Seun Kuti Magistrate Adeola Olatunbosun has remanded the Afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti, for 48 hours in police custody for allegedly assaulting a police officer. Kuti, in a 12-second video clip that went viral on May 13, 2023, had assaulted a policeman on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos State. The defendant turned himself in at…
Society Elite Oludare Lawanson son of the late Chief Olu Lawanson continues to evolve on his humanitarian movement in honor of his beloved Father. In a recent statement, he said he started feeding people of Agboyi-Ketu every 10th-11th of December to mark as a remembrance of his father Chief Olu Lawanson,he said he chose 10th-11th…
His social life was blunted. Perhaps by his reticent disposition.His persona, two dimensional. To a distant public, he was upscale and cool. His manly bearing spoke loud. His onscreen image ironically amplified some idiosyncrasies; heroics, romantic adventures and traits that did not gel with the mortal privacy that eerily define his quiet and lonely life….
Nigerian chef, Hilda Effiong Bassey, popularly known as Hilda Baci, has surpassed the current Guinness World Record holder. With her feat, she’s poised to break the Guinness World Record for the “longest cooking marathon by an individual” after hitting the 87 hours 50 minutes mark. The restaurateur began the competition on Thursday after she turned…
Barely 24 hours after the death of a popular Nollywood actor, Saint Obi, a Yoruba popular actor and filmmaker, Murphy Afolabi, is reportedly dead. The thespian, who acted in Yoruba movies, was said to have fallen down in the bathroom at his house in Ikorodu, Lagos, on Sunday morning, May 14, 2023. A filmmaker and…
Chelsea have agreed terms to make former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino their new manager. He will join the club in the summer, with Frank Lampard remaining as interim manager until the end of the season. Pochettino, who has also managed Southampton, has been out of work since Paris St-Germain replaced him with Christophe Galtier in…
An Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure, the state capital, has sentenced a man, Ajayi Famakinwa, to 18 years imprisonment for impregnating a 15-year-old girl Famakinwa, 60, a pastor, was arrested by the police for committing the offence in 2021 at Ayede Ogbese in the Akure North Local Government Area of the state. The…
Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed The Budget Office of the Federation has said Nigeria now has a “limited borrowing space” due to its poor debt-to-revenue ratio, stressing that “trouble” looms for the country if it exceeds its limits. The Director-General of the Budget Office, Ben Akabueze, while addressing members-elect of the…
Transcorp Power Limited, Nigeria’s leading power generation company, located in Ughelli Delta State, with an installed capacity of 972MW, was presented with a post-privatisation discharge certificate by the Federal Government of Nigeria, following fulfilment of all privatization conditions. Transcorp Power will no longer be subjected to post-privatisation monitoring and is the first privatized power generation company to…
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, Abuja The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, on Monday, held its inaugural session, a legal ritual that precedes the actual hearing of petitions seeking to nullify the outcome of the 2023 presidential election. At the session, a five-member panel of Justices of the Court of Appeal that will hear and determine all…
