The presidency didn’t ask us to handcuff Metuh–Prisons service
There’s been plenty ado following the appearance of the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, in handcuffs as he made his court appearance on Tuesday. Some Nigerians have...
View ArticleAs we battle corruption, we won’t disobey court orders, says the EFCC
Amid all the hoopla of a political witch-hunt and disobedience of court orders that has trailed the war against corruption, EFCC Boss, Ibrahim Magu has assured Nigerians that the anti-graft commission...
View ArticleThe Olubadan is dead
Oba Samuel Odulana Odugade, the Olubadan of Ibadan, has passed on. Reports say the monarch died at about 7.30pm on Tuesday in his palace in the Monatan area of Ibadan. Oba Odugade was born on April...
View Article“It was a mark of respect”| NSCDC defends SSS officer who turned Dambazau’s...
By Josiah Oluwole for Premium Times The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, has explained why an officer of the State Security Service (SSS) cleaned the shoes of the minister of Interior,...
View ArticleJude Egbas: Worshiping at Dambazau’s feet and the shoe shiners in suit (SSS)
The video was barely one minute long, but it was one minute too long. I couldn’t bear to watch, but by day’s end, I had viewed it twenty times and over. I promised self not to write about it, if only...
View ArticleDogara mourns Olubadan
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Yakubu Dogara, has expressed sadness over the passing on of the Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Samuel Odulana Odugade 1. In a press statement issued...
View ArticleJudge orders federal government to unfailingly produce Dasuki in court the...
The Nigerian government has been ordered to produce former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, in court on February 16 to answer criminal charges filed against him. Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the...
View Article“People who steal goats are in handcuffs. Why shouldn’t Metuh?”| And 2 other...
Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has a reputation for straight talking and he was in his elements when the Edo State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) paid him a courtesy call in...
View ArticleFederal government promises to eradicate Lassa fever by April
Lassa fever, the hemorrhagic virus, has thus far killed more than 48 persons in Nigeria and has spread to several Nigerian States including the nation’s commercial capital of Lagos. However, Health...
View ArticleGov Fayose dares Lai Mohammed to name the 55 persons who stole N1.34trn from...
Addressing the media recently, the minister of information Alhaji Lai Mohammed had revealed that between 2006 and 2013, 55 people allegedly stole a total of 1.34 trillion Naira in Nigeria, an amount...
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That moment when NFF President and his challenger, fought during meeting
BY JUDE OPARA, Abuja The meeting called yesterday by the Minister of Youth and Sports, Barr. Solomon Dalung had all the trappings of reopening the already settled leadership crisis in the Nigeria...
View ArticleI can assure you that more corrupt ‘big men’ will go to jail this year–EFCC...
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu has assured Nigerians that more politically exposed persons will definitely be convicted this year. The EFCC has often...
View ArticleWe don’t even have data of the unemployed persons we want to aid–Minister
The minister of state for Labour and Employment, James Ocholi Wednesday revealed that the ministry does not have data on the number of unemployed Nigerians. “Before we got to where we are, there is no...
View ArticleThe most wanted Boko Haram kingpin was arrested on his way to Lagos
A Boko Haram kingpin operating in Damboa, Chibok and Askira axis of Borno State, has been arrested, reports PM News. Jarasu Shira was on Wednesday morning arrested at a motor park in Damboa. He was...
View ArticleI never got along with Dasuki. He actually wanted me out of Jonathan’s...
Former Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on public affairs, Doyin Okupe, says he never got along with erstwhile National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki. Okupe was reacting to...
View ArticleGod has a hand in the collapse of the Nigerian economy–APC
The plummeting price of oil in the international market which has left Nigeria in dire straits may just be God trying to reform a corrupt and spendthrift Nigerian space, says APC chairman John...
View ArticleDiezani reports at London police station over corruption and money laundering...
Diezani Alison-Madueke, the controversial ex-oil minister, on January 21, finally appeared before police in London, UK. PM news reports that Diezani was at the Charing Cross Police Station, London to...
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Will Smith is the latest actor to boycott the Oscars over lack of diversity
REUTERS, New York–Will Smith on Thursday joined director Spike Lee and his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith in not attending the 2016 Oscar ceremony in February in protest over the absence of nominated actors...
View ArticleWhen gunmen invaded a community in Rivers, they left 16 persons dead
No fewer than sixteen persons were shot dead on Wednesday, in Ula Upata community, Ahoada East local government area of Rivers state by persons suspected to be dare-devil cultists. The Rivers state...
View ArticleHow a simulated plane crash in Lagos left the city peeing in its underwear
By Afeez Hanafi Officials of the Lagos State and the Federal Government on Thursday caused panic in the Oworonshoki area of Lagos during a simulation of a plane crash in the area. Before long, the...
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