Brazilian Iyalorisa Wants to be Buried in Nigeria, Protest in Salvador
The death wish of the oldest Brazilian woman of Egba extraction has sparked a protest in Brazil after a Court ordered that she should be buried in the Latin American country instead of Abeokuta, in Nigeria, where she called her root. Born in Salvador, Brazil, to one of the sons of a captured slave from […]
UNICEF Accuses Boko Haram of Violations Against Children
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has accused the Boko Haram terrorists’ factions of carrying out grave atrocities against children in Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin region over the course of 2018. The UN agency, in a report ‘How the world failed children in conflict in 2018’, also said the world failed to protect […]
Tinubu Named As APC Presidential Campaign Council Co-Chair …. Dangote, Otedola Also Members (FULL LIST)
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has released the names of members of its Presidential Campaign Council for the 2019 elections. They are as follows: CHAIRMANPresident Muhammadu Buhari CO-CHAIRMANAsiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu DEPUTY CHAIRMEN1. The Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo. 2. The APC National Chairman Comrade Adams Oshiomole VICE CHAIRMAN NORTHSenator George Akume VICE CHAIRMAN SOUTHSenator […]
APC Suspends Okorocha, Amosun from Presidential Campaign Council
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has finally suspended the Governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun, and his counterpart from Imo State, Governor Rochas Okorocha, and the Minister of Communication, Adebayo Shittu, from being part of the APC Presidential Campaign Council. Party sources revealed that despite their expression of support for President Muhammadu Buhari’s rerun aspiration, […]
CDHR Wants Military to Step Up With Amnesty International Report
A foremost human rights body in Nigeria, the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has condemned the Nigerian Military for its aggression against the international human rights body, Amnesty International (AI), urging the military to AI’s report to improve its operations across the country. In a statement issued by the President of CDHR, […]
Filing Fees: Lawyer Challenges Lagos Chief Judge
The Lagos State Judiciary may enter year 2019 on a controversial note as a former Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ikeja branch, Mr Adesina Ogunlana, has filed a suit before the Ikeja High Court challenging the powers of the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Opeyemi Oke to increase filing fees with about […]
Buhari to Atiku: You Ought to be in Jail if System were Working
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Presidential Campaign Organization has said if the Nigerian System were working, the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar ought to have been prosecuted and jailed. Festus Keyamo, SAN who is the official spokesperson of the President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organization said in a reply to Atiku’s statement Wednesday: […]
Atiku Says Buhari is Responsible for Nigeria’s Failure
The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday, took a swipe at President Muhammadu Buhari telling him not to blame Nigeria’s system for his failure but to own up to his responsibilities. Atiku said this in response to President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement on his fight against corruption when he reacted to critics […]
Otedola to Sell Forte Oil Shares
The Chairman of Forte Oil Plc, Femi Otedola, has announced his decision to sell all his shares in the firm’s downstream business. This is coming more than three years after the firm sold 17 per cent of its equity to a Swiss oil trading firm. The firm disclosed the divestment by its majority shareholder on […]
Afenifere Kicks as Kano Govt Destroys Beer, Insists on Restructuring
The pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, on Wednesday described the destruction of alcoholic beverages by the Kano State Government as hypocritical, arguing that the state, which collects one of the highest amounts from Value Added Tax (VAT) from other states, where such beverages are sold, should not be enjoying the benefits of taxes from goods it […]
