admin

Section 25 of the Nigerian Constitution is explicit on the differences between citizens and settlers. But then, there’s a saying in Ijesaland: ‘Gbogbo ìjesà ni omo Owá, sùgbón b’álé bá lé, àwon omo Owá mo ara won.’ Translated literally, it means ‘Kings have many children but when the chips are down, each king knows his […]

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Section on Public Interest and Development Law, is asking the Federal High Court in Abuja to sack the Minister of Art, Culture and Creative Economy Hannatu Musawa from office for allegedly violating the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Act.   The organisation also asked the court to compel the NYSC […]

An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a Lagos bishop, Feyi Daniels, to life imprisonment for raping his 23-year-old assistant (name withheld).   Justice Rahman Oshodi also sentenced Daniels, the Bishop of I Reign Christian Ministry, Lagos, to three years in prison for sexually assaulting a 19-year-old member of the church (count […]

A private jet having about 10 persons onboard including Very Important Personalities (VIPs) has crash-landed in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. An impeccable source said the jet crash-landed on Friday around 11 am at the Samuel Ladoke Akintola Airport. The jet with registration number, N580KR, missed the runway into the nearby bush. Firefighters and rescue […]

SHAIBU WAS PRESENT AT EXCO WHEN APPROVAL WAS GIVEN FOR RENOVATION OF GOVT HOUSE CHAPEL – EDO GOVT   … ‘DEP. GOV. SHOULD FOCUS ON HIS CAMPAIGN, STOP PROFANING GOD’S NAME’   It is unfortunate that His Excellency, the Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Philip Shaibu has continued to stir controversy over the renovation of the […]

Contrary to speculation in some quarters, President Bola Tinubu has no plan to move the Federal Capital to Lagos, the Presidency has said.   The Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to President Bola Tinubu, Bayo Onanuga, stated this in a statement via his official X handle on Wednesday, following a rumour that surfaced on […]

Searchng.ng nigerian search engine understands that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will depart for Paris, France tonight.   Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President, (Media & Publicity) revealed this via a terse statement , saying , President Bola Tinubu departs Abuja for Paris, France, on Wednesday, January 24, 2024, for a private visit. He […]

As the administration of President Bola Tinubu goes into its eighth month, some people believe it is too early to judge him while some believe it is enough time. Given Tinubu’s public relations savviness, a group has started to run a TV commercial, urging Nigerians to continue to support him and give him more time […]

My discussion about Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu must be put in the context that I met him at Saint Andrew’s Anglican Church, Okepopo, Lagos; and that was in 2003, under the vicarship of the then Reverend Canon ‘Segun Ajayi. Meeting him, I remember Sanwo-Olu as a man with a good dose of human empathy. By the […]

Precisely on May 29, 2023, Nigeria witnessed another successful transition from one civilian administration to another. This is, no doubt, a milestone as it marks the 5th successful transition since the return to civilian rule in 1999. Perhaps, signaling that democracy, despite its imperfections, has come to stay in Nigeria.    But this is a […]

Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has announced the selection of Olayide Owolabi Adelami for the position of Deputy Governor.   Adelami, who hails from Owo, the hometown of the late Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, is a former Deputy Clerk of the National Assembly.   The name of the deputy governor nominee has been transmitted to the […]

Nigeria ruler Bola Tinubu is a man firmly trapped by his own track record.  Last week, his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, completed his own trap for the man who is also domestically known as ‘Jagaban’.    It was at the launch of a couple of praise books in Abuja for Buhari, and the former soldier who […]