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Ghanaian actress and media personality, Efia Odo has reacted to a video which showed moment 77-year-old President Akufo-Addo dozed off at the recently concluded Africa Financing Summit in France. In a tweet she shared, Efia described the incident as “embarrassing” as he was sleeping on the job. She wrote in the tweet: “Falling asleep in […]
Continue ReadingAkwa Ibom State Police has arrested a soldier for the alleged murder of a businessman in Ikot Abasi Local government area of the state. It was gathered that the army officer allegedly killed the businessman and dispossessed him of his vehicle after giving him a ride on Sunday, May 23. A source from Ikot Abasi […]
Continue ReadingEbonyi state police command has said that the man killed in an explosion on Tuesday May 25 in Afikpo, Ebonyi State is a policeman and not a suicide bomber as claimed by many. An explosion which occurred opposite Amizi Amangbala Primary School in Afikpo North threw the area into panic as passersby scampered for safety. The […]
Continue ReadingComic actor, John Okafor popularly known as Mr. Ibu, and his wife, Stella, are celebrating their 11th wedding anniversary. The couple got married in 2010. An excited Mrs. Ibu via her Instagram page wrote: “Congratulations, it’s 11 years today goodness and mercy shall follow us Amen” According to reports, this is John Okafor’s second marriage.
Continue ReadingA kind of mild drama played out at the 60th birthday party of Yeni Kuti, daughter and first child of Afrobeat Legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, on Monday May 24. HipTV reported that Seun Kuti who is the pioneer of the Nigerian Resistance Movement, expressed his displeasure with Sanwo-Olu’s attendance by raising two middle fingers and […]
Continue ReadingIwollo Oghe Police Station in Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State was on Tuesday May 25, burnt down by unknown gunmen who also killed four officers. The officers died of gunshot wounds sustained in a gun duel while trying to repel the attack. The state commissioner of police, Mohammed Ndatsu confirmed the attack. He said: “The […]
Continue ReadingAccountant General of Nigerian Federation, Mr. Ahmed Idris, has said the £4.2m looted by a former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori, which the Federal Government recently repatriated from the United Kingdom, has been returned to the state. He made this known in Abuja on Tuesday when he appeared before the House of Representatives’ Ad […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigeria under-23 striker, Ibezito Ogbonna, was hospitalized after his house in Ashdod, Israel, was hit by a rocket fired from Gaza last week. The 38-year-old, who won the Israeli Cup with Hapoel Tel Aviv in 2006 and 2007, was at home with his wife and two young daughters when the building was hit by […]
Continue ReadingProf. Itse Sagay SAN, Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), has said the 1999 Constitution should be scrapped and the 1963 Republican Constitution should be amended and adopted as the country’s constitution. Sagay spoke on Monday evening while featuring on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme. The 80-year-old Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) believed that […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian Air Force is the youngest arm of the Nigerian military having been established only on April 18, 1964. In the course of its 57 years of operation, defending the air space of Nigeria and the country’s territorial integrity, the NAF has seen action in many theatres of operation: the Nigerian Civil war, Liberia, […]
Continue ReadingLagos monarch, Oba Saheed Ademola Elegushi, Kusenla 111 of Ikateland, HRH Oba Saheed Elegushi and his first wife, Olori Sekinat, celebrated their 18th wedding anniversary on Monday. To celebrate the special day, the monarch took to his Instagram page to shower praises on his wife. He wrote: “My friend from the beginning, my wife later […]
Continue ReadingPerhaps if Alois Hitler, father of a man who would later be the albatross of the whole human race, had performed a ritual which the Yoruba call the Ẹsẹ̀ntáyé – a traditional earthly journey investigation – on his son Adolf, six million Jews who were exterminated in excruciating circumstances decades later by same man who […]
Continue ReadingCommissioner for Agriculture in Sokoto State, Nigeria, Arzika Tureta, is dead. The Commissioner died at the Usmanu Danfodiyo Teaching Hospital (UDUTH) on Monday morning. One of the aides of the Sokoto State Governor, Mr. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, described the late Commissioner as humble, amiable and grassroots politician who made his mark as a politician in […]
Continue ReadingIlana Omo Oodua, the umbrella body for Yoruba self-determination groups, has responded to the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, and other Southwest All Progressives Congress leaders for opposing the agitations for Yoruba freedom. The spokesperson of Ilana Omo Oodua, Maxwell Adeleye, in an interview with The PUNCH described the APC leaders’ decision […]
Continue ReadingThe way we mourn tells something about our humanity. I read the Nigerian Army’s three-paragraph, late-night statement announcing the crash of an air force plane on Friday. It said the Chief of Army staff, Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru “and ten other officers” died in the crash. There was another follow-up three-paragraph statement from the Defence […]
Continue ReadingSouthern Governors have gotten the support of national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu and other chieftains of South-West chapter of the party like Olusegun Osoba and Bisi Akande, who met in Lagos on Sunday May 23. On Oduduwa Nation, the political leaders who discussed the issue of insecurity facing the Southwest and Nigeria as a […]
Continue ReadingTen siblings, all children of prominent Nigerian Islamic preacher and Chief Imam of the University of Maiduguri, Dr Imam Sheikh Muhammad Goni Ali Gabchiya, will wed same day. The wedding Fatiha will be held on June 25th, 2021 at the University of Maiduguri, Central Masjid. Sheikh Gabchiya is a Kanuri man but born and brought […]
Continue Reading“When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn’t 4%, it is 100%” –Thomas Freidman “There is no such thing as acceptable level of unemployment because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable and a ruined life is not acceptable” – Hubert H, Humphrey Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics […]
Continue ReadingThe late legendary Afrobeat maestro, Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s first child, Ms Yeni Kuti, turns 60 on Monday, May 24. She has released new photos to celebrate her diamond jubilee. We say congratulations to her. See more photos below:
Continue ReadingNigeria’s House of Representatives is considering discontinuation of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Alteration Bill, 2020, which is seeking to repeal the NYSC Act, is billed for the second reading. In the explanatory memorandum of the proposal, the sponsor, Mr. Awaji-Inombek Abiante, listed the various […]
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