Wizkid, Davido take the supremacy battle global
Earlier in the month, in what could best be described as the African gods of peace and harmony coming together to have a laugh, arch-rivals Wizkid and Davido performed for crowds abroad on the...
Monthly Archive: July 2017
17m Nigerians in diaspora push for voting rights
The leaders of the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation (NIDO) are in the country to ensure that about 17 million of their members spread across the world participate in elections to choose those to be...
How did Covenant University produce 188 First Class graduates?
How on earth can Convenant University produce 188 First Class graduates in one academic year? I think government should rigorously regulate all these private universities, especially those of them run by religious bodies. Surely...
Nigerian Army demotes Major-General to Brigadier-General
A Military Special Court Martial on Thursday demoted Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim Sani, one time Chief of Transformation and Innovation Centre of the Nigerian Army, to a Brigadier-General. The President of the court, AVM James Gbum,...
Audi to recall 850,000 cars
World luxury car maker Audi has launched a recall for up to 850,000 diesel-fuelled cars to update vehicle software controlling emissions in a bid to avoid potential driving bans, it said on Friday. The...
Why India and Pakistan hate each other
EVERY AFTERNOON AT sunset, at a point midway along the arrow-straight road between Amritsar and Lahore, rival squads of splendidly uniformed soldiers strut and stomp a 17th-century British military drill known as Beating Retreat...
Gunmen abduct, detain former Rangers’ Coach, Amakapabo
Super Eagles’ Assistant Coach, Imama Amakapabo, was yesterday in Abuja seized by gunmen, who claimed to be security operatives working on the orders of the coach’s last club, Enugu Rangers. The gunmen claimed that...
Housewife loses 7-year-old marriage for demanding N500 per sex-bout with husband
A housewife, Mrs Mutiatu Olaosebikan, has lost her seven-year-old marriage for demanding money from her husband before sex. An Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Wednesday granted the request of her estranged husband to...
Court orders seizure of $793.2m hidden in banks
Justice Cuka Obiozor of the Federal High Court Lagos on Thursday ordered seven commercial banks to temporarily remit a total of $793,200,000 allegedly being kept illegally in their custody in contravention of the Federal...
Two sisters choked to death in a locked room
Sympathisers at the scene of the incident Tragedy struck yesterday at North Bank, close to Agro Makurdi, Benue State when two sisters, aged 10 and seven lost their lives in a fire incident around...
