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6 Days of Kidnapping Drama in Lagos: ‘How retired Air Force chief, Smith, tackled his abductors’

Posted by admin Air Force, Armed Forces, Headlines Monday, October 18th, 2021

By Charles Kumolu, Deputy Editor In the last one month, no fewer than five people have been abducted in Lagos State, Nigeria’s commercial capital. The incidents, which sent shivers down the spine of residents, left many wondering if the nationwide scourge of kidnapping had spread to the city. That wasn’t the first time the city […]

Indian man kills wife with cobra

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics Thursday, October 14th, 2021

Indian man kills wife with cobra An Indian court, on Wednesday handed a rare double life sentence to a man who murdered his wife, 25, by making a cobra bite her while she was sleeping. Domestic media reported that Sooraj Kumar, 28, was arrested at his home in southern Kerala state in 2020 after his […]

Biafra apparel: Nollywood actor, Chiwetalu Agu released from DSS detention

Posted by admin Arts/Culture & Entertainment, Headlines, Nollywood (Film Industry) Wednesday, October 13th, 2021

Biafra apparel: Nollywood actor, Chiwetalu Agu released from DSS detention By Lawrence Njoku, Enugu Nollywood veteran actor, Chiwetalu Agu, was yesterday released from detention of the Department of State Services (DSS). His release was secured by the Actors’ Guild of Nigeria (AGN). AGN made this known via a statement on their official page. The statement […]

Igboho critically ill in Beninese detention – Counsel

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, October 13th, 2021

Sunday Igboho By Adeola Badru, Ibadan Chief Yomi Alliyu (SAN), lead counsel to the embattled Yoruba rights activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, aka, Igboho Wednesday disclosed that the Yoruba right activist is now critically ill in Cotonou, Benin Republic. Chief Alliyu (SAN) stated this in Ibadan while speaking on a radio station, monitored by Vanguard on […]

DSS flies actor Chiwetalu Agu to Abuja, Bars family visitation

Posted by admin Arts/Culture & Entertainment, Headlines, Nollywood (Film Industry) Tuesday, October 12th, 2021

The Department of State Services has flown veteran actor, Chiwetalu Agu, to Abuja as part of investigations for promoting Biafra cause and allegedly inciting members of the public. Agu was first arrested by the Nigerian Army on October 7, 2021, around Upper Iweka in Onitsha, Anambra State, for wearing a Biafra outfit while distributing […]

Zulum receives women, children who escaped from Boko Haram

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Borno, Governors, Headlines, State News Monday, October 11th, 2021

Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno on Monday received six women and nine children who escaped from the bondage of Boko Haram terrorists. Presenting the women and children to the governor in Maiduguri, the Commissioner of Women Affairs, Hajiya Zuwaira Gambo, said they were abducted in Borno and Adamawa. They, however, escaped from the terrorists in […]

2023: Bakare announces N4N movement

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, October 11th, 2021

Pastor Tunde Bakare By Dapo Akinrefon Says it’s time to take back Nigeria Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, CGCG, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Sunday, announced the Nigeria for Nigerians, N4N, movement, saying it is time for Nigerians to take back their nation. He also declared that his state of the nation address […]

Why Osinbajo, Aregbesola, Fashola didn’t visit Tinubu in London

Posted by admin Latest Politics, National Politics Monday, October 11th, 2021

By Olasunkanmi Akoni The reason Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo; Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola; Minister of Works, Babatunde Raji Fashola; and others serving under Buhari could not visit the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in London, where he went for medical treatment has been revealed. Findings revealed that […]

Super Eagles win grudge match, thrash Central African Republic

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, October 11th, 2021

The Super Eagles of Nigeria put their disappointing defeat behind to thrash Central African Republic (CAR) 2-0 on Sunday in a reverse World Cup qualifying match. CAR had shocked the Super Eagles last Thursday at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos, with a lone goal victory scored on added time to silence the crowd. But […]

Soludo: A Reflection – By Tochukwu Ezukanma

Posted by admin Articles, NNP Columnists, Presidency, Tochukwu Ezukanma Monday, October 11th, 2021

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | October 11, 2021: A onetime White House counsel, Richard Goodman, once characterized a great American, Robert Kennedy, as “a constellation of contradictions”. And the famed author, Harry Barnes, described the greatest of the patristic fathers, St Augustine, as a complex combination of opposites. Like most great men, Chukwuma Soludo, […]