US-born female tennis player, Serena Williams has won the 2015 Wimbledon Championships in an astonishing comeback match. The world number one defeated her Spanish opponent in the Grand Slam final, Garbine Muguruza, to pick her sixth Wimbledon title. Serena beat Muguruza 6-4 6-4 to claim her 21st Grand Slam title and also complete ‘Serena Slam’…
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Schweinsteiger’s Old Trafford Move ‘Done Deal'
Reports from Germany suggest that Bastian Schweinsteiger’s move to Manchester United is almost a done deal. A tweet on Saturday afternoon from Bayern Munich’s Twitter handle confirms that the World Cup and Champions League winner has asked his current club to respect his wishes to move to Old Trafford for a new challenge. “Bastian wants…
Synagogue: Nigerians Pick Holes In Coroner’s Verdict, Ask Probe Of Hovering Aircraft
A cross section of Nigerians from different walks of life have faulted the verdict of the coroner investigating the cause of death of 116 persons who perished in the unfortunate incident of the building collapse at The Synagogue, Church of All Nations, Ikotun-Egbe, Lagos. According to them, the verdict of the coroner smacks of the…
LTV Can Compete With CNN, BBC, Others—Ambode
Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, has promised to transform the state-owned television station, LTV 8, to a world class media house. Ambode made this disclosure when he paid an unscheduled visit to the station, located on Lateef Jakande Road, Agidingbi, Ikeja, on Wednesday, July 8, 2015. He was taken round facilities in the station…
We’re Yet To Receive FG Bailout Fund—Ondo
The Ondo State Government has said it has not received a bailout from the Federal Government to pay outstanding workers’ salaries. This was made known on Friday by the state government through a statement signed by its Commissioner for Information, Kayode Akinmade. Akinmade disclosed that what the state has got so far it just N2.2…
2 Die In Bomb Attack Near Maiduguri SSS Office
No fewer than two persons were feared dead in a suicide bomb attack on Saturday morning in Maiduguri, Borno State. The suicide bomber and one other person reportedly died in the attack, which occurred near the office of the Directorate of State Security Services and directly opposite Elkanemi College. The bomber was said to have…
Regina Askia Wades Into Baba Tee, Yetunde Bustline Crisis
The entertainment industry has been bubbling over the dirty fight between erstwhile couple, Baba Tee and Yetunde Bustline Oduwola for the past three days now. Both parties have been attacking one another since their love went sour, saying gutter words to each other in the process. But former Nigerian beauty queen and actress, Regina Askia…
INEC Fixes Dates For Kogi, Bayelsa Guber Polls
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced dates for the governorship elections expected to hold later in 2015 in Kogi and Bayelsa States. Gubernatorial elections were not held in Kogi and Bayelsa States on April 11, 2015 because the tenures of the governors in the two states were not terminating on May 29, 2015…
Ex-Militants Write Buhari Over Unpaid ‘Salaries’
Former leaders of militants in the nine states of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria have sent a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari concerning the amnesty deal that is reportedly meant to end in December 2015. In the letter dated Thursday, July 9, 2015 and made available to newsmen on Friday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State,…
Ekweremadu Goofed On Resurgence Of Boko Haram—Senator Adeola
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has been called upon not to play partisan politics with the resurgence of Boko Haram attacks in recent times following his recent remarks that insurgency has worsen under President Mohamed Buhari six weeks in government. In a reaction to Ekweremadu’s comparative narrative on the resurgence of Boko Haram attacks as…