The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) at the weekend said angry youths shut down a major power facility, the Afam Power Station, in Rivers State. The Acting Manager, Corporate Communications, PHEDC, Mrs. Chioma Aninwe, said the angry youths on Friday, forcefully took over control of the Afam Power Station belonging to the Transmission Company […]
Robert S. Trump, the younger brother of US President Donald Trump, died on Saturday night, August 15, in Manhattan. He died at the New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center in Lennox Hill. He was 71. His death was announced by The White House but they did not give a cause. Reacting to Robert’s death, Donald Trump […]
A welcome party for Adama Inidimi and her husband, Prince Malik Ado-Ibrahim, was held in Ebiraland in Kogi state on Saturday, August 15. see photos More photos – The welcome party was held in the palace of the Ohoniyi of Ebiraland, Alhaji Ado Ibrahim, on Saturday, August 15. Malik is one of the sons of the Royal […]
Award-winning journalist Kiki Mordi has asked people to stop attributing successful women’s wealth to sex work. She pointed out that when a woman makes so much money, people start insinuating that she slept with men to afford it but no one insinuates a rich man made his money by having sex with people. She wrote: “You […]
Nigeria’s umemployment rate increased to 27.1 per cent in the second quarter of 2020 from the 23.1 per cent recorded in Q3 2018. The National Bureau of Statistics which confirmed this in its statement titled ‘Labor Force Statistics: Unemployment and Underemployment Report’ which was released on Friday August 14, added that the number of persons in the economically […]
BBNaijaLockdown Reality show housemate Nengi has disclosed that she underwent a liposuction procedure in a conversation with Ozo on Friday August 14. The beauty queen who maintained that liposuction is nothing to be ashamed of, added that she regrets ‘not blogging about her experience and would consider blogging her next surgical procedure’. Watch video below- Nengi […]
The Ilorin zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction of one Kolade Emmanuel Balogun, who was charged to court for offences bordering on internet fraud. The charge against the suspect read; “That you, KOLADE BALOGUN (a.k.a Willam Davis, alias Behemoth) sometime in March 2020 or thereabout at Ilorin, Kwara State […]
One person was burnt to death and three others were injured after a petroleum tanker exploded at a filling station in Irete community along the Owerri-Onitsha Expressway in Owerri-West Local Government Area of Imo state today, August 14. Confirming the incident, the coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Imo state, Evans Ugoh, said […]
Many students have expressed disappointment over the statement by the President of the Academic Staff Union of the Universities (ASUU), Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, that the Federal Government should not reopen schools until it is safe for students. They also faulted Ogunyemi’s claim that university students would not resume even after the COVID-19 pandemic until the […]