Month: June 2022

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Entertainment

Osas Ighodaro has landed her first international award nomination.

Nollywood rave of the moment Osas Ighodaro has landed her first international award nomination for her role in Play Network Studio's 'Rattlesnake: The Ahanna Story'. Ighodaro was nominated alongside seven other African stars including Ijeoma Grace Agu, for the 'Best African Actress ' category of the Septimius Awards formerly known as NVIFF in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Confirming the nomination, the actress shared a post on Instagram from what appears to be […]

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Sports

Arsenal Bukayo Saka has been crowned player of the season.

Nigerian Born Arsenal forward Bukayo Saka has been crowned Player of the Season for 2021/22, after securing 58% of the public vote to beat Norwegian midfielder Martin Odegaard who had 22% and English shot stopper Aaron Ramsdale with 11%, on second and third respectively. The England international was the only member of Mikel Arteta’s squad to feature in every Premier League game, playing a total of3,359 minutes across 43 appearances, […]

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Foreign

García, leader of La Luz Del Mundo mega church has been sentenced to prison.

Naasón Joaquín García, the leader of the La Luz Del Mundo mega church, has been sentenced in a Los Angeles court to 16 years and eight months in prison. 53-year-old García, pleaded guilty last week to three counts of sexually abusing girls from his congregation, which made his sentence considerably shorter than the life imprisonment he could have faced had he been found guilty in a trial. To his followers, […]

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Politics

Former governorship aspirant of APGA, in Enugu State, Donatus, has decamped to the ADC.

Former governorship aspirant of All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA, in Enugu State, Donatus Obi- Ozoemena, has decamped to the African Democratic Congress ADC ahead of the 2023 general elections. The United State-based clergyman in pursuant of his 2023 ambition dumped APGA barely 9 days after he missed clinching the governorship ticket at the primary election which he had described as dishonest, stage-managed and sellout exercise. Obi-Ozoemena, who stated that his […]

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Politics

Former Governor of Lagos State has won the APC presidential primary.

Former Governor of Lagos State Bola Ahmed Tinubu has won the All Progressives Congress APC presidential primary at a special convention held in Eagle Square, Abuja, recording a land slide victory against Vice President Yemi Osibanjo, former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, and the President of the Senate Ahmad Lawan. The Governor of Kebbi State Atiku Bagudu, yesterday returned Tinubu as the elected candidate having scored the highest number of […]

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Entertainment

American rapper Kanye West has broken up with Chaney Jones.

American rapper Kanye West has broken up with Chaney Jones after vacationing in Tokyo together. The couple's relationship reportedly went south upon returning home from their Tokyo getaway in May, but they still follow each other on Instagram even though she has deleted all their photos from her page. The Fashion entrepreneur and Chaney who is considered the doppelganger of Kim Kadashian first made the headlines in February after they […]

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Sports

NFF has appealed to fans to steer clear of the Moshood Abiola Stadium.

The Nigeria Football Federation NFF has appealed to fans to steer clear of the Moshood Abiola Stadium, Abuja tomorrow as the Super Eagles host the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone in their 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matchday one clash. The game will be played behind a closed door because of the one-match ban placed on the country by the world football governing body, FIFA over the violence that […]

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Foreign

A teacher wounded in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, has criticised police as cowards.

A teacher wounded in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, has criticised police as cowards for delaying acting while his pupils were killed, stating that they had a bulletproof vest and he had non. In a harrowing interview Reyes, said he told his students to pretend to be asleep during the shooting, with eleven of them killed when the gunman raided his classroom and an adjacent classroom for over an […]

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Politics

The Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde has announced Bayo Lawal as his running mate.

The Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde has announced Bayo Lawal as his running mate ahead of the 2023 elections after dropping his Deputy, Rauf Olaniyan. Makinde made the announcement yesterdayduring a meeting with some Peoples Democratic Party PDP leaders from the Oke Ogun zone. Some of the PDP leaders who were at the meeting were former PDP Chairman in the state, Kunmi Mustapha, his successor, Dayo Ogungbenri and Hosea […]

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