The Presidency has lambasted former Vice President Atiku Abubakar for forming a parallel Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, on Saturday, along with some party’s governors. Addressing journalists in Abuja on Monday, the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Ahmed Gulak, described Atiku as an ingrate and stressed that the ex-Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN,…
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6 Perish In Fresh Jos Attack
No fewer than six persons were reportedly killed in Shwan Village in Kuru, Jos South local government area of Plateau State when some gunmen invaded the community on Sunday night. The fresh attack left five siblings and one other person perished in the incident. The armed men stormed the village and killed the victims in…
Popular Lagos OAP, MC Ice, Welcomes Baby Boy
The month of September has started yielding its blessings in the family of popular Lagos-based On Air Personality, OAP, Micah Aruocha, well known as MC Ice, as he has welcomed a bouncing baby boy into his family. The wife of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State graduate of Mass Communication, Esther, gave birth to…
Usain Bolt To David Moyes: Please Buy A Midfielder
World’s fastest man, Usain Bolt, has urged new Manchester United coach, David Moyes, to hit the market and buy a creative midfielder ahead of the transfer deadline on Monday night (today). The Jamaican Manchester United fan said this on Sunday after United lost by a lone goal to Liverpool at Anfield in a Barclays Premier…
Girl, 14, Delivers Triplet; 16-Year-Old Boyfriend Flees
A 14-year-old girl has given birth to triplet in Bungoma County of Kenya. The teenager was delivered of the babies; three boys, on Sunday after undergoing a Caesarean Section at the Bungoma District Hospital where she was taken to on Saturday evening. Two of the three boys weighed 1.5kg at birth while the other weighed…
Me, Not Okocha, Owns Majek Fashek’s Biopic—Charles Novia Cries Out
Last week, news went viral on the blogosphere that ex-international, Austin Jay Jay Okocha was delving into Nollywood to produce a world class movie on the life of the ‘rainmaker’, Majek Fashek, which will be shot in Nigeria and New York. The story generated lots of dust until popular filmmaker, Charles Novia, vehemently reacted to…
Nigeria's Health Sector May Crumble As NMA Gives FG 21-Day Ultimatum
Barely few days after the Medical and Health Workers Union suspended its nine-day indefinite strike, the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, has resolved to give the Federal Government a 21-day ultimatum to meet its demands or see the health sector crumble. This notice was given at the weekend at the end of body’s 2013 National Executive…
PHOTONEWS: Soludo In Closed-Door Meeting With Atiku
Atiku and Soludo The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Charles Chukwuma Soludo, paid a courtesy visit to ex-Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, in his Abuja home barely 24 hours after the latter formed a parallel Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, along with seven PDP governors. The Anambra gubernatorial hopeful led a group of…
Prognosis: PDP May Move to Expel Completely Its Factional Wing Members By Harry Amusa
It is my thinking (ominous) that in the few days to come, the only option open to the Bamanga Turkur led-national PDP is to suspend those it considers as rebels or rather anti-party members who are now romancing with the new factional PDP chaired by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Though this may not come as a surprise…
How Bukola Saraki's 2015 Presidential Ambition Exposed His Messy Scandal
*Why He May Ruin His Political Life The politics of Kwara State had been synonymous with the name of the Sarakis. For many years, the late Dr Olusola Saraki, fondly called Baba Oloye held sway in the middle belt state and had colossal power to the extent that his words were law as far as…