The remains of the former Nigerian lawmaker, Buruji Kashamu, who died of Coronavirus complications on Saturday in Lagos, has been laid to rest in his home town, Ijebu Igbo, on Sunday. The 62-year-old politician and businessman reportedly slipped into coma at the First Cardiology Consultants in Ikoyi, Lagos, before he finally succumbed to the disease on Saturday ..read more

  Big Brother Naija House has evicted the Eric and Tochi in the latest eviction process after being put up for possible eviction alongside 14 other housemates of the reality show.   Recall that Lilo and Ka3na were evicted from the house on the second week of the reality show.   Eric and Tochi were evicted after gathering the lowest votes in the third week of the reality show alongside Trickytee and Kaisha, and after Big Brother handed the decision of eviction to the housemates who were not among the four with the lowest votes.  ..read more

  Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu has said that there is a well-orchestrated plan to assassinate high-profile personalities in the state.  President Muhammadu Buhari needs to charge security agencies to “do their work because Edo will not be a theatre of war if these things are dealt with.” the Deputy Governor said speaking at a press conference in Benin city   He said;   “We have intelligence that some individuals are in Edo state and their assignment is to come and assassinate some known individuals in the state. “So I am hereby bringing to the notice of the ..read more

  RevolutionNow co- convener, Olawale Bakare widely known as Mandate, has been released by the Department of State Services. We earlier reported that Bakare was arrested in Osogbo, Osun State, on Wednesday during RevolutionNow protest that saw several members of the group taking to the streets in different parts of the country to demand better governance from the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. He was previously arrested alongside Omoyele sowore by the DSS during the maiden edition of the RevolutionNow protest on August 5, 2019 and kept in unlawful detention until De ..read more

  A newborn baby was found in a soakaway located on Oyo Avenue, Olorin community in Adiyan, Ogun state on Saturday, August 8. The cries of the baby attracted children playing around the community, mistaking the baby’s cries for a cock crowing, the children hurried to inform a woman that a cock had fallen into the soakaway pit but when the woman investigated, she discovered it was the cry of a baby so she alerted people.  As efforts were being made to rescue the baby boy, the incident was reported at the Agbado Police Station and a team visited the scene.   A welder helped c ..read more

  Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has finally met Nigerian internet sensation, Oreofeoluwa Lawal-Babalola, popularly known as "mummy calm down".   When a video of Oreofeoluwa begging his mom not to flog him went viral, the Lagos State Governor expressed his admiration for the boy and indicated interest in meeting him.   The governor finally met the 4-year-old boy and his family at his office on Saturday, August 8, 2020.   See photos below ..read more

  Former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo has written a condolence letter to the governor of Ogun state, Dapo Abiodun, over the death of Senator Buruji Kashamu. In the letter dated Saturday, August 8, the former president described Kashamu's death an "irreparable loss" Obasanjo wants people who are still living to take a lesson from the life and history of the deceased senator. He said, even though, Buruji in his lifetime could evade facing justice both in Nigeria and outside Nigeria,he could not stop the cold hand of death when the Creator of all of us decides that the time is up ..read more

  Senator Buruji Kashamu, former lawmaker representing Ogun-East Senatorial District is dead. The former senator has been on a life support machine for weeks at First Cardiology Hospital, Ikoyi, Lagos after slipping into a coma following Coronavirus complications. Senator Kashamu has joined the growing list of high profile Nigerians, who died as a result of covid ’19 complications at First Cardiology Hospital. The hospital has become first choice for wealthy Nigerians and politicians seeking cardiovascular treatment, next only to travelling abroad .It had handled a handful of Coronavirus ..read more

  The Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Prof. Kemebradikumo Daniel Pondei, has listed some contracts the commission allegedly paid for under duress before its 2019 annual budget was approved.    Pondei claimed that some lawmakers, particularly members of adhoc Committees have held the Commission hostage over the years with the annual budget approval, also disclosed that they were arm-twisted to pay for some contracts that “were never done or sometimes, never completed.”   In a statement released by his Special A ..read more

  The Bauchi State Government has come out to cleared the air on the recent appointment of Special Assistant on Women Affairs (Unmarried) to Governor, the person of Balaraba Ibrahim. Senior Special Assistant to Bauchi State Governor on Media, Mukhtar Gidado, said in a statement that the word “unmarried” was an error inadvertently introduced into the letter He said, “Anyone who is familiar with the socio-cultural and economic environment of Bauchi State will agree that widows and divorcees, in many cases for no cause of theirs, constitute a very significant segment of the vulnerable popula ..read more