US institute revokes Kanye West’s honourary doctorate
By Biodun Busari American rapper, Kanye West’s downfall continues as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has withdrawn an honourary doctorate awarded to him. The school said the decision on Thursday was based on the consequence of West’s anti-Semitic remarks against Black and Jewish people, CNN reports. Read also: Kanye West to […]
I wasn’t stripped naked in Nasarawa, APC chair, Adamu debunks viral video
Malam Nata’ala Mohammed, Personal Assistant on New Media to the National Chairman of APC, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, has debunked insinuations making the round that the viral video of a man stripped naked at Lafia Emir’s palace was suspected to be Adamu.
US sportswriter Grant Wahl dies covering Qatar World Cup match
By Biodun Busari American sportswriter Grant Wahl has died while covering the Netherlands and Argentina World Cup match in Qatar on Friday night. Wahl, a former Sports Illustrated journalist who later moved to Substack, died after falling back in his seat during the extra time at the corner reserved for journalists, according to SkySports. Read […]
Deploy troops to LGAs controlled by Boko Haram, Borno Speaker tells FG
By Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri The Speaker of Borno state House of Assembly, Rt Hon.Abdulkarim Lawan, has called on the federal government and the military to rescue two local government areas of the state from the control of Boko Haram insurgents. The local government areas are Guzamala and Kukawa local government areas in the northern senatorial […]
Maradona pushing us from heaven – Messi
Lionel Messi said Diego Maradona is “pushing us from heaven” after Argentina progressed to the World Cup semi-finals.
Delta group tackles Ogboru over comment on Omo-Agege
Delta State All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Governorship candidate, Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru, has come under fire over his comments on the Deputy President of the Senate and Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege in an interview he granted. Decrying the ugly development in the heart of […]
US journalist dies after collapsing at Qatar World Cup
A leading American sports reporter, who last month had a run-in with Qatar’s World Cup organisers over a rainbow LGBTQ shirt, died while covering a tense quarter-final match Friday, his family said. Grant Wahl, 48, helped build soccer’s popularity in the United States through his vivid reporting for Sports Illustrated, CBS Sports and other media. […]
Tinubu better than Peter Obi, other politicians – Reno Omokri
By Biodun Busari Former presidential media aide, Reno Omokri has said that the standard flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is better than his Labour Party (LP) counterpart, Peter Obi. Omokri, a staunch critic of both Tinubu and Obi, however, said he is only against the former Lagos state governor over […]
Calm in Baze University as Datti allows amnesty students resume exams
By Joseph Erunke THE tension generated in Baze University, Abuja, following the denial of 185 students on scholarship of Presidential Amnesty Programme from writing their ongoing semester examinations appears to have calmed down, following the intervention of the Labour Party’s vice presidential candidate and founder of the university,Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed. Recall that the affected students […]
Barbaric act in viral video not APC national chairman – Aide
Malam Nata’ala Mohammed, Personal Assistant on New Media to the National Chairman of APC, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, has debunked insinuations making round that the viral video of a man stripped naked at Lafia Emir’s palace was suspected to be Adamu.
Keyamo to PDP: Apologise to Tinubu now
Keyamo to PDP: Appologise to Tinubu now
