The ‘most senior governor in Nigeria’, Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state says he won’t support the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party to contest for Nigeria’s presidency in 2019. The governor described the rumours of a prospective joint ticket of Sheriff/Fayose for the 2019 presidential elections as the ‘deceit of the highest order’. Speaking at...
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Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has revealed that about 100 kilogrammes of gold is exported outside Nigeria every single day, without records being made. Based on the present gold price, a kilogramme can be sold for as high as $39, 149 and with the present exchange rate of N199 to a dollar,...
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A Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Aniako Celestine, was on Saturday, abducted by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Owa community in Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State. Father Celestine, who is in charge of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Ukana, Udi LGA, was kidnapped on his way from his home town, Ezeagu. Vanguard reports that the herdsmen...
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The Peoples Democratic Party’s Board of Trustees Chairman, Senator Jibrin Wali, on Sunday, said that the party lost the 2015 election because Northern leaders forced Jonathan on Nigerians. Senator Wali made the assertion during the wedding ceremony of the daughter of former Governor of Niger State, Abdulkadir Kure. While apologizing for the mistakes of the...
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The Nigerian Army has forcefully retired Brigadier General Aliyu Momoh for his unprofessional conduct during the 2014 Ekiti state governorship election which saw the emergence of Ayodele Fayose as governor of the state. The army relied on the report of the committee set up to investigate the Ekitigate scandal which involved several military officials who...
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Leader of the Social Democratic Party, Olusegun Osoba, has decamped to the All Progressives Congress. Osun state governor, Rauf Aregbesola announced Osoba’s return to the APC on Sunday, while briefing journalists after a closed door meeting of leaders of the party at the residence of Osoba in Ikoyi, Lagos. Aregbesola said: “We have resolved all...
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The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ali Modu Sheriff, on Sunday, announced the creation of four special committees to help rebuild and refurbish the crisis ridden party. Sheriff is expected to step down from his office after the National Convention of the PDP slated for May 21, 2016. The announcement was contained...
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The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, on Sunday, stated that his government will sue the Federal government for harassing and arresting some principal officers in his council as well as members of the Ekiti state House of Assembly. Fayose, who noted that he was being targeted by the Muhammadu Buhari administration, stated this during an...
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The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress has described the rerun State and National Assembly elections of March 19 as ‘the allocation of votes’ to the Peoples Democratic Party by the Independent National Electoral Commission ‘to avoid being killed’ by Governor Nyesom Wike and his ‘gang of killers’. In a statement signed by...
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The 8th Senate’s achievements in the month of March cannot be over-emphasized as the growth and development of the entire nation has and will be affected positively by some of its accomplishments. Highlighted below are some activities that are worthy of mention in the Bukola Saraki-led 8th Senate in the month of March. Passage of...
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From the social media attacks to brutal accusations, today has produced another celebrity face off between popular Nigerian blogger, Linda Ikeji and singer, Wizkid. The latest in the string of attacks is – Linda’s updated blog post – where she maintained that Wizkid is a phony who lies about his ‘supposed successes’. Read below, the...
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Things are getting messier between Linda Ikeji and Wizkid -who has come back firing on all cylinders after the blogger attacked him in a new blog post. . Contrary to Linda’s claims that the singer acquired his highly-publicised Porsche car through hire purchase, Wizkid has denied this -saying that the two Porsche cars he purchased...
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President Muhammadu Buhari has said his government is working very hard to correct the mistakes made by the nation and its leaders. Speaking in Washington DC to a group of Nigerians on Saturday, the President reiterated his administration’s resolve to move the country forward as quickly as possible. A statement was issued to this effect...
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Singer, Wizkid attacked popular blogger, Linda Ikeji on her Instagram page, earlier on Sunday, for publishing a story about the quit notice he got on his home in Lekki, Lagos. A couple of hours after the attack, Linda Ikeji fired back at the singer for his ‘childish behavior’. She took to her blog to address...
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The Nigerian situation today is that which call for concern, knowing how difficult things have become for the populace; sparing no one. Things have gone so bad that earnings can not anymore satisfy basic needs recently. It does not matter where you work or who you work for, neither does it matter where you resides...
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After the Supreme Court decision that the Code of Conduct Tribunal, as presently constituted, has the jurisdiction to try Senate President Bukola Saraki, the case has continued. Since then, several legal luminaries including Prof. Ben Nwabueze, SAN; a former justice of the Supreme Court, Samson Uwaifo; and Mr Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, have faulted the apex...
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Peoples Democratic Party governors, who played a hand in bringing in Ali Modu Sheriff as the party chairman have turned tail and orchestrated a fine plan to ensure that he is ousted at the forthcoming National convention party billed to begin in May. According to reports, the governors are in cahoot with the Board of...
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“Justice Mohammad Idris of a Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered President Muhammadu Buhari to hold all successive administrations since the return to civil rule in 1999 to account on the spending of the recovered loot” – a national newspaper. Are you aware that in addition to the four refineries in Nigeria – Portharcourt...
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“You look tired” “Ha, my brother. Thanks for being observant. I have been trekking.” “Trekking?” “I went to buy fuel at that fuel station by the Estate gate. I had to abandon the car there. On my way back home, I could not find okada or any other form of transportation.” “No wonder you are...
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Olamide who is currently on tour in the United States hooked up with music producer, Shizzi earlier in the week and a new freestyle featuring titled ‘Who You Epp’ emerged from the session. Phyno decided to jump on the track released earlier today after Olamide had left a free 16 bars on the beat -to...
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A representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to Nigeria and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Angele Dikongue Atangana, on Saturday, stated that the attacks in Agatu local government area of Benue State, has ruined the area. Atangana made this observation when she was led on the tour of the area...
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Following the letter written by the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi kanu, the United Kingdom government says his case has been under observation by its officials. Kanu- a British citizen, had written a letter through his lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, urging the British government not to abandon him in incarceration, where he’s...
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“No democracy can survive with (Nyesom) Wike’s kind of attitude and disposition to elections”, says the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, about his successor – the Rivers state governor. In a statement released by his Media Office in Abuja on Saturday, Amaechi said the allegations by Wike that the Peoples Democratic Party won the election...
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Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has defended the proposed bill seeking to regulate religion in his state. El-Rufai, in an interview with Punch Newspapers, stated that the law is in good faith and is meant to protect citizens and not vicitmise them as erroneously postulated by the opponents of the bill. “There is nothing in...
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Overt the years, crowds have cheered, girls have fainted… for the love of one superstar –Davido. Nonetheless, the Nigerian singer definitely didn’t expect what he witnessed on Saturday at the lobby of the Radisson Blu M’Bamou Palace Hotel, Brazzaville, Congo. An overwhelmed male fan who works at the hotel was in tears on seeing the...
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The Nigerian government has announced the reintroduction of payment of subsidy on petrol while also revealing that petrol scarcity would end in a few days. The latest pricing templates of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency released on Saturday, showed that government was paying N5.84 on subsidy – which was scrapped in January after the...
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The Nigerian Catholic Church, has warned Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai to desist from pushing for the enactment of a religious bill to regulate preaching of religious sermons in the state. While addressing a press conference in Abuja, the Director of Caritas International, a department under the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), Rev. Fr....
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Contrary to the position of the President of Nigeria Football Federation, Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung has said Super Eagles stand-in coach, Samson Siasia cannot be judged solely on one match. NFF President, AMaju Pinnick had last week stated that a foreign coach must be hired for the Super Eagles, else he’d resign from his...
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FC Barcelona’s 39 matches run of being unbeaten has finally come to an end -thanks to a late Cristiano Ronaldo goal. Real Madrid came from behind to earn a well deserved victory at Camp Nou on Saturday night, a result that dents Barcelona’s title hopes. On the night, the hosts fired first as a Gerard...
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It would appear that President of Russia, Vladimir Putin might just continue to remain unrivaled in his country’s political space. President Putin has largely remained invincible in Russia over the years following a spate of death of his vocal critics. For some reasons, quite a number of Russia’s key figures who have been vocal in...
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