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Nollywood actress Genevieve Nnaji on Friday said she would keep donating to the Feminist Coalition to support Nigerians in times of emergencies. The 41-year-old tweeted:   “God bless you for all your hardwork ladies. But pls don’t stop��. I’m tired of people dying because they can’t pay before service at hospitals. “Bail money will be crucial now more than ever. I want to...

Dominic Mudabai, the winner of Gulder Ultimate Search 2007, and wife, Tope, have welcomed their first child, a baby boy. The couple got married in August 2015. The proud new dad shared the good news in an open letter he wrote to his baby boy which he posted on his Instagram page this morning. It read; Dear Son, We live in a time...

JJC Skillz and Soso Soberekon hauled each other mercilessly over their political associations. Music executive Soso Sobereokon, who recently indicated an interest in going into politics, shared a photo of himself with former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan and added a prayer emoji. JJC Skillz had a problem with Soso’s post and he replied: “4 what?” Soso hit back saying: “Because he is...

Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, on Friday, inaugurated a 16-man judicial panel of inquiry to investigate allegations of extra-judicial killings and brutality by security agents in the state. In his address at the ceremony held at the Government House, Umuahia, the governor charged the panel to investigate cases of extrajudicial killings by the police and other security agents from 2015...

The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended all electioneering and other activities in honour of #EndSARS campaigners who died during peaceful protests across the country. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Friday, said the party took the decision in honour of #EndSARS protesters killed during the attack by the...

Contrary to the belief of many Nigerians, Femi Adesina has said that President Muhammadu Buhari did not omit Lekki shooting in his national broadcast on Thursday. Adesina, who is the Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, stated this on Friday when he appeared as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today. President Buhari was and is still being criticized...

A viral video shows massive groups of Nigerians storming a warehouse full of COVID-19 relief supplies, which the government kept from the public The supplies, which include rice, noodles, beans, sugar, salt, and garri, piled in large white bags. Various videos this week show large crowds climbing through the supplies and grabbing as much as they can carry. Some tweeted that this...

DJ Switch, a popular female Disc Jockey, who went live during the shooting of protesters at Lekki toll gate, has finally broken silence following the incident. We reported that on the 20th of October 2020; the world was left stunned as military men stormed the Lekki Toll Plaza to shoot at unarmed #EndSARS protesters. The Nigerian Army has denied any involvement...

Kwara state residents have invaded the Cargo Warehouse in Ilorin Airport road where COVID-19 palliatives were kept and are currently carting away food items.     This comes just hours after the Cocoa Processing Industry warehouse in Ede, Osun state, was raided by residents and food items were also carted away.  

Governor Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state today visited some of the places destroyed in the wake of the crisis that erupted in the state on Tuesday, October 20. See more photos below.

Another warehouse housing COVID-19 palliatives in Murtala Mohammed Highway in Calabar, Cross River state, has been found, with residents currently carting away food items. Earlier today, two other warehouses housing COVID-19 palliatives donated by CACOVID were raided by residents in Osun and Kwara states.  

Rapper and social crusader, Folarin Falan popularly known as Falz, has revealed that he is ready to die for a better Nigeria. Falz disclosed this hours ago in a chat bordering on social injustice across the countryand the recent ENDSARS protest with Christiane Amanpour on CNN. Falz said, “I am not afraid for my life because where we are right now, I...

The Lagos State Government has released the names of police officers facing prosecution for various degrees of human rights violations in the state. For Two weeks, several young Nigerians took to the streets across the country to call on the authorities to end police brutality and extra-judicial killings. Mr Sanwo-Olu has now released a list of cases in the state’s courts involving...

Youths of Zango Kataf Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State on Thursday took their protests to the council secretariat in Zonkwa with a 12-point demand. The youths, who marched in solidarity with the #EndSARS protest, currently ongoing in different parts of the federation, presented their demands to the council chairman. The demands of the youths, which was presented by one of...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday held a meeting with Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Gen Yakubu Gowon (retd.), and other former Nigerian leaders. The meeting presided over by Buhari was held at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Obasanjo, Gowon, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd.); former President Goodluck Jonathan, and Chief Ernest Shonekan are participating in the meeting virtually. Those attending the meeting with the...

Nigerian Singer, Douglas Jack Agu, popularly referred to as Runtown took to Twitter to blast every Nigerian threatening to run away from the country, following President Buhari’s nationwide address yesterday, 22nd of October. According to Runtown, threatening and making a joke about running away from the country at this time is a stupid thing to do. The 31-year-old added that people...

A senior official of the United States Government, Counselor T. Ulrich Brechbühl, on Thursday met with the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo at the State House, Abuja over the current situation in the country. The meeting, which also had Assistant Secretary Robert Destro and Assistant Secretary Denise Natali, in attendance, was held to raise U.S. concerns about the ongoing violence in-country,...

The United States of America on Thursday condemned the shooting of #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos State by the Nigerian soldiers and called for investigation into what it called “excessive use of force.” The US State Department, in a two-paragraph statement issued on Thursday by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, said Nigerian citizens have the right...

Instagram has apologized for incorrectly flagging content in support of #EndSARS and marking them fake news. Though many feel the damage has been done already by the social media company. In the aftermath of the Lekki shootings by military men, many Nigerians took to social media to show solidarity of the victims, and #EndSARS protesters. It came as a shock to many when...

The Lagos state government has reacted to the vandalization and looting of COVID-19 palliatives warehouse at Maza Maza. Earlier today hoodlums vandalized a warehouse where COVID-19 palliatives, were stored at Maza Maza community in Oriade Local Council Development Area, Lagos State. The warehouse was looted around 8:00 am, as angry thugs located the Crescent, popularly called Monkey Village. Other resident in the area, were...