As the nation counts down to the February 25 presidential elections, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has issued warning to candidates to desist from using its embattled leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu as a bargaining chip. IPOB gave the warning on Wednesday in a statement by its Media and Publicity […]
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A family in Gbako LGA of Niger State has been reported to have rejected the old Naira note for the bride price of their daughter, hence demands the new Naira note. It was gathered that the suitor who came with the old N1,000 and N500 notes for bride price and […]
Managing Director of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Michael Akabogu has been summoned by the Nigeria Police Force, over the alleged forgery of his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Discharge Certificate, according to SaharaReporters. It was learnt that the NSITF boss, with discharge certificate number A030544, was invited […]
41-year old Yemi Akinyemi Dele, a Czech-Nigerian choreographer, has announced that he has been selected for a trip around the moon. Yemi who took to his social media handle noted that the selection which featured eight people was done by Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese Billionaire who four years before now […]
Olaolu Mudashiru, a co-founder and deputy managing director of one of Nigeria’s top capital management companies, Vetiva Capital, is dead. The businessman/investment banker was reportedly killed in a car hit-and-run accident while riding a bicycle with a group of cyclists on Gerrard Road in the affluent neighborhood of Ikoyi, Lagos. […]
Day after his country’s defeat to Morocco which left him in tears, Cristiano Ronaldo has reacted to Portugal’s exit from the 2022 World Cup at quarterfinal stage. The 37-year-old Portuguese football star who did not speak to the press in the mixed zone, whilst other teammates such as Pepe and […]
Billionaire CEO of Tesla and Twitter, Elon Musk is no longer the world’s richest person, according to Forbes. According to Forbes’ list published on Thursday, Musk dropped to the second spot on Forbes’ list of “Real-Time Billionaires,” putting him behind Bernard Arnault, CEO of French luxury brand LVMH, maker of […]
Only 4 Nigerians made it to the Forbes annual exclusive billionaires ranking. Aliko Dangote, President of Dangote Group retained his spot as the World’s richest black person with a fortune of USD10.1 billion. Mike Adenuga, Chairman of Globacom who came in as second in Nigeria and third in Africa with a fortune of USD7.7 billion […]
Nan Winton became the first woman to read the news on BBC Television in 1960 Nancy Wigginton, who was better known as Nan Winton, became the first female TV newsreader at the corporation on 20 June 1960. Winton was an experienced journalist who had worked on Panorama and Town and […]
Chibawanye Ene, a Nigerian-born US-based doctor, has won the 2019 Ronald L. Bittner Award on brain tumor research. A quarterly journal on cancer titled Applied Radiation Oncology stated that Ene received the award at the 2019 American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) annual scientific meeting which held from April 13 […]