Prominent Nigerian-American Radio Host, Dan Foster has passed away. A source revealed the veteran radio host died around 1pm on Wednesday. “He died today around 1pm. His wife is currently at the isolation centre in Yaba as we speak,” said the source. The cause of Foster’s death is yet unknown, but, The Cable suspects he died of COVID-19. Prior to his demise, Foster worked with Cool FM, Inspiration FM , City FM and Classic FM.
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Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki has formally announced his resignation from the All Progressive Congress (APC). Obaseki made the announcement this morning after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa. The announcement has laid to rest the wide speculations of his planned exit from the party. Recall the governor was disqualified from participating in the APC state gubernatorial primaries by the party’s screening committee over defects in his High School and National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificates. More details soon.
One of the many contraptions that have defied contrivance and evolution in Nigeria is our politics. We still practise the basest, vilest and crudest kind of politics. In fact, there is a more transparent and disciplined political system in the animal kingdom than there is in our country. Some studies have shown that baboons have an ordered democratic system – not based on social dominance but on purpose, merit and importance. Baboons will not follow any member of their troupe based on his rank or social significance but squarely on if that member has direction and purpose. Also, honey bees…
A delegation of the Nigerian Youth Parliament (NYP) condoled with the family of late Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a University of Benin (UNIBEN) undergraduate who died after she was gang-raped by unknown men inside a church in Benin. The delegation was received by the mother of the deceased, Mrs Omozuwa and other members of the family, at their residence, on Monday. The NYP House Minority Leader, Hon. Uwadia Daniel Didi who led the delegation, expressed his sadness over the death of Miss Vera and promised to ensure the Parliament does everything within its powers to get justice for the deceased.…
Egypt has opposed against President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination of former Niggeria’s finance minister Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the position of director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). MERIDIAN SPY reported earlier, President Buhari wrote, in a letter dated June 4, 2020, to all member countries of the African Union (AU), embassies and permanent missions, announcing his decision to withdraw the candidacy of Yonov Frederick Agah, Nigeria’s permanent representative to WTO and request their support to favour the candidacy of the former Nigeria economic minister. But in a letter dated June 5, 2020 addressed to the candidature committee, the North African country…
The Deputy Governor of Bauchi State, Baba Tela has tested positive for the dreaded coronavirus disease. According to a statement by his media aide, Mukhtar Gidado, on Tuesday, Tela, who also is the chairman of the state task force on COVID-19 is now in isolation as samples of all his primary contacts have been taken by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) for test. “This is to inform the General public that His Excellency Sen. Baba Tela, Deputy Governor of Bauchi State who is also the Chairman, State Task Force on COVID-19 was confirmed positive of coronavirus,” Gidado stated. “Consequently,…
While Nigerians are busy with the management of COVID-19 and its many fall-outs, fire has been burning in other aspects of national life which require equal attention both now and after COVID-19 – the increasing spate of insecurity in the country is one, the crisis in the country’s electricity sector is another, but COVID-19 is such an all-consuming pre-occupation that other issues have been pushed to the back-burner. More people have died in Nigeria from attacks on communities by terrorists nicely referred to as bandits since January raising a question about the country’s capacity to win the war against terror…
A former governor of Anambra state, Chukwemeka Ezeife says only a Nigeria president of Igbo extraction can fix the many challenges facing the country. The elder statesman made the statement while commenting on the influx of northern youth, particularly the almajiri kids into Southern Nigeria in an interview with The Sun. “I have told you my view about Almajiri. Not only Almajirai, but also the Talakawas. Talakawas and Almajarai, I think what they should pray for is Nigeria’s president of Southeast origin,” he said in the interview. “A president of Igbo origin will end Almajarai by effective training of the…
The Federal Executive Council, FEC approved the sum of N623.7 million to the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS for the purchase of computers for its zonal and area commands. Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed told newsmen after the FEC meeting at the State House on Wednesday that the approval was made after a memo was presented by the Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed. “The Minister of Finance presented a memo for the award of contract for 1, 200 units of coloured printers and desktop computers for human resources and accounting management systems across zones and area commands of the Nigeria Customs Service,…
Three doctors and five nurses have reportedly tested positive for coronavirus at Mushin General Hospital in Lagos State, The Punch reports. An official of the hospital, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, disclosed that a health worker had fallen sick about two weeks ago and was being treated for malaria when a nurse suspected that they were handling a coronavirus case. Punch gathered that some personnel of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC took the samples of the sick worker and the two officials (the nurse and a doctor) who attended to her. The results of the patient…
A former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe has said hydroxychloroquine, which was touted by US president, Donald Trump as a remedy for coronavirus, was among the medications he used to treat the disease. Okupe who, together with his wife, recently recovered from the virus disease, after about two weeks receiving treatment at an isolation centre in Sagamu, Ogun State, made the disclosure late night Wednesday while stressing that there has not been a consensus yet amongst scientists on a particular treatment method for the lethal virus. He said in a post on Twitter: “My medications for COVID-19. Hydroxychloroquine…
President Muhammadu Buhari, President Of Nigeria 200 years ago the Aare Kakanfo of the ancient Oyo Empire and the self-proclaimed Oba of Ilorin, Aare Afonja, rebelled against the Alaafin of Oyo and entered into a military alliance with a Fulani advisor, sorcerer and mercenary by the name of Alimi. Predictably Alimi betrayed him and he ended up being tortured, dethroned and murdered. Not only did Alimi and his Fulani warriors kill him but they also murdered all his sons in the most cruel and barbaric fashion. Alimi and his family took the throne for themselves and consequently the Oyo Empire,…