President Muhammadu Buhari has said he is upset with the level of poverty in Nigeria. The president made his feelings known when he hosted Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Ministers, Service Chiefs, Heads of Security Agencies and Chief Executives of Federal Government Agencies and Institutions to a breaking of fast at theContinue Reading
Metro Bank has seen its shares come under pressure after the lender was forced to quash “false rumours” on social media over its financial health and said plans to shore up its finances were well advanced. The troubled group saw its stock drop 5% after it said it was inContinue Reading
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday slated June 3, 2019, to commence hearing of the suit challenging the appointment of Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). The trial Judge, Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed the date after striking out an exparte application seekingContinue Reading
Outgoing Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, said on Monday that he had grown wiser politically, having spent four years in office. Ambode was at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, to pay what he called, ‘Thank you visit’ to President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari had visited Lagos last month to inaugurate some projectsContinue Reading
The African Action Congress ( AAC ) on Monday, suspended its presidential candidate in the 2019 general election, Omoyele Sowore as the national chairman of the party. This was announced on Monday in Abuja at the party’s NEC meeting. According to NEC, Sowore was suspended for alleged anti-party activities, failureContinue Reading
The 2019 general election has come and gone. But the ripples from the audacious display of impunity, insubordination and lack of cognizance of party supremacy by pig-headed saboteurs within the All Progressive Congress (APC) will take longer to settle down. In Rivers State, our great party was poised toContinue Reading
Manchester City are the Premier League champions. But that statement does not go anywhere near conveying this epic title race although it did feel so right that the goal that sealed it, the third one, the one that cleared the City bench in celebration, with Pep Guardiola punching the air,Continue Reading
The Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Kehinde Bamigbetan, has been involved in a ghastly auto crash. Bamigbetan, who was appointed in January 2018, confirmed the accident in a Facebook post Sunday afternoon. The veteran journalist wrote: “His mercy endures forever. The driver drove into an armoured carrier onContinue Reading
An army of 30 depraved gunmen has stormed a Catholic church in Burkina Faso this morning and killed at least six people, security sources have said. The church’s priest was also slaughtered as he said Mass in the town of Dablo in the north of the West African country, reportsContinue Reading
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcomed their first born, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, on May 6 at 5.26am. As the first born son of a duke, Archie could have become Earl of Dumbarton – one of Harry’s subsidiary titles – or have been Lord Archie Mountbatten-Windsor. But the couple choseContinue Reading
