The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has said the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is littered with bad advisers, hence his resolve to not release their leader- Radio Biafra Director, Nnamdi Kanu. IPOB said the Buhari is not being told the truth by his advisers simply because they are secretly hoping his government fails. After...
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The police has commenced a search for the Baale of Odumade/Solumade Phase 2, Igbogbo/Bayeku, Ikorodu, Safarudeen Odumade, for supposedly beating a truck pusher, Abdullahi Mohammed, to a state of extreme lethargy. The traditional ruler was said to have summoned Mohammed after he passed his palace, and neglected to pay respect to him as requested by society. Mohammed...
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Naira, Nigeria’s national currency, has been very much in the news in the last couple of weeks. The naira is seriously ill and the prognosis from the ‘experts’, many of them full of bile and ill-will, is indeed dire. They have written the naira’s obituary and are already summoning the burial party of undertakers that...
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I am trying to make sense of the current economic woes Nigeria currently faces. In a series of reflective introspection, I wonder if President Muhammadu Buhari could not have been swifter and more proactive instead of reactive. I would try to make a little analogy of the current economic situation. Global drop in crude oil...
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan does need to serve as a witness in the money laundering case against the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh. According to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the case against Metuh can be proven without the help of Jonathan. The EFCC stated this while opposing the no-case submission filed...
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Chief Executive Officer of Capital Oil and Gas, and a one time governorship candidate for Anambra state, Ifeanyi Ubah, on Tuesday, stated that the naira has fallen substantially to about N310 to 1 dollar. Ubah made this known through his Facebook page where he stated that people were manipulating the naira so as to make...
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Embattled senator representing Zamfara-Central senatorial district, Kabir Marafa has described the report of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions as unfair and one-sided after he stormed out of plenary on Tuesday, February 23. The committee is investigating Marafa for allegedly granting an interview to mislead the public about the National Assembly and is...
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The opinionated governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose, on Tuesday, called into question the political weight of several members of his party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), saying that most who couldn’t 10 per cent of their states during the last general election, were now challenging the emergence of Ali Modu Sheriff. Fayose, who have...
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Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has denied that he is involved in the ordeal of a former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke (SAN) after he was picked up by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Adoke had written a letter to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo naming Atiku as one of the key...
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The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (PDP), on Tuesday, continued the criminal prosecution of the former National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Haliru Bello -who is accused of corruptly benefiting from the $2.1 billion meant for the purchase of weaponry to prosecute the war on Boko Haram militancy. In making its case, the...
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“If you don’t fight corruption, you cannot even deal with the economy, you need to hold corrupt people accountable because they stole the money meant for the economy,” says Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo. The Vice-president stated this on Tuesday, while speaking with delegation of the Trade Union Congress at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Osinbajo, who noted...
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The Economic and Financial Crime Commission is set to prosecute the former Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, and four other persons, over the 2014 immigration recruitment exercise that left more than 20 people dead. The EFCC is reported to have spent more than 5 months investigating the matter and will now pursue an 11 count criminal...
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and his wife, Dolapo, since his appointment, have been inseparable in the eyes of the pap…
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Waziri Adio as the Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI). News of Adio’s appointment was disseminated on Tuesday, by Bolaji Adebiyi, the director of press in the office of the secretary to the government of the federation. Adio has previously served in NEITI from 2007 to 2008, as the director of communications....
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Tuesday, stated that the sacking of the 12 vice-chancellor of the newly estblished federal universities was a clear violation of the law. It would be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari, through the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, recently fired the VCs of the new federal universities established...
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Having witnessed one of the most captivating opening weekends in the Nigerian Premier League history, the thirst for more of such action meets fulfilment this week, when the Matchday 3 of the NPFL resumes. The second week of NPFL actions promises to be even more interesting than the first with or without sponsors. Matches will...
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Our nation is currently submerged in a currency crisis. The value of our national currency is tumbling against the dollar on a daily basis, and our foreign exchange reserves continue to dwindle as a result of the continuous fall in the price of crude oil. In recent months, there has been a rigorous debate as...
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The 2nd Annual Powering Africa Summit was held on the 28-29 January 2016 in Washington D.C. The summit is a platform to showcase power, trade and infrastructure investment opportunities across the African continent. The event also serves as a platform to engage more than 400 decision makers from the United States and African public and...
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President Muhammadu Buhari has rejected the offer given to Nigeria by Saudi Arabia to join forces as a coalition of Islamic states against terrorism. President Buhari jetted out to Saudi Arabia on Monday, February 22 to meet with King Salman Bin Abdul-Aziz in bilateral talks in the bid to stable the plummeting price of oil....
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The controversy emanating from the appointment of former Borno state governor, Ali Modu Sheriff as National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, has taken a new dimension. Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has blatantly fired back at the subtle threats made by Ali Modu Sheriff on Monday, to anyone who linking him to the Boko...
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Offices of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) across the country have been shut down by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) PPPRA Branch, over the confusion on the appointment of a new acting executive secretary. The former Executive Secretary of the agency, Farouk Ahmed, had last week Thursday,...
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The Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, has appointed Folashade Ayoade as the new Secretary to the State Government. This was disclosed on Tuesday, in a statement released by the governor’s chief of staff, David Onoja. Governor Bello also appointed Momoh Jubril as the new Accountant-General of the state as well as 20 new Special Advisers...
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According to the grapevine and rumour mill, the marriage of popular Nigerian comic, AY Makun has hit the rocks. News reports from several online media platforms suggests that the 6-year marriage of AY and his wife, Mabel is facing major challenges. Popular blogger, SDK reported earlier on Tuesday, that Mabel may have packed out of...
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Justice E. S. Chukwu of a Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, has dismissed what he described as a ‘no-case-submission’ filed by a former president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Sani Lulu, in the corruption charge against him and three others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Spokesperson of the EFCC, Wilson...
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The Lagos State Government, on Tuesday, announced that it would establish a DNA Forensic Laboratory in Nigeria, making it the first ever DNA laboratory in Nigeria. The laboratory is part of plans by the state government to fight crime in the state. This disclosure was contained in a statement signed by Habib Aruna, the Chief...
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Nollywood hunk, Jim Iyke, on Tuesday morning, lambasted one of his followers for labeling his Instagram page ‘boring’. Here is what happened: The Nigerian actor posted a picture which the follower in question then commented under, by branding Jim’s page as boring. This sent Jim Iyke into rage-mode as he lashed out at the unlucky...
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In a 1972 Hollywood film entitled The Candidate, Robert Redford acts as Bill Mckay, a political neophyte who is drafted out of the blue into a race for the U.S. Senate. With no chance whatsoever of winning, Mckay is given a free hand to say whatever he likes on the stump. Therefore, he tweaks the...
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No matter what you call your vagina (from “down there” to vajayjay, there’s no shortage of terms be…
Popular American music video director, Director X who is known for his star-packed roaster which includes Drake, Kendrick Lamar and Nicki Minaj would be coming to Nigeria courtesy MKN, a media production company that specialises in music videos, commercials and promos at part of its first ever Music Video Director’s seminar in Lagos next month. The MKN Seminar which...
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