Telling under-reported stories.
Estimated Reading Time: 5The Presidency has said that the controversial Electoral Act Amendment Bill and the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB recently passed by the National Assembly can be submitted for amendment in future, noting “there is no perfect law”. This was stated by the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu[Read More…]
Estimated Reading Time: 1The Imo Police command has reported its operatives had killed two bandits during crossfire in Njaba Local Government Area of the state on Saturday. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Abutu Yaro, confirmed this in a statement signed by the command’s Spokesman, CSP Mike Abattam, a copy of[Read More…]
Estimated Reading Time: 6 By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Although there is no art to decipher the cunning of crooked cops, DPC Abba Kyari gave us many red flags to cause us to be suspicious of his policing, but many people ignored it. I, for one, have an abiding suspicion[Read More…]
Estimated Reading Time: 26 The music industry offers its successful players an intersection of glamour and life’s finer thrills – wealth, foreign cars, bling jewellery, expensive wines, and adoration from millions of fans. But beneath all these is the core of every business that binds the industry together – collaborations,[Read More…]
Estimated Reading Time: 4 In 2017 while working as a fixer for Regency Foundation on a documentary about the Centre for Girls Education, I saw Amina. She was standing beside the walls of a classroom in Tudun Wada Zaria, listening to and repeating the words from the voices of other[Read More…]
Estimated Reading Time: 3A member of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Austin Braimoh, has said that the Commission would not be bound by the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba’s review of the fraud allegetion against DCP Abba Kyari. ‘Super cop’ Abba Kyari was indicted by the US Federal[Read More…]
Estimated Reading Time: 1The General Overseer of the Living Faith Church popularly known as Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has advised married couples on the dangers of not having a good sex life. In a post shared on his Ministries social media handles on Saturday evening, the pastor averred that[Read More…]
Estimated Reading Time: 2The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, has recommended the suspension of a celebrated police officer, Abba Kyari following his alleged ties with internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas (a.k.a Hushpuppi). The recommendation was noted in a statement by the Police Spokesman, CP Frank Uba, in a[Read More…]
Estimated Reading Time: 2With the unemployment rate in Nigeria pegged at 33%, the second highest on the global list, it is not impossible to throw caution into the air in search of a job. Many Nigerians have fallen victim of con artists and bad people in the name of attending[Read More…]
Estimated Reading Time: 5The Presidency has said that the controversial Electoral Act Amendment Bill and the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB recently passed by the National Assembly can be submitted for amendment in future, noting “there is no perfect law”. This was stated by the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu[Read More…]
Estimated Reading Time: 1PRESS STATEMENT The Media Office of Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki would like to confirm that this afternoon, of his own volition, Dr. Saraki visited the office of the EFCC to clarify any issue that the commission may have wanted to raise with him. He was never arrested[Read More…]
Estimated Reading Time: 6 By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Although there is no art to decipher the cunning of crooked cops, DPC Abba Kyari gave us many red flags to cause us to be suspicious of his policing, but many people ignored it. I, for one, have an abiding suspicion[Read More…]
Estimated Reading Time: 3The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Peace, Reconciliation and Outreach Committee on Saturday in Enugu held a closed-door meeting with Mrs Bianca Ojukwu. Mrs Ojukwu is the wife of late national leader of the party, Chief Chukwuemeka Ojukwu and former Nigeria’s Ambassador to Spain. The delegation which[Read More…]
Estimated Reading Time: 2The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has scheduled Monday, August 2, 2021, to commence an indefinite strike. This is coming at a very critical time when the country is currently experiencing a rise in COVID-19 infections; the signal of a third wave of the pandemic. The[Read More…]
Estimated Reading Time: 1Angered APC youths at Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom on Saturday went on a rampage over none availability of materials for the ward congresses. According to report, the congresses were scheduled to hold in 329 wards in Akwa Ibom but did not hold due to the absence of[Read More…]
