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Samuel Ikon, a Nigerian lawmaker accused of sexual misconduct by the government of the United States has broken his silence on the matter saying that he did not solicit for prostitutes during an International Visitors Leadership Program in the US. Ikon, one of three Nigerian lawmakers named in a letter from the United States ambassador to […]

Controversial Roman Catholic priest, Father Mbaka has disclosed to his Adoration Ministry congregation that God has revealed a vision of President Muhammadu Buhari’s illness and that the chance of Buhari’s healing “may be slim”. Reverend Father Ejike ‎Mbaka who made the revelation in one of his miracle ministries programmes in Enugu, stated that several efforts he […]Read More

Speaker of Nigeria’s house of representatives, Yakubu Dogara, took to social media in the early hours of Saturday, July 18, 2019 to comment on the allegations of sexual misconduct leveled against three Nigerian lawmakers by the United States government. A statement issued by his spokesman, Turaki Hassan, said the speaker who responded to questions on the allegations, urged Nigerians to refrain […]Read More

A Nigerian lawmaker has threatened to sue the United States Embassy in the country over accusations of serious sexual misconduct during an April 2016 visit to Cleveland, Ohio. The three Nigerian lawmakers mentioned in a June 9 letter by the US ambassador, Mohammed Garba Gololo of Bauchi State, Mark Terseer Gbillah, of Benue State, and Samuel Ikon of […]Read More

by Inibehe Effiong The current sex scandal rocking the House of Representatives is another tragic testament of the crop of legislators that we have in the National Assembly. Nigerian lawmakers are perennially in the news for bad and ugly reasons. Members of our unproductive and expensive National Assembly have acquired an enviable trademark: They are […]

Annkio Briggs, respected Niger Delta leader and environmental activists, says that the it’s nonsensical for the North to claim ownership of the oil and gas deposits in the Niger Delta region in southern Nigerian. Some Northern leaders in Nigeria claim that the North owns the crude oil in the Niger Delta because of the 72% […]

o… The comments by the Ooni of Ife’s Olori on gender equality, have been trending online in the past few hours. According to Olori Wuraola, women can never be equal to men. While a whole of of shocked feminists have been reacting online with muffled ripostes, I would think many of such reactions have deliberately chosen […]Read More

Mark Gbillah, a Nigerian lawmaker representing Benue Gwer East/Gwer Eest in the house of representatives, has demanded that the US government provide video evidence of his alleged sexual misconduct or he would sue the US for ‘tarnishing his name’. Gbillah, along with another Nigerian lawmaker, is being accused by the US government of soliciting prostitutes during […]Read More

Twenty-four people were killed when Boko Haram fighters opened fire on mourners near the town of Gulak in Adamawa state. The attack happened in Kuda village at about 8:00 pm on Thursday, July 16, 2016 “killing 24 people and injuring several others”, said Maina Ularamu, a former local government chairman in nearby Madagali. Adamawa police […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria’s agric loan scheme would be releasing N15 billion interest free to Bauchi farmers after the state met the provision of N1.5 billion contribution fund to cover the cost of interest. The state governor, Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar stated this at a town hall meeting between Bauchi State government, Central Bank of Nigeria, […]Read More

NAN – The commissioner of police in Akwa Ibom, Mr Murtala Mani, on Thursday, June 16, 2016 refuted an alleged explosion of pipelines at Ikot Osutek, Oruk-Anam Local Government Area of the state by the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA). Mani told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Uyo, capital of the oil-rich Akwa Ibom […]

Britain mourned lawmaker Jo Cox on Friday after a man with suspected neo-Nazi links and a history of mental illness was arrested over a killing that has thrown next week’s referendum on European Union membership into limbo. Cox, 41, a supporter of Britain staying in the EU, was shot and stabbed on Thursday by a […]