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The singer revealed on twitter that he has been with Chioma for five years now. In that five years, he welcomed Imade, his first daughter with Sophia Momodu and Hailey, his second daughter with is Atlanta based lover, Amanda. See the twitter exchanges below... ...

''N100m was spent on Dino Melaye’s failed recall'' INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu says

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, today disclosed that the electoral commssion spent N100m on the failed attempt to recall Kogi-West lawmaker, Senator Dino Melaye. INEC chairman disclosed this while denying claims made by PDP that the commission spent...

Court orders police to relocate Dino Melaye to National Hospital Abuja

Justice Nasir Ajanah of the Kogi State High Court in Lokoja has given an interim order that embattled senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, be moved from police custody in the state to the National Hospital Abuja, for further treatment. Recall that a...

Photos: EFCC arraigns three NGO workers for stealing N4.5m from MTN Foundation

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, have arraigned the trio of Owolabi Kayode Samuel, Esther Olubukola Mate and Abimbola David-Orugun before Justice Hakeem Oshodi of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, on a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy...

Kogi court denies Dino Melaye bail, orders that he be remanded in police custody till June 11th

A Lokoja Magistrate Court has ordered that embattled Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West Senatorial district be remanded in police custody till June 11th pending the commencement of hearing in the case brought against him and three others by the state police command. The charges...

Buhari’s current records cannot keep him beyond 2019 — Jonathan

Former President Goodluck Jonathan wednesday asked the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, to call the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to order for peddling falsehood against his person. Jonathan added that even after Osinbajo had been called upon...

President Buhari currently in the UK, presidency says ‘It’s a technical stopover’

President Buhari is yet to arrive Abuja two days after he left the US after his bilateral meeting with President Donald. Senior Special Assistant to the president on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, when asked why the president is yet to return to Nigeria, said President Buhari...

Update: ''President Buhari to arrive Nigeria later this evening'' Femi Adesina

Femi Adesina gave an update on President Buhari's itinera...

Governor Okorocha reportedly gifts Miracle a plot of land + scholarship for his CPL, gives Nina, Teddy A and Bam Bam N2m each

Imo state governor Rochas Okorocha hosted #BBNaija housemate Miracle Igbokwe and some of the ex-housemates Nina, Teddy A and Bam Bam. According to reports, the governor gifted Miracle a plot of land and scholarship for his Commercial Pilot License CPL. The governor also gave Nina, Teddy and Bam Bam...

PDP queries President Buhari’s London ‘Technical Stopover’

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Presidency to end their official secrecy and come clear on the reasons for President Buhari’s alleged ‘technical stopover’ in London. In a statement released today, the party said Nigerians should note that President Buhari left the United States...

Lagos police arrest ‘one chance robbers’ along Apapa expressway

Yesterday, two suspected commercial bus robbers Sunday Oghenero and Daniel Johnson were arraigned before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for dispossessing passengers of money and valuables worth thousands of naira. Ogenero, 24, lives in Agausa area of Ajegunle in Apapa,...

Melaye jumped from vehicle because he was being tear-gassed by police - Senator

nze ihunanyaApril 29, 2018

Senator Ben Murray-Bruce has confirmed that the lawmaker representing Kogi West in the Senate, Dino Melaye, actually jumped from a police vehicle. Murray-Bruce alleged that Melaye jumped from the vehicle because he was repeatedly tear-gassed by police officers, Premium Times reports. We notes that Murray-Bruce explained that he visited Melaye at the...

Okorocha’s administration is insensitive, wicked - Imo pensioners voice grievance

- A group of pensioners in Imo state, on the platform of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) has cried out over the government's inability to pay accrued pension - In favour of the group, the National Industrial Court ruled that the development was “insensitive, wicked and unlawful" - The Court further said in its judgment that the state government...

EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS: HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE IS NOT A HUMAN RIGHT

nze ihunanyaApril 29, 2018

*Judgment of the Human Rights Court of Strasbourg -France* *Unanimously, the World Court of Human Rights has established, verbatim, that "there is no right to homosexual marriage." The 47 judges of the 47 countries of the Council of Europe, which are members of the full Court of Strasbourg (the world's most important human rights court), issued...

Unknown gunmen burn down INEC office In Rivers State

As the June 16 local government election in Rivers State approaches, gunmen on Friday burnt down the office of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RISEC) in Bori, the headquarters of Khana local government area. The gunmen left on their trail expended bullets and destruction of many...

''President Buhari will be the first African president to meet US President Trump at the White House'' presidential aide, Bashir Ahmad says

President Buhari is scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump on April 30th. According to presidential aide, Bashir Ahmad, President Buhari will become the first African president to meet Donald Trump in the white hou...

Paris Club Refund: Court Orders Final Forfeiture Of N1.4bn

Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Friday, April 27, 2018, ordered the final forfeiture of a sum of N1,222, 384,857.84 ( One Billion, Two Hundred and Twenty Two Million, Three Hundred and Eighty Four Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Seven Naira and Eighty...

President Buhari is leaving Nigeria tomorrow to meet with President Trump

President Buhari will leave Abuja on 28th April 2018, on an official working visit to the United States of America, on the invitation of President Donald Trump. He will have bilateral meeting with President Trump and a working lunch on Monday 30th April 2018. The meeting is to discuss ways to enhance the...

Governor Ortom warns Fulani herdsmen: The fact that we have chosen to be law-abiding does not mean that we are weak

The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom on Thursday, cut short his leave abroad and returned to Nigeria following the killing of two priests and worshipers by Fulani herdsmen. Speaking with newsman at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, he appealed to Nigerians to rise and stop the ongoing...

APC and PDP youths, supporters clash at Benin Airport over motion moved by Senator Matthew Urhoghide to impeach Buhari