The Personal Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on New Media, Lauretta Onochie has accused the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, of masterminding the destruction of properties in Lagos State which was preceded by the Lekki Toll Gate shooting in October, 2020. Sharing a video evidence on her official Twitter handle on Friday, Onochie alleged that Nnamdi Kanu gave the order and coordinated the attacks. She wrote, “To think that the blood stained flag some youth and some not-so-youth, have been promoting proudly, is an insignia and creation of the proscribed IPOB’s Nnamdi Kanu.“He also gave the…
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I was three months pregnant when my husband got a new job outside of town. Our marriage was less than a year old, which means we were still at the flowery stage of our marriage. If I had the power I would have stopped him but he was determined and it looked like the job brought a new light to him so I didn’t protest. I helped him get his things ready. I did everything a wife would do to ensure her husband would have a perfect transition from home to a new town. The day he reached his destination,…
Nigerians have taken to social media to react to a post of a member of the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) invigilating an exam for military officers.Naija PR took to Twitter and shared a photo of a male corp member taking on the role of an invigilator while soldiers were writing an exam.The date and location of the said examination, was however not disclosed, so it is unclear how recently the photo was taken The young man could be seen holding a big envelope which probably contains the exam questions and answer booklets. He maintained a position that suggested he…
I am not my husband’s first wife. His first wife died tragically and left behind two young children. The youngest is a girl named Hope. She is so attached to her daddy that she slept in our bed the first few years after we got married. And I can tell how much my husband also loves his little girl. The two of them are almost inseparable. This makes the situation I find myself in a very dicey one. Now let me start from the beginning.My husband and I met at a time when he was very low. He was dealing…
Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi made a magical entry into the International Conference Centre, Abuja for the Party’s Leadership Summit held in Abuja on Thursday, August 11, leaving many stunned. As he arrived the auditorium, the crowd cheered at the sight of Peter Obi who showed up from the back entrance leaving many including his running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmad stunned. The LP flagbearer was expected to walk in through the main entrance with the media waiting to receive him, but he walked in through the back door. Obi’s presence suddenly created a buzz in the venue as the…
Popular afrobeat artiste, Femi Kuti, has shot a salvo into what appears to be the camp Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi’s followers.He says he is not obedient because those who are are zombies.Obi’s followers are called Obi-dients. Yabbing during his Thursday show in Lagos, Femi said: “You know what obedience means? Stand up, sit down, sit there — zombie,” Mr Kuti said during a performance at the Shrine Thursday night in Lagos, wondering why Mr Obi’s popularity has grown rapidly in recent months. “How can you be Obidient in this chaos? I am not Obidient. Tell me, at 60,…
Canada-bound postgraduate student, Jeffrey Omoregie, was crushed to death 3 weeks to travelling date on Uselu-Lagos Expressway, Uselu, in the Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. The incident happened on Tuesday when the 26-year-old was on his way to a Union Bank branch to wait for his mother, who wanted to make cash withdrawal from her bank account.The mother intended to give him some money after he concluded plans to travel to Canada for his master’s degree programme.Uupon getting to Uselu Junction, the petroleum engineering graduate of the University of Benin attempted crossing the expressway to connect to the…
Some residents of areas close to the2 Division Nigeria Army at Odogbo in Ibadan are living in fear following the constant shelling of their buildings by soldiers during shooting exercises.Residents who took journalists around the area on Thursday showed damage done to their buildings and vehicles by bullets fired by soldiers during the last shooting exercise.They said many residents had relocated from the area while some who have completed their buildings have not packed there because their roofs and walls had been perforated by flying bullets. Some of them complained about how bullets hit their walls or fall on their…
Kwaku has been my best friend for the past eight years since our days in the university. He was the kind of friend who woke me up at dawn to study. When I had difficulty grasping certain concepts, he patiently taught me. He gives me a listening ear regardless of what I want to talk about. Our closeness made people wonder if we were more than friends. I didn’t know if he had feelings for me and I didn’t care to know either. What I cared about was that he was my best friend. In the course of our friendship,…
A woman who was involved in a bloody accident yesterday, August 10, has received both criticism and sympathy after she filmed herself bleeding at the accident scene and shared it on TikTok.The user known as confidence was involved in an accident alongside other commuters. The accident left her bleeding from the head. As first responders tried to help her and others, she’s seen crying while filming.The video also shows a vehicle lying by its side as a result of the accident.The TikTok user also shared other videos of her in the hospital, with bandages on her head, hand, and knee.…