn’t be far fetched to assert that the Nigerian judiciary has suffered an integrity crisis with the way the trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, has been handled thus far. Repeated calls have been made for the chairman of the tribunal, Danladi Umar, to embrace some modicum of...
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Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has alleged that agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have surrounded his house in Abuja. The EFCC had earlier on Friday, invited Fani-Kayode to report at the agency’s Abuja office on Monday, May 9, for questioning. The letter, which was signed by Mohammed Umar Abba on behalf...
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President Muhammadu Buhari signed into the law, the 2016 budget on Friday, May 6 – almost six months after submitting the document to the National Assembly. During the budget signing ceremony, President Buhari said the following: 1. The budget is intended to signpost a renewal of our commitment to restoring the budget as a serious...
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After months of a seemingly endless back and forth between the National Assembly and Presidency, the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, signed the 2016 Appropriation Bill into law. The budget was signed at 12 noon during a short ceremony at the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock. Present at the budget signing ceremony were the Vice President,...
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Friday, invited garrulous former Minister of Aviation and former PDP Presidential campaign organization Spokesperson, Femi Fani-Kayode, to report at the agency’s Abuja office on Monday, May 9, for questioning. The letter, which was signed by Mohammed Umar Abba on behalf of the Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, was delivered to Fani-Kayode...
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Following the signing of the 2016 Budget by President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerians on social media have reacted to the budget in several ways. While some have expressed optimism over the budget and its yet to be disclosed contents, others prayed that the wait, controversy and political wranglings on the document will be worth the wait....
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Celebrity Fashion Stylist and Fashion Entrepreneur, Jane Michael who was recently featured on CNN African voices give…
Perhaps one of the biggest heroes of 2013 was former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), now Emir of Kano, Sanusi Muhammad II, when he revealed the day-light robbery that was happening in the Petroleum industry under the eagle-eye watch of former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. Somehow, the ‘secret letter’ Sanusi had...
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After months of political wrangling between the National Assembly and Presidency, the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, signed the 2016 Appropriation Bill into law. The budget was signed at 12 noon at a short ceremony at the President’s office, in Aso Rock. Present at the budget signing ceremony were the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo,...
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In the wake of the outbreak of violence in Aba, Abia state, between Igbo butchers and Hausas as well as the growing threat of Fulani herdsmen, the state governor has instructed traditional rulers to submit names of 10 able bodied men in their community to serve in the state vigilante force. Godwin Adindu, Chief Press Secretary...
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On 3rd April 2016 the “Accidental Governor ” of the North Western state of Kaduna uttered below words while signing the NO HAWKING BILL recently passed by Kaduna State House of Assembly: “This morning, I signed a bill that prohibits street hawking and begging in Kaduna state. From September 2016, every child between the ages of...
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Lagos to Abuja is a journey and most passengers embarking on this trip prepare their mind for it. You’re either ready to sleep (I fall into this category of passengers) or you’re ready to fight sleep with everything you can conjure till you get to where you are going-though I don’t know why you even...
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Nigeria is a volatile nation, particularly the North-East region where Boko Haram has laid waste to thousands of human life, livestock, as well as properties. Over the years, violent actions have erupted in different parts of the country – especially in the northern region – due to carelessly made statements by politicians hiding under the...
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The Abia government has announced the arrest of the unidentified Hausa soldier who shot dead an Igbo butcher on Thursday, May 5, in Aba Abbatoir, Ogbor Hill area of the state. The soldier shot the butcher in the back after being urged by a Hausa trader to help retrieve his money from the deceased. An eyewitness had...
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“The politicians who left us to our troubles in the last five years only to come back when peace has returned to the state to tell us that Jonathan’s administration was better than the present, should be stoned just like the Satan is stoned at the Kaaba,” says the Governor of Boko Haram ravished Borno...
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There was a meme circulating on Nigerian Facebook a few weeks ago. Accomplishments of Governor Ayo Fayose: First governor to eat corn on the road side. First governor to drive a tractor while in office. First governor to eat ‘amala’ (local flour meal) with an old woman. First governor to invite students into the government...
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This is certainly not the best of times to be a state governor in Nigeria. The drastic drop in the prices of crude oil and its attendant effects on a mono-product economy like Nigeria has dealt a near fatal blow to the finances of the federal and state governments. In recent past, states commissioners of...
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“I hear the World Bank says Nigeria is now the worst place to do business in the entire world.” “ I don’t believe it.” “I also hear that of the 15 fastest growing economies in Africa, Nigeria is no longer on the list.” “ I say I don’t believe that. And stop hearing bad things.”...
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is investigating the $115 million cash allegedly disbursed by Fidelity Bank on the instruction of the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. Senator Chris Anyanwu was on Thursday, interrogated, regarding the N700 million she allegedly received out of the Diezani largesse. But the Senator, a former journalists, has...
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, May 5, received from the National Assembly what is believed to be the ‘clean’ copy of the 2016 budget. The President is expected to sign the budget after studying it and conferring with his Ministers, especially those who had issues with the initial version of the document that was altered...
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The Federal Government has called on the ECOWAS community court sitting in Abuja to hands off the case brought before the court by embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. In letter to the sub-regional court, the federal government, through the Federal Ministry of Justice, noted that the court lacked the...
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Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the war against corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, on Thursday, stated that Nigeria would have become a failed state and disintegrated if former President Goodluck Jonathan had won the 2015 presidential election While expressing his displeasure at the level of corruption in Nigeria under Jonathan, Sagay said that the...
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President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, disclosed that it has become increasingly difficult for his government to recover looted funds. He also said Nigerians were becoming extremely impatient with him over the rate at which stolen loot are being recovered. This was contained in a statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity,...
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In the wake of the allegations made by Tiwa Savage that she once caught her estranged husband, TeeBillz taking cocaine, a new development has cast doubts over the authenticity of her claim. On Wednesday night, radio personality, Freeze had said that TeeBillz tested negative for cocaine after undergoing a drug test. PulseNG has now obtained...
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Following the tell-all interview by the former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), now Emir of Kano, Sanusi Muhammad II, wherein he spoke on the letter he wrote to former President Goodluck Jonathan on corruption in the NNPC, the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, on Thursday, confirmed that he leaked the letter. According to...
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