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COVID19 QR code: You are causing serious hardship for people travelling – Singer 2baba calls out NCDC
Singer, 2Face Idibia, has called out officials of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control NCDC for ‘frustrating’ Nigerians traveling home from other countries regarding their COVID19 test results. 2Face in a video he shared on Instagram expressed his frustration about the poor work ethics of NCDC officials. He made particular reference to the website of the center as well as the staff who according to him are never available to pick up calls when Nigerians who need their assistance try to reach them. 2Face who was in an airport when he made the video, said some Nigerians are stranded at…
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Buhari cannot be bullied by calls for secession – Garba Shehu
The presidency on Tuesday made it known that President Muhammadu Buhari cannot be bullied by calls for secession. This was according to a statement by Presidential Spokesman, Garba Shehu during a media parley at the headquarters of the All Progressives Congress in Abuja. He said those calling for secession are the problems of the country. Shehu noted that Nigerians want to be one and continue with the existence of the country. He further added that the Governors of the South-West have all denounced those calls. “One thing with this president is, you can’t intimidate Buhari, you can’t bully him. A…
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Your marriage will hit the rocks if you keep listening to motivational divorcees – Actress Nnaji Charity
Actress Nnaji Charity has asked those taking advice from those she described as “motivational divorcees” to stop as it will make their marriage crash. Charity who gave the advice via an Instastory post she shared, added that only the husbands of these “motivational divorcees” can prove her otherwise. She wrote; Your marriage is 99% about to hit the rock if you keep listening to a motivational divorcee…..E get whyPls and pls don’t ever take advice from a motivational divorcee…..only the ex-husband will proof me order wise….e get why
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No administration has done more than President Buhari’s administration – APC
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that since Nigeria gained independence 1960, no administration has done more for the country than President Buhari has done since he assumed office in 2015. APC National chairman and Yobe state governor, Mai Mala Buni, stated this on Tuesday, April 20, at the maiden edition of the media interactive session of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Professional Forum. Represented at the forum by the Secretary, Caretaker Committee, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, Buni said “They want to downgrade the government. There has not been a government like this in the history of the nation.And I am not…
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Derek Chauvin convicted of murder and manslaughter in George Floyd’s death
A Minneapolis jury has reached a verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer charged with killing George Floyd after he knelt on his neck for over 9 minutes. Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all counts Tuesday, April 20, for his involvement in George Floyd’s death, a verdict that could send the disgraced former Minneapolis police officer to prison for the rest of his life. The judge announced that Chauvin was convicted of second- and -third-degree murder, as well as second-degree manslaughter. He faces up to 75 years in prison when he returns for sentencing in eight weeks.…
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Singer Temmie Ovwasa recounts how she made out with her lesbian partner at the back of a church she had gone to perform
Openly gay Nigerian singer, Temmie Ovwasa, has recounted how she went to a church to perform and then made out with her girlfriend at the back of the church. Posting via her Twitter handle, Temmie wrote ”I was 17 when I accepted an invitation to perform in a church in a town that was 6-7hrs away, just so I could see my girlfriend(asuu strike). The bus broke down in the middle of the road, that didn’t faze me. we made out at the back of the church after I performed. God is Good.”
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Nigerians should expect diminished queues from today – NNPC GMD, Mele Kyari
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC) Mele Kyari, has assured Nigerians that the queues building up in filling stations will be diminished from today. He sadi this on Tuesday while briefing State House correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. The industrial action by petroleum tanker drivers against their employers over issues of the compensation package had caused the lack of petrol. According to the NNPC MD, the intervention by the corporation has resulted in an amicable settlement between the concerned parties as the industrial action has been called off for a period of…
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NDLEA arrest undergraduate and her boyfriend who produce and sell drugged cookies to school children in Abuja
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 300-level university student identified as Rhoda Agboje and her boyfriend, Ifeanyi Nwankwo, who both specialise in producing and selling drugged cookies to school children and other unsuspecting members of the public in Abuja. According to Femi Babafemi, the Spokesperson of the agency on Tuesday, he said narcotics agents with the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Command of the NDLEA have also launched a manhunt for another member of the syndicate involved in producing the cookies with Arizona, a highly psychoactive variant of cannabis; alcohol and rohypnol among other ingredients.…
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Asylum to IPOB, MASSOB members, sabotage, disrespect for Nigeria – FG attacks UK
The Nigerian government has condemned the decision of the United Kingdom to grant asylum to alleged persecuted members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra. According to Information Minister Lai Mohammed, it is a disrespect to Nigeria, and a move to sabotage the fight against terrorism and an undermining of Nigeria’s security. The government official spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview program on Tuesday. Mohammed said the issue is within the purview of the Foreign Affairs Minister whom he believes will handle it…
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Chad President Idriss Deby dies after 30 years in power, son to take over
Chad’s newly elected President Idriss Deby has died while visiting troops on the frontline of a fight against northern rebels, the army said on Tuesday. Deby’s son, Mahamat Kaka, was named interim president by a transitional council of military officers, spokesman Azem Bermendao Agouna said in a broadcast on state television. Deby, 68, came to power in a rebellion in 1990 and was one of Africa’s longest-ruling leaders. He and his army have been seen as a reliable Western ally in a turbulent region afflicted by jihadists. The exact cause of death was not yet clear but a European diplomatic…
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Asking ESN to work with EBUBE AGU is like asking Satan to midwife the birth of Jesus – IPOB
The Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB has rubbished calls made by some Nigerians for the collaboration of the Eastern Security Network (ESN) and the newly established security outfit, EbubeAgu to tackle the insecurity in the region. IPOB in a statement released by its spokesman, Emma Powerful condemned the calls for the merger. According to the statement, EBUBE AGU is a ghost group monitored by the Nigerian security agents, who are enemies of the ESN and its leader, Nnamdi Kanu. The group said asking ESN to work with EBUBE AGU is like asking Satan to midwife the birth of Jesus. The…
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‘Today’s Nigeria is not of a progressive country but as a mass of cumulative failure” – Oby Ezekwesili
Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has said that Nigeria is gradually slipping into a fragile state as it is now the world’s 14th most fragile state. Ezekwesili in a tweet she shared via he twitter handle noted that Nigeria under the Buhari-led administration, is not a progressive country but a mass of cumulative failure. Her tweets read; ”For 60 years, Nigeria in a classic case of failure of Nation Formation failed to make the transition from Country to Nation. Worse, it even now risks its status as a country as it steadily hobbles down the slippery slope of Fragile…
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