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2face Idibia   has just been awarded the chieftaincy title  ‘Tafidan Kudendan of Kudendan’  meaning ‘Ambassador of Peace’ by His Royal Highness Galadima of Kudendan Chiefdom for his role in the Vote Not Fight campaign. He was joined at the ceremony by his lovely wife  Annie Idibia  and Chocolate City boss,  M.I .

   Today Tuesday, Nov. 24, Evan Edwards, 20 (right), was jailed for 13 years at the Old Bailey after admitting to the manslaughter of 22-year-old Babafemi Junaid (Left), Metropolitan Police UK states. Babatunde was stabbed on February 7, 2014 and later died in hospital. A post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as a single stab wound to the heart. Babafemi became the inadvertent focus of an attack by a group after a disturbance on a 155 bus spilled out onto the street. e was not on the bus but was waiting at the bus stop when the disturbance spilled out onto the pavement at Stockwell station. As he attempted to get away from the fracas when he was targeted, chased and attacked by the group. During the attack one of the attackers was witnessed waving a knife, when Babafemi fell to the ground. He managed to run to his car which was a short distance away but, as a result of his injuries, crashed his car into the back of a bus soon after. The same group that initially atta

In the aftermath of the sudden death of projected winner of the Kogi State governorship election,  Abubakar Audu,  the   Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)   has announced that it will conduct a supplementary election in the state on Saturday, December 5th. The news was revealed via a public notice which hit the Internet today:

The Forbes magazine, in its annual ranking of ‘The World’s Most Powerful People’, has listed the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, as the most powerful ahead of Germany’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and United States President, Barack Obama. Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, is also listed among other world leaders. Observers view Putin’s ranking could be traceable to Russia’s capacity to check the US threat to attack Syria. The Russian President has been so ranked by the magazine for the third year in a row. “Putin continues to prove he’s one of the few men in the world powerful enough to do what he wants,” Forbes noted. Merkel, earlier ranked as the most powerful woman in the world by Forbes, rose from the fifth position in the overall ranking last year to second place in 2015. Her firm bearing in tackling the influx of Syrian refugees and the Greek economic crisis pushed her to the new level. The list has 73 people who are presidents, financiers, philanthropists and entrepreneu

  The All Progressives Congress has assured Nigerians that it will not renege on its campaign promise to pay 5,000 Naira each monthly to 25 million most vulnerable Nigerians, while calling on the citizens to ignore the mischievous attempt by the PDP to confuse and mislead them on this issue. In a statement issued in Abuja on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary , Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said even though the PDP-led Federal Government plundered the common wealth in its time, it (APC) has devised creative means not only to pay the money but also to fulfill its other campaign promises to Nigerians. It said the non-implementation of the payment policy so far is due to the fact that it was not included in the 2015 budget, which was prepared by the PDP-led Jonathan Administration, and also because of the need to first block all financial leakages. ”Now, the Buhari administration has been busy putting into place measures that will make it possible to start

After a successfully screening by the Nigerian Senate at the National Assembly in Abuja, barring any “last minute” glitches, former Governor of Rivers State  Rotimi Amaechi  is set to be appointed as a Minister.

The Nigerian Senate has postponed further screening of ministerial nominees to Tuesday, October 27, when it resumes for plenary. This came as the Senate finally screened former Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers); former Speaker, Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Heineken Lopkobiri (Bayelsa); Claudius Omoyele Daramola (Ondo); Baba Shehun Mustapha (Bornu) and Ocholi Enojo James (Kogi). The screening of former Vice Chancellor, University of Ibadan, Prof. Isaac Adewole, a ministerial nominee from Osun State, earlier billed to be screened today, has been deferred to next week.

Lagos – Some politicians in the Lagos area on Thursday expressed mixed reactions to the ongoing screening of ministerial nominees by the Senate. While some praised the exercise as impressive, a few others noted that there was room for improvements. Some others noted that if portfolios had been attached to the names of the nominees; it could have provided better impetus for the type of questions being posed to the nominees by the senators. According to them, it will provide better insights into how they will perform on the job as ministers. However, it was a general consensus among some Nigerians that so far, the exercise had been well-received. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Senate has since screened an appreciable number of the nominees since the first batch numbering 21 were sent in by President Muhammadu Buhari on Sept. 30.