China on Monday rolled out the red carpet for leaders from across Africa, including President Bola Tinubu, seeking to deepen ties with the resource-rich continent it has furnished with billions in loans for infrastructure and development. Beijing has said this week’s China-Africa forum will be its largest diplomatic event since the Covid-19 pandemic, with more…
Gospel film actor and beloved star of the Abattoir series, Moses Korede Are, popularly known as Baba Gbenro, has been laid to rest. The ceremony, attended by well-wishers clad in white and blue, was captured in photos shared by a Christian video podcast on X, Zion Kulture, on Friday. The images show mourners gathered around…
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has relieved the Acting Executive Chairman of the Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Service, FCT-IRS, Mr Michael Ango, of his duties. The announcement was contained in a statement late Friday by the minister’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka. The statement…
A former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Idris Wase, on Wednesday said bandits were threatening to abduct members of the National Assembly. Idris stated this during the resumption of debate on national security in the lower chamber, calling on President Bola Tinubu to review his directive on the withdrawal of police operatives attached…
United States President Donald Trump has defended himself for briefly sharing a video on his official Truth Social account that depicted former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday, Trump insisted he had done nothing wrong and said he does not owe…
A gang of armed men has reportedly abducted the traditional ruler of Aafin community in the Ile Ere district of Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State, Oba Simeon Olaonipekun, and one of his sons, Olaolu, during a violent attack on his palace on Wednesday night. According to Tribune Online, the attack which occurred around…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has replied Ex-Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd.), who said that he (Gowon) pleaded with the late General Sani Abacha not to execute him. Obasanjo was one of those imprisoned by the regime of Abacha over an alleged coup plot to overthrow Abacha. Speaking during the first ever Plateau Interdenominational…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has lauded the National Assembly for its decisive and “patriotic ratification of the State of Emergency proclamation in Rivers State”. The President in a statement through Bayo Onanuga, his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, said the move was a critical step towards “restoring stability after a protracted political crisis that…
The Certified True Copy (CTC) of the Supreme Court ruling on the ongoing political crisis in Rivers State has clarified that the 27 lawmakers accused of defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) never actually switched parties. The revelation challenges previous claims that the legislators had lost their seats…
A 43-year-old man, Pere Faruk, has reportedly died by suicide shortly after allegedly pouring acid on his girlfriend during a domestic altercation on Lagos Island. According to Akelicious, the incident occurred at about 5:40 p.m. on June 30, at No. 8 Messy Street, Lagos Island. According to family sources, Faruk’s younger brother, Pere Jeli, who…
