Some prominent personalities from the Southeastern Nigeria, under the aegis of Igbo Elders Consultative Forum (IECF), have threatened to sanction any Igbo politician who accepts to be running mate to anyone not from the region. The Igbo elders said their geo-political zone must produce the next president of Nigeria. There …

Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has said former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, and his successors elected under the Peoples Democratic Party platform built the Second Niger bridge with mouth for sixteen years. Adesina, who made the claim in an article titled, ‘NDABOSKI! If Only …

The Nigeria Union South Africa (NUSA) has announced the death of another Nigerian in South Africa, following a vicious attack on him in his shop. The NUSA president Collins Mgbo announced the death of Mr Nicholas John in a statement issued from South Africa on Thursday. Mr John, an Ogun indigene, was …

Borno State Governor, Prof Babagana Zulum, on Thursday, described as “very scary” some findings submitted to him by a committee he constituted and tasked with conducting basic literacy and numeracy competency assessment of 17,229 local education authority teachers across the 27 local government areas of the state. The state Commissioner …

The Presidency has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari is healthier than most young Nigerians criticizing him over his health. Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said Nigerians were now appreciating the fact that the President is in good health. Shehu spoke on Thursday in an interview …

A 30-year-old woman, Bola Agbedimu, has been arrested for being in possession of fake Naira notes in Ogun. Agbedimu was arrested at Kila Market, Odeda Local Government Area of the state, while she was reportedly transacting with fake N1,000 notes. Ogun State police image maker, Abimbola Oyeyemi, told newsmen on …

At the European Union – African Union summit in Brussels today WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced the first six countries that will receive the technology needed to produce mRNA vaccines on the African continent. Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia all applied and have been selected …

Aftobeat artiste Burna Boy gifts his grandmother a hand bag which made her dance and sing his praise in appreciation. She also replied that she knows Burna Boy’s mum will beg to borrow the bag but she won’t give her. The family fun moment ended with her praising Burna Boy …

The Federal High Court is presently tinkering with an idea of shifting the venue of the trial of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu so as to stop the interruption of other pending cases in court. The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, …

A young man of about 18 years identified as Abdullahi Tasi’u took his own life after his father refused to marry for him. A source told salemgists that the deceased who was an SS3 student of Kafur secondary school committed suicide because his father refused to marry a girl he …