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Diamond Platnumz wants his wedding day declared public holiday in Tanzania, as he plans to get married to his Kenyan model girlfriend, Tanasha Donna Barbieri. In a recent interview Diamond explained that he wants the government to…

Legendary singer James Ingram has been announced dead at the age of 66. He died after battling brain cancer. S The announcement was made on social media by Debbie Allen who tweeted: “I have lost my dearest friend and…

A faction of Afenifere, a pan Yoruba social-cultural group, on Tuesday in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari as its candidate for the February 16th election. The Senator Ayo Fasanmi-led faction…

Rights activist Femi Falana (SAN) has urged the National Judicial Council (NJC) to compel the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, to step aside pending the determination of the case against him. …

A civil rights organisation, Legislative Probity and Accountability, has given the Lagos House of Assembly five days ultimatum within which to account for the N28.8bn said to have been collected as running cost under the leadership…

A Kenyan court on Tuesday acquitted one suspect and ruled four others have a case to answer for the 2015 slaughter of 148 people at a university. The five suspects went on trial in January 2016 for their involvement in the…

In a multi-ethnic, multicultural country like Nigeria, you can’t win votes by playing the “ethnic card”. In endorsing Atiku Abubakar, the PDP Presidential candidate last week, the Igbo Social-cultural group Ohaneze Ndigbo claimed…

Father of ex-Governor of Kano state, Engineer Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso and District Head of Madobi, Alhaji Musa Saleh Kwankwaso has endorsed the re-election bid of incumbent governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. The elderly Kwankwaso…

The Seme Border Command Area Controller, Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, Comptroller Mohammed Uba, has disclosed that the command generated a total of  N6.3 billion revenue in 2018. This represents about 76% of the revenue target…

AS President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign rally continued in the South-East, the political issues that bedevilled the Igbo came to the fore with the crack in the ranks of the apex pan Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo…

FOLLOWING moves by members of the Lagos State House of Assembly to impeach Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, a web of intrigues, yesterday, surfaced over the current face-off between the two arms of government. The obviously frosty…

The Chief Customer Officer MultiChoice Nigeria, Martin Mabutho, has stated why the 4th edition of the hit reality TV show, Big Brother Naija, is holding in Nigeria and not in South Africa like the previous ones. He made this…

Dear Bunmi, I’m in my early 60s, a few years ago, I took in a girl as a maid. Her family wouldn’t help her because they thought she was wayward. In the beginning, she was unstable and kept vanishing, at first for days, then for…

A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday described the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria by President Muhammadu Buhari as “fair and balanced”. Mr Tinubu said this on Tuesday in a…

The emergency meeting of the National Judicial Council (NJC) has ended. The council has issued a seven-day ultimatum to Walter Onnoghen, the suspended chief justice of Nigeria, to respond to a petition filed against him by the…

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun state, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has assured residents of Ogun state that he would not disappoint them if elected to govern the state. Prince Abiodun gave the…

Members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday set the new National Minimum Wage as N30,000. They reached the decision a day after conducting a public hearing on the bill for a new national minimum wage. The lawmakers at…

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday inaugurated the Ariara Market Independent Power Plant (IPP) in the commercial city of Aba, Abia State, with a pledge that his administration will continue to execute people-oriented projects…

A former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu says he is ready to face trial at the Federal High Court in Lagos over an alleged N7.6billion fraud preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He…

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has petitioned France, Germany, European Union, United States of America and United Kingdom over alleged undemocratic actions and infractions of President…

Lawyers trooped out at various divisions of the courts in Abuja today to take their cases contrary to the directive issued by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), for a two-day boycott of the courts in protest of the suspension of…

The United States last year slid down the rankings of a global corruption index as America's system of checks and balances faced growing threats on Donald Trump's watch, Transparency International said Tuesday. The US lost four…

Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has  taunted Walter Onnoghen, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), over the accounts with foreign currencies reportedly traced to him. After replacing…

A new report by Guaranty Trust Bank says the decision of the Central Bank of Nigeria to license telecommunications companies for payment services is a threat to banks operating in the country. In its report, Nigeria…