Sometimes, to get to the top may be easy, but to stay up there may not be palatable. Here in Nigeria and some other African countries, those who find themselves at the top either by accident or by their dint of hard work usually find it very difficult to hold on firmly to their positions…
In the Nigeria’s society circle, one woman who has passion and knack for fashion and accessories is the Redeemed Christian Church of God, City of David, Victoria Island, Lagos pastor’s wife, Siju Iluyomade; but today the woman of God has added decorated her cap with another feather – she is fast turning herself into a…
Apart from being the governor of a mega city like Lagos, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode is fast adding another sobriquet to his name. The new name many are calling him at his back is “hire and fire governor” with the way he has sacked and appointed so many people especially those who worked with his predecessor…
The current fuel scarcity across Nigeria is due largely to the entrenched corruption at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, reliable sources familiar with the operations of the state-owned oil company have told PREMIUM TIMES. The NNPC had said the resurgent queues in filling stations were due to panic buying and claimed it had 1.4 billion…
It was a Friday evening at the international wing of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) and 20 lucky customers of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc were eagerly waiting for their flight. These were the people who received their Western Union and MoneyGram transfer at UBA during the UBA Remittance Awoof Promo. Their destination…
THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the move by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to replace its candidate for the inconclusive Kogi State gubernatorial election even before the process starts. The opposition party also accused the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mallam Abubakar Malami and the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission…
A 28-year-old burglary suspect, Olamilekan Olaoluwa, has been arrested by policemen from the Iponri division after breaking into a house in the Ebute-Meta area of Lagos State. The Kwara State indigene was said to have broken into a two-bedroomed flat on Brickfield Road on Sunday around 2pm, while the occupant was away. Olaoluwa, a secondary…
Popular socialite,Lekan Olofinjana popularly known as Lekan Lokoso is out of prison.He was jailed in United States of America twenty years ago for drugs related offenses. According to a reliable source,who disclosed that Lekan who was jailed in 2003 regained his freedom on the 30th of October and he is currently with the American immigration…
LAWYERS across the country, yesterday, continued to proffer suggestions on how the country could wriggle out of the constitutional logjam occasioned by the death of Prince Abubakar Audu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Kogi State. Audu before his death was leading in the governorship election held on Saturday with over 40,000 votes…
Leader of the dreaded gang of bank robbers which had been terrorising commercial banks in Lagos and Ogun states in military uniforms has disclosed that his gang never intended to kill nine officials of the Department of State Service, DSS, who went missing last September. The suspect, identified as Kelly Fotor, an Ijaw native of…
