Shooting Stars of Ibadan might have defeated Federation Cup winner, Heartland FC 1-0 at the Obafemi Awolowo Stadium in last weekend week 35 games of the Nigerian Premier League, but still has not scale through the bar of relegation.
At the last All Africa Games in Maputo, Mozambique, Nigerian sports officials were grateful to the sport of athletics for bailing out Nigeria from embarrassment. And the sports minister, Yusuf Suleiman indicated that the country’s athletes will be given all the required support to excel at the London 2012 Olympics.
I did a short stint as a fashion magazine editor and it was one of the most surreal experiences I’ve had in my life. Production itself was a delight, what I could never get a hang of was the intrigue and backstabbing. We spent more time engaged in office politics than we did in creating the product. Anyways, that’s not the moral of today’s story.
Victoria O. Adigun is in her early 20’s and a Nigerian youth in the Diaspora. She is passionate about developing the Nigerian entertainment industry through her efforts to work against every negative image that is damaging to the country.
Ace-actor and comedian, Nkem Owoh popularly called Osuofia has a way of paying homage to a dear colleague or a friend whether dead or alive.
Franca Ogbu, a 22-year-old student of Federal University of Technology, Yola, Adamawa State, used to be the cynosure of all eyes . In fact, several suitors have reportedly sought her hand in marriage, a request she often rejected politely, on the ground that she must at least, be in the university before thinking about marriage.
One of Africa’s most successful female musicians of all time, Onyeka Onwenu, is a sad woman. The elegant stallion as the Imo State born crooner is better known is devastated following the death of her mother Madam Hope Onwenu.
A notorious gang of drug traffickers operating within Ondo State that specialize in inter-state trafficking in illicit drugs recently met their waterloo after operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), intercepted a Hilux vehicle belonging to Ondo State Government allegedly used in conveying over 316.65kg of dried weeds found to be cannabis into Lagos State.
Sadiq Ahmed, five years old, is groaning in pains. He seldoms sleeps and when he does, it will be only for few minutes. He hardly talks and when he does, saliva surges out in large volumes.
This year’s edition of the annual Montreux Comedy Festival which is due to hold in Geneva, Switzerland, from December 1 through 5, is bound to witness a new twist as Nigerian comedians makes their debut at the festival.
