The Director General of the National Institute of Legislative Studies, (NILDS), Professor Abubakar Suleiman, has chided the traditional rulers in Ilorin Emirate, the Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressives Union (IEDPU) and other traditional and religious leaders for being partisan in the last election period. While the Ilorin Emirate Traditional Council compromises of the Emir, Dr. Ibrahim…
The Nigeria’s President elect Senator Bola Tinubu has congratulated King Charles III of the United Kingdom UK on his coronation as the king of England. The traditional monarch would be first to be coronated since 1937. He is receiving the baton of leadership from his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen of England…
England has crowned Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla its king and queen. The event to coronate Prince Charles and his wife was held on Saturday May 6th at London’s Westminster Abbey. This colorful event is the first one in the country in the last 70 years. The new traditional monarch was decorated with regalia,…
About 1,700 stranded Nigerians left in Sudan will be evacuated “in a matter of days”, said the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM). This was revealed by the head of media, public relations and protocols of the Commission, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, on Saturday, May 6th while speaking on how the remaining Nigerians in Sudan would be evacuated…
A one-time deputy spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has described the president elect Senator Bola Tinubu as someone who lacks the capacity to stage a fight against corruption in the judiciary. This came as a reaction to the comments credited to the president elect, saying his government would undertake “the changes…
Hajiya Turai Yar’Adua, the wife of the former Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has described her husband as a simple personality who’s not a fan of worldly or material things. She reminisced the day the former commander-in-chief of all Nigeria’s armed forces gave up the ghost and how it has continued to be in her…
A 15-year-old Lotanna Azuokeke who had the highest score in the just concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination UTME has got a juicy university scholarship. The candidate hailed from Ọba in Idemmili South LGA of Anambra State. He’s a product of Bishop Otubelu Juniorate, Trans Ekulu, Enugu State. He reportedly scored 99 out 100 in Mathematics,…
The famous Nigerian musician Peter Okoye popularly addressed as Mr P has regretted not being a professional footballer. Mr. P despite his popularity, fulfilment and records in the music industry regretted not choosing the football career instead. The musician in a post released through his Twitter account said he would have loved to be a…
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha has falsified the trending planned events for the forthcoming May 29 presidential inauguration. The Informant247 observes that there was a trending programme of event ahead of the forthcoming presidential inauguration for the handing over of the outgoing leaders and subsequent inauguration of the incoming…
A former Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Danbazau has said anyone who is not comfortable with the victory of the president elect Senator Bola Tinubu should take the issue to court. The former Chief of Army Staff said the president elect is set to occupy the presidential seat as soon as he’s inaugurated as president on…
The federal government has moved the second batch of evacuated Nigerians who were fleeing Sudan back to Nigeria. They landed in the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja, the capital of the nation on Friday May 5th. According to the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), 130 Nigerians who included two males and one hundred twenty eight,…
A court has sentenced a former Chairman of the All Progressives Congress APC in Jigawa State Habibu Sara to prison over alleged defamation of character. Report has it that Sara allegedly defamed the character of the Governor of the State, Muhammad Badaru while expressing his views on a radio session. The Informant247 recalls that the…
A Court in London has sentenced the former deputy senate president Ike Ekweremadu to nine years and eight months imprisonment for organ trafficking. The fate of the Nigeria’s lawmaker was decided on Friday May 5th at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, United Kingdom. A foreign news medium, BBC reported that the court sentenced the…
Fire has razed the office of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC in Enugu State. The fire incident happened around 12:30am on Friday May 5th. The fire incident destroyed one of the buildings of the Enugu command of the anti-graft agency. A source from within the command revealed that the inferno was triggered by an…
…says relationship Imbalance among three arms of govt threat to democratic stability Professor Ali Ahmad, the 8th speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly wrote in his latest book that the abysmal legislative-executive conflicts and inter-branch scuffles amongst the three arms of government across the states of the country since the inception of democratic…
The president elect Senator Bola Tinubu on Thursday May 4th said the unity of Nigeria is not to be negotiated. The former Governor of Lagos State made this revelation while appreciating the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike for bringing him to the state to inaugurate a Magistrate Court Complex newly constructed by his government….
The Sudan’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Muhammad Yusuf, has advised the stranded Nigerian citizens recently evacuated from Sudan to return to the country as soon as the war ends. The Informant247 recalls that the Nigerians who were stranded in Egypt for a few days have reached the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport in Abuja on Thursday, May…
The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer CEO of the popular Nigerian airline, Air Peace, Chief Allen Onyema, has spoken against the disruption of operations of flights by men of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). The Informant247 recalls that the NLC on Tuesday announced an industrial action in Imo State….
The Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola has redirected the Senate to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation SGF, Boss Mustapha over the N6 trillion unpaid ground rent which is currently under investigation. The minister told the Senate committee led by Adamu Aliero that the SGF was in better position to answer questions on…
The Nigerian actress Ibironke Ojo-Anthony popularly known as Ronke Oshodi Oke has revealed that her daughter was reportedly poisoned in school. She took to Instagram to say that: “roommates or friends deliberately” poured a cloth-bleaching substance into her daughter’s water bottle. She said they took her daughter to three different hospitals for medical attention before…
