A three-man panel of the Bayelsa Governorship Election Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Saturday August 15, affirmed the election of Senator Duoye Diri as Bayelsa State Governor. This ruling comes a month after the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal filed by a former aspirant of the Bayelsa governorship election under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),…
A pastor in Imo state has organized a special prayer session to pray for Donald Trump’s re-election as the president of the United States of America. A flier for the program was shared online as the church invited people to join in the prayer session. “International service of prayer for president Donald Trump and his…
Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade has disclosed that she’s been away from social media because she contracted Coronavirus. The actress who made the announcement via an Instagram post she shared, disclosed that she’s been ill and in isolation. Omotola wrote; Hello All, I know Mist if you Have been Wondering where I’ve been.Well, i Contracted Covid. I…
Ride-hailing operators in Lagos state will from August 27, start paying a levy of N20 known as road improvement fund on each trip their drivers make in a day. The agreement was reached on Friday August 14, after a three-hour meeting between the Lagos state government and e-hailing ride operators. In a statement signed by the Chief Press…
Governor Aminu Masari on Saturday August 15, said that the blame for banditry should go to the country’s service chiefs and not President Buhari. The Governor of President Buhari’s home state who said this while presenting a N10 million economic empowerment cheque to 1,000 women and N7 million scholarship support cheque to 701 students in…
A labourer identified as Lawalli Bala has been arrested in Rikina village in Dange/Shuni Local Government Area of Sokoto State for alleged homosexuality and sodomization of underage boys. The 30-year-old man was accused of sodomizing 12 underage children in the night when their parents are sleeping. Bala who came to Rikina village from Zamfara and was assisted and sheltered…
An Edo Senior Special Assistant from Urhonigbe South ward 8, Faith Obasuyi has resigned from Governor Godwin Obaseki’s government ahead of the governorship election scheduled to hold in the state in September. In her resignation letter which was sent in on Friday August 14, Obasuyi alleged that recent activities of Obaseki’s administration will not lead to the actualization…
Governor Nyesom Wike has said that the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government has failed Nigeria. The Rivers state Governor who said this while receiving the newly inaugurated Executive Council members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House in Port Harcourt, stated that the ruling APC has failed to deliver…
Obadiah Mailafia, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed that he got his information of a northern governor leading Boko Haram from traders in a market. The former Presidential candidate who revealed that he did not know his comment will go viral, said he got the information from “some Fulani traders”…
The Supreme Court in Angola has handed a five-year jail sentence to Jose Filomeno dos Santos, the son of the country’s former president, for $500m fraud. The 42-year-old was accused of trying to embezzle up to $1.5bn from the sovereign wealth fund, which he oversaw from 2013 to 2018. He was later charged with stealing $500m from the…