The sinking houses of Lagos island

Residents cry for help as estate sinks below sea level Neighbourhood taken over by drug addicts LASURA courts private investors, adopts N288 billion high-rise building technology Bintu Rahman dreads thunderstorms. The early drizzle pounds fear through her roof into her fragile frame. When it pours, the 86-year-old feels a rare chill to the bones; rivulets […]

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After Chukwu, Otedola takes over Sadiq Daba’s medical expenses

Billionaire businessman, Mr Femi Otedola, has promised to take care of the medical expenses of ailing Nollywood actor, Sadiq Daba. In a statement on Sunday, Otedola said he was sad to hear that the veteran actor had fallen ill again. In 2017, Daba, who had been battling leukemia and prostate cancer for the past few […]

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Alaafin warns Buhari of looming anarchy

For the second time in five days, another foremost Yoruba traditional ruler, the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi has again expressed worries over the state of insecurity in Yorubaland. This time around, the royal father wrote a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari warning him about what he perceived as looming anarchy in the […]

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Fasoranti’s slain daughter buried

By Banji Ayoola The slain daughter of Afenifere national leader Pa Reuben Fasoranti, Mrs Olufunke Asabi Olakunri was buried on Monday in Akure the Ondo State capital amid calls by former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Akure Anglican Bishop, Revd Simeon Borokini on the Federal Government to urgently find solution to the worsening security challenges […]

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Fasoranti’s daughter: Season of tears, lies and denials

By Ladesope Ladelokun  Ever since a daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, was murdered in cold blood by suspected herdsmen on the Ondo-Ore road, the Akure home of the nonagenarian has been a Mecca of sort for genuine mourners and pretenders who only want to get photo ops to advertise their feigned compassion. Understandably, it is not unexpected […]

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Fasoranti’s daughter, Funke Olakunri for burial today

Body of the daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, Mrs Funke Olakunri, will be buried today at the Saint David’s Anglican Church cemetery, Ijomu, Akure, Ondo State after a funeral service. She was murdered by suspected Fulani herdsmen at Kajola village, along Benin/Ore road in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State penultimate Friday. […]

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Presidency explains how $1bn excess fund was spent

The Presidency has dismissed Peoples Democratic Party’s allegation that the one billion dollars drawn from the Excess Crude Account was spent by the Muhammadu Buhari administration on the 2019 general elections. The party in a statement on Sunday had asked Buhari to explain to Nigerians what his administration had done with one billion dollars drawn […]

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PDP asks Buhari to explain alleged missing $1b excess fund

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to explain to Nigerians how $1 billion allegedly disappeared from the Excess Crude Account (ECA). In a statement on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party drew the attention of Nigerians to “the shocking confession by the National Security Adviser (NSA), Gen. […]

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