Controversial Nigerian artist Brymo has blasted his counterparts, Adekunle Gold for his justification of slurs he made about his wife Simi. Meridian Spy reports that Brymo, in a voice note released, disclosed that he was supposed to be featured on Adekunle Gold’s soon-to-be-released album ‘Tequila Ever After’ but the project never happened. While responding to the fan, Brymo wrote, “Though AG reached out later, I like to think that he didn’t check in again, by will or fate because I turned down same request many years before…. also did same with Simi…said I wanted to get intimate to create intensity.…
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The Enugu State Government has urged residents to disregard the Monday sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and go about their normal businesses. The government threatened to sanction civil servants, schools, and markets that observe the illegal order. The directive was issued by the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Chidiebere Onyia, and was contained in a statement he signed. He said, “The Enugu State Government wishes to remind the good people and residents of the state that the ban on the illegal Monday sit-at-home order remains effective. “In view of this, civil servants, schools, markets,…
Abia State has been declared the winner of the 2022 Gold Badge Award by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) under its Primary Healthcare Under One Roof programme, (PHCUOR). In a statement by Abia PDP Vice Chairman/Acting State Publicity Secretary, Elder Abraham Amah, the PHCUOR is a Primary Healthcare reform agenda aimed at reversing fragmentation in primary healthcare delivery at the state-level and bringing the management, resources, financing and other operational responsibilities under one body, the State Primary Health Care Board (SPHCB). The programme has been ongoing since 2011 and represents one of the best efforts of…
I am extremely worried for the President of Nigeria, Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu. I am worried because as his ardent follower since his days in NADECO and then later in 1999 when he became the Governor of Lagos, I have come to admire him as an ultra-progressive fellow. He is a man that desires the poor to breathe, he is a capitalist with a socialist conscience, a man that understands the importance of balancing economic growth with the quality of life of the people. These pedigree and more made it easy for some of us to join forces with…
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and President Bola Tinubu are locked in a war of words over an alleged plot to manipulate the ongoing electoral dispute at the Presidential Election Petition Court, Abuja. Atiku, a former vice president, in a statement on Saturday in Abuja by his media office, alleged that there are threats from the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Tinubu’s party, that aim to intimidate the judiciary from ensuring justice in the ongoing presidential electoral dispute. But Mr Tinubu and the APC have dismissed the allegations. Dispute in Court Atiku,…
Senate President to unveil Ministerial-nominees List this Week Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, will likely unveil the names of the ministerial nominees at plenary this week. Plenaries at both chambers of the National Assembly are held on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. There has been serious agitation over the delay of President Bola Tinubu in constituting his cabinet two months after his inauguration. According to a new amendment to the 1999 Constitution, the President and governors must submit the names of persons nominated as ministers or commissioners within 60 days of taking the oath of office for confirmation by the Senate or…
The Independent National Electoral Commission decided to reassess the hiring, training, and placement of such personnel in forthcoming elections and sought the opinions of collation and returning officers. Due to criticisms from several Nigerians regarding the system used for the general elections in 2023, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC chairman, also announced that the result management system would be examined. The chairman of the commission said that the commission would evaluate its strengths and shortcomings in order to enhance the results management system during the post-election review meeting with collation and returning officials on Friday in Abuja. Yakubu said,…
A 32-year-old man, David Shodola, who was suspected to be mentally ill, on Friday, threw into confusion after allegedly beheading an 84-year-old resident, Alfred Opadipe in Ipara town, Remo-North Local Government Area of Ogun State The ‘madman’ was, however, shot dead by men of the state police command after he reportedly resisted arrest. A nine-minute-and-eight-second video clip, which went viral on Friday, showed the lifeless body of the octogenarian on the ground with the head a few metres away. Some residents were seen gathering at the scene to behold the gory incident. An eyewitness, who spoke in the clip, revealed…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has given reasons behind the payment of an interim dividend of N123 billion to the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) for the month of June. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that FAAC had on Thursday shared N907 billion among the three tiers of government. From the money shared, NNPCL contributed N81 billion as a monthly interim dividend and N42 billion as 40 per cent oil Production Sharing Contract (PSC) profit totaling N123 billion. The NNPCL Chief Financial Officer, Mr Umar Ajiya, said in a statement that the move was to consolidate…
There are indications that the management of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, Lagos, may have increased tuition fees for undergraduate students from N19,000 to N190,250. Although this information has not been confirmed independently, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, UNILAG branch, which disclosed this development in a statement dated July 20, 2023, said the Vice Chancellor Prof. Folasade Ogunsola informed them of the increase at a meeting, Thisday report. UNILAG’s SSANU said with the new tuition fees structure, undergraduate students studying Medicine would pay N190,250; laboratory and studio-use students are to pay N140,250; and those without laboratory…
Taiwo Oluyemi, 47, was charged on Friday in an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State for collecting N410,000 from two ladies to process their travel permits. According to The News Agency of Nigeria, Oluyemi was accused of stealing and gaining under false pretences. But he pleaded not guilty plea to the accusations. The prosecutor, Inspector Sunday Bassey, told the court that the defendant committed the offences on May 11 on Oluwapo Street, Alapere, Lagos. Bassey said that the defendant obtained the sum of N40,000 from one Seun Giwa under the false pretence of assisting her to get police clearance to…
– Rule out negotiate with Bandits In response to the former governor of Zamfara State’s call for President Bola Ahmad Tinubu to negotiate with bandits, Dr. Mustapha Inuwa, the former secretary to the government of Katsina State, said such negotiations would be fruitless because the bandits would not agree to them. It is impossible for bandits to abandon banditry and embrace dialogue, according to Dr. Inuwa, who also serves as the chairman of the Amnesty Programme to stop banditry in the state. This is because abduction has grown to be lucrative. He maintained that no legitimate work can fetch them…