Month: June 2025

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Entertainment

NIGERIAN CELEBRITIES NOMINATED FOR 2025 TREND-UPP AFRICA AWARDS.

Some Nigerian celebrities have been nominated for the 2025 Trendupp Africa Awards.  The social media personalities nominated for the 2025 edition of Trendupp Awards include; popular Nigerian chess player, Tunde Onakoya, alongside Bimbo Ademoye, Stan Nze, Veekee James, Nancy Isime, Omoni Oboli, Regina Daniels, Aproko Doctor, Priscilla Ojo, Enioluwa Adeoluwa, Peller, Sabinus, Taaooma, Brain Jotter, Asher Kine, Cubana Chief Priest among other notable celebrities. The Trendupp Africa Awards celebrates influencers, […]

todayJune 19, 2025

News

SIMON SET TO JOIN PARIS FC ON A THREE-YEAR DEAL

Super Eagles winger, MOSES SIMON is on the verge of completing a move to newly promoted Ligue 1 club Paris FC. According to reports, SIMON will sign a three-year contract with the modest club, which will pay €6.5m to secure his services from another Ligue 1 club Nantes. The 29-year-old will earn around €300,000 on a monthly basis. The talented winger has spent six years at Nantes and registered eight goals and 10 assists in 32 league […]

todayJune 18, 2025

National

PDP ACCUSES ABIA GOVERNMENT OF ATTEMPTING TO SILENCE OPPOSITION

Abia State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has alleged that the Abia State government is attempting to silence the PDP and other opposition voices in the state. The party was reacting to the alarm raised by the Abia State government about a recent political meeting held at the home of former Governor OKEZIE IKPEAZU in Obingwa LGA. In a press statement signed by PDP’s Publicity Secretary in Abia, ERIC IKWUAGWU, the […]

todayJune 18, 2025

Entertainment

R KELLY HOSPITALIZED AFTER OVERDOSING IN PRISON

There are reports that Convicted American R&B musician, R KELLY was recently hospitalized from prison. The singer was rushed to Duke University hospital, after he reportedly collapsed at the federal correctional institute in Butner, North Carolina. His lawyer revealed that the 58-year-old convicted sex trafficker was hospitalized after overdosing on medical drugs provided by the prison guard. According to reports, R KELLY’S lawyer in a new court filing on Monday, alleged that the singer “had […]

todayJune 18, 2025

National

DANGOTE REFINERY AND DEPOT OWNERS INCREASE FUEL PRICE IN NIGERIA

Dangote Refinery and petroleum products depot owners have increased their ex-depot prices of premium motor spirit owing to the spike in global oil prices as Israel-Iran strikes entered day five yesterday. Data from Petroleumprice.ng showed that Dangote Refinery’s petrol price rose to N840 from N825 as of Monday, Rainoil’s price surged to N900 from N850 per litre, while Fynefield and Mainland jerked their ex-depot prices to N930 and N920, adding N51 […]

todayJune 18, 2025

National

REPS MEMBER URGES COMMUNITIES IN BENUE  TO PROTECT THEMSELVES 

The member representing Kwande/Ushongo Federal Constituency in the Federal House of Representatives, TERSEER UGBOR, says the communities in Benue state will have to come up with ways to defend themselves against their attackers. UGBOR, who stated this during an interview, said that Benue had for a long time not had a local security outfit that could serve as a defence mechanism against such attacks, adding that the military formations currently in Benue are for […]

todayJune 17, 2025

Economy

NIGERIA’S INFLATION DROPS TO 22.97%

National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has announced that Nigeria’s headline inflation rate dropped to 22.97 percent.  NBS said the May 2025 headline inflation rate decreased by 0.74 per cent compared to the April headline inflation rate, while on a month-on-month basis, inflation declined significantly to 1.53 percent in May from 1.86 percent in April.  On a year-on-year basis, the NBS said the headline inflation rate was 10.98 per cent lower than the […]

todayJune 17, 2025

News

CHELSEA BEGIN CLUB WORLD CUP WITH WIN OVER LOS ANGELES FC

Chelsea kicked off their Club World Cup campaign with a comfortable 2-0 victory over Los Angeles FC in Group D The Blues, who are the first Premier League side to feature in this year’s tournament, took the lead in the 34th minute after dominating much of the opening exchanges, with PEDRO NETO latching onto a long ball and took two sublime touches before firing into the bottom corner of HUGO LLORIS’ net. The MLS […]

todayJune 17, 2025

National

PRESIDENT TINUBU PROMISES TO PAY CONDOLENCE VISIT TO BENUE STATE.

President BOLA TINUBU has announced plans to clear his schedule in order to visit Benue State on Wednesday, June 18,  to commiserate with the people, following last Saturday’s deadly attack in Yelewata community that claimed many lives. TINUBU stated this yesterday when he inaugurated the Greater Abuja Water Supply Network in the nation’s capital, where he sympathized with the people of Benue State and those who lost their loved ones in the attacks, urging the […]

todayJune 17, 2025

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