Leader of the UK Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has launched a sweeping new immigration plan, describing it as the “toughest reforms Britain has ever seen” to secure the country’s borders. In a video message posted on her X account on Sunday, Badenoch announced the launch of a new Removals Force, modelled on the United States…
Controversy has continued to trail the recent installation of Pastor Josephine Ibhaguezejele by the Iyaloja-General of Market Women Association, Mrs Folashade Ojo-Tinubu, as the Iyaloja of Edo State, a title that literally means head of markets in the state. The uproar stems from the unfamiliarity of the title within Benin’s cultural structure, the process of…
There is rising concern within opposition ranks about a likely repeat of the 2023 scenario, in which its split led to a narrow but strategic victory for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, President Bola Tinubu. Feelers from opposition camps indicate that members are worried it will be difficult to unseat the…
Two female journalists working with Jay FM in Jos, Plateau State, have been reportedly arrested by security agents over a video showing a face-off involving a cleric and some security operatives during the funeral service of the mother of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda. According to Jay FM…
The police command in Delta has filed a suit against Fejiro Oliver, an activist, accusing him of cyberstalking Sheriff Oborevwori, the state governor. Oliver, who was arrested in Abuja in September and subsequently transferred to Delta state, is facing charges under the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act, 2015. According to court documents filed at the…
Charly Boy, the ace Nigerian singer, has claimed the son of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), won an international world brain competition. Charly Boy claimed in a tweet on Wednesday. “Nnamdi Kanu’s son has shocked the world by becoming the first child ever to win English, Mathematics, and Russian…
Non-state actors in the agricultural sector have disclosed that one in five Africans goes hungry each day, while two out of every eleven Nigerians lack adequate food. The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme, National Focal Person, Onijighogia Emmanuel, revealed this on Friday in Abuja, while moderating a workshop for non-state actors on the Maputo to…
A Dangote Cement truck has crushed five people to death at the Alapoka axis of the Papalanto–Ilaro Road, Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State. The spokesperson for the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, Babatunde Akinbiyi, said the accident occurred at about 8:30 p.m. on Friday. The TRACE spokesperson noted that the…
Clergywoman Toluwani Odukoya, pastor of Fountain of Life Church, has confirmed the end of her marriage to Olumide Ijogun after several years together. The pastor announced that her marriage, which began in 2012 and produced three children, two daughters and a son, has ended after several years together She disclosed her YouTube channel in a…
Chief Jite Odeworitse Tesigimoje, billionaire CEO of GIM Brown Marine from oil-rich Ugborodo community of Delta State, is not just a businessman with vast interests across the West African sub-region; he is also one of Nigeria’s most unapologetic ambassadors of polygamy. He stirred more controversy recently when he took his 19th wife in a lavish…