A magistrates’ court sitting in Minna, Niger State has sentenced Gambo Adamu to 12 months in prison for deceitfully contracting a marriage between his mother-in-law, Sa’adatu Aliyu and former President Muhammadu Buhari. In October 2019, the Presidency had to dismiss wide rumours that the then President Buhari was getting married to his Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster and Management, Hajia …

The Federal High Court, Abuja has ordered the disclosure of the spending details of about US$5 billion funds from Nigeria’s late Head of State, General Sani Abacha (known as Abacha loot) recovered by the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan, and Muhammadu Buhari. The Freedom of Information suit, from which the order emerged, was brought …

Former President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he left Daura, Katsina State, for London, United Kingdom because he wanted to stay in a quiet place. He explained that visitors have been trooping to visit him while in his hometown of Daura. A statement by Buhari’s ex-media aide, Malam Garba Shehu reads: “He chose to go home in Daura hoping to find …

Spokesperson to former President Muhammadu Buhari, Malam Garba Shehu, on Thursday, denied that the former leader asked his successor not to investigate some ministers under the previous government. He also said Buhari had left Daura for London to get some needed rest which, constant visits from well-wishers, had denied him. “If social media is to be believed, former President Muhammadu …

Those familiar with road travel before fancy luxury buses and jeeps displaced wooden-back Bedford light trucks, famously called mammy wagons, might remember this ubiquitous message in cursive, bright colours scrawled on the rear and sometimes on the sides of trucks plying highways in Nigeria’s South-East: “No condition is permanent”. I’m not quite sure what the motivation was. My guess is …

Former President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in his hometown in Daura, Katsina State. Buhari had left Eagle Square in Abuja immediately after Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Senator Kashim Shettima were sworn in as President and Vice President. Flanked by members of his cabinet who came to say goodbye at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Monday, Buhari bade …

The hullaballoo that attended the election of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the vicious agitation that has trailed it ever since have kept me wondering whether there is anything to the Tinubu election that was absent in the elections before it. When they allege rigging, previous elections have been rigged; even more scandalously, more blatantly and more brazenly. For instance, …

Alexander Abolore Adegbola Akande, better known by the stage name 9ice, it was, who produced and popularised the song Street Credibility, as one of his famous offerings in the early years of his two-decade career. It was his message to critics and doubters of the genuineness of his artistic talent. It was signal of his preparedness to carve a niche …

With the commissioning of Blue Line Mass Transit by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, Lagos now has a state-operated rail system. The historic moment climaxed the President’s two-day working visit to the state for projects commissioning. The inaugural ride on the train was performed by the President in company of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, his Deputy, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, and other …

Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, arrangements have been concluded for the presidential campaign rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) next Tuesday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. The rally is expected to be led by President Muhammadu Buhari, who will be joined by the the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima; …