Many Yoruba people voted for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar or the Labour Party candidate, Mr Peter Obi, during the 2023 general election. This despite knowing that the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, is their kinsman. It is on record that Tinubu lost Lagos State to…
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested Ifeanyi Okowa, the former governor of Delta state. Okowa was arrested over an alleged diversion of N1.3 trillion. The amount is said to be part of the 13 percent derivation fund earmarked for oil-producing states. According to insiders involved in the investigation, the funds…
Doyin Okupe, former director-general of the Labour Party (LP) presidential campaign in 2023, has said that he “cannot support” Peter Obi again. Okupe spoke on Monday during an interview with Seun Okinbaloye on Channels Television’s Politics Today. He was reacting to a viral clip of Obi commenting on how the country’s economic situation offers little…
Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu, the new Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, has said that she was fully committed to the foreign policy thrust of President Bola Tinubu’s administration. The wife of the late Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was among the seven new ministers that were administered with the oath of office by…
(First published in 2013) It is just rubber! Rubber moulded and shaped in a way that it can bounce when kicked. It gave rise to English peasant sport in schools and neighbourhoods and later developed into a nation-wide sport. Football as it is widely known today, according to a definition, ‘refers to a number of…
Music industry titan Quincy Jones, who produced some of Michael Jackson’s best-known albums and collaborated with legends including Frank Sinatra and Count Basie, has died aged 91. He was surrounded by family at his home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel Air at the time of his death on Sunday, his publicist Arnold Robinson…
The Presidency last night tackled former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, saying that the Waziri Adamawa would have plunged Nigeria into a worse economic situation if he had won the 2023 Presidential election. The presidency accused the former Vice President to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo of supervising…
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has said that any oil marketer that sells petrol cheaper than the price it offers is importing substandard products. In a statement on Sunday, the refinery countered claims by some oil marketers that the cost of the product is higher than that of the imported petrol. On November 1, the Independent…
Veteran Nollywood movie star, Lola Alao has revealed the heartbreaking reasons behind her two failed marriages. During a recent interview with her colleague Biola Adebayo on the show Talk-to-B, Lola Alao pulled back the curtain on her life, offering fans an unfiltered look at the complexities surrounding her decisions to leave her Ex-hubbys. She bare…
She was the last person to enter the race to replace Rishi Sunak as the Conservative & Unionist Party leader in the UK, but alas she was the last person standing. As she takes on her new role as His Majesty loyal opposition leader, eyes will be on this young Yoruba girl who grew up…
