The Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has declared the removal of the re-instated Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, as illegal, unconstitutional, null and void. In a judgment delivered on Wednesday, the court also nullified the proceedings and resolutions of the House held on January 13, 2025, during which Obasa was…
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 election, has asked President Bola Tinubu to immediately return home to confront rising insecurity. On April 2, Tinubu departed for France on a two-week “working visit”. A statement from the presidency said during his stay in France, Tinubu “will appraise his administration’s midterm…
The anti-Tinubu coalition led by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has slammed governors of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for playing the spoiler for President Bola Tinubu ahead of the 2027 general election, accusing them of usurping the powers of other organs of the PDP and killing the opposition. The coalition in a statement…
Former Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has revealed that the federal government engaged international media outlets to counter the narrative that the 2023 presidential election was rigged. Mohammed made the disclosure on Tuesday during a summit of former government spokespersons in Abuja. He recalled that after the 2023 presidential poll, there was…
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has denied claims that he endorsed President Bola Tinubu for a second term ahead of the 2027 general election. A viral story titled “Tinubu Will Win 2027 Presidential Election – Goodluck Jonathan” claimed the former leader had declared that no opposition coalition would be able to stop President Tinubu’s re-election bid….
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Tuesday assured some Nigerian investors that it was working with INTERPOL to fish out the operators of the crashed digital trading platform, CBEX.Nigerian cultural tours Adele Oyewale, the spokesperson of the commission in a statement said the EFCC has already launched a probe into the activities of…
Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde on Tuesday said he has the capacity to become Nigeria’s president. “I don’t have any doubt that I have the capacity to occupy the highest office in this land and I have what it takes,” Makinde said on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme. The Oyo governor, whose tenure will elapse…
The Magistrate Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti has remanded one Joy Ikoja, 20, for attempting to cut off her boyfriend’s manhood. The Ekiti State Police Command arraigned Ikoja before the court for unlawfully inflicting a wound on Ibrahim Usman by tearing his scrotal sac. The prosecutor, Inspector Adeboye Adesegun, told the court that “The defendant on…
The Lagos State Government has raised the alarm over the growing threat of carbon monoxide pollution, revealing that approximately 30,000 people die annually in the state from related exposure, according to recent reports. Speaking at the 2025 Lagos Energy Summit held in Victoria Island, the state’s Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Mr. Biodun Ogunleye,…
Amid groaning and huge loss of investments to online crypto trading platform, CBEX, a video of a man praying for the ponzi Scheme not to crash trend online. GISTSMATE MEDIA reported that Nigerians on several social media platforms have begun to count their losses as a digital asset trading platform swept over N1.3 trillion from…