Popular comedian, Babatunde Omidina, a.k.a Baba Suwe, has returned to Nigeria from the United States where he spent the past one month in a hospital at Rhodes Island, near New York, receiving treatment for complications arising from diabetes and other ailments. The comedian arrived in Nigeria a few days ago and at once, visited Sheraton…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Monday conducted a supplementary Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination for 490 candidates whose ComputerBased Test centres were earlier suspended for malpractices and other infractions. The UTME was held in JAMB CBT centre in Kogo, Abuja, JAMB Bayelsa State office, Yenagoa and JAMB National Headquarters in Bwari, Abuja. The board…
Music Mogul, Jay–Z is now, according to a new Forbes magazine, the first rapper to amass a fortune in the ten-figure range. “It’s clear that Jay-Z has accumulated a fortune that conservatively totals $1 billion, making him one of only a handful of entertainers to become a billionaire—and the first hip-hop artiste to do so,” the magazine…
The West African Examinations Council has said that it has arrested some supervisors and candidates, who tried to undermine the integrity of its ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination. The council’s Head, National Office, Mr Olu Adenipekun, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Lagos. NAN reports that…
The Imo state governor, Emeka Ihedioha, has given the immediate past Governor of Imo, Rochas Okorocha up to midnight of Tuesday, June 4, 2019, to do a proper handover to his government. Ihedioha spoke at the Government House in Owerri, during the swearing into office of the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Uche Onyeaguocha…
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, received the report of the Presidential Panel on the Reform of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad. On the verified Twitter handle of the Presidency, Buhari said, “Today I received the Report of the Presidential Panel on the Reform of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad. We constituted the Panel as a result of…
A Coalition of Civil Society Organisations has raised the alarm over alleged raid, harassment, intimidation and molestation of Nigerians living in Malaysia, by the Malaysian Police. It accused the Malaysian police of setting up Nigerians living in Malaysia and getting them to face death sentences for alleged offences not committed by them, if they failed…
The police on Monday arraigned one Caroline Afor in a Kubwa Grade I Area Court for allegedly stealing a he-goat, valued at N8, 000. Afor, who resides in Kubwa village, Abuja is charged with theft. The Prosecution Counsel, Chinedu Ogada told the court that one Kajida Umar of Arab Road, Kubwa reported the matter at…
Operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons have arrested a pastor of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, Gwarinpa branch, David Onyekachuku, for allegedly raping and impregnating a 16-year-old girl. Onyekachuku, 48, who hails from Nsukka in Enugu State, had met the victim, a Junior Secondary School 2 pupil…
A former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, John Odigie-Oyegun, has criticised the leadership style of his successor and incumbent National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole. According to him, Oshiomhole lacks the temperament and capacity to run a political party. Odigie-Oyegun stated this in his response to a communique issued by the South-South APC State Chairmen,…