Afrobeat star, David Adeleke, also known as Davido has revealed that he was 17 years old when telecommunication company, MTN, approached him for an endorsement worth ₦20 million Davido made this known in an interview shared on Twitter on Monday. He said, “I remember when MTN, a telecommunication company, came, and they were like they want to do endorsement, but then he (dad) was like how much, and I said 20 million. I was like I’m 17. Nobody seen that kind of money. “Wow, this is from Music, and it’s off like two songs, of course. I’m like, ‘Daddy…
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Aliko Dangote, the chief executive officer of the Dangote Group, has said that his refinery will create adequate employment possibilities for young people in Nigeria. This was disclosed by Dangote on Monday during his remark at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals’ commissioning. The project was commissioned by the President Muhammadu Buhari. “The refinery operation will generate massive job opportunities in their hundreds of thousands,” he said while highlighting the benefits of the refinery. Dangote thanks Nigerians for supporting refinery. He said, “The refinery will make available to our industries vital raw materials to a large range of manufacturers in…
Senator-elect, Barr. Onyekachi Nwaebonyi, representing Ebonyi North senatorial zone, on Sunday, asked the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba to resign if he can’t stop extortion. He said that the 10th National Assembly will summon the IGP to account for the various funds extorted from innocent Nigerians at police checkpoints. Onyekachi, who spoke to newsmen hours after a thanksgiving service that took place at the ecumenical centre Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi state. The lawmaker commented on the continuous intimidation, harassment and torture that innocent Nigerians pass through at the hands of brutal police officers at the various checkpoints in…
Presidential transition periods are times of excitement, hope, apprehension, speculation, and drama. It is associated with chaos, complexity, and coordination challenges. The incumbent president is not only saddled with the task of leading the country but also must start winding down its activities and prepare to hand over the presidency to the new president and his team. The incumbent almost becomes a lame duck as all the political activities shift to the president-elect. The president and his team start to feel the fleeting nature of power and quickly start losing the friends of the president’s seat to the new man…
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in the early hours of Monday re-elected Professor Emmanuel Osodeke unopposed as their National President to pilot the affairs of the union for another two years. It was learnt that apart from Osodeke of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, the union members also re-elected Chris Piwuna, a Consultant Psychiatrist and Associate Professor in the College of Medicine, University of Jos, as Vice President. They were re-elected during their 22nd National Delegates Conference of ASUU which was hosted by the University of Jos, Plateau State between May 19 and…
Nnolim Nnaji, the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Aviation, issued a warning to Senator Hadi Sirika, the Minister of Aviation, on Sunday against taking any steps that would compromise the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority’s regulatory functions. The warning was issued in the wake of allegations that Nigeria Air is trying to circumvent some regulatory criteria in order to start flying before May 29. The minister had insisted the national carrier would commence operations before May 29 despite the pending suit filed against the airline by the Airline Operators of Nigeria with the court injunction stopping the carrier…
Senator Godswill Akpabio, former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, has asked Nigerians not to judge him by his record as a member of President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet. According to PUNCH, Akpabio said this in an interview with journalists in Abuja this weekend. The senator-elect, who is eyeing the presidency of Nigeria’s senate, had resigned in 2022 to contest the presidential ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). He had stepped down for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who won the ticket and eventually emerged winner of the 2023 presidential election. He promised that if elected Senate President, Nigerians he would…
The leadership of Labour party has called on the Nigeria Police and Department of State Security to invite embattled former National publicity secretary of the party and spokesman of the Lamidi Apapa-faction, Abayomi Arabambi, over allegation that LP presidential candidate, Peter Obi, was after his life. Arabambi had accused the party’s National Youth Leader, Kennedy Ahanotu, of sending threat messages to him in the build up to last Wednesday’s assault on Apapa outside the court premises. The PUNCH reported that some aggressive supporters believed to be loyal to the National Chairman, Julius Abure, strongly resisted journalists from interviewing the Apapa-led…
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the incoming president of Nigeria, has been asked to provide proof of his alleged meetings with investors in France after leaving the country around ten days ago, just two weeks after returning from his post-election vacation. When the president-elect left on May 10, there were rumors that he had left again for medical reasons. However, his adviser, Tunde Rahman, claimed in a statement that the former governor of Lagos State had left the country to complete some chores. Rahman said Tinubu would use the opportunity to fine-tune the transition plans, programmes and his policy options with some…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has eulogised Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State for his remarkable performance during his time as Minister of FCT. Wike commended the outgoing governor during a book presentation on El-Rufai, titled, ‘Putting The People First,’ authored by a veteran journalist and public commentator, Emmanuel Ado, in Kaduna on Saturday. “Remember that it is only when you have left office that people talk about you. Not when you are in the office. People are talking today when you were FCT Minister. “Let us compare. When you were FCT Minister, I am sorry to say this, whether…
The Lagos State Police Command confirmed on Sunday the electrocution of two members of staff of the Eko Electricity Distribution Company in Lagos State. The incident took place in the Obalende area of Lagos Island. The Police Public Relations Officer in Lagos, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident. Hundeyin said the case was reported to the Lion Building Division of the command on Saturday at 5.55 p.m. by another member of staff of the EKEDC from Lagos Island. He said the EKEDC worker reported that on Saturday, one of his colleagues, simply identified as Umaru, 51 years old, got electrocuted…
The Minister of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tony Mwaba Kazadi has confessed that he impregnated his Deputy Minister, Aminata Namasia, describing it as “accidental.” The Heritage Times reported that a DRC journalist, Lungila John took to Twitter to reveal the affair between both officials that led to the deputy education minister’s pregnancy. Local reports revealed that Kazadi and Namasia, despite being married, developed feelings for each other as they worked together in the DRC education ministry. The duo have come under heavy criticisms from citizens of DRC, accusing them of bad conduct…