CLOSURE OF STATE-OWNED ROADS TO ARTICULATED VEHICLES TAKES EFFECT IN NIGER STATE.
Niger State Government has closed down Minna-Bida state-owned road to articulated vehicles due to it deplorable condition and to allow for speedy reconstruction of the road. The official closure of the road took place with a barricade to stop the heavy trucks from accessing the road in Bida. The closure of the road is coming […]
US Announces Further Visa Ban On Riggers In Nigeria
United States Government has imposed a visa restriction on some Nigerians for their roles during the November 2019 Kogi and Bayelsa State elections and in the run-up to the September and October 2020 Edo and Ondo State elections. According to the United States Secretary of State,Mike Pompeo though elections are yet to be conducted in […]
Senate President, Buni, Bagudu, others in Sokoto….condole Wamakko on daughter’s death
By Ado Hassan Sokoto AS more sympathises arrive Sokoto to condole Senator Aliyu Wamakko on the demise of his daughter, Senate President Ahmed Lawan on Monday led a high powered delegation to Sokoto to condole the lawmaker and former Sokoto state governor. Sadiya Aliyu Wamakko, 23, died last Thursday following birth complications was interred same […]
Smoking Weed & Sipping Hennessy: “guy, na business I wan do….”
Lawrence is from Anambra, cool, calm, brilliant, fine and focused dude. I had newly returned to Kaduna from Ilorin. We meet on my first day at school and became quite close from there on in 1988. After our promotion exams to the next class, he stopped coming to school. I traced him to his ‘uncles’ […]
Kaduna PDP Crisis: Choose between Sen Makarfi/Hyet and Passionate members,my call to Wadata Plaza
….in an effort of righting the wrong is best described as “a double summersault and a twist” Matters have come to a head with regard to the internal crises threatening to consume the PDP in Kaduna State. What has just played out in yet another efforts at righting the issues responsible for undermining the PDP […]
Court remands Woman Who Burns 14-year-old Girl Genitals In Prison
Senior Magistrate Court 1 sitting in Gabasawa, Taiwo Road, Kaduna, on Thursday ordered that one Mrs Yemi Awolola who is standing trial for inflicting bodily pain on a 14-year-old house help, Princess Michael, be remanded in a correctional facility (prison) until September 17, 2020, for mentioning. Senior Magistrate Court, 3 sitting in Gabasawa, Taiwo Road, […]
Two Legislators locked out of Assembly complex in Ondo
The crisis rocking Ondo state house of assembly took another dimension as there was a mild drama this afternoon at the entrance of the Assembly as two members of the opposition were prevented from entering into the House by the security men at the gate. The lawmakers were seen in a one minute, seconds video […]
PDP reconstitutes Kaduna State Caretaker Committee
The National Working Committee (NWC), of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has dissolved the Kaduna State Caretaker Committee of the party and reconstituted a new committee. The Party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja on Thursday, said the decision was taken on behalf of the National Executive Committee (NEC). Ologbondiyan said […]
Release Opeyemi Owatimeyin now, says Yoruba World Congress
PRESS STATEMENT Release Opeyemi Owatimeyin now, says Yoruba World Congress “The Yoruba World Congress condemns the arrest of Opeyemi Owatimeyin by security agents and keeping him in unlawful detention against the extant laws of the land. “According to information at our disposal, which we have confirmed from many sources, which included Owatimeyin’s lawyers, the said […]
4 Reasons It’s Stupid to Compare Nigeria’s Petrol Prices with Other Countries
By Farooq Kperogi In trying to justify Buhari’s latest callous hike in the price of petrol (amid a pandemic, no less), Buhari’s supporters increasingly sound like noisome idiots straining hard to be low-grade morons. Here are 4 reasons it’s stupid to compare Nigeria’s petrol prices with others: Nigeria is the undisputed poverty capital of the […]