A former Labour Party (LP) presidential aspirant, Faduri Oluwadare Joseph, has accused the party’s leadership of betrayal and injustice, claiming that his 2022 presidential bid was sabotaged to pave the way for Mr Peter Obi. Faduri, who is the leader of the Rescue Movement for a New Nigeria, also declared his intention to contest the…
Priscilla Ojo, daughter of Nollywood actress Iyabo Ojo and now a first-time mum, has recounted her labour room experience. Sharing on Snapchat on Monday, Priscilla said she was taken to the hospital at 3 a.m. when contractions started, admitting that the pain quickly overshadowed her intentions to “slay” and make content on the big day….
Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has approved an increase in monthly allowances for members of the National Youth Service Corps serving in the state, raising the payment “from ₦4,000 to as much as ₦50,000.” The new allowance structure provides a ₦20,000 base allowance for all corps members serving in Abia. Plus this ₦20,000, those…
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Saturday’s by-election for Ibadan North Federal Constituency, Adewale Haastrup Olatunji has lost his polling unit to his counterpart from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Fola Sunday Oyekunle. Olatunji voted at Unit 27 in Ward 10 Saturday morning. According to the results announced at the…
Hadi Sirika, the former minister of aviation, has denied reports that he has joined the African Democratic Congress (ADC), the platform for opposition politicians seeking to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027. Sirika is reacting to comments by Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), during an interview on Arise TV and a…
Following social media backlash, Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election has made a u-turn over his controversial comment on the alleged collapse of the national grid. After a power outage in some parts of Lagos on Saturday, January 11, 2025, which many erroneously attributed to national grid…
The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has alleged that some Nigerian politicians and members of the armed forces are acting as informants and collaborators for Boko Haram insurgents. Zulum made the revelation on Wednesday during an interview on News Central’s Breakfast Central, where he vowed that the state would strengthen its intelligence network and deal…
A yet-to-be-identified man attempted to breach the security perimeter around President Bola Tinubu on Thursday during an official visit to Kaduna State. The President was in Kaduna to commission several projects executed by Governor Uba Sani’s administration when the incident occurred. The man reportedly attempted to approach the President while he was delivering his speech,…
The former Director General of ANIF has indeed been released from prison. The videos of his encounters with women were not distributed by him. Moreover, he did not force anyone to record the encounters. Additionally, the women were not raped. Baltasar Engonga was thus acquitted by the supreme court of his country. Despite the dissemination…
Three people were killed and 17 others injured in a lone motor accident on April 21, 2025, at Ajanla Area, Ibadan, along the Ibadan/Lagos Expressway. The accident occurred at about 1505hrs when the front left tire of a Toyota Hummer commercial bus, with registration number Taraba JAL 705 RS, burst as it approached Ajanla Village…