An Abuja Chief Magistrate Court sitting at Wuse Zone 6, on Thursday, issued a bench warrant for the arrest of controversial social media activist, Martins Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, VDM. The arrest order followed a criminal defamation case that was brought before the court by a renowned female gospel singer, Mercy Chinwo. In his…
The Senate has overwhelmingly passed a vote of confidence in its President, Senator Godswill Akpabio. The decision comes 48 hours after the suspended Chairman of the Senate Committee on Diaspora and NGOs, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP, Kogi Central), addressed the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in New York, claiming she was suspended for raising allegations of sexual…
THE political crisis in Rivers State took a dangerous turn, yesterday, as the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Minister, Chief Nyesom Wike, downplayed reported threats by some Ijaw-linked militant groups to blow up crude oil pipelines and hold the nation to ransom, should Governor Siminalayi Fubara be impeached by the 27 members of the State Assembly…
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, declined to legalise prostitution in the country, even as it dismissed a suit that sought to enforce fundamental rights of commercial sex workers in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. The court, in a judgment delivered by Justice James Omotosho, while describing prostitution as an immoral act…
Following the six months suspension that was slammed on her by the Senate, the lawmaker representing Kogi Central, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has filed a contempt charge against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio. Equally cited as contemnors in the Form 48 she entered before the Federal High Court in Abuja, are the Clerk of the National…
THE Osun State government, yesterday, officially wrote to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, urging his office to give due recognition to the newly elected local government chairmen and councillors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the legitimate representatives of the council areas. …
Former Kaduna State Governor Nasiru El-Rufai has disclosed that he left the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) with the full knowledge and consent of former President Muhammadu Buhari. El-Rufai announced his defection to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in a statement posted on his verified Facebook page on Monday. Speaking in an interview with BBC…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that most Nigerians are only interested in using public offices to enrich themselves and their cronies and then leave the country worse than they met it. The former President said these people obtain billions of naira in loans, believing that paying back from public funds after being elected won’t…
Peter Obi, the 2023 Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), is currently in a closed-door meeting with Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State. The purpose of the meeting holding at the Ramat House has not yet been disclosed. Both Obi and Mohammed are expected to address journalists after the meeting.
Super mothers can’t be over celebrated, says Sola Fajobi Lagos, Nigeria| March 12, 2025: After a long hiatus, Supermom, the celebrated reality television show from the stable of Sola Fajobi owned Digital Interactive Media, DIM, will return in 2025. The reality TV show, which has celebrated several mothers across Nigeria including mothers of famous Nigerian celebrities,…
