The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, and Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc., (NBET), Abuja, “over the failure to account for the missing or diverted N128 billion of public funds from the Ministry of Power and NBET.” The grave allegations are documented in the…
Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has slammed President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima over the new tax administration. This was as the governor said he misses the administration of late former President Muhammadu Buhari and former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Mr Makinde spoke on Saturday during the 60th birthday ceremony of Samson Ajetomobi,…
Reality show star and actor Pere Egbi has opened up about his ‘healing’ encounter with the founding pastor of Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome. Pere’s testimony comes after a video of Pastor Chris healing 10 people at once during a Healing Streams Live Healing Service went viral, sparking various reactions online. Reacting to the video…
Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani has hailed the Nigeria-US counter terrorism partnership. In a post on his verified X handle on Saturday, Sani said Nigerians hope to see positive results from the partnership. Recall that the National Security Adviser, NSA Nuhu Ribadu, had said that Nigeria was in active collaboration with the US to…
The Olubadan of Ibadanland and Chairman of the Oyo State Council of Obas, Oba Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja, has expressed confidence that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will reposition Nigeria and make citizens proud by the time he leaves office in 2031. Speaking to journalists after meeting the president at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Ladoja said the…
Ivory Coast President, Alassane Ouattara, on Friday appointed his brother Tene Birahima Ouattara as vice prime minister in a cabinet reshuffle. The junior Ouattara, who is the incumbent Ivory Coast defence minister, now occupies two positions in his elder brother’s government. The development came a few months after the octogenarian president won a controversial reelection…
A 25-year-old nurse, Chimzuruoke Okembunachi, has been deregistered and struck off the nursing register after she was found guilty of professional misconduct for repeatedly sleeping while on duty during night shifts at an aged care facility in western Sydney. The New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) on Tuesday ordered the cancellation of Okembunachi’s…
Former presidential candidate and former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has attributed Nigeria’s perennial national grid collapse and worsening electricity crisis to persistent leadership failures. Obi made the remarks in a social media post on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday, referencing the latest grid collapse. He pointed out that the problem has been recurring,…
The Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) for Northern Nigeria, Reverend Joseph John Hayab, recently expressed his disappointment in how the news of the kidnapping of 177 worshippers in Kurmin Wali in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, by bandits, was handled by Nigerian authorities. In this interview by SAM NWAOKO, Hayab…
Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has been granted honorary citizenship of Georgia, a state in the United States. Kanu is currently serving a life prison sentence at the Sokoto Prison after he was convicted on terrorism charges filed against him by the Nigerian government. Kanu was declared an ‘Honorary Georgia…
