The last has not been heard of a kidnap drama that occurred between two prominent businessmen and friend Victor Adelakun popularly known as Ade Lexus and Adebayo Orekoya who is also known as Bobby Ibadan. Global News gathered that before the brouhaha that pitched the duo against each other, they were said to be very…
A saying goes thus: sweetness aroma of a flower coerces a butterfly to perch on it. This adage attests to the hot romantic relationship between the senate president and 16-year-serving senator, David Mark. The Otukpo, Benue-born former military administrator is currently frolicking with the daughter of one of Nigeria’s most respected billionaires and lover of…
It is not a surprise that the recently concluded presidential election in Nigeria was won due to the spending ability of each political party. Prior to the election, it seems that Nigeria had adopted the two party system due to the fact that the APC and PDP were the only two parties that keenly contested…
An average Nigerian knows that former President Olusegun Obasanjo is a no-nonsense ex-soldier. No one dares look straight into his eyeballs and no dog would ever plan to cross into his den. But one man stood out. He looked straight into Obasanjo’s eyeballs and even crossed into his den and survived. That man is of…
After weeks of consultation and character evaluation, President-elect General Muhammadu Buhari has finally short-listed 18 persons across Nigeria’s six geo-political zones, who will make up his transition committee ahead of the May 29 handover date. In a related development, President Goodluck Jonathan and Buhari met on Friday for the second time this month behind closed…
Senior lawyer and activist, Femi Falana, on Wednesday berated lawmakers for threatening to veto President Goodluck Jonathan over his decision to withdraw assent to the constitutional amendment they sent to him. The president, last week, wrote to the National Assembly informing it of his decision to decline assent to the amendment bill, based on the…
Gunmen on Tuesday killed a local campaign coordinator of the Kaduna State Governor-elect, Malam Nasir El-Rufai. El-Rufai’s spokesperson, Samuel Aruwan, disclosed in a statement made available to newsmen in Kaduna. According to Aruwan, the gunmen trailed Markus Ishaya to his village, Atuku Kasa, Atuku Ward of Jema’a Local Government Area of the state and shot…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday sacked the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba, less that nine months after his appointment on July 31, 2014. The President has named a Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, as the acting IGP. Abba, who was the AIG Zone 7 before his appointment as the IG, succeeded Mohammed…
AFTER the euphoria of their electoral victories, one of the major challenges that will confront the President-elect, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), and 20 or 21 new governors is the level of debt stock the out-going administrations will leave behind. According to the Debt Management Office, DMO, the Federal Government has a stock of $6.445 billion…
