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Thursday, 30 April 2015

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US First Lady Michelle Obama looked gorgeous in a blue dress by Japanese designer Tadashi Shoji at the White House State dinner held yesterday in honour of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzō Abe Photo credit: Getty/AP ...
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Read the State House press release below : President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointment of Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Ado Bayero as the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). Alhaji Sanusi, a lawyer, from Kano State takes over from Mallam Habib Abdullahi (pictured...
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President-elect Gen. Buhari says he never gave the directive to anyone to bar AIT from covering his activities. In a statement released this evening and signed by the Director of Publicity for the Buhari Campaign Organisation, Garba Shehu, Gen Buhari said this is the era of change and that he...
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 Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar paid a courtesy visit to the president elect, Gen Buhari today.  ...
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In order to prevent current fuel scarcity, The Federal Government, yesterday, said it would pay MOWAN N156 billion, out of the about N256.2 billion the marketers claim is owed to them in subsidy claims. Minister of Finance, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala made this statement at the World...
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Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, yesterday withdrew the suit against the 19 All Progressives Congress (APC) members of the state House of Assembly from impeaching him and his Deputy, Kolapo Olusola. In the suit, the plaintiffs, including speaker of the House of As­sembly which is oc­cupied...
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Members of the Chibok com­munity in Borno State have not yet seen any of their 219 schoolgirls abducted over a year ago by Boko Haram insurgents in the Northeast of the much beleaguered State. However, they insist that they have high hopes that their missing daughters would soon walk...
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A Federal high court sitting in Benin city, Edo state convicted Michael Igbinedion, the younger brother of former Edo state governor, Lucky Igbinedion and one Charles Eboigbodin over a N25bn money laundering scam yesterday April 29th. The duo and their firms: Gava Corporation Limited;...
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The Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka has sacked the Director of finance of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mr Tochukwu Bede Uchendu, over allegations of irregularities associated with his appointment into office as well as granting unapproved waivers worth N1 billion. Mr...
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The Nigerian military has moved the 293 females they rescued two days ago from Sambisa Forest to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital where they are to undergo series of test including HIV and pregnancy test. According to a military source who spoke to Punch, 7 of the girls rescued...
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Lol. This one affects me o. From $150k a year to $50k year - that's all you can spend now when you travel abroad. Dr Peregrino Brimah of Ends.ng says it's not right. Read his article below... .. Dear fellow Nigerian masses, In response to the spate of governing cabal looting billions...
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According to AFP, the Nigerian Army says it has rescued about 160 more hostages from Sambisa Forest. "We are still trying to compute the actual number of those rescued. But tentatively there are about 60 women of various ages and around 100 children," Army spokesman Sani Usman told...
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11 year old Marvelous Adekunle is missing! According to his family, he left his home at Matanmi Street Onipanu, Lagos at about 6:30am yesterday morning 29th April and never returned. Please if you see him, kindly call any of these numbers 08058568894, 08029886720,07086339434 or report to the...
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Comedian, Talk Show host and TV producer Teju Babyface's wife, Tobi Oyelakin, was on her way to the mainland at about 8pm last night when her car was attacked by hoodlums on Eko Bridge. She was in the car with her driver and 3 other girls in the back seat and were approaching the National Theater...
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South African women married to Nigerian men have narrated the discrimination they face for marrying men outside their country. Seeing the disaffection their kinsmen show them after finding love in the hands of Nigerian men, the women decided to form an association, the United Nigerian Wives...

Sunday, 26 April 2015

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  Ekemini Ekwere | Staff Writer at The Trent - 52 minutes ago   The Asari-Dokubos have been quite active on Facebook lately. Just yesterday, Mrs. Asari Dokubo shared some photos of herself on her Facebook page. Today, April 26, 2015, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, first ever    President of the Ijaw Youth Council and founder of he Niger Delta People’s Volunteer...
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Femi Aribisala at The Trent - 49 minutes ago   If you have been following the debate during the just-concluded elections, then I don’t need to tell you my preferred candidate was President Goodluck Jonathan and not General Buhari. I wrote quite a number of articles warning Nigerians about the candidature of General Buhari in particular and the APC in general.  Now that the elections...
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Despite several pleas, the Indonesian government has insisted that the 9 men accused & convicted of drug trafficking will all be executed. The date for the execution is April 29 and the Government has enlisted the local funeral director in Cilacap, the nearest port to Nusakambangan,...
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Oyo state governor, Abiola Ajimobi pictured with his wife Florence, their daughters, son-in law and Grandson at Mrs Ajimobi's birthday thanksgiving recently. ...
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    A mutilated man was just thrown from a car on 3rd Mainland Bridge this evening. A driver who witnessed it took a photo and it's horrific. See the photo after the cut *viewer discretion advised* ...
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President-elect Gen. Buhari has signified interest to probe the alleged missing $20 billion from the coffers of the NNPC. Speaking with APC members from Adamawa state at the APC National headquarters in Abuja today April 26th, Gen Buhari queried the dismissal of Former CBN governor now Emir of...
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Seven persons including a taxi driver and his passengers died this afternoon after an uncompleted pedestrian bridge at Dorayi quarters in Kano state collapsed on them at about 4.45pm today April 26th. According to reports, construction workers had warned the taxi driver and pedestrians not to...
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Now I'm beginning to suspect these two. Y'all think maybe they're back together? They were married for years and divorced a few years ago...but they have been sharing some really cozy pics on social media lately. If they got back together, would that not be absolutely fabulous? ...
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One of the wives of the Alaafin of Oyo, Ayaba Kafayat Adeyemi, turned 60 years old and a huge party was thrown for her at the Alaafin's palace today which was attended by the Alaafin himself, his other wives and family and friends. ...
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Here are the photos and profiles of the 4 Nigerians who are to be executed in Indonesia for drug trafficking.   Martin Anderson: 50 year old Martin Anderson (above) was arrested in Jakarta in 2003 on a charge of possessing about 1.8 ounces of heroin and was accused of being part...
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The Ex-Niger Delta Militant shared photos of himself with all of his kids - That would be 12 of them. But I doubt it's from same woman. He shared his lovely family photos on his Facebook page.  Meanwhile, responding to one of his followers on Facebook,...