Inside Nigeria, Villa is one micro state where the 8th wonder of the world has happened.The gunshot, exit orders within the first family, theft, power tussle are astonishments Hollywood is yet to thrill us with. No residential space in Nigeria explains how dramatic Nigeria is better than the State House, the magnificent structure that harbours…
After 13 years in exile, the Federal Government of Nigeria under President Shehu Aliyu Usman Shagari granted an official pardon to Ojukwu and opened the road for a triumphant return in 1982. Ojukwu could speak Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, English, French, and Latin fluently. Interestingly, during the civil war, he always slept with his boots on.
At the Battle of Oṣogbo in 1840, the Ibadan Army defeated the Fulani, slaughtered them all the way to Offa, near Ilorin, present-day Kwara State, and captured their horses which they eventually used as food.
In 1999, the Sixth Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Alhaji Ibrahim Salisu Buhari was convicted for forgery and perjury by an Abuja magistrate court after confessing to lying under oath. He had lied about his age (he was 29 but claimed 36) and presented fake certificates, allegedly obtained from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria…
Nigeria has dropped to 149 on Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perception Index, the worst ranking received by Africa’s largest country in recent time. Nigeria also scored 25 out of a possible 100 points. In the last TI rating in 2019, Nigeria was ranked 146th out of the 180 countries surveyed, scoring 26 points out of a possible…
Human Rights Lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointment of new Service Chiefs following the resignation of the former officers.In a statement personally signed by him on Wednesday, Mr Falana quoted a 2013 judgment which described the appointments of Service Chiefs without the concurrence of the National Assembly as illegal and…
Nigerian youth have been charged to make hardwork and integrity their watchword, while abhorring all manner corruption. These were the key message of Olamide Sadiq, Head, Advance Fee Fraud (AFF) Section of the Ilorin Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, January 27, 2021 while addressing the 2020 Batch B stream…
Nigerian youth have been charged to make hardwork and integrity their watchword, while abhorring all manner corruption. These were the key message of Olamide Sadiq, Head, Advance Fee Fraud (AFF) Section of the Ilorin Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, January 27, 2021 while addressing the 2020 Batch B stream…
“I have been torn apart by many people criticizing the new tariff, saying I used my connection to get it done but this is in the interest of Nigeria. “However, it is now a law and we are only waiting for the finance minister to give us a formal conveyance of that Act. “Once it…