Prince Isaac Fayose, brother of former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose, has accused Lere Olayinka, Special Adviser on Media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, of neglecting his children in Ekiti while defending his boss. In a post on his Facebook page, Fayose alleged that while Olayinka continues to stand […]

Afriland Towers, the Lagos high-rise building where a fire erupted last Tuesday and has since left at least 10 people dead, is owned and managed by Afriland Properties Plc, the real estate investment arm of billionaire Tony Elumelu’s Heirs Holdings Group. Heirs Holdings, a family-owned investment company chaired by Elumelu, has interests spanning banking, power,

The judgment of the Supreme Court of Nigeria on 19 January 2006 concerning the state of emergency in Plateau State came down 20 months after the proclamation and 14 months after the emergency had expired. When it eventually was finally issued, the judgment was worse than an anti-climax. The most important thing about the decision was not the jurisprudence of the court but the timing

The European-American University has denied claims circulating in the Nigerian press that it conferred honorary doctorate degrees on President Bola Tinubu’s staunch supporter, Hausa musician Dauda Kahutu Rarara, and several others at a supposed convocation at NICON Luxury Hotel, Abuja. In a statement released on Saturday, the school clarified that no such event was authorised