DSS frees President Buhari’s ally, Muhammed Umar
The Department of State Security Service(DSS), yesterday, freed from detention, a former member of the Presidential Arms Investigation Panel, Muhammed Umar, who has been slammed into detention for...
View ArticleGov. Nasir El-Rufai: ‘We had to pay some Fulanis to stop killings in Southern...
Kaduna State Governor Mallam Nasir el-Rufai has said his government has traced some violent, aggrieved Fulani to their countries and paid them to stop the killings of Southern Kaduna natives and the...
View ArticlePresident Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, reportedly ill, flown abroad
The chief of staff to President Muhhamadu Buhari has taken ill and has been flown abroad, Daily Trust reported. A top government official, who spoke under strict condition of anonymity confirmed to our...
View ArticlePresident Buhari to secure $29.9billion loan despite Obasanjo’s counsel
Following ex-president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s counsel that the Federal Government should not secure $29.9billion, President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun,...
View ArticleGov. Ambode: ‘My administration has kept faith with our promise to Lagosians’
The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Thursday said his administration has kept faith with the electioneering campaign promises made to Lagosians, assuring that the state would witness...
View ArticleBianca Ojukwu reveals her late husband’s dying wish
The widow to late Biafran warlord Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu has said she has fulfilled two of the dying wishes of her husband who died on November 26, 2011. Bianco spoke...
View ArticleThe rise and rise of Adebayo Ogunlesi: the son of Nigeria’s first Professor...
Dr. Adebayo Ogunlesi is a highly-successful investment banker and private equity tycoon. Born to the family of Nigeria’s first Professor of Medicine, Emeritus Professor Theophilus Ogunlesi, he is the...
View ArticleMeet Dr. Amelia, the wife of boardroom guru Adebayo Ogunlesi
Dr. Adebayo Ogunlesi is a highly-successful investment banker and private equity tycoon. He is the son of Nigeria’s first Professor of Medicine, Emeritus Professor Theophilus Ogunlesi. Adebayo Ogunlesi...
View ArticleOoni of Ife, Olugbo of Ugbo in war of words
The Olugbo of Ugbo in Ilaje, Ondo State, Oba Obateru Akinruntan has disagreed with the Ooni of Ife in Osun State, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi over which throne is the monarchical seat of power in Yorubaland...
View ArticleFarida Waziri bombs Nuhu Ribadu: ‘Don’t succumb to another another logorrhea’
Following a statement by a former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu that an ex-chairman of the anti-graft agency Farida Waziri allegedly had a hand in his...
View ArticleIDPs camp in Damaturu records 22 marriages, 81 deliveries in 20 months
No fewer than 22 marriage contracts were sealed and 81 babies delivered in the past 20 months at the Pompomari Internally Displaced Persons(IDPs) camp in Damaturu, Executive Secretary, Yobe Emergency...
View ArticleGov. Ambode mourns ex-minister Bola Kuforiji-Olubi
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Sunday expressed shock and sadness over the death of foremost accountant and a former Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Bola Kuforiji-Olubi. Dr. Olubi,...
View Article‘You’re confused, we don’t want you’– Ekiti APC to Gov. Ayo Fayose
The Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State,Taiwo Olatunbosun, has asked Governor Ayodele Fayose to forget hopes of joining the party from the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP)....
View Article‘The Many Ways Goodluck Jonathan Is Better Than President Buhari’, writes...
By RENO OMOKRI Tell me if you have noticed this trend-your friends and acquaintances who used to shout ‘sai Buhari’ and ‘body language’ and who used to fight anyone who criticized President Buhari,...
View Article‘You are daydreaming’– Igbo leaders to President Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement that those agitating for Biafra should perish the idea has drawn criticism from South-East Nigeria with some of the leaders saying Buhari is daydreaming. Leaders...
View ArticleHeads to roll as EFCC moves to grill Goodluck Jonathan’s ex-ministers, perm...
There are strong indications that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) is set to begin investigating some ex-ministers, serving and ex-permanent secretaries and directors of budget and...
View ArticleBola Tinubu: ‘I will not abandon APC’
The National Leader of the All Progressive Congress APC, and former governor of Lagos State Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said that he and others will not abandon the APC, the party he helped to...
View Article‘Why I dumped PDP for APC’– Goodluck Jonathan’s former aide, Ima Niboro
A former Special Adviser on Media to Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr Ima Niboro, has joined the All Progressives Congress (APC). Niboro was ushered into the APC on Monday at his residence in Udu...
View Article‘Nigerians should ignore reports that we are carrying arms’– FRSC
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Monday urged the public to ignore reports going round that the corps had started distributing and mandating its personnel to carry arms. Mr Bisi Kazeem, FRSC...
View ArticleSenator Shehu Sani’s feud with Gov. Nasir El-Rufai gets messier
The last may not have been heard of the feud between Senator Shehu Sani and Gov. Nasir El-Rufai. Sani, who represents Kaduna South Senatorial Disctrict in the Senate, took a swipe at the governor...
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