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Monthly Archives: April 2017

Abdulmumini Shehu Sani

Buhari Should Resign Now and Attend to his Health Issues – Shehu Sani

Abdulmumini Shehu Sani, Katsina State Chapter Chairman of the National Conscience Party, NCP, and a resident of Katsina State has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign and attend to his health issues. Speaking in the state, Sani said Buhari [...]

April 30, 2017 Government and politics
Gofit Winnie

Nigerian Wins Gold In Women Wrestling

A Nigerian Army, Private Gofit Winnie, has won a gold medal in the Women Freestyle Wrestling Competition in the African Wrestling Championships in Marrakech, Morocco. She clinched the gold in the 75kg event on Saturday. Her success came as Nigerian [...]

April 30, 2017 Sports
Bayelsa Teachers Owed 10 Months Salaries

Bayelsa Teachers Owed 10 Months Salaries

Teachers in Bayelsa state have not been paid salaries for 10 months and have resolved to embark on an industrial action. The state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), on Sunday threatened to commence a three-day warning strike [...]

April 30, 2017 Education
Presidency Releases Shocking Findings On The Owner Of The $43 Million Ikoyi Loot

Presidency Releases Shocking Findings On The Owner Of The $43 Million Ikoyi Loot

 $43 Million Ikoyi Loot – All eyes are still on the Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, as the Presidency has debunked the claim by the suspended Director-General, DG, of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ayo Oke, that the National Security Adviser, [...]

April 30, 2017 Government and politics
whale crash-landed

Nigerians Slaughter Stranded Whale In Bayelsa

According to Sam who shared the photos, the whale crash-landed in Brass, Bayelsa and was slaughtered by residents. He wrote…   ‘The whale crash-landed in Akassa, Brass LGA, Bayelsa State and became delicious for her people’. [...]

April 30, 2017 General
Baby Sold For N.2m In Katsina

Baby Sold For N.2m In Katsina Found In Imo

Baby Sold For N.2m In Katsina – A baby boy delivered by 18-year-old Aisha Lawal who is knwon to hang around a Katsina brothel, has become the center of controversy in a case of alleged abduction and subsequent selling of [...]

April 29, 2017 Government and politics
Charlie Murphy

Charlie Murphy Dies At 57 (Not Eddie Murphy)

Charlie Murphy, who gained national attention on the hit “Chappelle’s Show” and evolved into a sought-after stand-up comedian, has died, a rep told Fox News on Wednesday. He was 57. Representatives of the Murphy family sent the following statement to [...]

April 29, 2017 Government and politics
How Obama helped Buhari defeat me in 2015 election – Jonathan

Mallam Nuhu Ribadu On Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan

People say a lot about him (President Goodluck Jonathan) that is not true. For instance, I don’t think that a single act of corruption can be traced to him as an individual. I know that he is the only president [...]

April 29, 2017 Government and politics
Alhaji Lai Mohammed

Nigerians Blast Lai Mohammed For Underating Nigerian Jollof Rice On CNN

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has sparked another uproar on social media. The information minister was said to have reacted to the buzz CNN’s Richard Quest started about who makes the best Jollof.     The battle for [...]

April 29, 2017 Health issues
Saraki Threatens To Resign As Senate President Next Week

Saraki Threatens To Resign As Senate President Next Week

Ahead of the fulfillment of the promise to open the budget of the National Assembly to the Nigerian public, (#Opennass), the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has vowed to resign, if the 2017 budget that would be sent to [...]

April 29, 2017 Government and politics
PMB Absent From Friday Juma’at Prayers

PMB Absent From Friday Juma’at Prayers

President Muhammadu Buhari was yesterday absent from the Friday Juma’at prayers at the Presidential Villa. However three state governors were present.The governors who attended the prayer session at the villa are: Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara), and Abdullahi Ganduje [...]

April 29, 2017 Government and politics
Nigerian Heritage Sites

Nigerian Heritage Sites: Rocky Road To UNESCO Enlistment

Nigeria is blessed with wonderful tourist destinations and heritage sites that are part of the people’s culture. In this report, CHIKA OKEKE identifies the challenges facing the country in its bid to get UNESCO enlist some of its nominated heritage [...]

April 29, 2017 Geography

BOMBSHELL: Mallam Nuhu Ribadu On Corruption And Ex -President Goodluck Jonathan

Nuhu Ribadu, Nigerian foremost chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has shed more light on the corruption in Nigeria and states that  former President Goodluck Jonathan is clean and it will be difficult if not impossible to trace [...]

April 29, 2017 General, Government and politics
Nnamdi Kanu Released

Nnamdi Kanu Released, Produces Israeli Rabbi

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, was last night finally released from custody. Kanu who was brought to the Federal High Court in Abuja at about 7pm regained his freedom after fully perfecting his bail conditions. [...]

April 29, 2017 Nigerian-Biafran War
Nnamdi Kanu To Shut Down Nigeria On May 30, 2017

Nnamdi Kanu To Shut Down Nigeria On May 30, 2017

The embattled Radio Biafra boss, Nnamdi Kanu, through the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has called on its followers and people of the South-East, to ensure that Nigeria is “shut down” on May 30, 2017. Recall, that the IPOB had [...]

April 28, 2017 Nigerian-Biafran War
Buhari Can Work From Anywhere—Lawyer

If Buhari Can Work From Home, Why Not We Civil Servants: Reno Omokri [Details]

Former Special Adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Electronic Media, Reno Omokri has described President Muhammadu Buhari as a “ghost President.” Omokri, made the claim while reacting to the failure of the President to preside over the weekly Federal Executive [...]

April 28, 2017 Government and politics
state of health of President Muhammadu Buhari

Shock As “President Buhari’s Doctors Advised Him To Take Things Slowly If Not….. – Garba Shehu

The Presidency on Thursday assured Nigerians that there is no need for apprehension over the state of health of President Muhammadu Buhari. It, however, said as eager as the President wanted to be up and about, his doctors have advised [...]

April 28, 2017 Government and politics
Jonah Jang Tells EFCC: You Cannot Break Into My House And Go Free

Jonah Jang Tells EFCC: You Cannot Break Into My House And Go Free

Former Plateau State Governor, Jonah David Jang, on Thursday raised the alarm over an alleged plot by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to invade his house in search of looted funds. Speaking during a Town Hall [...]

April 28, 2017 Government and politics
Buhari Can Work From Anywhere—Lawyer

Buhari Can Work From Anywhere—Lawyer

AN Ilorin, Kwara State-based constitutional lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Mallam Yusuf Olaolu Ali (SAN), yesterday, said there was nothing unconstitutional about President Muhammadu Buhari working from home. He told journalists: “It is not stated in the constitution [...]

April 28, 2017 Government and politics
Jonathan's Kinsmen Explode, Urge Him To Remain Fearless, Expose More Buhari's Evil Plots That Led To His Ouster

Jonathan’s Kinsmen Explode, Urge Him To Remain Fearless, Expose More Buhari’s Evil Plots That Led To His Ouster

Ogbia Political Forum (OPF) an association has risen to the defence of former President Jonathan over criticisms of the stunning revelations about the APC-led international conspiracies that ousted the former leader from power led by the United States under ex-President [...]

April 28, 2017 Government and politics
Chief Lucky Ayomanor

Political Leader Dies In Delta Police Custody

A former Director of Direct Labour Agency, Chief Lucky Ayomanor has the allegedly died in the custody of the police in Sapele, Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State. It was gathered that Chief Ayomanor was accosted and searched by [...]

April 28, 2017 Incidents
Oyo state is planning to hold a 21-kilometre international marathon in Ibadan

Ibadan To Host Half Marathon

Oyo state is planning to hold a 21-kilometre international marathon in Ibadan, Mr. Abayomi Oke, the State Commissioner for Youths and Sports, said in Ibadan on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the half marathon would centre [...]

April 28, 2017 Sports
US Set To Deport 7,000 Ghanaians

US Set To Deport 7,000 Ghanaians

The United States ambassador to Ghana,  Robert Jackson said about 7,000 Ghanaian immigrants in the country face deportation for visa-related offences including staying illegally, overstaying their permits. Jackson disclosed this during a meeting with Ghanaian media men, africanews.com reported. “In fact about [...]

April 28, 2017 International
china baby

China Bans Islamic Names

China Bans Islamic Names – Authorities in western China are prohibiting parents from naming their children Islamic names in the latest effort to dilute the influence of religion on life in the ethnic Uighur minority heartland. “Muhammad,” ”Jihad” and “Islam” [...]

April 28, 2017 International
APC Govs: No Cause For Alarm Over Buhari’s Health

No Cause For Anxiety For Buhari, Says Presidency

Aso Villa has assured Nigerians that there is no need for apprehension over the health of our President Muhammadu Buhari, despite concerns being raised in the media. In a statement today, senior special assistant on media, Malam Garba Shehu said [...]

April 28, 2017 Government and politics
Rt Hon. Kabiru Mijinyawa

Adamawa Speaker Beats Up Police Sergeant Over Duty, Food Allowances

The Speaker of Adamawa State House of Assembly, Rt Hon. Kabiru Mijinyawa beats a police Sergeant attached to him (speaker) for complaining over nonpayment of duty and food allowance. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Othman Abubakar, confirmed the [...]

April 28, 2017 Government and politics
Nigeria Police Force

NPF: Forgive Us, We Mistakenly Stole The 2017 Budget, Thinking It Was Hidden Dollars

The Nigeria Police Force, NPF, has returned money in both local and foreign currencies, including other documents seized from the Abuja residence of Senator Danjuma Goje, of Gombe State. A source close to the former Governor, disclosed that the Police [...]

April 28, 2017 Government and politics
The Oba Of Lagos Has Cleared The Air On The Face Off Betwwen Him And The Highly Respected Ooni Of Ife

Finally, The Oba Of Lagos Has Cleared The Air On The Face Off Between Him And The Highly Respected Ooni Of Ife

The Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, has cleared the air on the video making the rounds in the social media that is being misconstrued as his snubbing the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, at a public function in [...]

April 28, 2017 Government and politics

BREAKING: “Oba Of Lagos To Oni Of Ife: The Way I Greeted You Was A Lagos Old Culture, I Want To Revive.

The embattled Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiola reacted that his appalling attitude towards the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi at a public gathering in Lagos as reported by Hope For Nigeria stating that it was an old Lagos culture which [...]

April 28, 2017 General, Government and politics
Nigeria Governors Forum

36 Governors Sneak Into Aso Rock, Take Final Decision On Buhari’s Resignation

The Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, last night, met at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, in Abuja, to discuss important issues, as it affects President Muhammadu Buhari’s health. The closed-door meeting, held at the Old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, [...]

April 27, 2017 Government and politics