Rivers: Wike Wins
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate in the March 9 governorship election in Rivers State, Governor Nyesom Wike, has won a second term in office. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared Wike winner in Port-Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, at the end of a long drawn collation exercise on Wednesday. Wike was in clear […]
BREAKING: INEC Declares Wike Winner of Rivers Elections
Gov. Nyesom Wike has been declared the winner of the Rivers Governorship Election. Wike who ran under the umbrella of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), polled 886,264 votes to win his main opponent of the African Alliance Congress (AAC), Biokpomabo Awara who garnered 173,859 votes.. The All Progressive Congress(APC) didnt participate in the election because […]
Osinbajo Reveals Broken Promise to Wife
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo hinted that he has failed to keep his promise to his wife and mother of his three children, Dolapo. The couple married in 1989, and according to the number two citizen, he promised her a quite life but failed to make good on his promise and in lieu brought her under […]
Apple Buys a Nigerian-owned ICT Firm for $1 Billion
United States of America’s most celebrated brand, Apple, has bought Nigeria’s Chinedu Echeruo’s HopStop.com. Though the term of the deal has not been disclosed officially, HopStop has been compared to Israel’s Waze, which was recently acquired by Google for $1 billion. Founded in 2005, HopStop.com makes mobile applications for both iOS and Android that covers […]
Banky W Writes Buhari, Osinbajo Over Young Man Killed by SARS
Olubankole Wellington, Nigerian music star better known as Banky W, has written an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari , vice president Yemi Osinbajo and Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode on the death of Kayode Johnson. Johnson was shot dead by men of the anti-cultism unit of the Lagos state police command in Mangoro/Onipetesi area […]
Nigeria, Buhari and the Common Man, By Arc. (Obong) Victor Attah
Let me start by asking the question, “who is the common man; who is the average Nigerian Family”? It reminds me of an incident in 1974 when I participated in the design of an office building in Lagos. When I was trying to calculate the required number of car parking spaces, a member of the […]
NCAA Cautions Airlines Against Turbulence
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has cautioned airline operators to be careful in their operations as it predicted March to June 2019 as the commencement of rainy season in the Southern and Northern parts of Nigeria. The season, according to NINET is usually accompanied with turbulence. The agency says the period is also laced […]
Nigeria Political Class are ‘Serial Rapist’- ASUU Scribe
The Secretary, Academic Staff of Universities (ASUU) and Dean Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Professor Peter Olapegba has said that Nigeria and Nigerians have been victims of ‘serial rape’ by the political class since independence. According to him, the consequences of the serial rape has been mindless looting which has created abject […]
We’ll Not Compromise Our Position on Restructuring – Afenifere
Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) has said that it would uncompromisingly continue to agitate for the restructuring of Nigeria’s governance architecture. This stance was contained in the communique issued at the end of the group’s 2019 retreat held in Ado Ekiti at the weekend. The communique was read to journalists on Sunday afternoon at […]
Lagos on Fire as F-SARS Kills Prominent ‘Yahoo Boy’
The Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway is currently on lockdown, with passengers finding it impossible to enter the city. According to reports, street thugs set fire on both sides of the road in protest of the killing of a prominent Yahoo boy around Punch Estate, Mangoro, by men of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (F-SARS). The commuter quoted […]
