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In a book scheduled to be launched on Friday April 28th, former spokesperson of late President Musa Yar'Adua and Chairman of Thisday editorial board, Segun Adeniyi, revealed that Former President Goodluck Jonathan was unhappy with the manner former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega, went about conducting the 2015 general election which he lost in to President Buhari. Part of the book quotes Jonathan to have said; “I was disappointed by Jega because I still cannot understand what was propelling him to act the way he did in the weeks preceding the election. As at the first week in February 2015 when about 40 percent of Nigerians had not collected their PVCs, Jega said INEC was ready to conduct an election in which millions of people would be disenfranchised.” Jonathan is also quoted to have accused that Americans were urging Jega to go on with the elections despite the fact that some Nigerians had not collected thei...

A man in Ogoni, Rivers state was publicly humiliated for attacking a woman because she was wearing a Biafran cap. According to the lady's statement, she had been walking along the road when the man accosted her and slapped her then demanded she takes the cap off. Unfortunately for the man, the woman refused to be bullied and he got a taste of his medicine. In the video, which is fast going viral, the woman can be seen explaining to a crowd what had transpired. She said that after the man slapped her, demanding she got rid of the cap, she slapped him back and he attacked her. He broke her phone, her watch and inflicted injuries on her with a screwdriver. When the man was asked what transpired, he admitted he owns the screwdriver but denied that he was the one responsible for the woman's injuries. He claimed he only approached her "like a man". His story did not seem convincing and he was manhandled by the crowd. See the video below. ...

The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu has been granted bail by the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Nnamdi Kanu was granted bail on health ground. The IPOB leader is also expected to provide three sureties one of who must be a serving senator, a jewish religious leader and highly respected person and must own a land in anywhere in Abuja The bail bond is N100 million for each surety. He was also ordered never to grant any press interview pending the outcome of his trial He will not be in a gathering of more than 10 persons The judge on the matter Justice Binta Nyako said Kanu's bail will be revoked if any of the orders are flouted. However, the other accused persons were denied bail. According to the judge, treasonable felony - the charges against them is a serious offence against the state. Also, the judge refused the application by Kanu to vary her previous order on protecting wi...

​Ekiti State Governor​, Ayo ​Fayose​, is in ​c​ourt in solidarity with IPOB Leader, Nnamdi K​anu,​ whose ​hearing ​is set to com​mence​ before Justice Nyako. The governor is now seated at the Federal High Court 4, Abuja. ​The court had on April 6 fixed ​today to deliver ruling in the application for variation of the order of court on protection of witnesses in the case against Kanu. Kanu, through his defence counsels led by Ifeanyi Ejiofor, asked the court to set aside the order made on December 13, 2016 for the protection of witnesses. Kanu’s lawyers argued that having been acquitted of the charges of terrorism and importation of weapons, the defendants cannot be tried with the identities of witnesses based on section 36(6) of the 1999 Constitution. However, counsel to the Federal Government, Suleiman Labaran in a counter affidavit urged the court to dismiss the application as a ploy to delay the trial. Recall that Kanu was charged along...

Nnamdi Kanu granted bail with strict conditions. Three sureties with N100m bailbond. Can't be in the gathering of more than 10pple Details later

The trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki, earlier postponed from April 18 to April 25 has again been shifted till the 27th of this month. Mr. Saraki is facing trial on an 18-count charge for alleged false declaration of asset at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT. The trial which began in September 2015 has in recent times suffered setbacks mostly at the instance of the prosecution. Shortly before the previously adjourned date of April 18, the Code of Conduct Tribunal issued a statement saying that the matter was postponed following a request by the prosecution. When PREMIUM TIMES correspondent arrived the venue on Tuesday, an official again briefed about a further adjournment based on a request by the prosecution. Speaking with PREMIUM TIMES, the CCT ‘s head of media relations, Ibrahim Alhassan, said the prosecution counsel, Rotimi Jacobs, demanded the adjournment saying that he was indisposed. “The first time, he said it is his fo...

A fatal accident that occured over the weekend on the Ikot-Ekpene-Aba Expressway in Aba, Abia state, led to the death of many and several others injured. The accident, which involved a truck, a couple of tricylces, a commercial bus and a private owned car, was reportedly caused by the truck. According to witnesses, the truck, heavily loaded with chippings, was speeding as it descended the Ogbor Hill Bridge, when it lost control and crashed into several vehicles and pedestrians. The bus and tricycles popularly called Keke Napep were loading passengers when the truch hit them, sending them through the rail of the bridge, and into the water below.  The Nation reports that the truck driver and his conductor escaped the scene of the accident. Witnesses also disclosed that about 20 people were affected by the accidents with at least 10 dead.  “The man was coming down the bridge with speed and in the process, lost control of his vehicle. The bus and some keke were loa...

Dino performed his now famous hit track, Ajekun Iya, at a party recently. Watch the video 

Yesterday, former president Barack Obama made his first public appearance since leaving office when he hosted a discussion at the University of Chicago with students from across the city. At the event, he said the work he did in Chicago as a community organizer laid the groundwork for his life in politics. Reed the full text below... Thank you. Hey! Thank you. Everybody have a seat. Have a seat. So what's been going on while I've been gone?  It is wonderful to be home. It is wonderful to be at the University of Chicago. It is wonderful to be on the south side of Chicago. And it is wonderful to be with these young people here. And what I want to do is just maybe speak very briefly at the top about why we're here and then I want to spend most of the time that we're together hearing from these remarkable young people who are I think representative of some amazing young people who are in the audience as well. I was telling these guys that it was a little ove...

Ogun State Governor, Governor Ibikunle Amosun, on Monday, rescued Ms Idia Babalola, an aide of Governor Rauf Aregbesola and Commissioner nominee in Osun State from an angry mob at the premises of the late Senator Isiaka Adeleke. The crowd of sympathisers became restless when Babalola, a former Special Adviser to Governor Aregbesola, came in for the Islamic prayers ahead of the internment of the two-time Senator and first elected governor of Osun State. Angry sympathisers demanded that Babalola be made to leave the premises. When pleas from dignitaries at the event, including Ondo State Governor, Mr.Rotimi Akeredolu, failed to persuade the angry crowd, Governor Amosun had to join some other dignitaries in personally shielding the lady and leading her out of the premises. After that, the Ogun State governor joined other Muslim faithful to observe the final prayers before the Interment of late Senator Adeleke. Senator Adeleke died on Sunday and was bu...

Two accidents on Oshodi-Apapa Expressway Sunday led to the death of a driver while several were injured, one of whom is presently in a coma. The first crash which occurred at Ibalex Bus Stop, Ilasmaja between the early hours of 4 and 5 a.m. was as a result of a collision between a gravel-laden truck and a trailer carrying oil, while the second accident was between a Volkswagen commercial bus and a truck at the exact same spot. In the first accident, 4 people were injured when the truck conveying gravel hit the trailer loaded with oil. The trailer was marked KY153YTK; there were no numbers on the truck. The truck driver and motor-boys were said to have been trapped inside the vehicle for over 30 minutes before they were rescued and the injured were conveyed to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, by the Lagos State Ambulance Service (LASAMBUS). The truck driver was unconscious at the time they were taken to the hospital. There is ...

The Presidency has recalled the State House correspondent of Punch newspaper, Olalekan Adetayo, who was expelled from the villa by President Buhari's Chief Security Officer CSO, Bashir Abubakar over a report he wrote on President Buhari's failing health which was published last Sunday Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, who reacted to the news via his twitter handle, said the President's media office was not consulted before Adetayo was expelled. According to Adesina, President Buhari believes in Freedom of Speech and would not support press suppression. Bashir Ahmad who is President Buhari's Personal Assistant on New Media, announced the recall of Adetayo on twitter.

Michael Jackson’s son Prince over the weekend showed off the permanent tattoo he did to honor his late father. He got a new tattoo of his father on his leg. He was spotted going to get sushi in Calabasas sporting his new ink...

The cause of senator Isiaka Adeleke's death has been made public. According to pathologists who carried out an autopsy on him before he was buried, the senator reportedly died of overdose of painkillers.   The lifeless body of Adeleke was returned to LAUTECH Hospital, Osogbo, for an autopsy after his sudden death at the hospital  on Sunday .  Reports that followed his death was that he had died of cardiac arrest, but the indigenes of his home town, Ede, insisted that they wanted to know the cause of his death on the assumption that his death was not natural.   According to Sahara Reporters, the politician did not die of poisoning but as a result of an overdose of painkillers intravenously administered on him.

Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina has reacted to the dismissal of a Punch reporter from Aso Rock by President Buhari's Chief Security Officer, Bashir Abubakar, today April 24th. Bashir seized Adetayo's tag and ordered him out of Aso Rock over a report he wrote which was published on the Sunday edition of the paper. The report centered on President Buhari's ill health. Adetayo was escorted out of the Presidential Villa by security operatives after picking his belongings from the Press Gallery of the Council Chamber. Reacting to the news, Femi via his twitter handle, said the media office of the Presidency was not contacted before the reporter was expelled. He added that President Buhari was committed to press freedom.