MAMA 2016: Wizkid, Linda Ikeji, others nominated for Personality of the Year
Starboy, Wizkid, Cassper Nyovest, AKA and Sauti Sol lead the pack in the first round of nominations for the forthcoming MTV Africa Music Awards Johannesburg 2016,MAMA, with an impressive nine nominations between them.
Economic Recession: Sale of public utilities not the answer- CLO
Following calls by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote and Senate President, Bukola Saraki, advising the Federal Government to sell-off some public utilities to bail the country out of the biting economic recession, the Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, has disagreed, saying such a call was absolutely uncalled for and worrisome. The CLO in a statement on […]
Recession: Senators want TSA policy review, true federalism
Senators on Thursday opposed their President, Dr Bukola Saraki, kicking against the call for the sale of some national assets.
FG blackmailing Jonathan to dent his rising international profile, says group
A group, Brotherhood Across the Niger (BAN) has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal government of calculated attempts to dent the reputation of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and contain his rising international clout.
Woman bathes 14-year-old niece with hot water over soup
A 29-year-old businesswoman, Odor Oyinyechiwho, who allegedly poured hot water on her 14-year-old niece, Esther Ariserekwu, is facing trial at a Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.
Senator Adeola warns against economic depression
The senator representing the largest senatorial district in Nigeria, Senator Solomon Adeola (Lagos West, APC) has warned that the nation may slip into economic depression if urgent measures are not taken to get the nation out of the present economic recession that the nation is going through.
Man, 23, remanded for defiling 5-year-old girl
An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, remanded Tobi Aremu ,23 in prison Custody over an alleged rape of a 5-year
Brexit must leave before mid-2019 election – EU President
Martin Schulz, European Union President, said on Thursday in Berlin that Britain must leave the EU before parliamentary elections in the bloc in mid-2019.
Lagos, Edo, tops most indebted states list in Nigeria
Lagos, Kaduna and Edo State are among other states listed most indebted states of the federation with a combined profile of $1.84bn.
Anxiety in Enugu following IPOB’s sit-at-home threat as MASSOB declares full blown war on FG
BY FRANCIS IGATA ENUGU – The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Thursday, declared full blown war with the Federal Government to press for the unconditional release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and other Biafra agitators detained in various prisons nationwide and in Diaspora. A palpable anxiety pervades Enugu State over the […]
Lagos Judge sentences 2 to death for armed robbery
Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye Of an Ikeja High Court in Lagos, on Thursday sentenced two persons to death for robbing a supermarket manager of N5 million.
