PDP NWC meets in Abuja over defections

PDP acting National Chairman, Ambassador Umar Damagum | File Image  All is not well with the Nigeria’s opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as its National Working Committee (NWC) converge for an emergency meeting at the party’s Abuja national secretariat. The meeting, currently being held behind closed doors on Tuesday, comes amid the gale […]

EFCC arrests E-Money, Aisha Achimugu, alleges Naira abuse

E-Money | Photo: Instagram@iam_emoney1 By Valentine Amanze The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a popular Nigeria, E-Money, in his Omole Lagos residence over alleged money laundering. It also arrested another socialite, Aisha Achimugu, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Tuesday. E-Money, whose real name is Emeka Okonkwo, it was gathered, […]

Big debts, water and thirsts

Water, water everywhere, not any drop to drink – Samuel Taylor Coleridge Title: Big Debt, Big Thirst: A Case Study of World Bank Supported Water Projects in Ekiti, Rivers and Bauchi States Publisher: Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) Year of publication: 2025 Reviewer: Olayinka Oyegbile “Water… e no get enemy…”, so sang Abami […]

Daddy Showkey cancels Niger show over dreadlocks ban

Daddy Showkey | File Image . Niger govt modifies law on dreadlocks By Valentine Amanze The Lagos-based Nigerian popular musician, Daddy Showkey, has cancelled his long-awaited Minna, Niger State, show with immediate effect. The cancellation was consequent upon the state government’s recent outlawing wearing of dreadlocks hairstyle in the state. Showkey wears dreadlocks, which is […]

Alia in politics of bloodbath

By Valentne Amanze (29-04-2025) 08054103455 My heart bleeds anytime I attend funeral. It gets worse during mass burial. I may not know the dead; he was humam like myself; with ambition and responsibilities. I feel pain when humans created in God’s image are slaughted like Sallah ram.  I weep for the hundreds of people murdered […]