Author: Rashaad Harris

Channels Television is collaborating with United Nations Development Programme, human rights organisation, Yiaga Africa to launch a televised programme series that will bring the 2023 presidential candidates closer to the electorate. The series will be a public platform for citizens to conduct political debates and focused dialogues to promote electoral awareness for the 2023 general election. Those to participate will include the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party; Peter Obi of the Labour Party; Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party and Omoyele Sowore of…

A young man by the name Onyedinka Esiala, who uses children suffering from fake stomach tumour to beg for alms at Mile 2, Lagos, was on Wednesday morning and given a severe beating. Esiala, who hails from Enugu State, was almost lynched. Esiala was exposed by passerby, whose name is Benedit. When asked, the suspect accused one Uche, his alleged boss, of initiating the scam. He alleged that Uche brings kids to Lagos every year he travels to the Eastern part of the country. Watch the full video below: https://youtu.be/Yy0vvZnm8zY

Innocent Idibia, one of Nigeria’s biggest music exports, paid a visit to his former school, Mount St. Gabriel Secondary School, Makurdi on Thursday evening. The singer was there to honour the school’s annual convention.

The woman whose portrait we see depicted on Nigeria’s 20 Naira note is Ladi Kwali, born 1925. She was born in the hamlet of Kwali, in the Gwari region of Northern Nigeria, where women frequently worked as potters. The iconic Nigerian ceramic artist began coiling, creating with the traditional African methods as a child. In 1954 she joined Michael Cardew’s Pottery Training Center in the village of Abjua as its only female potter. There she learned to throw on the wheel and use western high fire kilns. Ladi became Nigeria’s best-known potter, toured the world giving demonstrations and she is…

The Lagos State Police Command has rescued a day old baby wrapped in a polythene bag and dumped in a dustbin. This was disclosed in a tweet by the command’s Spokesman, Benjamin Hundeyin on his official twitter handle on Thursday evening. According to Hundeyin, if not for the quick detection, the baby would have died. He added that the baby is now doing fine and advised people to prevent pregnancy rather than killing the baby. The police image maker noted that infanticide is a crime. He wrote, “A day old baby was found wrapped in a polythene bag in a…

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu was again absent at the signing of the peace accords as the campaigns have officially commenced. Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, Omoyele Sowore of the ADC, Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP and Peter Obi of Labour Party were all present but Tinubu was represented by his running mate, Shettima Kashim. There has been rumours that Tinubu is currently in London for a health checkup, something that has been a recurring theme ever since he said it is his turn to rule Nigeria. Sowore who still believes he stands a…

American singer, Artis Leon Ivey Jr, better known as Coolio, has died at the age of 59. The passing of the rapper who took the music history by storm with hits like “Gangster’s Paradise” and “Fantastic Voyage,” was confirmed by his friend and manager Jarez Posey.Posey, in his conversation with CNN, said Coolio died Wednesday afternoon. When contacted by CNN, Capt. Erik Scott of the Los Angeles Fire Department confirmed that firefighters and paramedics responded to a call on the 2900 block of South Chesapeake Ave. at 4 p.m. local time for reports of a medical emergency. When they arrived,…

The Benue State Community Volunteer Guards arrested one Enokela Timothy who lives behind DSTV Office, Barracks Road for stealing two mounted traffic lights located at the Wadata Mortuary Gate. Three of his accomplices, Terfa, Baba Razor and Oga Bala are however on the run. Parading the suspect at their Makurdi office shortly before handing him over to the police, the BSCVG Ward Commander of Progressive Unit, Wadata Command Mr Isa Yusup said he was alerted early in the morning by an Iron scavenger popularly known as Iron Condemn that some persons had brought the two traffic lights for sale at…

A fracas broke out between a group of agberos in Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos on Wednesday.Videos seen by Switch Nigeria revealed that even though the police were on the scene of the incident, they did nothing to curtail the fight.[wpvideo 4FoXLH6L]

A police officer and a civilian were killed on Tuesday night when some angry youths attacked a police station in Oyo State. It was gathered that aside the officer that was killed, who was the Divisional Crime Officer, the DPO and another officer also sustained injuries. According to an eye witness who pleaded anonymity, the attack on the station was occasioned by the refusal of a driver to give money to the police personnel at a check-point in the area. “A man from Igangan met some police personnel at a check-point in Iganna requesting for money which the driver refused…