John Odafe Asiemo, popularly known as Daddy Showkey, a veteran singer, has spoken in support of the two female supernumerary police officers who were suspended for uploading a video on TikTok. In the viral video captioned “sisters that slay together, work together”, both officers are featured in an assortment of pictures where they are seen Read More…
Peter Obi is hardly a political outsider, but the bespectacled former governor says he is looking to harness Nigerians’ anger with the status quo to power his third-party presidential bid. Obi, 61, has generated substantial buzz among younger voters in Africa’s most populous democracy, where the average age is 18, but the president – and Read More…
A former Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Mike Okiro, has thrown his full weight behind the candidacy of the All Progressives Congress (APC) 2023 presidential candidate, Senator Bola Tinubu. He proffers that since Senator Tinubu fixed Lagos as a governor, he would be able to fix Nigeria. Okiro made this known on Friday in Abuja at Read More…
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has announced a momentary suspension of shutdown notice issued to African Independent Television, Silverbird Television and 50 other broadcast stations. NBC had announced the revocation of operation licences of the 52 broadcast stations over their indebtedness to the Commission Friday last week. The Commission however extended the 24-hour shutdown order Read More…
The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said that Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike is devoted to the party and is after its victory in the presidential poll come the election in February 2023. In a statement signed by Paul Ibe his spokesperson, Atiku cautioned against talks that’ll wrongly portray Read More…
Chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, says the end result of the investigation into the death of Itunu Babalola, the Nigerian lady who was ‘wrongfully jailed’ in Cote D’Ivoire, will shock many. Dabiri-Erewa disclosed this while responding to questions at a media briefing at the state house in Abuja on Thursday. Read More…
Abia state has recorded nine cases of monkeypox. Mrs. Peace Nwogwugwu, the state’s epidemiologist, made the announcement on Wednesday in the state capital, Umuahia. She spoke at the one-day sensitization workshop organized by the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) in collaboration with Abia Ministry of Health. “Currently, 40 suspected cases have been investigated and nine Read More…
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has applauded the drop in the figure of out-of-school children in Nigeria from 10.5 million to 6.9 million under President Muhammadu Buhari. The group noted that the current figure was contrary to various figures circulating the media space. The BMO Chairman, Mr. Niyi Akinsiju, and Secretary, Mr. Cassidy Madueke, said Read More…
On Wednesday, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved N11.1 billion for the reconstruction of an intra-city road in Lagos State. Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Works and Housing, divulged this while briefing State House Correspondents at the end of the cabinet meeting by President Muhammadu Buhari. He said: “The council approved two memoranda presented by the Read More…
Dousing insinuations from various quarters that he will support candidates of other parties, President Muhammadu Buhari has said he will support only All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates. By implication, the Nigerian president is throwing his full weight behind the APC presidential flagbearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Buhari said he remains a “disciplined soldier” of the Read More…
