Director General of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Governors’ Forum, Osaro Onaiwu, has resigned. Onaiwu resignation takes effect from Tuesday, June 21, 2016. In a letter addressed to chairman of the Forum, Olusegun Mimiko, who doubles as the governor of Ondo State, Onaiwu noted that his decision was to allow him pursue other endeavours. Onaiwu…
If information reaching us is anything to go by, then the union between Fola and Bimbo Folawiyo is as good as South Africa 2010 World Cup. This is because all efforts by close family and friends to reconcile the two former inseparable lovers have been frustrated. Both parties, as we hear, are not ready to…
Some actors in the Yoruba movie industry have constituted a committee to raise funds to cater for the wife and three children left behind by one of their colleagues, Alfa Tati Itakure, who was snatched away from them this week by death. Also, a foundation was established in his name and a film to be…
Barely a month after he was elected to succeed Alex Eyengho as the new president of Association of Nollywood Core Producers, ANCOP, Eze Harris Chuma, has tendered his resignation, leaving many to wonder what could have gone wrong. New ANCOP Boss Eyes Corruption-free Nollywood In his open letter to Chairman, Board of Trustees, BoT, and members…
** I’m Not Behind Hijab Crisis In Osun Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has washed his hands off the crisis rocking the educational sector in the state. Aregbesola said he was yet to direct female Muslims to wear hijab to public schools in Osun State. Osun State has been in the news lately over…
**Edo People Won’t Vote For Them Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has stated that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is not in existence in the state. The outgoing governor of the state also said candidate of his party in the September 2016 governorship poll, Godwin Obaseki of the All Progressives Congress, APC, will not…
The Nigerian Senate has disclosed that it plans to strip President Muhammadu Buhari of powers to assent the ongoing constitution amendment. This was made known by the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu at the ongoing retreat by the Senate Committee on Constitution Review, in which he is the Chairman of. Speaking at the programme held…
A retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Niki Tobi, has passed on. Justice Tobi, according to SaharaReporters, breathed his last in the early hours of last Friday at the National Hospital, Abuja. His corpse was later moved to the morgue of Garki General Hospital. The retired judge had been having grave health issues since…
A church in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, has allegedly been burnt down by some hoodlums. It was reported that the place of worship, Mount Zion Gospel Church, Aka-Itiam Assembly, Uyo, was razed last week because the church has continued to frustrate their (thugs) activities in the community with its programmes. Musical instruments at…
Not less than 15 members of Boko Haram insurgents were recently killed when personnel of the Nigeria Air Force, NAF, carried out a first major air campaign under the newly launched ‘Operation Gama-Aiki’ mission. It was learnt that the terrorists were killed as an Alpha Jet bombed their convoy in the northern part of Borno…