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A divorce-seeking woman, Funke Adeyemi, on Wednesday told an Idi-Ogungun Customary Court, Agodi, Ibadan, that her husband, Wasiu Adeyemi, abandoned from home because of N24,000 unpaid rent on their apartment. The 29-year-old woman said that her husband of 12 years ran away from their home when the landlord demanded for payment of the outstanding rent, leaving her and their three children. She stated that the defendant had refused to pay the debt and had not been seen since June, 2017. ”The landlord has ejected me from the house and I have been living with my parents since then. ”All efforts to contact him proved abortive and I have been shouldering the responsibility of the three kids alone.

Cornelius Chiadi Ezeibekwe Cornelius Chiadi Ezeibekwe, 25, recently caused a stir in Ekwulobia in Aguata local government area of Anambra State when he wedded his younger sister, aged 17. In Igbo land, such a marriage is a taboo and it was on the basis of this that youths of the community burnt down the Sabbath Church where Chiadi and his sister were thought to have been joined as husband and wife. Chiadi, the sixth of 10 children (eight boys and two girls) by Mr. Louis Ezeibekwe, is a mathematics teacher at Community Secondary School, Isuofia, also in Aguata local government area. At the time Sunday Vanguard visited their home at Agba, Ekwulobia, Chiadi was busy marking examination scripts and there was nothing in the compound to indicate that any abnormal thing happened there. His sister is a student of Federal Government Technical College, Awka, but she left school to enable her observe what Sabbath people call ‘Shimta’. During the observation, which Chiadi said lasts for one ye...

A former Petroleum Minister, Chief Don Etiebet, is optimistic that President Muhammadu Buhari’s chances of winning re-election in 2019 are very bright, citing the pattern of voting across the country that will favour him. In this interview, the Chairman of Akwa Ibom APC Caucus also speaks on other national issues. Excerpts: 2019 general elections are around the corner and PDP members are campaigning against the return of President Muhammadu Buhari, saying the nation has not made progress under his administration. What do you think? Such a statement is unfortunate. I have played politics in Nigeria for decades and I know about politics inside out. I left this country before the civil war and, since I came back in 1978, I have been involved in politics; from the time of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) to the period of up the National Republican Convention (NRC) and this moment, and I have never seen an administration or a President that has done as much as Buhari has done to re...

Consul-General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Guangzhou, China,on Monday said that many Nigerians were in various Prisons in Guangdong Province for overstaying their visas. Oloko told Newsmen in Lagos that some other Nigerians were also arrested for engaging in drug trafficking and other criminal offences that had led to their detention. According to him, there are currently about 600 Nigerians arrested for overstaying their visas and in detention for other offences. “There is no doubt that there are currently a number of Nigerians in various Chinese prisons, at least those under our consular jurisdiction in Guangzhou. “’These our nationals are in different Chinese prisons for various offences.

Like a lion’s roar, her baritone voice reverberated across the crowded Ikorodu bus-stop last Tuesday morning in a manner that easily drew attention. Even with the rain hitting the ground so fiercely, producing a distorted rhythm that added a bizarre percussion to the cacophony of sounds around the area, her ‘thick’ voice still pierced through the seeming chaos like hot knife, with chants of “Ketu/Mile 12, Ojota/Oshodi” forcing prospective passengers out of hiding and towards the long commercial vehicle she called from. Time was 7:00am – rush hour for many of the community’s teeming residents, who work several kilometres away from Ikorodu, one of the Lagos’ fastest growing towns. But while dozens of such commuters had only been out of bed for about one to two hours, Olabisi Adekoya had been on the road for three and a half hours at that time of the day, attending to early risers desperate to escape the city’s monstrous morning traffic. Despite having to prepare her three children for...

Police authorities in Rivers state have paraded the Senior Pastor of a new generation church, Alter of Grace Ministries, Pastor Chidiebere Okoroafor who was arrested for allegedly killing three people, including two pregnant women and an infant in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State. The bodies of the woman and her daughter were recovered alongside that of the third victim, Olumma Onweagba within the premises of the church, Alter of Grace Ministries near Izuom market in Oyigbo. Preliminary investigation revealed that Pastor Okoroafor had impregnated Olumma Onwaagba who until her death was a member of the church choir.It was gathered that the detained Pastor allegedly pressured his victim to terminate the pregnancy which she refused.

Justice Sedoten Ogunsanya of a Lagos High Court, sitting in Igbosere has sentenced an apprentice barber, Samuel Edet, to 42 years in prison for robbery. Justice Ogunsanya convicted Edet of robbing an aluminum technician, Adewale Elelo, of his Nissan Pathfinder on February 21, 2012. She sentenced him to 21 years imprisonment for conspiracy to commit robbery and 21 years for robbery. The sentences will, however, run concurrently.

Mrs. Patricia Okpako, has said she escaped being raped by herdsmen by throwing her menstrual pad at them. This came as one man was feared killed with another battling for life at the Delta State University Teaching Hospital, DELSUTH, Oghara, following an attack by herdsmen at their cassava farm in Abraka. While Mr. Happy Akpomiemie, a father of 11, was killed, his wife, Mrs. Patience Akpomiemie, was reportedly shot on the back by the herdsmen, while trying to escape from the scene of the attack. Expressing worries that if nothing was done to stem the renewed attacks by herdsmen in the area, the member representing Ethiope East in the state House of Assembly, Mr. Evance Ivwurie, said: “I am afraid we are going to resort to self-help in defending ourselves.”

The Chairman of the APC  Governors’ Forum, Rochas Okorocha of Imo, said President Muhammadu Buhari would soon address the nation on whether he will seek re-election in 2019. Okorocha stated this when he briefed State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting between the President and the APC governors held on Thursday night at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said the president would also address the caucus of the APC on the matter. “We discussed so many issues that affect the nation, our party and Mr President’s ambition to run for 2019 elections. 

Two of the vehicles in the convoy of Governor Ibrahim Geidam of Yobe State…damaged…yesterday. Photo: The Cable The confusion trailing the attack on Government Girls Science Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe, by Boko Haram insurgents on Monday continued yesterday, as some aggrieved residents of Dapchi, headquarters of Busari Local Government Area of Yobe State, attacked Ibrahim Gaidam, Governor of the state. They not only booed the number one citizen of the state but threw stones and dangerous objects at his convoy, resulting in the destruction of some vehicles. The governor, had disclosed during a visit, yesterday that contrary to earlier reports, none of the missing girls had been rescued. The governor, who disclosed this when he visited the community, yesterday, told weeping family members of the students to keep praying that the girls be found.

Jenner convinces him to play a bigger father role as long as she sticks to his rules. Just weeks after Kylie Jenner welcomed her daughter with Travis Scott, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively the reality star struck a deal with her baby daddy in order to get him to play a bigger role in Stormi‘s life. As Radar previously reported, Scott, 25, was seriously slacking in the fatherhood department since Jenner, 20, welcomed the baby on February 1, but now the new mother has convinced her rapper beau to step up as long as she sticks to his rules — no filming and no family! “He won’t tolerate the KUWTK cameras being anywhere near him, and Kylie’s been warned to keep her mom Kris and meddling sisters far away as well,” sources reveal.

A forty-year-old farmer, Amadu Garba of Dudunni village in the Kusada Local Government Area of Katsina State, has been remanded in the prison custody in connection with the alleged murder of the chief imam in the village, Mallam Basiru Auwal. Auwal was, until his death, the Chief Imam of one of the Jumaat mosques in the village.   A Katsina Senior Magistrates’ Court, presided over by Hajiya Faleela Dikko, directed that Garba be remanded in   the prison custody till March 29,2018, when his case would come up for mention.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, Secretariat, a building said to be owned by Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi, along Sambo Road, Kaduna, demolished yesterday by the Kaduna State Government. Photo: Olu Ajayi. The lingering crisis in Kaduna State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, worsened yesterday after a building located in the heart of Kaduna city, belonging to a leader of one of the two factions, Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi, was pulled down by the state government.  Senator Hunkuyi, whose faction, last week, suspended Governor Nasir El-Rufai from the party, immediately, accused the governor of instigating the action, saying the building was used as the campaign office for Governor El-Rufai and also as the state headquarters of the APC. The senator, however, vowed that the action of the governor would not demoralise him. The Senate in a sharp reaction, condemned the move upon a motion on the issue brought by Senator Shehu Sani who on his part called on President Muhamma...

A civil society organisation, Advocate for Peoples Rights and Justice, has petitioned the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory, Sadiq Bello, over the continued detention of a graduate, Hope Nathan, his uncle, Gabriel Samuel, and his friends, Gabriel Joshua and Emmanuel Joseph. The group stated that Nathan was arrested for allegedly buying a stolen Toyota Rav4 SUV from one Ali for N800,000, adding that the car seller was detained for just 12 days and granted bail by the police, while Nathan, his uncle and friends were kept in custody for refusing to cough out N400,000 each for bail. The APRJ National Coordinator, Victor Giwa, in his petition dated February 20, 2018, threatened to organise a mass protest against the police in Abuja, if the men were not released by the force. The lawyer explained that Nathan, who was preparing for his national youth service, and others had been in the police custody since January, 2017.

Controversial Nollywood star, Tonto Dikeh, and her estranged husband, Olakunle Churchill, have put their differences aside, at least for a day, to mark their son’s second birthday on Friday. The birthday celebration took place at their son, King Andre’s school in Abuja. This move comes as surprise to fans especially since Mr. Churchill had filed a suit against his ex-wife at the family court of the Lagos State Magistrate court on January 16.

  Kabiesi, Osile Oke-ona Egba, Oba Dr Adedapo Adewale Tejuoso on his 80th birthday, flanked by his grandchildren Oba Adedapo Adewale Tejuosho, is one of the traditional rulers in Nigeria who are very deep in Christianity. He clocks 80 shortly. The first class Oba, who hosted some media chiefs in his residence ahead of the 80th birthday, explained that he takes off his crown and leaves his head bare in the public in defiance of the rituals he performed at the time he was ascending the throne, saying, it is to emulate Jesus Christ who, according to him, was not known to have worn a cap in his lifetime. The monarch also shed light on his family life among other issues. You are turning 80 but you are not really looking old. What is the secret?  I thank God for useful life; I thank God for making me relevant to him, the world and my people. In another two weeks or thereabouts, by the grace of God, I should clock 80 years. I did not think I will get this far, but the grace...

Mamudu Hassan, one of the accused persons standing trial over unlawful importation of 661 sophisticated pump action rifles into the country last December, yesterday told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, that he paid a sum of N1 million to officials of the Department of State Security, DSS, and other security agencies to smuggle the guns out of Apapa Ports. Director-General of Department of State Service, DSS, Mr Lawal Daura Mamudu, a retired Assistant Comptroller of Customs, stated this in a recorded video during his interrogation by men of the DSS. The video, recorded on March 27, 2017, between the hours of 2p.m., and 2.45p.m., was tendered by an operative of DSS, Jaiye Emmanuel at the resumed trial-within-trial, as Mamudu gave a breakdown of how the N1 million was shared among DSS and other security agencies.

A septuagenarian, Emmanuel Ajasa, was, yesterday, taken before an Ebute Meta Magistrate’s Court in Lagos for the murder of his nephew, who he allegedly stabbed to death. Ajasa, 73, is to remain behind bars, pending receipt of legal advice from the office of the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions, the magistrate, Mrs O. O. A. Fowowe-Erusiafe, ruled. The plea of the accused was not taken. Earlier, the prosecutor, Sergeant Courage Ekhueorohan, said the accused committed the offence on February 11 at 10:40p.m. at 9, Kalejaiye Street, Lowa in Ikorodu, Lagos.

A housewife seeking divorce has told the court that her husband, acting on the alleged order of a marabout, has prevented her from working. She added that her husband was insistent that she could only work after she is 70 years old. Narrating her ordeal in court, Kafayat Suara said her husband, Mutiu, persistently threatened her life. “My lord, life has not been the same with me since Mutiu came into my life due to his oppressive tendencies. “The most frustrating of his oppressive tendencies was when he forced me to stop working.

Sen. Abdullahi Adamu (APC, Nasarawa West), yesterday, said an ex-President, Olusegun Obasanjo, lacks the moral standing to ask President Muhammadu Buhari not to vie for a second term. Senator Adamu who spoke to journalists in Abuja, said as a two-time governor during the reign of Obasanjo; and now a ranking senator, he had the right to tackle the former leader. He said every government had its challenges, saying President Buhari inherited the rot left behind by previous administrations, including that of Obasanjo, and that his (Buhari’s) challenges could not be an exception.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described last Saturday’s mega rally organised by Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State in Lokoja as a colossal waste of the state’s frugal resources, alleging that the governor wasted N2 billion on the exercise, at a time it owed 22 months arrears in salaries and pensions.  Kogi State PDP Director of Research and Documentation, Achadu Dickson, in a statement yesterday, said: “Spending a whopping N2 billion tax payers’ fund to organise a rally that is of no significance to the lives and well-being of Kogi people is disheartening and a glaring show of man’s inhumanity to man.

President Muhammadu Buhari said all unclaimed stolen assets recovered will be sold off and the proceeds deposited in the national treasury. He vowed that he would not allow a repeat of what happened in the 1980s when buildings and other ill-gotten property seized by his military administration were returned to corrupt officials following his ouster as head of state. Buhari stated this yesterday in his Daura country home in Katsina State, while receiving a delegation of Daura Emirate Coalition. President Buhari revealed that some of the looters had denied ownership of the stolen assets. “Some years back, one of my school mates in the primary school, who worked at a cottage company before his demise, predicted that we will come to a situation when looters will deny their loots in Nigeria.

A Political Science lecturer with Kaduna State University (KASU), Mallam Aliyu Yero, says Nigerian youths are not yet ready to take up the mantle of leadership of the country. Yero made the assertion in an interview with Newsmen on Monday in Kaduna while reacting to the Not too young to run Bill passed by the National Assembly. According to him, Nigerian youths lack the required skills to run a political office effectively due to their poor quality education. “There is no doubt that the future of Nigeria is in the hands of the youth, but young people of today are not like that of yesterday, the literacy rate is low compared to other developed nations.

It is being said in some quarters that PDP has not shown enough confidence and direction to convince Nigerians the party is set to take over power from APC in 2019. How prepared is the party for 2019? No serious party will want to continue to remain as an opposition party. The role of any opposition party is to take over power and that is what we set our eyes on right now. And I want to thank APC for actually making our job easier and I continue to pray that APC continues to make our job easier as we move closer to elections. I do not pray Nigerians continue to suffer and that is why I believe Nigerians will make the right choice by voting out the party in power.  As to our preparations, all I can say is that we are doing all that is legally and politically doable to achieve our objectives. It would be inappropriate for me to give a hint of what we are doing or what we are planning. 

Wasiu Alabi Odetola, Nollywood actor and Fuji musician popularly known as Pasuma, says he sees himself becoming president of Nigeria to totally eradicate poverty. Pasuma, who is also called Oganla by his fans, made his predictions known in a post on his Instagram page. “I foresee myself becoming president of this great country so I will be able to erase poverty once and for all,” he wrote.

Shehu Sani Shehu Sani, senator representing Kaduna central, says blood is becoming cheaper than petrol in Nigeria. Sani said Nigeria has now become a country of “mass murder, mass burial and continuous bereavement”.  The senator said when a country is no more shocked by tragedy, it has lost its humanity. “In Nigeria today, blood is becoming cheaper than water and PMS. The most tragic of all tragedies is when tragedy become a routine in our daily lives,” he said in a statement.

Chinedu Udoji, Kano Pillars defender, has died in a road accident which occurred on Sunday night.  Udoji, who played against Enyimba FC, his former club, on Sunday, had an accident on his way home after the Nigeria Professional Football League game in Kano. Confirming the incident, Idris Malikawa, Kano Pillars’ spokesman, said “it is indeed a sad day for Nigerian football”. “Udoji took his shower after the game and told me he was going to see his former teammates at the hotel,” said Malikawa.

Former Governor of Abia State and chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Orji Kalu has expressed confidence in the ability of the National Leader of the party, Bola Tinubu, to reconcile all warring groups and individuals within the party. Kalu, who hailed the choice of Tinubu recently appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari to reconcile various interests and stakeholders, however, tasked the national leader to expedite action in the reconciliatory efforts. He decried a situation where a Minister and state governor work at cross purposes in some state chapters, saying the development does not augur well for party cohesion. Speaking with newsmen on his arrival at the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA2), Kalu said President Buhari would soon make his intention known on whether or not he would contest in 2019.

President Muhammadu Buhari has called on all citizens, particularly the elites, to be prepared to make sacrifices as a foundation for national growth and development. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity in a statement issued in Abuja, said Buhari made the appeal during a meeting with Katsina Senior Citizens in Daura, Katsina State, on Sunday. President Buhari said that in the life of a country, there were occasions when citizens must forgo personal pleasures or pay the ultimate price for the progress and unity of the nation.

Mr. Abdullahi Darma, Governor Aminu Masari’s Special Assistant on Religious Affairs, is reported to have accidentally crushed his daughter, Aisha, with his car. Abdullahi Darma and daughter, Aisha. The incident occurred at Darma’s Katsina house while he was reversing the vehicle. The governor’s aide did not know that the toddler was behind the car. “The car ran over the girl and she died on the spot,”. Darma also posted news of the tragic incident on Facebook, which elicited an outpouring of condolences from sympathisers and associates, many of who also besieged his residence to commiserate with him.

A Playboy Playmate who claims that she had a year-long affair with President Donald Trump is sharing new details about how the real estate scion used his money and power to get her in bed and then ensure her silence. Karen McDougal tells  The New Yorker  that she and President Trump met back in 2006 at a party that was hosted by Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion.

Ex-president, Olusegun Obasanjo is presently in Bayelsa state, welcome by the state governor, Seriake Dickson, he’s also expected to commission some project in the state. 

On December 18, 2013, then President Goodluck Jonathan unveiled the first ever made in Nigeria drone built by the Nigerian Air Force in Kaduna. Yesterday, President Buhari went to Kaduna to unveil the same drone and declared it the ‘first made in Nigeria drone’. Why can’t the Buhari government stop lying? Why must they be so dishonest? Jonathan unveils Nigerian-made drone That is how the same Buhari administration tried to lay claim to other infrastructure and achievements of the Jonathan government. Three of such Jonathan projects that the Buhari administration has tried to dishonestly pass of as its own projects are the Abuja-Kaduna fast railway, the Loko-Oweto bridge and road and the Lagos-Ibadan railway.

The Imo state Commissioner for Happiness, Mrs. Ogechi Ololo, has denied encouraging men in Imo State to marry more than one wife so as to reduce the number of women without marriage and into prostitution. The Commissioner had been reported appealing to men in Imo State to try to marry two or more women as a way of reducing prostitution and redundancy among Imo State women. She was said to have made the comment in Owerri on Friday, saying that the State had more women than men, a situation she was reported had forced a lot of unmarried women to commit adultery with other people’s husbands.

The Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that he will never keep his mouth shut whenever he sees things going wrong in the country. Obasanjo, however, said that when a leader in the country has vision, then that things will relatively be right because such a leader would take the right steps and make right policies especially by investing in the development of the people through education. Obasanjo made the remarks at the Ijaw National Academy, INA, Kaiama, during an interactive session with students of the institution, as one of the activities marking the celebration of the 6 years anniversary of Governor Seriake Dickson administration, also known as the ‘Restoration Government.’

It was a dramatic confrontation yesterday at the Lagos State Police Command headquarters, Ikeja Lagos between a self-confessed assassin and his sponsor who allegedly hired him to kill. At the Police Command, the hired assassin, Adeola Williams popularly known as Ade lawyer faced the former leader of the National Union of Road Transport Worker NURTW in Lagos, Alhaji Rafiu Olounwa and asked him to deny if he had not killed four persons on his orders for which he was paid N500,000 as part payment. The former union leader however described it as blackmail saying he only paid him out of fear for his life. While the self-confessed assassin, said that he was hired by the former NURTW leader, , to assassinate the incumbent union’s leader at Idumota, Azeez Adekunle Lawal , popularly known as Kunle Poly, he denied the claim, describing it as mere blackmail.

Bishop Mathew Kukah, said the problems plaguing the nation’s democracy will not disappear with the removal of President Muhammadu Buhari from office. According to him, establishing a ‘Third Force’ coalition to merely produce a replacement for President Buhari in 2019 will not fix the inefficiencies of government unless the entire political class see power as a trust given to them by the people.  Kukah said: “Since 1999, when we returned to democracy, we had prayerfully hoped that by now, we would have covered a lot of mileage but almost 20 years later, it seems to be quite a bit of tragedy. “Building a nation is like staying in marriage or pursuing any vocation in life that requires lots and lots of patience and hard work.

The police command in Ikotun, Lagos has arrested the Online Editor of Vanguard Newspaper, Mr Aliyu Adekule, newsmen report. Mr. Aliyu was taking pictures of how Okada riders were accosted by police officers in Ikotun, Lagos.

Few days after the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo advised President Muhammadu Buhari to resign after the expiration of his tenure, the National Chairman of the National Action Council (NAC), Dr. Olapade Agoro, has called on him to toe the path of honour like a former President of South Africa, Mr Jacob Zuma.  Agoro who is also a traditional ruler said unequivocally that President Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC) had failed Nigerians. The most honourable thing to do, he maintained, is for President Buhari to immediately tender his resignation letter. To him, “Buhari is a noise maker on the issue of the fight against corruption. He himself is leading a corrupt government”.

President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated the committment of his governement to take Nigeria to the next level. President Muhammadu Buhari He made this known while speaking at the induction of the Nigerian Air Force’s Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Tsaigumi, in Kaduna. The president further said that his government is committed to delivering the much-needed change that would make the difference in the nation. His words “We remain determined to overcome all challenges to our security and development as a nation.

Philomina Chieshe, a sales clerk in the office of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in Benue state, has denied saying the N36 million kept in her custody was swallowed by a snake.  Chieshe had reportedly told Ishaq Oloyode, JAMB registrar, and his team that she could not account for N36 million she made in previous years before the abolition of scratch cards. She allegedly confessed that a strange snake “spiritually” stole the money from the vault in the office.  She was subsequently suspended, while JAMB vowed to arrest and prosecute any official indicted in the case.

These images have been circulating online since Saturday. The fidelity of the outcome of last Saturday’s local government elections in Kano State is now in question, following the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to dissociate itself from incidences of underage voting, which was allegedly a prominent feature in the exercise. Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) According to Oluwole Uzzi, Director, INEC Voter Education and Publicity, “the attention of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has been drawn to videos and pictures purportedly showing some underaged thumb printing ballot papers in a recent election.

Hailemariam Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has submitted a letter of resignation, the state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate station reported on Thursday. The resignation of Hailemariam, in power since 2012, comes amid protracted anti-government protests and follows a nationwide state of emergency last year.

Dim Chukwuneye Williams who allegedly attempted to smuggle $23,000 from US into the country by concealing it inside a cake, on Thursday appeared in an Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. Williams who resides in Anambra, is standing trial on a two-count charge of attempting to procure the commission of acts and unlawful smuggle. He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

All Progressives Congress (APC) leader, Chief Bisi Akande, said his visit to President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja was not political but to commiserate with him on his bereavement. President Buhari meets with APC Leaders Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akande in State House Akande, pioneer National Chairman of the party, was at the Presidential Villa in company with another leader of the party, Sen. Bola Tinubu. The visit was the second in two weeks. Buhari’s extended family lost two senior members within a few hours. Ai’sha Mamman, wife of the president’s elder brother, died on Friday, while Halima Dauda, his niece, died on Saturday.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has confirmed that his eldest daughter, Damilola Osinbajo is set to wed the man after her heart, Oluseun Bakare.  The vice president announced the news on his instagram page. Damilola’s sister, Kiki Osinbajo, also shared the exciting news on her page; “My sister is getting married   My new brother OluSeun Bakare in the house♥♥”.

As young and highly impressionable early secondary school students we were unhappy on the morning of July 25, 1975 when we heard Colonel Joseph Garba’s broadcast announcing the overthrow of General Yakubu Gowon. The amiable and easy-going Gowon was loved by Nigerian students. Our mood however changed as General Murtala Mohammed’s regime unfolded. Nigerian students wildly loved Murtala Mohammed for his stern posture and for turning everything from corrupt domestic governance to foreign policy upside down. Early in the afternoon on Saturday, February 14, 1976 we crowded around the radio and heard a senior army officer saying, “The Supreme Military Council announces with the deepest regret the death of His Excellency the Head of the Federal Military Government, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, General Murtala Mohammed.” Everyone around burst into tears. That evening new Head of State Lt. General Obasanjo said in his broadcast, “The late Head of State was shot yesterday on ...

A 41-year-old pastor, Oluwasanjo Eniola, has asked a Grade C Customary Court, Inanlende, Ibadan, to dissolve his marriage to his wife, Basirat, over her alleged resentment to his pastoral call. Eniola, on Tuesday, urged the court to grant his prayers for dissolution of his 20-year-old marriage to Basirat to enable him to be free from his “unsupportive wife’’. The plaintiff confessed that Basirat’s resentment to his pastoral call was responsible for his extra-marital affairs which produced a child. “My lord, my wife never supported my pastoral call. Instead, she is in the habit of nagging me. ”She used to fight me over female church members but I let her realise that the women always give me advice that she never gives. ”At a time, she abandoned her matrimonial home and travelled to Lagos without my approval. ”Later, I decided to move closer to one of my female church members who gave me support.