*68-Year-Old Grandmother Alleges: How Mrs Mrakpor, Brother, Aides Beat Me Up Into Coma as My Grand Son opposed her Political Ambition... *Mrs Joan Mrakpor Replies Grandmother: It's a Politically Motivated Blackmail Against Me Because My Brother Just Won PDP Primary... From Ameachi Prosper (The New Diplomat's Delta & Edo States Correspondent) The Director-General, Delta State…
...Says Death Saddening Professor Femi Odekunle, a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, (PACAC) is dead. Odekunle, Nigeria’s first professor of criminology died of Covid-19 on Tuesday at 77. Before his passage, reports said he had spent about 12 days at the Gwagwalada isolation centre in the Federal Capital Territory. Earlier, Secretary to…
Says Olaniwun Ajayi, Femi Okurounmu Are dishonest, deceitful, dishonorable... Reveals: Tinubu Provided Largesse of Houses for Some of them in Victoria Island... Two term former civilian President and former military Head of State, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has debunked insinuations to the effect that he has Igbo ancestry, stressing that his two parents are of complete…
Amidst growing concerns and divided views over the state of the nation message delivered on Christmas Day by Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, Bishop Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, the National Directorate of Social Communications of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria in Abuja, has risen in defence of the religious leader. In the statement entitled, "A…
Fani-Kayode: Bakare's Statement Opportunistic, Dishonorable, Sycophantic... Tunde Bakare: For the Sake of Femi's Mother..., I Will Hold My Peace for Now Fiery Lagos-based cleric, Pastor Tunde Bakare of Latter Rain Assembly and outspoken former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode have engaged themselves in a fiery war of words over former Lagos state governor and one…
Some Niger Delta militants have asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Federal Government to vacate some properties purportedly owned by ex-militant warlord, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo within thirty days. The militants who vowed to launch a regime of renewed hostilities in the Niger Delta region should their demand is…
*Benin Chief: It's All Lies And Propaganda... Comrade Philip Shaibu, the Deputy Governor of Edo State, has sounded the alarm that the immediate past national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole is plotting to use the judiciary to invalidate the election of Governor Godwin Obaseki as the duly elected governor…
The leadership of the House of Representatives have reportedly tendered an apology to President Muhammadu Buhari for summoning him to appear at the Lower Legislative Chambers. The New Diplomat's checks also reveal that the House leadership under the headship of its speaker, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila and members of the House have already initiated steps to…
The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has urged Nigerians to use the occasion of the Yuletide celebrations to renew their commitment to the promotion of the values of tolerance, brotherhood and unity among all groups in the country. In his Christmas message, Senator Omo-Agege also called on Christians to imbibe the virtues…