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The value of naira to dollar fell from N196.92 in June 2015 to N414.72 in June 2022, worsening Nigeria’s foreign debt burden. Within the seven years under review, the naira depreciated by 52.52 per cent against the US dollar. The Monthly Average Exchange Rates of the Naira (Naira Per Unit of Foreign Currency) for 2015 […]
Continue ReadingA Kenyan woman and her two children have been killed by her husband in Louisville, Kentucky, United States in what police suspect to be murder-suicide. Around 9:30a.m. on Saturday, December 3, 2022, Louisville Metro Police officers were called to respond to the 4500 block of East Pages Lane on a report of a shooting with […]
Continue ReadingNigerian star singer, Damini Ogulu popularly known as Burna Boy, headlined a show in France over the weekend but one of the highlights of the event was his mother, Bose Ogulu, leaving his fans shocked with her fluent French. It was also learnt that Bose who is Burna Boy’s manager, speaks Italian and German languages […]
Continue ReadingDeborah Enenche, daughter of the Founder and Senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre (DIGC), Pastor Paul Enenche, has released her pre-wedding photos. Deborah is getting married to Sam Hawthorn Uloko, founder of Hawthorn Media and the head of the media unit at Dunamis Headquarters in Abuja. Sharing their pre-wedding photos, she wrote: “Thank you […]
Continue ReadingFootball legend, Pele has been moved to the palliative care unit in the hospital as the 82-year-old Brazilian is not responding to chemotherapy on his bowel cancer, reported Brazilian Daily Folha. Pele is admitted at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo since Tuesday and the last official medical bulletin from the hospital said he […]
Continue ReadingNigerian gospel star artist, late Sammie Okposo who unfortunately died on November 25, 2022, was reported to have been romantically linked with some three famous Nigerian women in the past before he got married to his wife. In January, social media was awash with the news that the popular Gospel singer, Sammie Okposo, confessed to […]
Continue ReadingNigerian actress, author, content creator, purity advocate, speaker, influencer and abstinence advocate, Juliana Olayode has opened up on some of the challenges she’s been facing while being a proponent of sexual purity until marriage. In a video she shared, Juliana revealed that she has never struggled sexually the way she has in the past few […]
Continue ReadingAmerican star actress, singer, and television personality, Lauren Keyana Palmer, better known as Keke Palmer, 29, is pregnant and expecting her first baby with boyfriend Darius Jackson. Keke, who started acting as a child actress at the age of 9, disclosed this while hosting Saturday Night Live on Saturday, Dec 3. She said: “There’s some rumors […]
Continue ReadingAhead of the 2023 general election, Mr. Ray Ugba Morphy, former special adviser to one-time National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun, has dumped the party. The APC chieftain was also a member of the APC Presidential Council in 2019, a member of APC National Campaign Councils to many states and a […]
Continue ReadingPresidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, and his running mate, Dr. Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed have in conjunction with the party, released a 72-paged manifesto titled “Pact with Nigeria” in which they outlined 7 priority areas if elected into office come 2023. The document was made public by the LP leadership late […]
Continue ReadingThe compelling virtue of the Afenifere endorsement of the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi and the countervailing tirade of the Anambra state governor, Charles Soludo, can be reduced to the theoretical distinction between patriotism and nationalism. Unlike nationalism, good citizenship or patriotism is not a function of racial/ethnic identity. It is a conscientious Yoruba […]
Continue ReadingThe beautiful, busty and plumpy Nigerian actress, Peju Johnson, has said that if the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, proposes marriage to her, she might accept it. Recall that within months, the Ooni had recently married six wives in quick succession. The Osun State born actress told Punch “I may accept. But, it’s a ‘may […]
Continue ReadingHis Holiness, Pope Francis on Tuesday expressed his condolences to the family of late Bishop Richard Kuuia Baawobr of Ghana and his diocese of Wa in the north of the West African country. The Bishop died on Sunday at the age of 63, three months after his appointment as cardinal by Pope Francis. The Holy […]
Continue ReadingOn the eve of the Presidential Town Hall meeting organised by Arise News for candidates of the major four political parties, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, on Saturday morning, left the country for United Kingdom. A statement issued on Saturday by Director of Media and Publicity for APC Presidential Campaign Council, […]
Continue ReadingLast week, the Governor of Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, met the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, at an event in Awka, Anambra, and they exchanged warm greetings like politicians are wont to do, despite the uncomplimentary remarks Soludo made about Obi recently. Soludo said at the event that he would […]
Continue ReadingMrs. Aisha Buhari has withdrawn the criminal defamation case against Aminu Mohammed, a student of Federal University, Dutse, who was arrested for allegedly defaming her on Twitter sometime back, following pressure and condemnation by activists, Amnesty International, the National Association of Nigerian Students, and other citizens. Her lawyer, Fidelis Ogbobe, was at the Federal Capital […]
Continue ReadingAt first, the story of First Lady Aisha Buhari ordering the arrest and detention of a young man who had made fun of her physical appearance seemed improbable. I insisted to the person who shared the story with me that there had to be more to the account. There was no way Mrs Buhari would […]
Continue ReadingAmerican television personality, actress, and author, Porsha Dyanne Williams has shared photos from her Edo traditional wedding. The Real Housewives of Atlanta star had multiple wedding ceremonies last weekend as she becomes the wife of Simon Guobadia, who is a Nigerian-American businessman. To honour her new husband’s ancestry, they also had an Edo traditional wedding. The […]
Continue ReadingIn October 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel over its occupation of the Golan Heights and Sinai Peninsula, two Arab territories. With the now-defunct Soviet Union (read Russia) backing Egypt and Syria, the US automatically queued behind Israel. Arab countries, in solidary with Egypt and Syria, retaliated by placing an oil […]
Continue Reading27-year-old suspected Yahoo boy, Obeta John, was on Tuesday, November 29, arrested by men of Ogun state Police Command for allegedly killing his girlfriend, one Idowu Buhari, an HND1 Mass Communication student of Gateway polytechnic Saapade. The spokesperson of the state police command, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the arrest, said the suspect was picked […]
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