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Prof. Wole Soyinka, has once again lashed out at former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his supporters. He alleged that the retired General’s supporters harassed and bribed the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) delegates to approve the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital and give it a special status under the international body. In his new book, titled; ‘Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?: Gani’s Unfinished Business’, which was released to the public on Tuesday, Soyinka, who explained his role in letting the international body know that it was being hoodwinked over the real status of the presidential library, alleged that the ex-president’s supporters adopted the Nigerian ‘brown envelope’ method to lure the educational body into submission. Soyinka also recalled how he warned UNESCO that its “reputation ran the risk of being besmirched if it succumbed to the importuning from that ex-president” but that he...

A Nigerian undergraduate at Bristol University reportedly took her own life in a hotel in Cardiff UK. The deceased 20-year-old Omojola Ogundipe, a top member of Bristol university Gospel Choir was found hanged to death in a hotel room on the 14th of March 2018. Staff of Citrus Hotel in Bute Terrace Cardiff discovered Omojola’s lifeless body around 11:25am after she missed her check out deadline. An inquest was held into her death at Pontypridd Coroner’s Court on Thursday where Coroner Woolley Christopher accepted autopsy report of death by hanging. Omojola reportedly recorded a suicide video shortly before hanging herself in the washroom of her hotel room.

Jude Okoye, brother to Peter and Paul Okoye of Psquare has welcomed a baby girl with his wife Ifeoma. The news of the baby arrival was first shared by Paul’s wife Anita on Snapchat before the proud father took to Instagram to share the picture of the cute baby and mother.

The bill by the former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission(NHRC), Chidi Odinkalu,  described as unnecessary. Such critics say there are already enough existing laws that only need to be implemented and that the bill was designed to muscle NGOs and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs). However the National Assembly on Tuesday, September 26, says it cannot be intimidated into abandoning its legislative duty of providing a platform for Nigerians to agree or disagree on any proposed legislative measure. The speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, stated this in his address to welcome lawmakers after the seven-week recess. The former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission(NHRC), Chidi Odinkalu, described the bill as unnecessary. Such critics say there are already enough existing laws that only need to be implemented and that the bill was designed to muscle NGOs and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs). However the National Assembly on Tue...

Anybody found with Biafra flag will be arrested – Abia police commissioner The new commissioner of police in Abia state Anthony Ogbizi has warned that anybody found with the Biafra flag will be arrested. Ogbizi said anyone seen with the Biafra emblem will be arrested and charged to court. Speaking while parading seven suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, the newly deployed state commissioner of police said the proscription of the group by the governors of the south east automatically make its illegal. He said it has become illegal for anyone to operate under the IPOB which was declared a terrorist organization by the Nigerian military or adorn its emblems.

China to stop the productions of diesel and petrol vehicles as Volvo plans to lunch electrical driven cars 2019 China, the world’s biggest car market, plans to ban the production and sale of diesel and petrol vehicles. This development is sequel to the announcement of UK and France plans to ban new diesel and petrol vehicles by 2040, as part of efforts to reduce pollution and carbon emissions. The country’s vice minister of industry, according to BBC report, said it had started “relevant research” but that it had not yet decided when the ban would come into force. He said “those measures will certainly bring profound changes for our car industry’s development,” Xin Guobin told Xinhua, China’s official news agency. China made 28 million cars last year, almost a third of the global total. Chinese-owned carmaker Volvo said in July that all its new car models would have an electric motor from 2019. Geely, Volvo’s Chinese owner, aims to sell one million electric cars by 2025. Other glob...