Personal Stories From The Life of a Writer

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Reading Time: 2 minutesSenator Ademola Adeleke has been affirmed as the authentic candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the July 16 governorship election in Osun State by The Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo Justice Nathaniel Emmanuel made the declaration on Wednesday while delivering a ruling in a suit filed by a…
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteBukola Saraki, Former Senate President and a presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party has promised to end the present state of insecurity in the country if elected as Nigeria’s President in 2023. Bukola Saraki, stated this while responding to questions from journalists shortly after meeting with delegates and other…
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne person has been reportedly killed during a protest by some members of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State. The male victim, also a protester, was found lying face-down in front of the state party’s secretariat on Woji road in the new Government Residential Area of Port Harcourt after…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Wednesday banned commercial motorcycles, also known as Okada, from operating in six local government areas of the state. He announced the ban during a meeting with police chiefs in the state, saying it is “total and indefinite”. The affected local councils are…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesInter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has bemoaned the killing of Miss Deborah Samuel Yakubu last Thursday, 12th of May, 2022 at the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, saying that it came to Council as a jolting and troubling piece of news. In a statement signed by the national chairman, Engr…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Federal High Court sitting in Abuja by Justice Binta Nyako has denied the bail application of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Ruling on the bail application, Justice Binta Nyako, said the issue of Kanu’s absence in the past, since 2017, should be determined, before…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes, Amina Mohammed, has narrated her ordeal in the camp of the terrorists in Sambisa Forest, Borno State, citing the terrorists’ addiction to drugs and how they have “sex like horses.” Amina and her husband – a fighter – with some members of the Boko Haram group lived under small, unnoticed…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesOgechi Njaka popular Facebook influencer and blogger, has sued the Nigeria Police Force, Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Interpol, Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and one Maryam Shehu Ifa for allegedly violating her fundamental human rights. She also accused the defendants of publishing and declaring her wanted vide a…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesAlhaji Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President and presidential aspirant on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), has said he was robbed of his mandate by the All Progressive Congress (APC), noting that he won the 2019 Presidential election. He accused the APC of using the power of incumbency and…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People has alleged that the Federal Ministry of Environment’s Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) looted up to $200million (N83 billion) meant for the clean-up of the environment. The Ogoni group urged President Muhammadu Buhari to order a thorough investigation into the finances of…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesNyesom Wike, the Rivers State Governor, has criticised the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) for failing to act as President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime “becomes more notorious” for abusing the rule of law. In a statement by his media aide, Kelvin Ebiri, the governor expressed regrets at the NBA’s approach to national issues…
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteNot less than 30 passengers have been abducted by terrorists along the Abuja-Kaduna highway. An unspecified number of persons were said to have been shot during the attack. The attack came barely two months after bandits derailed a Kaduna-bound train, killing scores and kidnapping several persons including pregnant women,…