Abuja Property Owner Dismisses Allegation Against VP’s Daughter

Dr Ayuba Musa, the landlord of the property housing the company, GLAM’D Africa, has dismissed Mr Jackson Ude’s claims concerning the ownership of the house. Musa’s reaction was sequel to a social media post by Ude, a New York-based blogger, that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s daughter, Kiki, owns the property which houses her company, GLAM’D Africa. The landlord, in a disclaimer he signed on Friday in Abuja, said the property was never, at any point...

Lagos Loses Another Lawmaker Less Than One Month

The Chairman of the House Committee on Information and Strategy and member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, representing Kosofe Constituency 2, Honourable Tunde Buraimoh has passed on. Although the House of Assembly has not officially announced the death of the lawmaker, media reports quoted Buraimoh’s colleagues who confirmed the demise. “Highly cautious and will always maintain strict adherence to all medical counsels from the appropriate quarters as it concerns prevention of this spread...

From Destitution to Looter’s Club —is this Plague of Corruption Here to Stay?

Gucci, Versace, L. Vuitton, Prada, Fendi, Audemars, Patek, Balenciaga, Hermes and the Jet set life was his command. The luxurious opulence attractive to 2.5 million Instagram followers; he was ‘untouchable’. You need not be the star of television and entertainment to be famous. Instagram will do just that for you. Just have it, show it off, flaunt it over and over again on yachts and in Rolls Royces; they will stare and click away. It...

British High Commission to Reopen Visa Application Centres in Nigeria

The British High Commission in Nigeria has said effort to reopen visa application for intending travellers to the United Kingdom is on. In the wake of coronavirus pandemic, the high commission suspended services whilst a lockdown was imposed by the federal government to limit the spread of the virus. In a statement on Thursday, the British High Commission disclosed that UK application centres are soon to be reopened in a phased manner globally. The Commission...

Health Sector Gets Attention, as Ogun State Revises Budget

The Government of Ogun State, in a bid to fight coronavirus, has said that twenty per cent of the revised 2020 budget has been allocated to the health sector. At a virtual Consultative Meeting on the Year 2020 Revised Budget, held at the Ministry of Budget and Planning, the Governor said that pandemic had brought implications that prompted the government to draw up a realistic budget that would serve the interest of the people. Other...

Ivorian Prime Minister Dies Suddenly at 61

The Prime Minister of Cote d’Ivoire, Amadou Gon Coulibaly is dead. He died shortly after attending a cabinet meeting at the presidential palace in Abidjan on Wednesday afternoon, President Alassane Ouattara said. Ouattara described Coulibaly, who died at the age of 61 as his “closest collaborator” for 30 years, as he presented his condolences to the statesman’s “large family.” The president did not share details of the death. Coulibaly died after attending his first cabinet...

High Cost of Anti-snake Venom Drives Patients Away From Adamawa Hospitals

The high cost of anti-snake venom is now driving victims of snakebite from public hospitals to seek herbal medicines in Adamawa state, investigations have revealed. Snakebite envenoming is a major public health problem among rural communities of the Nigerian savanna. A family of one of the patients who pleaded anonymity said that ‘’staying in the hospital has brought forward to me, that the common man is facing the difficulty of his life. ‘’ For instance, ...

How to Think About Africa’s “Rising Middle Class” Amid COVID-19

Conventional wisdom is that Africa’s rising middle class is the engine for economic and social development, that its trajectory has been positive, and that the COVID-19 pandemic has seriously compromised the success of the middle class. However, on a continent of 1.3 billion people resident in more than fifty countries, this trope, much of it based on feel-good anecdotes, may obscure more than it illuminates. What is Africa’s middle class, how large was it before COVID-19, and was...

Police Unravel Anniversary Plans by Cultists in Oyo, Ogun, Others

The police commands in Oyo and Ogun States have uncovered plans by some cult groups to celebrate their annual anniversaries. In a statement, the Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Nwachukwu Enwonwu, said the celebration of cult groups including ‘Aiye Confraternity’ on 7th July and Buccaneer on 8th of August every year across Southwest states had come to the notice of the command, according to the Punch. “Adequate security measures have been emplaced to forestall...

WACOL Vows to Get Justice for Brutalized 10 Year-old Girl as Court Remands Her Guardians

Residents of Enugu and the nation awoke last week to the news of inhumane treatment of 10 years old Nneoma Nnadi by her relative and guardian who inflicts severe pains on the girl at the slightest provocation. Individuals and groups have continued to condemn Mrs. Ifeoma Ozougwu and husband Jude the perpetrators of the dastardly acts. The Women’s Aid Collective, WACOL, an independent, Non-Governmental Organization dedicated to helping women and young people in need on...

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