A nonagenarian who designed Nigeria’s flag, Pa. Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi (OFR), is dead. Pa. Akinkunmi, aged 93, died in the early hours of Tuesday after a brief illness. His demise was announced via the Facebook account of one of his children. He wrote, “Life is indeed transient; I can say boldly that you live a…
On the day of Michael Jackson’s posthumous 65th birthday, his sons Prince and Blanket, were pictured on a rare outing in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Prince, 26, and Blanket, 21 were seen chatting with guests at Sin City’s Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino after attending a Michael Jackson ONE by Cirque du Soleil show, Daily…
Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba is under house arrest and one of his sons has been arrested for “treason”, military officers said Wednesday. The announcement came hours after the military officers said they had overthrown the government. In a statement read out on state TV, the military officers said Bongo was under house arrest “surrounded…
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has subtly confirmed the exit of Super Falcons’ coach to the just concluded Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, Randy Waldrum, from his position as the country’s senior women national team manager. Yesterday, the NFF charged its technical committee to search for new handlers for the team ahead…
President of Gabon, Ali Bongo, was ousted on Wednesday morning by the military officers of the country. The military takeover, according to the statement released by the officers under the aegis of the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions, cited “serious institutional, political, economic and social crises” as among the factors responsible for…
A group of senior military officers has gone on national television in Gabon saying they have seized power because elections held over the weekend were not credible. The officers, appearing on Gabon24 in the early hours of Wednesday morning, said they had cancelled the elections, dissolved all state institutions and closed the country’s borders. They…
The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has charged agency heads to speed up the process of application and collection of Nigerian passports. “Nigerians should not have to queue endlessly to get passports. No, this must stop,” Tunji-Ojo was quoted as saying in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Minister of Interior, Alao…
Osun State Government will on Wednesday begin the distribution of the first batch of rice palliatives totalling 6,300 bags on a local government basis. According to a statement issued by the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Oluomo Kolapo Alimi, the committee reached the conclusion at its meeting held on Tuesday at the State Secretariat….
Like his predecessors, the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, on Tuesday vowed that the 17-year-old abandoned National Library will be completed and inaugurated by the administration of President Bola Tinubu. The minister made the vow during a tour of the edifice in the company with the National Librarian and some senior directors of the…
In a shift reaction, the Kano state chairman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Hashimu Dunguruwa has described the suspension of the presidential candidate of the party as fake news. Speaking with NIGERIAN TRIBUNE on phone from Abuja, Dungurwa said he is at a party executive meeting saying no such move was made. “I…
