By Njamanze Fidel Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, Monday Igbuya, has described the elected National Vice Chairman, South-South of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Emmanuel Ogidi, as “a dependable leader and an affable gentleman”. Igbuya, who spoke on Saturday at Obi Wali Centre, venue of the party’s zonal congress, urged the new chairman…
Acting in Nigeria seems to finally have come of age with a new crop of exciting acts coming into the local and global film industry and taking up where the first generation Nigerian stars left off. Prominent amongst these new faces is the fast-rising actor, Deyemi Okanlawon who has in the past few years tantalised…
This is an SOS call on all well meaning Nigerians to help keep little Michelle Sam alive. This six months old cutie was diagnosed of symptomatic congenital heart disease. To stay alive, Michelle needs to undergo a surgical operation in India and this will require a huge sum of N6 million which the parents cannot…
One of the stars of the Nigerian movie industry, Mercy Johnson-Okojie, is in the news again for almost a similar reason she was some years ago. It would be recalled that over five years ago, before she got married, Mercy Johnson was reported to have sat without her panties. The picture then broke the internet.…
No fewer than three suspected Niger Delta militants were killed in Bayelsa State by operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC. The suspects were killed during a shoot out. According to reports, the Civil Defence men gunned down the militants on Saturday along the Snake Creeks in the Nembe area of the…
A meeting has been conveyed by the Federal Government with leadership of the organised labour to address the planned industrial action by workers on Wednesday. The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, had threatened last week that it would go on a nationwide strike on Wednesday if the government failed to revert to the old pump price…
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ali Modu Sheriff, stated that the fight for who occupies Aso Rock in Abuja in 2019 has already commenced. Sheriff stated this on Sunday while addressing newsmen in Jalingo, Taraba State. He also used the occasion to react to comments made last week by his media aide,…
The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, has confirmed the arrest of suspected members of the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, who have allegedly carried out renewed attacks in the region lately, blowing up oil facilities. According to the DHQ on Sunday, the suspects are being investigated by security operatives to siphon information from them. Director of Defence Information,…
**Says President Not Sound In Economy, Foreign Affairs Despite embarking on over 20 trips abroad since he was sworn in as President of Nigeria on May 29, 2016, former President Olusegun Obasanjo says President Muhammadu Buhari is not a sound in foreign affairs. The Ota farmer made this known on Monday when he spoke at…
A lawmaker in the House of Representatives, Mohammed Gudaji Kazaure, has mistakenly shot himself in the leg at his residence. It was reported that Kazaure, who is a legislator from Jigawa State, was ‘romancing’ his pistol when he accidentally pulled the trigger, and the bullet hit his leg. He was reportedly flown abroad for treatment,…