There are reports that the Libyan authorities held Super Eagles players and officials hostage at the Al Abaq airport in Al Abaq, ahead of Tuesday’s AFCON 2025 qualifiers in Benghazi. In a video posted by the Super Eagles media team, players and officials of the team, together with their luggages were held down by Libyan officials at the airport. The media team revealed that about an hour to landing, the […]
Nollywood Actor, FEMI ADEBAYO’S Netflix Original Yoruba movie, ‘JAGUN JAGUN’, has bagged twelve nominations in the 2024 Best of Nollywood Awards, BON. The nominated categories include, Best Indigenous, Best Supporting Actor, Director of the Year, Best Use of Makeup, Best Cinematography, Best Costume, Best Actor, Best Sound, Best Soundtrack, Best Production Design, Best Special Effect, and Best Actress. Reacting to the news in a viral post on his X handle, the excited […]
Air Peace has denied any wrongdoing by its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ALLEN ONYEMA, and Chief of Finance and Administration, EJIRO EGHAGHA, who have been charged by the United States for alleged obstruction of justice. A statement released by the US Attorney’s Office said that ONYEMA has been charged in a superseding indictment with obstruction of justice for submitting false documents to the government to end an investigation of him that resulted in earlier charges of bank […]
The presidency has denied reports that Nigeria lost out in the recent United Nations Human Rights Council elections. Explaining the controversies surrounding the recent elections, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, BAYO ONANUGA, said the country did not stand as a candidate for this cycle of elections. ONANUGA revealed that the United Nations General Assembly elected 18 members to the Human Rights Council for the 2025-2027 term, stressing that the election conducted via secret […]
Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu has said her husband, President Bola Tinubu, should not be blamed for the current economic hardship in Nigeria. Oluremi made the remark yesterday at the palace of Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and equally inaugurated a hostel and a 2.7kilometre road donated to Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile Ife, by the Ooni of Ife and named after her. She said Tinubu's administration is still […]
Wimbledon has announced that it will replace all 300 line judges with artificial intelligence and an electronic system from next year, removing human officials for the first time in the championship's 147-year history. The All England Club has confirmed all 18 match courts will be installed with automated electronic line calling (ELC), and the system will be the same as the one used at the US Open since 2020, where automated […]
A United States court has granted a petition filed by American rapper, Snoop Dogg to seal his 1993 murder charge, 28 years after he was acquitted of shooting a gang member. The rapper who is now 52 years old along with his bodyguard, McKinley Lee, were accused of the murder of a gang member called Philip Woldemariam at Palms' Woodbine Park in Los Angeles in August 1993, and both of them went […]
Petroleum marketers revealed that the Nigerian government has completely removed the subsidy on petrol which is the reason for the latest increase in the price of the product to 1,030 Naira and 998 Naira per litre in Abuja, and Lagos State by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL. The spokesperson of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, CHINEDU UKADIKE, who disclosed this to newsmen, was reacting to the latest fuel […]
President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu on her election as President of the Union for International Cancer Control UICC. Shinkafi-Bagudu, who is a pediatrician consultant and former first lady of Kebbi State, was elected as UICC president for the 2024-2026 term, following the election that was conducted virtually during the UICC General Assembly held on Tuesday, October 8. President Tinubu, in his congratulatory message yesterday through his Special Adviser […]