Some Nigerians who travelled to Dubai were detained at the airport and their passports seized. Few others were seen demanding answers after their passports were seized without explanation. Others are seen sitting in an empty area as they waited to…
Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, has been arrested by the anti-graft agency, the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), over allegations of offences bordering on financial crimes. He was picked up this morning at the Murtala…
With the elections into the board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) gathering momentum, one of the aspirants for the presidency of the federation, Dr Christian Emeruwa, yesterday, in Lagos, outlined his programme for the restoration of the country’s lost…
Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has revealed how his administration resolved a four-month old strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in one night. He made this disclosure at the 70th birthday celebration of Matthew Hassan Kukah, the…
Musings on gaining weight and the struggle to become bigger and fatter Do you know that there are people on this earth who find it hard to gain weight and not lose it? Who would have thought that trying to…
Following in her husband’s footsteps, the wife of the former Malaysian prime minister has been found guilty of graft. Najib Razak has already begun his 12-year jail sentence. Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, was…
The Administration of Criminal Justice Monitoring Committee (ACJMC) has made a case for the speedy trial of cases involving juveniles, illiterates, Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV) and children in conflict with the law and Persons Living with Disability (PLWD). The…
Presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the forthcoming 2023 general election, Mr Peter Obi has denied rumour that he was planning to back his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Atiku Abubakar to win the election. The director-general of the…
No fewer than two persons have died in the three-storey building that collapsed on Tuesday at the Beirut GSM Market in the Kano metropolis. The Secretary of the Nigerian Red Cross Society in Kano, Musa Abdullahi, said an official of…
Events in Nigeria end up unfolding at so dizzying a pace that oftentimes it gets hazy to recount them. Like in these pre-electioneering times, when they appear in a perpetual fast-forward mode. So much so, in fact, that the present…
