Fuji singer Taye Currency’s performance at the coronation ceremony of Oba Rashidi Ladoja as the new Olubadan of Ibadanland has sparked intense controversy amongst social media users. The Fuji musician’s lyrics, “were la fi n wo were,” which translates to “we used insanity to cure insanity,” were deemed unbefitting for the royal occasion. Many Nigerians…
President Bola Tinubu is currently meeting behind closed doors with Rivers State governor, Sir Sim Fubara at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Fubara arrived the seat of power about 6:20p.m., clad in a white caftan and black cap. This is the governor’s first meeting with the President after his six months suspension and the lifting…
The CEO, MTN Nigeria, Karl Toriola, has said the telecom sector in Nigeria is now in an intensive care unit (ICU) gasping for breath. Speaking virtually at a hybrid telecom investment forum organised by FDC on Tuesday in Lagos, he said there’s an urgent need to rescue the sector from collapse. Toriola, who differed with…
The family of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has refuted media reports suggesting he admitted to inciting the public to attack security personnel, describing the reports as a misrepresentation of court proceedings. In a statement issued Tuesday evening by Prince Emmanuel Kanu, the family expressed concern over…
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, has called on the Sokoto State Government to include traditional rulers in the implementation of the N70,000 minimum wage. The appeal was made on Sunday during a Town Hall meeting organised by the State Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning ahead of the submission of the state’s 2026…
Olisa Agbakoba, a human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has condemned a bill in Nigeria’s National Assembly seeking to jail non-voters for six months. While criticising the mandatory voting bill, the senior lawyer disclosed that he would rather go to jail than obey it if it eventually became law. Agbakoba said this…
Former President Goodluck Jonathan, on Friday, described his political journey as “a political miracle,” reflecting on his rapid rise from deputy governor to Nigeria’s president within four years. Jonathan made the remark at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Lagos, during the public presentation of three books authored by journalist and his former spokesperson,…
Social crusader and rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, has said that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, “has better chances in 2027 than he had in 2023.” Yesufu made the assertion on Friday in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, while fielding questions from newsmen at the Girls’ Summit organised by Protect…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Sokoto State Command, has apprehended three suspects connected to the abduction and gang rape of a 15-year-old girl, Amina Abdullahi, in Gantsare village, the Wammako Local Government Area of the state. This is according to a press statement made available to newsmen on Tuesday by the command’s…
About 18 cows have died after allegedly grazing on a fumigated farmland in Vwei community, Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State. According to local sources who spoke to Zagazola Makama, the incident occurred around 12 noon on Wednesday when the cattle, belonging to one Dan’azumi Haruna, strayed into the treated farmland. Seven of the…
