Author: Festus Adeloye

Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, has expressed deep grief over the death of music icon, ‘Gentleman’ Mike Ejeagha, saying the legend had created a void that would be too difficult to fill. Mbah described Ejeagha as an unassuming and easygoing personality, whose fanbase spread across international boundaries. Recall that the news of the passing on of the ‘Gwo gwo gwo ngwo’ crooner at age 95 filtered into public space Saturday morning. Reacting to the sad development, the governor, who had celebrated the folklorist during his lifetime by reconstructing the popular Obinagu Road and the adjoining Chief Mike Ejeagha…

Akwa Ibom state governor, Umo Eno, has announced his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaking on Friday in Uyo, the state capital, Eno said the decision followed “three months of wide consultation” with critical stakeholders across the state. “For some time now, the political space, particularly in this state and the nation in general, has been awash with the news of my likely movement from the PDP, the platform that has provided the levers and ladder of my political ascendancy to the position of governor of this state,” Eno said. “This discussion…

Despite Nigeria’s difficult macroeconomic environment in 2024, pharmaceutical company, May & Baker Nigeria Plc, has posted a 47 per cent growth in its group revenue, increasing from ₦19.7 billion in 2023 to ₦28.9 billion in 2024, according to its annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31st December 2024. Chairman of board of directors, May & Baker Nigeria Plc, Senator Daisy Danjuma, at the company’s 74th Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in Lagos on Thursday, acknowledged the turbulent business climate in the country, marked by surging inflation, exchange rate volatility, and higher operating costs. While the Nigerian economy…

US President Donald Trump says he was “very surprised” and “disappointed” with former ally Elon Musk’s criticisms of his centrepiece budget bill. “Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will anymore,” Trump told reporters in the White House on Thursday. It was the president’s most direct criticism yet of Musk’s lobbying efforts against the proposals to cut taxes and slash government spending – a plan that has drawn criticism from the tycoon and some Republicans. In response, Musk doubled down on X and accused the president of “ingratitude”, adding: “Without me, Trump would have lost…

Zia Yusuf has resigned as the chair of Reform UK after suggesting it was “dumb” of the party’s newest MP to ask the prime minister if he would ban the burqa. Yusuf, a donor and businessman, said he was resigning after less than a year in the job because he did not believe working to get a Reform government elected was a good use of his time. His departure is a blow to Nigel Farage as he tries to professionalise his rapidly growing party, with political rivals saying it shows the Reform leader cannot work with other senior figures without…

President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into his predecessor Joe Biden’s actions during his presidency, accusing aides of a “conspiracy” to “deceive the public about Biden’s mental state”. Trump aimed at the former president’s use of an autopen, a device replicating signatures to authorise documents. Several presidents, including Trump himself, have used autopens. He framed its use as evidence of a broader scheme to disguise Biden’s cognitive state. “This conspiracy marks one of the most dangerous and concerning scandals in American history,” Trump said on Wednesday. Biden, 82, swiftly dismissed the allegations, calling Trump’s claims “ridiculous” and politically motivated.…

The Department of State Services (DSS) has asked the Abuja division of the Federal High Court to restrain a former presidential candidate, Prof. Pat Utomi, from making public comments or engaging in any form of rally, relating to his announced plan to establish a shadow government in the country. The security agency had accused Utomi, candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the 2007 presidential election of attempting to illegally usurp the executive powers of President Bola Tinubu. Justice James Omotosho has fixed June 25 to hear the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/937/2025, which has Utomi as the sole defendant. Meanwhile, DSS…

The founder of the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare has explained why he visited President Bola Tinubu. Bakare explained that his conversation with the President focused on national development and the future of Nigeria. He spoke after his courtesy visit to President Tinubu in Lagos, on Wednesday. The visit was revealed in a post by presidential aide, Bayo Onanuga, who shared a photo of the President with the cleric on his X handle. Bakare had, during an address in April at his in Lagos, called on President Tinubu to implement immediate and strategic interventions to steer Nigeria out of…

Prominent legal practitioner and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dr. Monday Ubani, has raised the alarm over the growing abuse of Point of Sale (POS) machines in Nigeria, warning that the once-innovative payment system is now being hijacked by criminal syndicates to move illicit funds beyond the reach of security agencies. Ubani, in a statement titled “The Urgent Need to Regulate POS Transactions in Nigeria’s Financial Ecosystem”, called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the National Assembly, and security agencies to urgently take decisive action to stem what he described as a looming national security and judicial crisis. According to…

Suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (Kogi West) has raised the alarm that her official telephone line has been cloned and is being fraudulently utilised to intimidate some Nigerian dignitaries. In a petition to the Director of the National Cybercrime Centre, Nigeria Police Force, Abuja, through his lawyers, M. J. Numa and Partners, dated June 4, 2025, Akpoti-Udughan said the “unknown persons are impersonating her personality to make unsolicited calls and deliver messages pretending to have originated from her.” She added that this deployment of advanced cyber tools collectively suggests the existence of “a coordinated attempt to compromise” her identity and possibly…