Several foreign tourists were seen leaving Tunisia on Saturday following a deadly attack on a beach resort in the coastal town of Sousse. The terror attack on Friday afternoon left no fewer than 38 persons dead. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL, claimed responsibility for the incident, but the Tunisian government has…
In Africa, talking about $ex in public is seen as an abomination because $ex itself is sacred. But for Yoruba actress, Tamilore Ojo Martins, she is not in that school of thought. When the matter arises for discussion, she is not ashamed to speak anywhere. Since making her journey into acting, after leaving journalism, Tamilore…
Office of the Taskforce of Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme, SURE-P, located at the old toll gate on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway was on Saturday pulled down by the Lagos State Government. Addressing newsmen in Lagos on the issue, Chairman of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences, Hakeem Adedeji, said Governor Akinwunmi Ambode…
By Nwaorgu Faustinus Support for the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, John Oyegun, mounted on Friday as prominent leaders of the party lauded his leadership qualities, describing him as “the most distinguished party chairman in the country”. They said that the national chairman created the framework that brought about the victory of…
If disturbing information coming out of Kwara State is anything to go by, then the good people of the state are in for a rough time ahead. It was alleged that Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed has been giving his ‘master’ and predecessor, Senator Bukola Saraki, the sum of N100 million monthly to continue to curry favour…
A former player of the Super Eagles, Taye Taiwo, has claimed coaches collect bribes from players to include them in the team. Taiwo, who has been snubbed recently by the head coach, Stephen Keshi, however, told Football Africa 365 that as a person, he never saw the need to ‘pay’ to serve his fatherland. In…
More than 15 students of Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, were believed to have died on Friday afternoon in a road mishap in the state. It was gathered that the students were on their way to Lagos when a heavy duty vehicle carrying a container crushed their bus. The truck was said…
Following ‘hate messages’ being broadcast on Radio Biafra and knowing what it could lead to, the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has urged Nigeria to take the messages with a pinch of salt. The broadcast regulating body in Nigeria, in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja by Director, Public Affairs of the commission, Awwalu Salihu,…
A member in the Edo State House of Assembly, Yakubu Gowon, has been axed by the Edo State Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Benin on Friday. Gowon contested the April 11, 2015 Etsako West II Constituency election under the platform of All Progressives Congress, and was declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,…
Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has been dissolved by President Muhammadu Buhari. A statement issued on Friday by Director of Communications for the Head of Service of the Federation, Haruna Imrana, disclosed that the affected nine members of the board are to quit with immediate effect. The President, also in the statement,…