Controversial Nollywood actress, Nkechi Blessing Sunday has provided evidence to back up her claims of not putting on panties since she was 18 years old. Recall that she made the claim after her ex-husband, Opeyemi Falegan revealed he left her because of personal hygiene, he also said that he...
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The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, says that Africa needs to finance her own growth. Emefiele said this at the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) Live Infrastructure Solutions Summit held in Abuja on Thursday. He said that over the past two years, Africa had suffered...
Telecommunication operator, Airtel Nigeria has lamented that it has lost revenue following an order of the Federal Government to bar all outgoing calls of all Subscriber Identification Module cards not yet linked with the National Identification Number. The order became effective since April 4, 2022. According to Punch, Airtel...
Any economy that has gone down anywhere in the world was revived by lawyers. So, if you want to wake up the country, you hand it over to a lawyer. Buhari was sick for about one hundred and ten days, and he handed over this country to Osinbajo to...
Mrs Uju Ken-Ohanenye, a female All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirant, has promised to transform the country in six months if elected president in the 2023 General Elections. She said this on Wednesday in Abuja while receiving an award presented to her by Anambra women, under the umbrella “Nzuko...
The organiser of ”Coming to Africa,” a new reality competition TV show is set to offer 100, 0000 dollars to winners in its African Heritage contest. Coming to Africa is an original reality TV show bridging the gap between black cultures around the world by immersing contestants in the...
In 1999, the first private university in Nigeria was established in Okada. It was named Igbinedion University. Since then, private educators and investors have literarily taken over the Tertiary Education sector in Nigeria. However, the cost of running these private institutions continues to sky-rocket, a reflection of the economic...
At the last count, the number of aspirants for the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was over 20, and this has made predictions of who would clinche the party ticket seem mostly based on calculations that are more intuitive than certain. The justle for the party...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said Nigeria has successfully forested over 6,191,363 hectares of land through the green bond project. A statement by the President’s media aide, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Monday, said the president was speaking at the Summit of Heads of State and Government 15th...
Dr Mufutau Raji, a chartered banker, has identified insecurity and high porous borders as some of the factors responsible for the slow growth of industralisation in Nigeria. Raji said this while delivering a lecture to mark the 76th birthday of Alhaji Khamis Olatunde-Badmus, the Asiwaju Muslim Yorubaland, Edo and...
Ebonyi soccer fans have hailed the Flying Eagles’ 2-0 defeat of Black Satellites of Ghana in the ongoing West African Football Union (WAFU) Zone B, U-20 competition in Niamey. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the Eagles beat defending champions Ghana on Sunday, in its first match...
“The security situation in the country may affect voter mobilisation, deployment of personnel and materials to different parts of the country.” – INEC Mr Festus Okoye, a National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in charge of Information and Voter Education, made the above remark in a...
If there is any conversation in recent times that must not be allowed to go with political winds, as it supports the argument that Nigeria’s present political and socioeconomic challenges were created by Nigerians, accelerated by Nigerians and can only be resolved by Nigerians, it is the recent lesson/awareness...
Nigeria’s National Under-20 men football team, the Flying Eagles, on Sunday in Niamey beat their Ghanian counterpart 2-0 in the WAFU-B U-20 championship. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the opening match in Group B of the competition was played at the General Seyni Kountche Stadium, Niamey,...
Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State says he remains the most credible aspirant in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2023 presidential election. Mohammed made the declaration at the Oyo State PDP secretariat in Ibadan on Sunday. The governor called on delegates to support him at the forthcoming...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari will on Sunday leave for Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, to attend the 15th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). The president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu,...
Authorities in the United Kingdom have excluded members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and some other secessionists from seeking asylum in their country. In its updated asylum policy published in May and sighted by Channels Television, the UK explained that it took the decision as a result...
Leaders in the South East have appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. They made the plea on Friday at a meeting with the President who is on a two-day visit to Ebonyi State. The Chairman of...
Officers of the Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit Zone A, have intercepted over 1000 bags of foreign parboiled rice smuggled into the country through the Benin Republic border. The Acting Comptroller of the Unit, Hussein Ejibunu, stated this during a briefing on Thursday. Ejibunu said the rice with...
It has been revealed that the wives of Vice Chancellors of public universities are set to travel to Istanbul, Turkey for a five-day conference. This is as the ongoing strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities since February 14, 2022, entered its third month. According to...