by Anike Jacobs Jokes on you people! Getting Nigeria’s president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari to laugh this heartily may be an Herculean task for some but it’s a piece of cake for former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. At-least this was what we deduced when Atiku visited Buhari at the Defence House in Abuja recently – below...
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by Anike Jacobs The car | credits: Samson Folarin There was confusion at a filling station along the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Road on Wednesday after a, Florence Anih, a female Police Inspector attached to the Airport Police Command, was slapped by a Nigerian Air Force Lance Corporal. The Lance Corporal, who was in a...
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by Ranti Joseph The Borno State government has said that all the 293 women and girls rescued from Sambisa Forest are indigenes of Bumsiri village of Damboa local government area of the state, dashing hopes that some of them could be the Chibok girls abducted in April last year. Briefing reporters on the development on...
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by Peregrino Brimah With this new restriction we must explain every penny our family and friends in America wire to us to help them build their houses in Nigeria or to simply save or invest for them in Nigeria; or to pay school fees of their wife and girl friends. Dear fellow Nigerian masses, In...
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by Ranti Joseph The federal government has relieved the director of finance of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Tochukwu Bede Uchendu, of his appointment following a petition by two leading aviation labour unions over irregularities associated with his appointment and unapproved waiver grants worth N1 billion respectively. The Transport Services Senior Staff Association...
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by Rotimi Fasan Should Jonathan refuse or fail to attend Buhari’s inauguration he may have helped to lay another booby trap for democratic practice, one in which a defeated candidate in an election can register their rejection of defeat by refusing to show up at their successor’s inauguration even after supposedly conceding. October 1 was...
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by Yemi Adamolekun The Office of the Citizen is the highest office in the land but it currently doesn’t come with a salary and it’s definitely lacking in pomp and pageantry. From the initially scheduled date of February 14, we hope to finally have all results from the 2015 general elections this week of April...
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by Kolapo Olapoju Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party is apparently determined with calls for the resignation of National Chairman of the party, Adamu Mu’azu, and other members of the National Working Committee. During a meeting on Wednesday, April 29, at the Akwa Ibom State Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja, the governors reportedly insisted that Mu’azu must go. Mu’azu,...
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by Niran Adedokun I am hoping that those our compatriots who shout down people who always want to take Nigeria’s challenges to God in prayers will be eating some humble pie now. I am hoping that by now, they see some sense in the insistence of people of faith that God is interested and...
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by Kolapo Olapoju National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu met with one of the leading contenders for the Senate presidency, Senator George Akume, on Wednesday, April 29. The meeting reportedly took place around 3pm at Tinubu’s personal residence. It is believed that Tinubu advised Akume to put aside his ambition for the...
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by Olusegun Adeniyi Nigerians are already excited about the prospect of a coming probe by Buhari. But such an exercise would be no more than a needless distraction for an administration that has so many things on its plate. An old man was walking through a village when he saw several children gathered around a...
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by Anike Jacobs Yesterday, two people were crushed to death following an accident on the 3rd Mainland Bridge, Lagos. According to Punch Newspaper reports, the who were travelling on a motorcycle rode against traffic inwards Lagos Island when they were crushed to death. A traffic policeman who witnessed the incident said the victims rode along...
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by Kolapo Olapoju The Federal Government has demanded the repatriation of the corpses of the four Nigerians executed on drug-related charges, in Indonesia. The convicts were on Wednesday, April 29, taken to the Nusakambangan Island where they were executed by firing squad. A statement released on Wednesday, April 29, from the Public Communications Division of Ministry of...
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by Anike Jacobs President-Elect, Muhammadu Buhari and the outgoing president, Goodluck Jonathan recenty met behind closed doors at the Presidential Villa in Aso Rock to discuss as the May 29th handover date approaches. From the photos coming out of the meeting we can’t help but notice that both men rocked similar looks – Agbada (caps...
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by Kolapo Olapoju Of late, President Goodluck Jonathan has embarked on an unprecedented last minute sacking and appointment of officials of government parastatals. The latest casualty in the President’s sack-spree is Mallam Habib Abdullahi as the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority. His appointment was terminated on Wednesday, April 29, and was immediately replaced...
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by Anike Jacobs There was confusion at the Ojodu Berger Motor Park area of Lagos on Wednesday when drivers and passengers found a commercial bus driver dead in his vehicle. According to Punch Newspapers, the deceased, only known by a nickname, Big Daddy, had slept overnight inside the bus, only to be found dead on...
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by Damilola Jagun For making too much noise and disturbing the peace of their communities, 24 religious outfits were shut down in 2014. According to the Lagos State government on Wednesday, April 29, the religious houses were closed for contravening the State guidelines on noise pollution. Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello and General Manager...
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by Kolapo Olapoju Socio-cultural Yoruba group, Afenifere, has released a communique explaining the rational behind its support of President Goodluck Jonathan in the recently concluded presidential election. According to the group, the support of Jonathan over president- elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), was done in the interest of the Yoruba race and the entire country....
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by Anike Jacobs Ex-military governor of old Anambra State, Col. Robert Akonobi (rtd), has pleaded with Igbo parents to reduce the bride price of their daughters so that ‘’our young boys can marry them.” Speaking recently at the industrial city of Nnewi, Anambra State during the traditional wedding ceremony of the daughter of a business...
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by Kolapo Olapoju Very recently, Ayo Fayose says he is ready for peace in his state, and this latest move may be testament to that… or not. The Ekiti State Governor has withdrawn the lawsuit to stop the moves by the 19 All Progressives Congress lawmakers in the state House of Assembly to remove him from and his...
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by Anike Jacobs As the Nigerian military says it rescued 293 girls and women from Sambisa Forest, the elders in Borno say they need evidence and pictures of the rescued captives. Speaking to Reuters, Borno Elders Forum said via its spokesman Bulama Mali Gubio saaying, “If the soldiers have indeed rescued 200 girls and 93 women...
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by Chinwe Okafor Well we have heard cases such as infidelity and other what nots, leading to annulment of marriages, but the absence of vagina is not what you would hear everyday. An Abeokuta Customary Court sitting in Ake dissolved a three-year-old marriage between Mr. Femi Olayiwole and wife, Kemi, due to the absence of...
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by Chinwe Okafor Apparently he doesn’t like women with teeth. A New Zealand man has been accused of removing women’s teeth with pliers and a screwdriver during sex because he liked ‘gummy ladies’ Philip Lyle Hansen, 56, who has pleaded not guilty to 11 charges claims he was just trying to ‘help’ them. One of his many flings, told...
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by Chinwe Okafor The pope just announced to the world that he may in fact be a feminist. During his general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday morning, Pope Francis spoke out in support for equal pay for equal work. According to the National Catholic Reporter, the pontiff talked, during his general audience at the Vatican...
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by James Sambo President Goodluck Jonathan has advised that the administration of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari should not consider scrapping the Presidential Amnesty programme for ex-militants in the Niger Delta region. The Presidency cautioned that any attempt to cancel the amnesty programme would lead to crisis in the region. The Special Adviser to the President on...
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by Chinwe Okafor Ernest is a young 19-year-old who is going through one of the toughest oddities of life. He has the trio of sickle cell anaemia, sickle cell nephropathy and at 13 was diagnosed with stage 5 chronic kidney disease. In addition to this, he suffers from avascular necrosis, generalised tonic clonic seizures and Todd’s hemiparesis...
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by Ranti Joseph In the case of the two controversial bullet-proof cars purchased by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority for the former minister of aviation, Stella Oduah in 2013, a Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered Coscharis Motors Limited to release information as regards the issue. Justice Mohammed Yunusa made the declaration in a...
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by Kolapo Olapoju President-elect of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has instructed all his staff as well as the personnel attached directly to him, to stop all forms of dealings with the media. Buhari warned them to leave all media affairs to his official media team, who knew how best to deal with their media collegaues. In...
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by Kolapo Olapoju The All Progressives Congress in Osun state has blamed the Peoples Democratic Party-led Federal Government for being responsible for the nonpayment of workers in the state for the past six months. According to the party in the state, corrupt practices, mismanagement of the treasury and looting of the nation’s coffers is the...
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President elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday inaugurated the much awaited transition committee with a warning to members not be on a fault finding mission, but to study the hand over notes and advise him on how to avoid the mistakes of the past. The 19 -member committee headed by a retired Permanent Secretary and elder...
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