Personal Stories From The Life of a Writer

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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has condemned the brutal killing of Harira Jubril, the pregnant woman who was killed by unknown gunmen alongside her four children in Anambra State. How gunmen murdered the woman and her kids at the Isulo, Orumba North Local Government Area of the state CAN in…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesSome students of Paul University, Awka (PUA), Anambra State, have expressed worries about the incessant strikes embarked upon by the lecturers of the institution. The private Christian university was founded in 2009 by Bishops of the five ecclesiastical provinces of the Anglican Church East of the Niger to provide undergraduate training…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesPeter Obi, former governor of Anambra State and erstwhile presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP has formally joined the Labour Party (LP) to contest the 2023 presidential election. Obi registered as a member of the party on Friday in his ward in Anambra State He is…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The Indigenous People of Biafra has denied any involvement in the killing of a pregnant woman and her four children in Anambra State says terrorists may have followed the family from the Northern Nigeria The outlawed group which was accused of being behind the killing and other criminal activities going…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesA man has died in a petrol tanker accident that occurred on the Otedola Bridge axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, the Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), confirmed this in a statement on Friday. He, however, did not state when the accident occurred, although…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesEnyinnaya Abaribe, the Minority leader of the Senate has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He made his decision known in a letter to the Ward Chairman of the PDP in his ward, Ward 5, Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State. In the letter dated May 24, 2022, the…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesA Federal High Court in Abuja has denied to admit a former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, to bail pending the determination of a suit he instituted against the Federal Government. Justice Inyang Ekwo declined the request by the former governor to compel the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from recognizing or accepting ad hoc delegates produced by Gov. Godwin Obaseki’s faction of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo. Justice Inyang Ekwo made the order whole delivering judgment in a suit instituted by 581 delegates…
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Edo State Children’s Parliament, most of whose members are EdoBEST pupils, on Thursday advocated greater protection for the rights of children as the nation celebrates 2022 Children’s Day. Deputy Speaker of the parliament, Nitta Beatrice Agbonze made the call in Benin when she led other parliamentarians on a courtesy…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Emah, A 52-year-old father of five has been sentenced to death by hanging for killing his pregnant wife, whom he accused of infidelity. The suspect from Mbiabam in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area was on Friday May 27, found guilty of killing his wife on the 12th of February 2018, while she was…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal filed by Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi seeking to stop his probe over an alleged N96 billion fraud. In a lead judgment prepared by Justice Emmanuel Augie but read by Justice Adamu Jairo, the apex court dismissed the appeal of Mr Ameachi on grounds…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesSenator Aishatu Binani has emerged as the winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Adamawa State. She beat five other contenders, all men, to clinch the ticket. Senator Binani defeated two heavyweights, former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) boss, Nuhu Ribadu and former Governor Umaru Jubrilla Bindo,…