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The supreme council for Islamic affairs is a body greatly influenced and financed by arewa North. The Bashorun at Oyo is secretly affiliated with this group. In the recent attempt to bring sharia to Oyo. he was nominated as the ...

We managed to get in touch with one of Ooduarere.com renowned authors, a political scientist, public commentator, and strong neocolonialist activist about a publication flying all over social media allegedly from Dr. Fẹmi Adegoke, Kẹmi Badenoch’s father. This is what ...

Mr Babalola who made this known on Friday at a press conference, held at the Afe Babalola Bar Centre in Ado-Ekiti, said the destructive action can’t be remedied by award of damages. The founder of Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Afe Babalola ...

By Solomon Odeniyi Court papers filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have linked the immediate-past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, to the massive Abuja property with 753 duplexes and other apartments located in the Cadastral ...

Jake Sullivan’s email to Hillary Clinton, released by WikiLeaks, refers to a situation in Syria during the early stages of the Syrian war, around 2012. Sullivan, who was then serving as a senior foreign policy advisor to Clinton, acknowledged in ...

Somair, the Nigerien branch of the French uranium miner Orano suspends uranium mining from October 31 due to its inability to export uranium concentrate, a French media reported. “Somair’s worsening financial difficulties have compelled the company to suspend its operations,” ...

“I cut up and dissolved Lumumba’s body in acid. In the middle of the African night, we started by getting drunk to have courage. We got rid of the bodies. The hardest part was cutting them into pieces with a ...

Nigeria’s $20 billion Dangote Refinery, Africa’s biggest refinery that opened earlier this year, is now using the national currency, the Naira, instead of the U.S. dollar to buy crude oil from the state oil corporation.  This move follows a July ...

There is this trending propaganda by some groups trying to twist history by asserting that Northern Emirs killed Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto. They even created a #FakeNews headline on a Newswatch front cover purporting to say that. ...

Gmail has become the latest instrument of tech giant Google to censor African Stream. On 1 October, the multinational US corporation locked us out of its Workspace application, causing us to lose access to two years of email messages and ...