Ambode’s Wife To Mrs. Sanwo-Olu: Don’t Forget Where You Are Coming From

Outgoing Lagos State first lady, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode, has told her incoming successor, Dr Ibijoke Sanwoolu, in equivocal terms to keep her feet on the ground and not get carried away by her new status. This was contained in Mrs. Ambode’s advice to the wife of soon-to-be Lagos governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, a medical doctor […]

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Body of Missing Adewura Bello Recovered in Lagos Canal

By Gboyega Adeoye A decomposing body suspected to be that of chartered accountant, Adewura Bello, 26, declared missing two weeks ago, has been found. Adesuwa got missing on May 15 on her way home from work. She was said to have been on a motorcycle inside Gowon Estate and might have been carried away by […]

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Why I’m Keeping Quiet – Aisha Buhari

Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, said she has formed the habit of maintaining sealed lips about happenings in her spouse led-federal government. “I kept quiet because I don’t want people to say that I talk too much,” the first lady said during an interactive programme she organised for women at the Presidential Villa on […]

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Nollywood’s Kunle Afolayan Loses Wife to Infidelity, Voodoo

For film producer and director, the curtain has fallen on his marriage to Tolu Afolayan, mother of his three children, as both have called it quits on their matrimony and gone their separate ways after futile attempts at savaging what was left of the internally troubled union. According to a source privy to the unfortunate […]

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Beloved Maggy! A Reporter’s Diary

It donned the toga of what is tagged ‘love at first sight.’ But as event turned out, this stealthy relationship between a man from a family of peasants who fell in sudden love with a daughter of the affluent, turned awry. This is as a result of a social gap that soon made the lover […]

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Impersonation: Zainab Raises Alarm Over Fake Facebook Accounts

Zainab Aliu, the Kano State indigene, who was arrested in Saudi Arabia for trafficking in drug following the planting of tramadol on her luggage at the Aminu Kano International Airport but later released after her innocence was proven beyond any reasonable doubt, has raised the alarm. Zainab, a graduate of English from   Maitama Sule University, […]

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Assam School Where Plastic Wastes Go for School Fees

By Anushka Mukherjee Akshar Forum in Assam is a school of various charms: don’t be surprised if you find a line of students waiting outside the school, armed with bags full of plastic, or if you walk into classrooms filled with students all ages – being taught by another student. It’s just another day at Akshar […]

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Tearful Theresa May Resigns as Prime Minister

Theresa May has said she will quit as Conservative leader on 7 June, paving the way for a contest to decide a new prime minister. In an emotional statement, she said she had done her best to deliver Brexit and it was a matter of “deep regret” that she had been unable to do so. […]

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Court Convicts Former NIMASA DG, Obi Over N136 Million Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of a former acting Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Callistus Obi. Also convicted was Alu Dimas, an aide to Patrick Akpobolokemi, a former Director-General of NIMASA. They were convicted by Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi. The […]

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Lagos Police Parades 23-Year Old Cultist

By Gboyega Adeoye Victor Asuquo, 23 year old and generator mechanic, has been paraded alongside some suspected cult leaders by the operatives of police in Lagos. Victor was arrested with a locally made gun at his residence in Olodi Apapa area of the State. He explained that Police burst into his house at 2:00 a.m […]

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