The Professor of Virology in an interview said what is playing out in his home state was not only “unfortunate, but disgraceful, embarrassing and scandalous, not only to Rivers but to the entire country.” Commenting on the face-off between President Goodluck Jonathan and Governor Rotimi Amaech, he said, the president is surrounded by those who [...]
People have been wondering why warriors of Ombatse traditional religion were able to ambush and successfully kill about a hundred policemen and State Security Service (SSS) operatives answering a distress call on Wednesday, May 13, without even a single member of Ombatse being killed. In an interview he granted Nigeria’s oldest newspaper, Tribune, the National [...]
Chief Segun Adegoke was a Commissioner for Information under the government of the late Chief Adekunle Ajasin; he is also a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State. He spoke with journalists on the recent judgment of the election petition tribunal and the political permutations towards 2015, among others. YINKA OLADOYINBO bring [...]
Nigerian First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan has disassociated her self from ongoing crisis currently rocking the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, saying that she never had any meeting with its chairman, Victor Umeh in her bedroom. Dame Patience also debunked the rumour that she was supporting the factional chairman of the party, Umeh, saying that [...]
Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho has reportedly been told by the club`s top officials that forward Cristiano Ronaldo will not be going with him if he seals a deal for a return to Chelsea. The Special One was keen to take Real`s Portuguese star to Stamford Bridge but president Florentino Perez , fuming about Friday`s [...]
Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly and former running mate to the presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Muhammadu Buhari, was the one who moved for the dissolution of the CPC to pave way for its merger into the All Progressives Congress (APC). Before last week’s convention of the CPC, Bakare [...]
Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Samuel Odulana Odugade 1, yesterday installed the Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi and his wife, Florence, the Aare Atunluse and Yeye Atunluse of Ibadanland. The ceremony was witnessed by a large crowd of political bigwigs and senior citizens of Ibadan. Speaking after his formal installation along with his wife and the [...]
Dayo Amusa has been around for a while but she’s fast becoming the next big thing especially after strings of ‘out-of-the-box’ movies and moves. Dayo who studied Food Technology is a goal getter, who with strong support from her mum and strong business sense is the new poster girl for the wealthy, young and successful. [...]
Singer, Asa, came within inches of losing her life last week Thursday after she was knocked down by a car in Nashville, USA, while taking a walk. The singer, still in shock from the close shave with death had taken to Twitter and posted that she had just survived an accident. ‘I have just been [...]
*Residents flee air raids *Northern govs plead: Avoid civilian casualty The military, yesterday, extended the curfew in some parts of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, to 24 hours, in continuation of the emergency rule imposed on the state alongside Yobe and Adamawa States, on Tuesday, to curb Boko Haram insurgent activities. The curfew extension [...]
