Author: Yetunde Ogunmola

President Bola Tinubu will, on Tuesday, depart Lagos for Pretoria, South Africa, to attend the inauguration of President Cyril Ramaphosa. The presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, made the disclosure in a statement on Monday. Ngelale said the inauguration of Ramaphosa follows his re-election as President for a second term. He added that Tinubu will return to…

Popular singer, Gabriel Oche Amanyi, aka Terry G, has claimed that the Nigerian music industry is now dominated by cultists. The ‘Akpako Master’ lamented that people like him who are not cultists cannot operate in the Nigerian music industry anymore. Speaking in the latest episode of the Afrobeats Podcast, Terry G stated that there would…

A former minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, has slammed the Tinubu-led government for its call for sacrifice, labeling it a mockery of the suffering masses. In a post on his X.com on Monday Dalung argued that if Tinubu is genuinely committed to the nation’s prosperity, he should start by making sacrifices himself, beginning…

Suspected terrorists in large numbers in the early hours of Monday attacked the headquarters of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Command in Nasarawa State. The NSCDC Public Relations Officer, Jerry Victor, who confirmed the attack said that the terrorists attacked the Command’s headquarters with sophisticated weapons leading to a gun battle with…

Governor Abba Yusuf has explained his reasons for ordering the arrest of the deposed Emir of Kano, Aminu Bayero, an action that led to the court awarding ₦10 million in damages to the monarch. The Governor, through his spokesman Sunusi Bature, stated that he ordered Bayero’s arrest because Bayero returned two days after his dethronement…

Sandra “Sandy” Hemme, a Missouri woman wrongfully convicted of murder, has been released from prison after spending over four decades behind bars. A Livingston County circuit judge overturned her conviction, citing “clear and convincing” evidence of her innocence. Hemme, now 63, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1980 murder of Patricia Jeschke, a library…

The apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has accused South-east governors, Igbo leaders, and National Assembly members of conspiring to extend the detention of leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, until 2027. In a statement issued by the factional Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, the organization blamed the…