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About 24 hours after news hit the media space that veteran Nollywood actor, Toyese Onifade Oloyo had passed on, another actor has followed the same path. Reports have it that popular Yoruba Actor, Gbolahan Adio Majester died today, Tuesday, May 7, 2019. The actor is said to have died after a long battle with diabetes. […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian movie industry seems to have been thrown into mourning after a veteran actor and drumer, Toyese Onifade Oloyo, reportedly passed away. According to reports from Yoruba Movie Gist.com, the actor was down with a stroke and he lost the battle three weeks later. Oloyo who was also known as a drummer is […]
Continue ReadingMexican authorities have found the remains of a plane that disappeared after leaving from Las Vegas, amid reports that all 14 people on board were killed. The wreckage of the plane, a Bombardier Challenger 601, crashed in the mountainous region of Monclova, while on route to the northern Mexican city of Monterrey. The remains were […]
Continue ReadingPeoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for the immediate and unconditional release of its Governorship Candidate in Osun, Sen. Ademola Adeleke, arrested by the police in Abuja. The Party National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, made the call at a press conference on Monday in Abuja. Ologbondiyan condemned the arrest, describing it as unconstitutional, provocative […]
Continue ReadingOfficers from the Lagos state police command have rescued a two-year-old child, Esther Ojo, abducted from the Mountain of Fire and Miracle Church (MFM) regional headquarters in Agege in March. Baby Esther was in church with her parents when she was kidnapped by two men and held for over two months while they demanded a […]
Continue ReadingAfter honoring an invitation at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, on Monday, the Police have opted to detain Senator Ademola Adeleke, also the 2018 PDP governorship candidate for Osun State. The Federal High Court in Abuja had granted the senator the permission to travel to the United States of America for medical check-up. The trip had […]
Continue ReadingWith the spate of kidnappings constantly on the increase and sweeping across the south-west states and other geopolitical zones at large, rights activist, Jiti Ogunye has likened the scenario to that of the slave trade era. According to Ogunye, a lawyer, the vast forests of Yoruba land have been taken over by kidnappers and bandits, […]
Continue ReadingSuspected kidnappers have abducted Professor Olayinka Adegbehingbe of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, while he was on his way to Ife from Ibadan on Sunday May 5. According to reports, Adegbehingbe who lectures at the College of Health Sciences, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, OAU, was kidnapped at about 9:15 pm. OAU Chief […]
Continue ReadingMeghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has given birth to a boy, her husband Prince Harry announced in a statement to television cameras on Monday, adding that mother and baby were “doing incredibly well”. “I am very excited to announce that Meghan and myself had a little boy early this morning — a very healthy boy,” […]
Continue ReadingGovernor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has disclosed how Lagosians can unseat godfathers in politics of the State. The governor spoke yesterday in Lagos at an event organised by the Bridge Club tagged: “An evening with His Excellency, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State.” He noted that the key to defeating godfathers was […]
Continue ReadingForty-one people died after a Russian plane made an emergency landing and burst into flames just after takeoff from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. Dramatic video shows passengers using emergency exit slides to escape the burning Aeroflot aircraft. Survivors suggest the plane was struck by lightning, but Russia’s national carrier said that it returned to the airport […]
Continue ReadingThe Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of New Telegraph Newspapers, Mrs. Funke Egbemode, has been re-elected President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE). Egbemode won the position unopposed at the guild`s 2019 Biennial Convention at the weekend in Lagos. The convention with theme: “Media Convergence as Strategy for Survival,’’ had hundreds of editors in attendance. Other officials […]
Continue ReadingLagos lawyer and activist, Femi Falana SAN, has mocked the position of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the nationality of Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria’s former vice president. He spoke at the weekend during a press freedom conference organized by the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ). Atiku and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are […]
Continue ReadingThe Director of Strategic Communication of the Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organization, Festus Keyamo SAN, has reacted to a recent report where Yusuf Buhari, son of President Buhari was reported to have emerged as the fourth richest child of sitting presidents, purportedly rated by Forbes. Keyamo accused the supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), of […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has departed London, United Kingdom, for Nigeria after his private visit that sources have confirmed was a medical trip, according to SaharaReporters. His plane, a Boeing 737 Business, is said to have left Standsted Airport in London at about 12:20pm. On April 24, Buhari had left the country for London without […]
Continue ReadingEx-Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, on Sunday remembered his former principal, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. The late president, Musa Yar’Adua passed away on May 5, 2010. Jonathan, in a Facebook post, hailed the former Katsina Governor who later became Nigerian president for his service to the country. He wrote: “On this day nine […]
Continue ReadingAmnesty International (AI) has spoken about allegations of rape of some commercial ladies in Abuja by some men of the Nigeria Police. The ladies had made the claim after they were arrested during a raid by the agents of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) Joint Task Team, which comprised the Department of Development Control, Abuja […]
Continue ReadingA human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana at the weekend said President Muhammadu Buhari had turned Nigeria into a banana republic, citing prevailing cases of banditry, insurgency and violence that beclouded the country. Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), added that Buhari’s civilian administration was apparently worse than the military rule he presided over […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian student schooling at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada has cried out over her alleged racist experience. The lady identified as Ife had taken to Twitter, to share her experience of ‘racism and discrimination’. In a video she shared on the social media platform, Ife explained that she is a student at the […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian civil servant with Delta state, has been rewarded for his display of honesty after he returned N53 million paid erroneously into his bank account by the state government. Mr. Benson Efeotor who works with the Delta State Ministry of Finance (Project E-Delta) was erroneously paid N53,121,650 by the state government. He went to […]
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