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The rumour even surfaced during Conversation for Change, a question and answer session held with the vice presidential candidate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo this evening. It had also been splashed on prominent pages of many national dailies recently. It is the statement credited to the Director of Media of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode on the All Progressives Congress and its leaders that Asiwaju Tinubu would become president by asking the Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo to resign after six months in office in the belief that the President Muhammadu Buhari may have terminal health challenges. Responding, the director, Strategic Communications for the Presidential Campaign Organisation, All Progressives' Congress (APC) Mr. Dele Alake, confirmed in a press release that the emergence of the unfounded statement from "Mr. Femi Fani- Kayode who, just a few days ago, was brought to answer corruption charges, makes the messag...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the sickening and outlandish claim by the Jonathan campaign Organization that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu plans to become Vice President through the back door was designed to divert attention from the runaway success of the APC presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, at the Chatham House in London last Thursday. In a statement issued in London on Saturday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the PDP and the Jonathan Administration still do not have any answer to what has now become an epochal moment that has separated the wheat from the chaff. ”Our presidential candidate’s globally-acclaimed outing has presented Nigerians, and indeed the global community, with a choice between a bumbling, ineffective, incoherent, clueless, visionless and incompetent President and an assertive, knowledgeable, dignified, purposeful and principled President-in-waiting. ”Having failed to discredit that outing with a re...

The Federal Government on Friday further compounded fears in some quarters that the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, could be sacked before the general elections. In an answer to enquiries on government’s stand on allegation that the INEC boss would soon be asked to proceed on a terminal leave, the Federal Government through the Minister of Culture, Tourism and National Orientation, Chief Edem Duke, gave a rather ambiguous answer. He said the exit of Jega from the chairmanship of the INEC would take a natural course. Duke, who is also the supervising Mtinister of Information, spoke with journalists at the headquarters of the Ministry of Information in Abuja on Friday. While answering a question on whether the Federal Government planned to send Jaga on terminal leave before the expiration of his tenure in June, Duke said Jega would not be sacked as President Goodluck Jonathan had pledged, but added that his exit from the electoral body w...

A gown worn to the Oscars by actor Lupita Nyong’o, and stolen from her hotel, was returned on Friday after the thief discovered the 6,000 pearls on the dress were fake. The dress had been said to be worth $150,000 (£100,000) at the time of the theft – but that was when the official line was that it had 6,000 real Akoya cultured pearls sewn into it. The TMZ website said the thief took the Calvin Klein dress from Nyong’o’s room on Wednesday after finding the door ajar. The Kenyan actor had worn the dress to Sunday’s Academy Awards in one of the most commented looks of the night. The thief and others removed two pearls from the dress and took them to the garment district in Los Angeles, where they were told they were not real, according to TMZ. The thief then took the dress back to the London West Hollywood hotel and left it in a garment bag inside a rubbish bag in a bathroom, then tipped off TMZ about its location. TMZ told the LA county sheriff’s department in West Hollywood,...

Kelly Osbourne has quit Fashion Police amid controversy involving her co-host Kelly Osbourne is turning in her badge as one of the Fashion Police. The star, 30, quit E!'s long-running style series on Friday, Feb. 27, amid controversy involving her co-host Giuliana Rancic, E! News confirms. "Kelly Osbourne is departing E!'s Fashion Police to pursue other opportunities, and we would like to thank her for her many contributions to the series over the past five years, during which time the show became a hit with viewers," the network said in a statement.  "Fashion Police will return, as scheduled, on Friday, March 30th at 9:00 p.m. and no decisions have been made on her replacement." PHOTOS: Celeb feuds The outspoken Brit actually threatened to walk earlier in the week, after Rancic criticized Osbourne pal Zendaya's dreadlocks at the Oscars, saying it looked like she smelled like "patchouli oil." (She later apologized.) "I WILL NOT BE DRA...

Oh no! Someone has stolen Lupita Nyong’o’s beaded gown which she wore to the 2015 Academy Awards. The $150,000 custom-made Calvin Klein white frock, which is made of pearls, was reportedly taken from her hotel room. The Oscar winner apparently told the police about the matter Wednesday (25 Feb), and they are now looking for the suspect. Moral of the story: Know you're not yet rolling in million dollar to afford keeping an entourage (we saw you carrying your umbrella yourself at the event!) but here's why A-listers get security exclusively to guard their gown and jewels for them during before, during and after these shindigs. Such aides are equally saddled with quickly returning such items to the designer. Sigh! Hope the gown is insured.

The Ebonyi State House of Assembly has agreed to serve an impeachment notice on Governor Martin Elechi, after accusing the governor of corruption and gross misconduct. A motion for the notice to be served on the governor was approved after the acting Majority Leader of the House, Francis Nwifruru, on Friday, read details accusing Mr. Elechi of undermining the integrity of the House and committing fraudulent acts. The Ebonyi Assembly had last Wednesday, February 18, set up a panel to investigate allegations of financial misappropriation against the governor and some of his aides. The assembly took the decision following petitions it received from groups in the state, including Ebonyi Integrity Group. In one of the petitions, the embattled governor, his son, Elechi Elechi, and Edward Nkwegu, among others, were accused of contract inflation and illegal use of state funds for private gains. Before the probe panel was constituted, the House Leader, Ikechukwu Ogbu, had read the petition...

Sui I cide bombers on Thursday attacked Jos, the Plateau State capital and Biu in Borno State and killed 27 people and injured many people. In the Biu attack, 15 persons were killed, while 12 people lost their lives in the twin blasts at Jos. According to an eyewitness, the suicide bomber detonated the bomb in front of one of the Filling Stations in Biu, a town that is about 160 kilometres from Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram insurgency. He said, “The suicide bomber was few metres away from a petrol filling station when the bomb on him detonated, killing him and 14 other persons in the vicinity.” The Biu resident, who spoke to one of our correspondents on the telephone from Biu, said the suicide bomber rode a tricycle which he parked near the filling station. “He parked the tricycle some metres away from the petrol station and was working in the direction of the filling station. But the bomb detonated and killed 10 persons and injured many others before he could get to the...

Members of the All Progressives Congress in the Senate on Thursday   alleged that there was a fresh plot by the Federal Government to   prevent the   Independent National Electoral Commission Chairman,   Attahiru Jega, from superintending over the forthcoming general elections. The APC senators, led by George Akume, told   a news conference in Abuja that they heard from a reliable source that the Head of Service would direct Jega to proceed on his pre-retirement leave next week. “We have received information from a very credible source that next week, the Chairman of INEC will be given a letter from the office of the Head of the Civil Service   to proceed on a terminal leave,” they said. The opposition senators alleged that the Federal Government was trying to use a circular from the HoS   dated August 11, 2010 to place Jega on compulsory pre-retirement leave. They said, “Whether the letter emanates from the HoS o...

GEN-BUHARI-CHATHA HOUSE Prospects for Democratic Consolidation in Africa: Nigeria’s Transition. Permit me to start by thanking Chatham House for the invitation to talk about this important topic at this crucial time. When speaking about Nigeria overseas, I normally prefer to be my country’s public relations and marketing officer, extolling her virtues and hoping to attract investments and tourists. But as we all know, Nigeria is now battling with many challenges, and if I refer to them, I do so only to impress on our friends in the United Kingdom that we are quite aware of our shortcomings and are doing our best to address them. The 2015 general election in Nigeria is generating a lot of interests within and outside the country. This is understandable. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and largest economy, is at a defining moment, a moment that has great implications beyond the democratic project and beyond the borders of my dear country. So let me say upfront that the globa...

Why is it impossible for Nigerians to protest – non-violently – against the maladministration and corruption they continually face in the country despite years of bitter suffering? Not long ago, Thais donated pints of their blood to smear across government buildings, normally passive Arabs precipitated the 2012 Arab Spring and even, Burkina Faso, the tiny West African nation, widely demonstrated recently to force a desired result. Yet, my countrymen continue to silently suffer though far worse situations without doing more than raise weary eyebrows. Why can’t we shake off that lethargy and hold our leaders who have progressively assaulted our sensibilities and well-being to the worst extreme accountable? For ages, I have mulled over this question without getting answers. I turned to Sigmund Freud in his 1921’s Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego that “a primary mass is a number of individuals who have put one and the same object in place of their ego ideal and consequently i...

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says the audio file which purportedly captured some Peoples Democratic Party leaders giving orders to a general to rig the June 21, 2014 governorship elections in Ekiti State must be investigated by the Independent National Electoral Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission. Soyinka said this in a statement while reacting to a front page advert in the PUNCH sponsored by Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, in which the governor discredited the authenticity of the tape based on a report by the US that the Ekiti governorship poll was transparent. The playwright said the issue was too weighty to be dismissed without being investigated. He said since Fayose had referenced the US report, the Federal Government could also call on the US to assist in investigating the tape. Soyinka said no one would lose anything by investigating the tape since it was the job of law enforcement agencies to investigate matt...

Two weeks after former President Olusegun Obasanjo tore his Peoples Democratic Party membership card, the party claimed on Tuesday that the card being held by the former President had expired. It said that the card hitherto owned by Obasanjo was signed by the party’s former Acting National Chairman, Alhaji Kawu Baraje. Baraje has since left the party and he is now a chieftain of the main opposition party, the All Progressives Congress. While declaring his leaving the party, Obasanjo had asked the Chairman of the PDP in his ward at Abeokuta, Mr. Usman Oladunjoye, to tear his membership card. Commenting on Obasanjo’s action, the National Secretary of the party, Dr. Wale Oladipo, said the card had been changed. Oladipo spoke during a courtesy call on him by some students, who claimed to be working for the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan. He said the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, and himself signed the current cards being used by the party members. ...

Borno State-based pastor, Kallamu Musa-Dikwa, who accused the Christians Association of Nigeria of collecting N7bn bribe from President Goodluck Jonathan to campaign against the All Progressives Congress Presidential candidate in the March 28 election, has insisted that the CAN collected the said amount. Musa-Dikwa on Monday in Kaduna insisted that the Jonathan government gave CAN N7bn to campaign against the APC candidate, Maj. Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). He however said that neither Jonathan nor Buhari was fit to govern the country. The cleric said CAN collected N7bn from Jonathan and not N6bn as alleged by the Rivers State governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, who is also the Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation. Amaechi had alleged that unnamed leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party paid N6bn to Christian clerics to campaign against the APC. The allegation has caused uproar among the Christian community, with the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria and the No...

What a night! The 87th Annual Academy Awards aired live from L.A. on Sunday, Feb. 22 .  Did  Birdman  or  Boyhood  take home Best Picture? Who snagged their first Oscar ever? See which stars celebrated in the Dolby Theatre before the afterparties began! Read the complete list of winners below: PHOTOS: Stars' first Oscars Performance by an actor in a supporting role Robert Duvall in  The Judge Ethan Hawke in  Boyhood Edward Norton in  Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Mark Ruffalo in  Foxcatcher J.K. Simmons in  Whiplash **J.K. Simmons in  Whiplash PHOTOS: Stars who've never won an Oscar Achievement in costume design **The Grand Budapest Hotel , Milena Canonero Inherent Vice , Mark Bridges Into the Woods , Colleen Atwood Maleficent , Anna B. Sheppard and Jane Clive Mr. Turner , Jacqueline Durran Achievement in makeup and hairstyling Foxcatcher , Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard **The Grand Budapest Hotel , Franc...