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The gubernatorial candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Mohammed Buba Marwa, over the weekend, obtained his voter’s card at his Michika hometown in Adamawa State where he called on Nigerians to support the Independent National Electoral Commission. The Nigerian envoy to South Africa, with his voter’s card in his hands, told citizens of the state of voting age…
About 12 suspected cult members reportedly invaded and robbed patients at the Agbarho General Hosptal located on the outskirts of Agbarho, a quiet town in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State last week. The hoodlums entered the hospital premises through the back of the hospital. Behind the hospital are about six acres of land, mostly used for farming.…
Tragedy struck in the camp of the Ondo State chapter of the Labour Party yesterday when one of the leaders of the party, Yesiru Oladele, died after becoming unconscious while reading a newspaper at his Ijapo residence in the Akure metropolis. Mr. Oladele who was until his death, the chairperson of the Ondo State Local Government Service Commission, died around…
Still basking in the euphoria of winning the 2010 Next Movie Star reality television show, Akio Precious Ilami is now squaring up to the busy life of an accustomed actress. For the past four weeks, the 20-year-old University of Jos Linguistic student, alongside other housemates in the recently concluded popular television show, has been on the location of Dormitory 8,…
The Ekiti State government has concluded arrangements to set up mobile courts to prosecute flouters of the monthly environmental sanitation exercise The state governor, Kayode Fayemi disclosed this at Oye Ekiti in Oye Local Government Area of the state while monitoring the environmental exercise in the state over the weekend. He noted that people of the state did not comply…
The Action Congress of Nigeria(ACN) Senatorial candidate for Abia North, Jerry Eze, has decried the non-development of the area over the years. He said that in spite of the fact that the area was strategic to the development of the state it has not witnessed commensurate development. Mr Eze told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ohafia, Abia, that…
The fortune of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) in Kwara State received a boost over the weekend with the defection of thousands of members from Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to its fold. The ACPN is the new political platform for the strongman of Kwara politics; Olusola Saraki, the father of the…
BY BENJAMIN NJOKU If you have seen actress Ngozi Nwaosu recently, perhaps, two things are bound to engage your mind; one, that the actress has fallen on bad times and secondly, she has re-invented herself. Whichever way, you want to look at it, you may not be far from the truth. The initially robust-looking, yet fair-complexioned actress is at the…
After wowing Nigerians, especially movie buffs at a classy and well-attended world premiere, which held at posh and pristine Four Points, Lekki, Lagos, Vivian Ejike’s latest film, “A Private Storm’, is poised to storm cinemas nationwide. The big budget production from the stable of the multiple awards winning top female film producer, will sensationally saunter into cinemas on Friday, February…
By Lolade Sowoolu Which young person made the most remarkable contribution in 2010 and is worthy of emulation? That among many more answers will be provided at the sixth edition of The Future Awards holding tomorrow in Lagos. Seyi Law, Ini Edo and Don Jazzy After 3 months of a rigorous judging process, The Future Awards (TFA) released its final…
Kaduna Polytechnic will be closed down indefinitely as the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) of the school in a congress last Friday declared a strike action, accusing the school management of fraudulently managing the school finances. Infuriated by the school management's decision to stop the payment of their allowances, which it claims is a nationwide agreement which has been…
Residents of Lagos Island Constituency II still have not found any comprehensible explanation to the outcome of the Action Congress of Nigeria's state House of Assembly primary election and they have regarded the exercise as a sham. Some of the residents, who claimed to be members of the Action Congress of Nigeria expressed shock over the emergence of Wahab Alawiye-King,…
We used to be called ‘Bendel number one’ because we were number one in everything we did. In education and sports we were number one and in crime we were number one, we were so number one in everything that once you find any Bendelite anywhere in the nation outside Bendel state, you would hear “up Bendel”. I still tell…
Pretty Nollywood actress Lilian Bach has finally broken the jinx, as she brings Bollywood stars to feature in a Nollywood flick. Lilian Bach and Yemi Blaq HVP gathered that the half-cast actress is producing a romantic movie, where she is featuring some actors from Bollywood. She’s said to have concluded the Lagos leg of the shooting of the film last…
By Aramide Pius Actress Mercy Aigbe in this interview, bares her mind, especially on the issue of her alleged snatching of someone else’s husband. Hear her own story… How do you feel when people meet you and gush that they are so happy to meet you? Mummy Mercy I feel really loved because that means they appreciate what I do.…