A video of media mogul, Nduka Obaigbena taunting Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, at a gathering with Sokoto state governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has made the rounds on social media.Recall that Gov Wike has been at loggerheads with the PDP leadership and Gov Tambuwal after losing out in the May 2022 presidential primary of the party as well as losing out in the race to become the running mate of Atiku Abubakar who won the presidential primary of the party. His grievances towards Tambuwal started after the Sokoto state governor who was his close pal, worked ‘against’ him to ensure Atiku…
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The Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Person (NAPTIP), Dr. Fatima Waziri-Azi, has recounted how a father sealed up his daughter’s hair salon for refusing to be trafficked to Italy for prostitution.Speaking at a sensitization campaign and community dialogue against human trafficking in Idunmwuniye community, Edo state, in collaboration with the Oba of Benin task force on human trafficking, Waziri-Azi, said the dialogue is aimed at finding solutions, creating and implementing action plans to address challenges related to human trafficking and unsafe migration practices prevalent in the communities in the state. She alleged that some…
A black market operator, David Olabanji, has been thrown into mourning after his wife, Rhoda, and his two children, got burnt to death as petroleum products he stored in his shop in the Dantata area of Satellite Town, Lagos State exploded on Saturday, August 20.Punch reports that Olabanji who had been dealing in the adulteration of petroleum products, among others, was outside his shop with his family when the explosion occurred suddenly. Rhoda who was also outside the shop when the fire started, quickly ran inside to save their two children who were sleeping at the time, but all three…
Abdulhamid Umar Mohammad, has called on Igbos in Nigeria to vote for the presidential candidate of the ruling party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, come 2023 because what he did to Igbos, no any other presidential candidate has done.This was even as he maintained that “It is time for them to pay back by voting massively for him in the upcoming general election. Muhammad who described Tinubu as a detribalised leader also alleged that when Igbos left the South-East in droves, they were welcomed into Lagos by Asiwaju who was then the state governor.Speaking in an interview with newsmen in Kaduna…
Uniport student kidnapped. The kidnappers are currently asking for a 5m ransom. According to reports, her name is Jennifer Spiff from Bayelsa state. She is a single mum. She was kidnapped in PortHarcourt and they are currently asking for a ransom of 5million to be paid from now till Tuesday. If defaulted, she will be killed and her body parts sold. Her family and friends are currently asking for help to secure her release….Tap Here To Watch Video……n
Member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Remo Omokri, has lampooned former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, for his insistence to transform Nigeria from consumption to production economy.Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has attracted the attention of huge swaths of Nigerians, especially the youth, on and off the social media.This is not unconnected to his campaign dimension focused on the urgent need to fix the country’s economy and make it beneficial to Nigerians. Omokri, who reacted to the development on his social media handle on Sunday, branded the presidential candidate as “number one importer of…
One of the “bishops” who attended the ceremony where Kashim Shettima, Vice-Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was unveiled, was reportedly mobbed at a market in Abuja.In a video widely circulated online, a man who shares striking semblance with one of the clerics that attended the event in June, was seen by humiliated by some young persons.Shouts of “Fake bishop”, “This is one of the so-called bishops Tinubu used”, among others were heard in the background of the video. According to a Facebook user, Sunday Wale Adeniran, the man identified as “Rev Chika” is an indigene of Agulu…
Russian authorities said Sunday they had opened a murder investigation after the daughter of influential, ultra-nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin was killed by a car bomb on the outskirts of Moscow.The Russian Investigative Committee said it believed someone planned and ordered the car explosion that killed Darya Dugina, based on evidence already collected from the blast. “Taking into account the data already obtained, the investigation believes that the crime was pre-planned and was of an ordered nature,” the investigative committee said in a statement Sunday. Dugina died at the scene after “an explosive device, presumably installed in the Toyota Land Cruiser,…
Founder of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore has reacted to the arrests of one of the Tinubu fake Bishop that were hired by the APC to show support for Muslims-Muslim tick during the official presentation of Shettima as APC Vice Presidential candidates few months ago.Recall that one of the fakes Bishop who is plumber was arrested yesterday at Dei Dei market in Abuja. Reacting to the development, Omoyele Sowore point out that those haras and later arrests and hand over the man to Police w. Peter Obi supporters.He said:Yesterday, I saw a number of pictures of a man referred to as…
Helen Paul has cautioned her colleague Yomi Fabiyi after the actor shared a vulnerable video of his child’s mother to score a point in their fight.In the video recorded while Amarachi Grace Jimoh was in labour, Yomi is seen smiling while the pregnant mum begged him to stop filming and call the doctor. “When we were doing it at the time, you were enjoying it,” Yomi is heard telling Amarachi while she begged for a doctor.Reacting to the video, Helen Paul told Yomi that it’s wrong for him to share it online.Yomi shared the video this morning after Amarachi accused…