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Nollywood actor, Gideon Okeke, has knocked women who show off their body parts in a bid to get validation. In his Instagram story on Monday, the star questioned women who showed off their ‘assets’, asking them if it made them more ‘woman’ than they were. According to him, even ‘small girls’ who just […]
After many weeks of conjectures and permutations, the lead counsel for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, on Tuesday, unveiled Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) as the leader of the defence counsel for Nnamdi Kanu whose trial commences today before Justice Binta Nyako of a Federal High Court in Abuja. […]
Fresh dust is gathering around the Electoral Act Amendment Bill rejected by President Muhammadu Buhari over direct primaries as the National Assembly resumes today from Christmas and New Year break. Buhari had in a letter to the National Assembly, dated December 13, 2021, titled “Withholding of assent to Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021”, withheld […]
The District Head of Vwang, Jos South local government area of Plateau State, Da Gyang Balak has been kidnapped. Da Balak is the second traditional ruler to be kidnapped in the State in less than a month. Recall that the Sum Pyem, HRH Charles Dakat was kidnapped during the Christmas period in 2021 but […]
Tributes continue to pour in after the death of Mali’s former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on Sunday. Keita’s rule was riddled with lots of controversies and criticism especially from the opposition before he was toppled through a coup in 2020. In the weeks before the 2020 coup, he had been struggling with protests […]
The Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd), has paid tributes to Prof. Lawrence Baraebibai Ekpebu, renowned scholar and diplomat, who died on January 2, 2022. Ekpebu, who died at 86, was the first African graduate of Harvard University in the United States. Dikio, while paying a condolence visit to […]
A middle-aged woman resident in Ekpan community in Delta State has been arrested by operatives of the State Police Command for allegedly pouring boiled water on the breast of her own daughter, Nwankwo Merit. The name of the suspect was yet to be ascertained as of the time of filing this story. But the […]
The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested a man, Patrick Odey, for allegedly raping a 21-year-old salesgirl. The victim, it was gathered, recently started working at a garden in Orozo in the Angwansarki area of Abuja and lives in one of the apartments in the garden. Odey was said to have forcefully […]
The Authorities in Burkina Faso has arrested a total of fifteen people in involvement in an attempt to destabilize Institutions. The group includes one senior Army Officer as well as soldiers. The announcement was made by the Defence Minister Colonel Major Aimé Simpore, on Thursday. This legal action which was decided by the Military […]
The two chambers of Nigeria’s National Assembly have indicated their readiness to rework the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021 in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s dispositions. President Buhari vetoed the Bill, and the National Assembly has said it will exercise its powers to override him. Chairman of the House Committee on Treaties, Protocols […]