Some citizens group from Nsukka is absolutely crushed about Senator Okey Ezea dying after a surgery went sideways in Lagos. The Nsukka Concerned Citizens Forum put out a statement saying his death hit hard for everyone in Enugu North Senatorial Zone and beyond, where he represented people before passing away. Three local officials signed the communique talking about the massive loss.
The same group pivoted to voter registration stuff and wants INEC to make polling centers easier to reach for everyone trying to sign up. They plan to blast churches, markets, and social media with reminders about registration while backing Governor Peter Mbah's development plans. The forum wants Nsukka factored into state projects and government...
Nyesom Wike just gave Mukhtar Usman Galadima a new gig as Senior Special Assistant on Development Control and Planning for the Federal Capital Territory. Galadima spent over three decades working in development control at FCTA before retiring last month, and Wike's media guy, Lere Olayinka, confirmed the appointment starts right away.
Galadima ran the Department of Development Control starting in 2016 and sat on a bunch of ministerial committees dealing with the Abuja Masterplan and land use reviews. The guy knows his way around urban planning after all those years in the civil service.
Nigeria has 82 women sitting on death row right now, and that puts it near the top for female prisoners facing execution in sub-Saharan Africa. Angela Uzoma-Iwuchukwu from ASF France dropped this info at a training session in Abuja, saying the justice system treats these women like garbage, from arrest all the way through sentencing. Most of them survived domestic violence and ended up killing someone in self-defense, but courts refuse to see them as victims.
Money plays a huge role since poor defendants can't hire decent lawyers, and the quality of your legal team basically decides if you live or die. One woman in Katsina State almost got stoned to death for getting pregnant while unmarried, but ASF France got the appeals court to...
The Taliban said the Washington shooting that injured two National Guard members has zero connection to Afghanistan. Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi blamed American training programs for the incident and claimed the suspect left Afghanistan through sketchy channels that broke international rules. Rahmanullah Lakanwal entered not-guilty pleas after being charged with the attack.
US officials confirmed Lakanwal worked with a CIA-backed group fighting against the Taliban before relocating to America through a resettlement program when troops pulled out. The guy is 29 years old and apparently got all his training from the Americans themselves. Muttaqi basically said this whole mess is an American problem, not an Afghan one, and the...
President Bola Tinubu brought in Aminu Yusuf to run Nigeria's National Population Commission during a cabinet meeting. The Senate had already given Yusuf the green light back in October, and he got sworn in alongside two other commission members, like Tonga Betara from Yobe state. Five permanent secretaries also took their oaths and signed paperwork at the same ceremony.
The population commission handles census stuff, birth and death records, and all the demographic info the government uses for planning. Yusuf is replacing Nasir Isa Kwara, who had been running things since 2020. The Federal Executive Council took a moment of silence for Joy Ogwu, a former foreign affairs minister who passed away in October at 79, before getting into...
Dr Hassan Nuhu, who founded Newgate University in Minna, Niger State, said Nigerian schools need to stop churning out people looking for jobs and start creating actual entrepreneurs instead. The university just held its first graduation ceremony, and Nuhu made it clear that they want students who can build businesses rather than just wave diplomas around. Professor Sadiq Yusuf mentioned that 14 grads got first-class honors, while 207 others finished with various degree classifications across their programs.
The school has blown up from 350 students in 2022 to around 2,000 spread across four faculties, and they've gotten full approval from the Nigerian University Commission for ten of their programs. Governor Mohammed Bago showed up to...
Nyesom Wike just gave Town Planner Mukhtar Usman Galadima a new gig as Senior Special Assistant on Development Control and Planning for the Federal Capital Territory. The appointment happened right away, according to Wike's media person, Lere Olayinka, and Galadima brings over three decades of work experience from his time at FCTA's Department of Development Control, plus the Satellite Towns Development Agency.
Galadima ran the Department of Development Control starting in 2016 before retiring from civil service last month. His resume covers work on ministerial committees like the Abuja Masterplan Restoration Task Team and the Review of Revoked Titles and Change of Land Use.
Peter Okoye, who goes by Mr P, told Nancy Isime his biggest worry is not death but ending up broke again. The singer remembered when a bulldozer destroyed his family's rented single-room apartment while they were still inside after the landlord sold the property, and they could not get extra time to move out.
His entire family of ten people, including six boys and two girls, lived in that one-bedroom boys' quarter with a curtain dividing the space. Mr P said he tasted poverty growing up, and returning to that life scares him way more than dying ever could.
Teni posted a video rallying Timaya and Kcee to help rescue 2face Idibia after the legend dropped a desperate two-word Instagram story begging for assistance. The musician captioned her clip saying they are coming to save him, and the whole thing went down after weeks of messy public blowups between 2face and his wife, Edo State lawmaker Natasha Osawaru.
The drama started when cops got involved during a heated argument in the UK that led to 2face getting briefly arrested. Things got worse when both of them went at it live on camera during a Daddy Freeze Instagram session, which has everyone convinced the marriage is crashing hard. Fans are genuinely worried about his mental health at this point.
