Opinion: Rivers rerun; an Ikwerre wrestling match

Have you listened to, or read the media campaigns for the Rivers re-run elections? You will be surprised to hear or read stuff like this; “Come out and support our governor Nyesom Wike! Vote PDP”, or “Support Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi,vote APC”. Then you will suddenly become confused. First question you may wish to ask is;... Read More

Nyesom Wike, rerun election, Rivers, Rotimi Amaechi

I was abroad when Senate rejected Gender Equality Bill – Ben Bruce

Senator Ben Murray-Bruce has finally lent his voice in support of the advocacy for equal gender rights in Nigeria, the largest black nation on earth. The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday, March 15, rejected a bill to institute gender parity. The bill which was sponsored by Senator Biodun Olujimi, was titled “Gender Parity and Prohibition of... Read More

Ben Bruce, Gender Equality Bill, senate

Opinion: Beauty rules the world, but beauty is not what you think it is

“Aunty Seun, we can’t take that bike o”, Kemi lashed out in an alarming disgust that usually describes her ultimate repulsion. “Why?” I asked, not readily prepared for the forthcoming answer, She replied , “ The Okada Man is ugly”(Okada means motorbikes solely used for public transportation), as we went past a swarm of okada... Read More

‘They are people of certain classes’ | CBN defends appointment of Buhari’s nephew, 90 others

The Acting Director of Corporate Communications of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Isaac Okorafor has tried to explain the alleged nepotism of the apex bank which is reflected in the secret recruitment of the wards of some national leaders. News outlet, Sahara Reporters had uncovered the secret recruitment of some relatives of President Muhammadu Buhari,... Read More

Buhari, CBN, children, north, Sahara Reporters

Judge orders Metuh’s trial to begin in the absence of his lawyers

The trial of the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh would commence by 12pm on Thursday, March 17 in spite of the absence of his lawyers. Metuh was charged to the Federal High Court in Abuja by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on 7 counts of fraud involving the N400... Read More

Abuja, corruption, dasuki, EFCC, Justice, metuh

Rivers election: Gunmen lay siege on Emohua LGA, behead 1, abduct another

Pre-election violence has commenced in full swing in Rivers state, as gunmen have reportedly kidnapped one man and beheaded another. The unidentified gunmen laid siege to Mgbuitanwo, Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, on Thursday morning, Vanguard reports. Emohua is the local government of the Senatorial Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, in the... Read More

election, Emohua LGA, Rivers State

‘The killings in Rivers state is nothing less than genocide’

The All Progressive Congress governorship candidate in the Rivers state 2015 election, Dakuku Peterside, has said that by upholding the election of Nyesom Wike, as governor of the state, the Supreme court has increased the suffering of people of the state. Peterside, who was last week appointed the Director-General of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and... Read More

APC, Dakuku, election, genocide, RIver side, Rivers State

THE YNAIJA TRACKLIST: Fayose’s policies protested in Ekiti | ‘Buhari has breached the constitution’ | More stories

Ambode bans Okada in Ikosi-Isheri LCDA. Leadership NNPC to pay N326 billion, not N3.23 trillion into Federation Account. Punch Protest against Fayose’s anti-people policies in Ekiti. Nation Peterside faults Wike’s Supreme Court victory. Leadership Faleke claims thugs beat up his supporters during tribunal. Punch EFCC seeks INTERPOL’s help in arresting Adoke. Punch Fulani herdsmen attack... Read More

adoke, ambode, EFCC, Fulani herdsmen, Peterside, Rivers, tracklist, wike

Governor Amosun moves to reconcile warring Yoruba Obas

Governor of Ogun state, Ibikunle Amosun has intervened in the growing rift betwen the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo and the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona. There has been a supremacy battle between the two traditional rulers in recent times. The rank battle between the Obas began when the Awujale debunked the Alake’s... Read More

Alake, awujale, ijebu, oba, Ooni of Ife, rankinh

Governor Ganduje declares war on anyone who opposes Buhari

Governor of Kano state, has declared war on anybody or group working against President Muhammadu Buhari. The governor stated that his administration would not condone anybody or any organisation striving to undermine the integrity of the president because he believed in Buhari’s change agenda. Ganduje, after inspecting a feeder road built at Zango-Bela in Nassarawa Local... Read More

APC, Buhari, Kano State, Politics

Service of songs held in memory of James Ocholi (PHOTOS)

A service of songs was held for the late Minister of state for Labour and Productivity, James Ocholi, at the National Christian Center, Abuja. Ocholi had lost his life in a ghastly motor accident that also killed his wife and son. Present at the event were the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, Speaker of the House,... Read More

Abuja, James Ocholi, service of songs

19-year-old Nigerian scams American of $40m, gets 37-year jail term

A 19-year old internet conman, Tobechukwu Igbokwe, has been sentenced to 37 years’ imprisonment for defrauding an American of $40m in an inheritance scam. The pair, while pulling off an elaborate internet fraud, lied to M. Sila that they had a huge inheritance, which they wanted to move to a foreign account for safekeeping. Sila... Read More

$40m, 19, 37 years, Nigerian

30 vehicles seized from directors of SURE-P, accounts frozen

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission has commenced the probe of directors and senior officials of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P). The probe of SURE-P is in connection with a N3bn fraud allegedly involving the Federal Ministry of Finance and the SURE-P Graduate Internship Scheme. The money was meant for... Read More

directors, Fraud, scam, SURE-P

This is when Nigeria’s 2016 budget will be passed

Owing to the discovery of new errors, duplication and inconsistencies in the 2016 budget, the document will not be ratified today as promised by the National Assembly. Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, revealed on Wednesday, that the 2016 budget will be passed on Tuesday, March 22. After passage on March 22, Ndume noted that a clean... Read More

Ali Ndume, budget, passage

25 fresh errors discovered in 2016 budget, N37bn to be thrown out [DETAILS]

About 25 fresh errors amounting to an allocation of N37, 025, 238, 407, have been discovered in the 2016 Appropriations Bill. The errors were reported to have been discovered by the National Assembly committees at the last stage of the budget’s consideration. The Senate Committee on Appropriation and the House Committee on Appropriation as well... Read More

2016 budget, 25 errors, passage

Jonathan to PDP chieftains: ‘Go and return your share of the N3.1bn’

The camp of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan is reported to be in disarray on how to refund the N3.145 billion allegedly shared by six Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chiefs. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had recently uncovered how N3.145b was paid into the accounts of six PDP chieftains and the Goodluck Support Group by the... Read More

Goodluck Jonathan, presidential election campaign

House of Reps to get huge chunk of National Assembly’s N115bn budget

In spite of the massive public outcry against the huge 2016 budget of the National Assembly, it appears that the senate might after all not be fazed as it is set to go ahead with the initially proposed N115 billion budget for the year. According to Premium Times, details of the budget revealed that the... Read More

budget, plenary, senate, thursday, transparent

Commentary: It’s simple logic; Men and women are equal

I believe gender equality, gender equity, gender fairness or any other conceptualised explanation of men and women having equal access to equal rights are separated by nothing other than semantics. They mean the same thing from where I stand and are just products of everyone trying to find intellectual self expression, which isn’t a bad... Read More

Unremitted N3.2trn: ‘Audit report is erroneous’ – NNPC

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has reacted to the alleged N3.235 trillion that was not remitted to the federation account in 2014. In a statement released on Wednesday, March 16, by Isiaka Abdulrazaq, Group Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of NNPC, it was revealed that the report of the Auditor-General of the federation (AuGF)... Read More

audit, forensic, Fuel, nnpc, Oil

Fuel scarcity: Make forex available for oil marketers – NUPENG

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to secure foreign exchange for oil marketers so as to end the current fuel scarcity in the country. The demand/request was made by the southwest chairman of NUPENG, Tokunbo Korodo, on Wednesday while speaking with newsmen in Lagos. Korodo... Read More

Buhari only reacts to killing of Nigerians when there’s an election – Fayose

“Only a president with ulterior political motives will elevate political violence above the kind of genocide carried out by Fulani herdsmen in Benue State,” says the outspoken and loquacious governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose. Fayose has also accused President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressive Congress of plotting to rig Saturday’s senate re-run election in Rivers... Read More

APC, Buhari, PDP, Rivers State

Commentary: What Nigerians should know about the Islamic military coalition

Buhari’s singular act of dragging Nigeria into the military alliance on March 5, 2015 has raised different eyebrows, opinions and agitation from various quarters, with some claiming that the president is perfecting his primary plan of islamizing the country. But while all the conspiracy theorists run wild with theories, ask yourselves, what exactly is this... Read More

Final year student killed by DSS operatives on first day of Industrial Training

An agent of the Department of Security Services on Tuesday, killed Paul Hezekiah, a 24-year-old final year student of computer engineering at the University of Jos. . Paul was observing his three-month Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) with Johnson Sky Phones and Company, at the Central Business District of Jos, when he was murdered.... Read More

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DSS operatives, Paul Hezekiah

Photos from the scene of Maiduguri mosque attacked by 2 female bombers

22 people have been were confirmed dead from the terrorist attack on a mosque in Mulai near Maiduguri, Borno state. The attack was carried out on Wednesday morning by two female suicide bombers, who were disguised as men. See below, photos from the bomb attack.

Maiduguri Mosque, Mulai, suicide bombers

Nigerian troops clear 2 Boko Haram camps in Borno (PHOTOS)

Troops of the 120 Task Force Battalion of the Nigerian Army cleared Boko Haram camps at Bulasari and Golgore, both in Borno state, between Tuesday and Wednesday. According to Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, Acting Director Army Public Relations, ‘quite a number of the Boko Haram terrorists were killed while one soldier sustained a gunshot wound.... Read More

boko haram, Borno, camps

Mente De Moda Is Offering A Whooping 20% Off Stall Bookings

The people at Bang&Kosher are giving out a whooping 20% discount stall prices down for a limited time to encourag…

The 24 sins of Wike, Jonathan and PDP in Rivers state – APC

The Rivers state chapter of the All Progressives Congress has listed 24 sins committed against the people of the state- by Governor Nyesom Wike, former president, Goodluck Jonathan, and the Peoples Democratic Party. A statement issued on Wednesday in Port Harcourt, by the state chairman of APC, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, who said: “These, amongst... Read More

election, Goodluck Jonathan, Nyesom Wike, PDP, Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi

EXCLUSIVE: Metrogypsie’s Guide to Instagraming like a Pro

Don’t get it twisted please (I’m actually pleading), I am not a public figure on Instagram yet, neither am I the most successful on the…

TY Bello’s Take On: House Of Tara

BROWN WONDER Photographing @_ujumarshall is pure joy. This model moves and emotes like beautifully written poetry. I …

‘I helped Badeh convert N558m to dollars almost every month’ – Witness

In the ongoing trial of former Chief of Defense Staff, Alex Badeh, a witness- Salisu Abdullahi, Director of Finance and Account of the Nigeria Air Force on Wednesday, revealed to the Federal High Court how he often converted N558 million to dollars for the defendant. Abdullahi testified that the amount represented the leftover of funds... Read More

Air Force, alex badeh, EFCC, Federal High Court, trial, Witness

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