On Thursday, Jara presenter, Uti Nwachukwu posted a picture which suggested that he may have cut off his trademark dreadlocks. https://instagram.com/p/-QsCq_jKWU/ Uti also shared another picture of himself sporting an afro haircut, which sent a barrage of attacks his way. https://instagram.com/p/-Q2H9xDKQt/ But it appears the model/actor was simply teasing his fans, as he shared on Friday afternoon another...
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The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) claims there’s an existing plan by the governor of the state, Rauf Aregbesola, to deploy 15,000 persons to Kogi State, to take part in the governorship election, for the benefit of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In a statement released on Thursday, party’s spokesperson, Diran Odeyemi, said the plot...
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The stage is all set for the elections tomorrow between incumbent Governor Idris Wada of the PDP and Prince Abubakar Audu of the APC in the first of the deregularised gubernatorial elections across the country after the Aprill 11 gubernatorial elections. I was in Kogi from last week Sunday to Tuesday and I went round to...
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There’s an ongoing hostage situation in Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali. Jihadists stormed the hotel on Friday morning, and took 170 people (140 guests, 30 employees) hostage. Malian forces have since entered the hotel and freed 80 hostages, while 3 people were reported to have been killed. See below, photos from the scene of...
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Three people were killed on Friday morning as jihadists took 170 people hostage in Radisson Blu hotel, in Bamako, Mali. After the terrorists laid siege on the hotel for a couple of hours, Malian special forces are reported to have entered the hotel. 80 hostages are also reported to have been freed by the Malian soldiers. “They’ve penetrated inside the hotel....
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When Iyoha Enahoro sought to help a mentally ill man, he never envisaged that his actions may turn out to be a burden on himself and family. The cleric has said that family members of a mental patient, John Kakaviya, have abandoned him after a deliverance prayer session. Enahoro is trying to get the family members of the 35-year-old...
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Two suspected members of the insurgent group, Boko Haram, disguised as members of the Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’a Wa’iqamitis Sunna (JIBWIS) First Aid Group based in Zaria, Kaduna state, have been arrested and handed over to the police. According to Daily Trust, the Police Area Commander in charge of Zaria headquarters, Muhammad D. Shehu, confirmed the arrest....
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Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has given a 2-week deadline to the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, to conclude the probe of corruption allegation against the chairman of Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Danladi Umar. The probe on Umar began as a result of the petition sent to the Senate, containing allegations of fraud, bribery and inflation...
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The rumour making the rounds that billionaire, Aliko Dangote, has been held hostage in Mali, is false. 170 people are being held hostage in an hotel in Bamako, Mali, which was attacked by gunmen on Friday morning. Chanting “Allahu Akbar”, Al Jazeera reports that the gunmen opened fire outside the Radisson Blu Hotel. Meanwhile, on Nigerian social...
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said that his government never awarded any contract of $2 billion as claimed by former national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki. Jonathan stated this at a forum in Washington DC, on Thursday, when asked to address the arms procurement scandal surrounding the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki. Dasuki had earlier said...
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Bayelsa Governo, Seriake Dickson has just finished the first leg of his community to community tour as part of his campaign for the governorship election slated for December 5. He was well received by most of the communities as they showed up in thousands to hear him speak. On Thursday, at Ogbia local government area,...
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A security guard has been arrested by the police for allegedly stabbing his boss to death and carting away with his belongings. David Kwaguru and two of his friends killed the victim, a 25-year-old final year Civil Engineering student, Innocent Ndukwe, at his (deceased) residence, making away with a Nissan Pathfinder with number plate, KRD109AD, two plasma TV sets,...
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Poverty has a way of awakening the genius of survival within us. For many, poverty is not only a way of life- forced not only by vicissitudes but by the way the resources of the state are harnessed and wealth distributed in an unequal way between classes-it is also the chain measure used for measuring...
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It is a solemn moment for singer, Davido and his family, as his father, Deji Adeleke, is reportedly getting a divorce from his wife, Teju Adeleke, in an Osun High Court. So solemn that the presiding judge handling the case, Justice A. O. Oguntade, on Monday, barred journalists from covering the divorce proceedings involving billionaire businessman...
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Bayelsa APGA governorship candidate likes APC but won’t defect. YNaija APC says PDP is hallucinating over Ekweremadu’s attempted assassination. Leadership Lawyer, CDHR at loggerheads over supreme court’s ruling on Saraki. This Day Presidency claims Dasuki was invited by arms committee. YNaija Lamorde drags Senate, IGP, DSS over probe to court. Leadership EFCC lays siege for former Sokoto governor, Attahiru Bafarawa. This Day Ambode...
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A government worker, identified as Omoniyi, was arrested by the police on Sunday, for allegedly raping his 14-year-old stepdaughter in Lagos. The victim, who couldn’t stomach the ordeal anymore, told a neighbor about the abuse last week. The alarmed neighbor took her to a non-governmental organization – Community Surveillance Patrol of Nigeria. The NGO took the case to the police...
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Aung San Suu Kyi writes in Letters from Burma: “I have never ceased to be moved by the sense of the world lying quiescent and vulnerable, waiting to be awakened by the light of the new day quivering just beyond the horizon…” That new day and awakening arrived on November 8 on Burma’s (Myanmar) 2015...
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The editors of Y! – TV, Magazine & Online – today announced the shortlist for Y!/YNaija.com Person of the Year 2015. The Y!/YNaija.com Person of the Year is in its fifth year and is awarded to the individual who has most visibly influenced the Nigerian society for good in the past year, breaking new boundaries...
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The Governorship candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, Christopher Enai, says he’s not defecting to the All Progressives Congress just yet, despite being in love with the party. Enai, on Thursday, purportedly led the gubernatorial candidates of nine other political parties in Bayelsa State to support the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Timipre Sylva. Speaking at Ekeremor...
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Governor of Bayelsa state, Seriake Dickson, has been given a series of conditions for re-election by the kinsmen of former President Goodluck Jonathan. Dickson, who’s campaigning for re-election, went to Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State to solicit for their votes on Thursday. But little did he know that the people of the local government area...
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Former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Chukwuma Soludo has explained the rationale behind his decision to support President Muhammadu Buhari over former President, Goodluck Jonathan. At the last presidential election, Soludo had chosen to pitch his tent with Buhari ahead of the incumbent president. Speaking at the third anniversary lecture of the RealNews magazine, Soludo...
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The Presidency insists that former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, was invited by the presidential committee investigating the purchase of arms and military hardware under the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan. The report of the investigative committee indicted Dasuki and several others, over an alleged N333bn phantom arms contracts. The embattled Dasuki had released a statement on Wednesday, stating that the Presidency...
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It’s a mother-daughter affair as Beyonce and Blue Ivy are set to feature on Coldplay’s next album. Lead singer of the popular band, Chris Martin revealed this in an interview with Wall street Journal. Martin disclosed that Beyonce would make an appearance on a record called Hymn for the Weekend while Blue Ivy’s vocals can be heard...
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Citing the poor state of the economy, the Governors of the 36 Nigerian states have said they can no longer pay their workers, the N18,000 minimum wage. The prevalent minimum was signed into law in March 2011 by former President Goodluck Jonathan. The governors’ position was disseminated after a meeting of the Nigerian Governors Forum, at the...
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It can be depressing to put in so much work and some evil spirits try so hard to make you not reap the fruits of your labour. That’s how Seyi Shay must have felt when she lashed out at pirates who leaked her album online on Friday morning. The Murda singer took to Twitter to announce the leak...
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Siixteen villages in Okuta, in Baruten local government area of Kwara state, have been invaded by Benin Republic. Okuta is the border town between Nigerian and the neighoring Benin Republic. Vanguard reports that authorities of Benin Republic have already built a Police station, known as Gerdarmes Office in the French-speaking country. Similarly, the country’s flag is said to...
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When a person attempts to rewrite history in a bid to justify the inadequacies of the present, we must be wary of such. When I read Segun Ayobolu’s article trying, not-so-subtly, to make excuses for the current lackadaisical attitude of the Lagos State Governor, I found myself wondering if this writer believed us all to...
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In preparation for the return of Lagos Theatre Festival next year as part of UK/Nigeria 2015–16 an artistic director has been selected by a panel of experts after an open call issued earlier this year. Kenneth Uphopho will be the artistic director for Lagos Theatre Festival 2016 according to a statement released by the British...
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed allegations by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the ruling party is responsible for the assassination attempt on the life of the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. The APC, on Thursday, described the allegation by the opposition party, as hallucinatory propaganda. Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Timi Frank, released a statement to...
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Possibly former Nollywood star, Saint Obi, after a long hiatus from the screen has a new aspiration- to break into the music industry. Saint Obi, on Wednesday, released 3 new singles from his self-owned record label, Agwhyte music. He has however, gone further to torture us with a music video from one of the singles titled...
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