Month: September 2013

Popular Nigerian saxophonist, Adeyemi Adeosu, otherwise known as Yemi Sax, is one of the happiest men on earth today and the reason is not far-fetched. The well sought after instrumentalist cum music producer has now joined the league of fathers in the world. His wife, Sola, put to bed on Sunday morning at St Georges…

A senior officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Commandant Adekunle Daud Elesin, has died. Elesin reportedly died on Saturday night in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, after a brief illness. Until his death, the 59 years old Elesin was the Provost, NSCDC College of Security Management, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, Ogun State. According…

Some suspected terrorists believed to be Boko Haram members have killed an aide to Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State along with eight others. The governor’s aide, identified as Muhammad Sani, was shot dead by the gunmen on Friday at Bulabulin-Ngabura village, which is about 50km from Maiduguri, the state capital. The attackers stormed the…

Some security operatives, on Saturday afternoon, stormed the secretariat of the Atiku Abubukar led faction of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, formed some days ago. The heavily armed and battle-ready policemen sealed off the office of the faction of the ruling party located at Plot 320, off Onyi River Crescent, in Maitama area of the…

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, has thrown his full weight behind the new Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, formed by former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. This was made known by the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Hon Zakari Mohammed, while addressing some journalists in Abuja. The…

The Chairman, Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Tony Anenih, has now come under attack for supporting the governors under the new PDP led by Atiku Abubakar. Anenih had stated on Tuesday that some of the grievances of the governors under the new party’s faction against Bamanga Tukur and President Jonathan…

Controversial former spokesman of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, Femi Fani-Kayode, has withdrawn his ‘indiscreet’ statement on Bianca Ojukwu claiming that he had an intimate relationship with her many years ago. In his write-up titled ‘Neither a Tribalist Nor a Hater,’ published in the Leadership Newspaper of August 16, 2013, to defend himself over his earlier article…