Insecurity: Ignore Nnamdi Kanu’s security outfit – South East Governors
By Peter Okutu THE Chairman of South East Governors Forum and Governor of Ebonyi State, Engr. David Umahi, weekend called on the people of the region to ignore the so-called security outfit set up by the leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Umahi who described the outfit as laughable […]
Police, vigilante rescue 84 Katsina students kidnapped by bandits
By Bashir Bello A fresh attack by bandits last Saturday night to kidnap another set and scores of Islamic school students have been foiled in Dandume local government area of Katsina State. Information from the area revealed that the students (Islammiyya students) numbering over hundred attend Maulud celebration in a neighbouring village, Unguwar Al-Kasim, and […]
COVID-19: Lagos taskforce seals Cubana nightclub, others for flouting Sanwo-Olu’s directive
By Olasunkanmi Akoni Lagos State special taskforce has shut down Cubana nightclub, Ikeja GRA, and other facilities for defying the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s ban on the activities of nightclubs in the state occasioned by rising cases of COVID-19 pandemic. According to report, the operation was carried out by joint efforts of the […]
Mo Abudu launches Creative Academy in collaboration with Lagos’s LACI
By Juliet Ebirim The EbonyLife Creative Academy (ELCA), a groundbreaking initiative supported by the Lagos State Government through Lagos State Creative Industries Initiative (LACI), under the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture, has been declared open for registration. The academy was conceived by EbonyLife CEO – Mo Abudu in response to the growing shortage […]
Ondo Rep member, Hon Gboluga Ikengboju, empowers 400 constituents
Dayo Johnson – Akure No fewer than 400 persons have benefited from another empowerment programme facilitated by the lawmaker representing Okitipupa/Irele Federal Constituency in Ondo State at the National Assembly, Hon Gboluga Dele Ikengboju. Grants were given to individuals to begin Small Scale Businesses in the entrepreneurship programme. The event which took place at Ilutitun […]
Agbonayinma drops gospel single “Bigger Than The World”
Honourable Ehiozuwa Johnson Agbonayinma formerly representing Egor/Ikpoba-okha Constituency, Edo State at the Federal House of Representatives has released a reggae gospel single titled “Bigger Than The World”. The single was released on all digital platforms on Saturday and it has since been generating comments and some positive reviews. While many may be caught short that […]
US planning to close last consulates in Russia
Donald Trump’s outgoing administration is planning to close the two remaining US consulates in Russia, the State Department confirmed Saturday, as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office amid high tensions with Moscow. The US will close its consulate in the far eastern city of Vladivostok and suspend operations at its post in Yekaterinburg, a […]
Influential Nigerians jittery about release of movie on IBB — Filmmaker, Obi Emelonye
By BENJAMIN NJOKU Multiple award-winning film maker, Obi Emelonye has revealed why the highly anticipated biopic on the former Nigerian military Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida titled ‘Badamosi: Portrait of a General’ has not been released in the cinemas more than a year after he commenced shooting of the film. According to Emelonye, the […]
Why I don’t listen to rap music any more – Rapper, Traidmarc
By Benjamin Njoku With so many emerging talents trying to rap these days, one believes that rappers would enjoy feeding off each other’s songs for inspiration. But this is not so, with Austrian-based Nigerian rapper, McDonald Emiantor, popularly known as Traidmarc. Traidmarc recently revealed that he doesn’t listen to rap music any more even though […]
For children, it’s crisis within crisis, as COVID-19 escalates hunger, malnutrition
By Chioma Obinna The World Health Organisation, WHO, and the United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF, have continued to express concern at the potential impact of COVID-19 on hunger, which is likely to escalate the burden of malnutrition among children, particularly in Nigeria. They also note that the impact of the disease is expected to be […]
Murder of Delta gov’ship candidate: Judicial panel of inquiry receives evidence
By Gab Ejuwa Delta State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality and Extra-Judicial Killings has received evidence on the murder of former governorship candidate of Citizens Popular Party (CPP) in the state, Chief Ogbe Onokpite. An affidavit stating the facts of police brutality and extra-judicial killing of Onokpite, signed by Ben Okpo Onokpite and […]
MEDICAL TREATMENT ABROAD: ‘I saw many Nigerians in US and UK dying’
Dr William Egbuma, Healing Disciple of God and Knight of the Holy Grail, argues that deplicating high techology hospitals abroad in Nigeria will “rather cost much more in money and lives”. Someone had suggested in Vanguard Newspapers recently that the answer to medical tourism which benefits only the political class and very rich individuals and […]
RIVERS BLOODY UNREST: ‘Police bullet still lodged inside my body’
…Activists, victims contradict security agency on death toll on Human Rights Day murder By Egufe Yafugborhi On a day the world marked the 2020 World Human Rights Day, the atmosphere in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, was so irreconcilable with the spirit of the day. That fateful Thursday, in Rukpokwu, Obio Akpor Local Government Area […]
OYINKANSOLA: I lived in Mushin for 18 years, sold ice-water, did car-wash
By Josephine Agbonkhese A member of the International Coaching Federation, ICF, and the British Psychological Society, Oyinkansola Alabi is the only female CEO of an Emotional Intelligence Academy in Africa. Popularly known as Emotions Doctor, the Cornell University-trained Human Resource Executive is the lead researcher and facilitator at acclaimed Africa’s leading emotional intelligence centre, Emotions […]
POLICE TO BUHARI ON SPECIAL GRATUITY: Help us avoid old age in penury
…as PFNPensions makes top five By Ikechukwu Amaechi To say that the police have, for too long, been the people’s bête noire is to say the fact. Yet, if there is any issue the #EndSARS protests, which rocked the country in October brought to the fore, it is the other fact, which is, Nigerian policemen hold […]
Atheists to save historic wooden German church plank by plank
Ask Hans Powalla if he is a believer and the immediate response is a firm “no”. Yet he and other villagers in and around the German town of Stiege have embarked on the Herculean task of saving a picturesque church by moving it from the middle of a forest into the centre of town. Former […]
