WOBIS PODIUM

Opeyemi Bamidele, senator representing Ekiti central, says he is not convinced that President Muhammadu Buhari is aware of the security challenges facing the country. Bamidele, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), said this on Tuesday on the floor of the senate while contribut…

IYABO OJO BLASTS HER COLLEAGUES IN THE MOVIES INDUSTRY DEFENDING BABA IJESHA WHO ALLEGEDLY DEFILED A 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL Nollywood actress Iyabo Ojo has lashed out at her colleagues in the movie industry who have been defending actor 'Baba Ijesha' after news of him allegedly defiling…

Today, there is an unfortunate fashion in public discourse that makes leaders in politics, religion, and civil society liable in the present for every statement they have ever made in the past – no matter how long ago, and even after they have later rejected them. This insidious phenomeno…

Human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), says the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, is unfit to oversee critical digital and telecommunications agencies of government because “his antecedents are quite worrisome”. Ozekhome, in a statement on Thursday titled, ‘I…

I don’t know who is behind Pantami’s current travails (which would most likely amount to nothing under a Buhari government), and I wonder why they waited this long. The man was appointed into office as DG, NITDA and his profile was seriously hyped back then in 2016, as one of the smartest…

Reno Omokri,    a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan,   has reacted to the renouncement of terrorists' statement made by Minister of Communications and Digital Economy,  Isa Pantami. It would be recalled that the minister better known as Sheikh Pantami in the North has be…

“Adedeji just came back to Nigeria from Los Angeles where he had lived and worked for 20years as a cleaner and menial labourer. His friends Tayo and Jelili were so happy to receive their childhood friend who at 45 is yet to be married and have kids. His last twenty years has been full of …

Jose Mourinho has been sacked as manager of Tottenham Hotspurs on Monday morning less than a week to Manchester City clash in the Carabao final. Tottenham have been struggling this season to make an entry into the top four of the EPL log table, to stand a chance of playing European footba…

The Minister of Defence, retired Maj.-Gen. Bashir Magashi has made a rallying call to Nigerian soldiers to find Boko Haram terrorists and bring them to their knees despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime’s repeated claims that it had defeated the recalcitrant terrorist group. He also …

David Oyedepo, the bishop and leader of Living Faith Church Worldwide, on Saturday, told his audience that he would not take the COVID-19 vaccine because he is not a guinea pig. Mr Oyedepo made the statement during the church’s covenant hour of prayer, a program Peoples Gazette learnt i…

Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, says the claims by Edo state, Godwin Obaseki that Federal Government printed about N60 Billion to share to the federating units in March cannot be regarded as spurious. The governor, has meanwhile challenged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) t…