Nollywood star Eniola Ajao has addressed the lingering rumours about her alleged affair with popular actor Odunlade Adekola. The speculation resurfaced after a clip from the burial of Odunlade’s father, held last week, captured Ajao trying to avoid the camera. For years, whispers of a romantic link between the two have trailed the actress, but…
A former Executive Editor of the defunct Newswatch magazine, Yakubu Mohammed, has recounted how a rare interview with Brig.-Gen. David Mark had put the magazine’s directors in trouble with late Gen. Sani Abacha.Mohammed recalled the experience in his recently published memoir, “Beyond Expectations.” According to him, after Abacha sacked the Ernest Shonekan-led Interim National Government…
Very few books, I must confess, have generated as much excitement – long before their release and even after – as Femi Otedola’s Making It Big. And the reason is obvious: many readers also want to learn how to “make it big” like the son of the late Sir Michael Agbolade Otedola, former governor of…
A decaying society is like a decaying rock. Outwardly, it may appear firm and unchanged, but internally it is weakened, hollow, and fragile, waiting only for the slightest pressure to crumble. This is the reality of many societies today. While the structures of government, religion, and community remain visibly intact, the moral, ethical, and spiritual…
Former Super Eagles striker, Brown Ideye, has called on professional footballers to plan their finances carefully, warning that those who go broke after hanging up their boots have no excuses and should even face jail. The 2013 Africa Cup of Nations winner, who recently confirmed his retirement from international football, took to his official X…
Nigerian disc jockey Florence Otedola, better known as DJ Cuppy, is excited after her billionaire father, Femi Otedola, gave her the keys to his customised car. On her Snapchat page, Cuppy shared a photo of the car, which is customised, ‘Personally built for Femi Otedola’. In her caption, she revealed that her father gave her…
Iyiola Omisore, the immediate past National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says the current administration cannot be blamed for the crisis that has bedeviled the funding to the local government in Osun State. Omisore made this known while responding to questions in an interview on Arise Television. According to him, the challenges do…
Leaders of the Ipetumodu community in Ife North Local Government Area of Osun State have formally broken their silence on the four-year jail term handed down to the town’s traditional ruler, Oba Joseph Olugbemiga Oloyede, by an American court for fraud. In an official reaction to the matter, the leaders appealed to the people to…
University lecturers across Nigeria on Tuesday staged peaceful protests, warning that the nation’s public universities may soon face another total shutdown if the Federal Government fails to meet their long-standing demands. At the University of Lagos, members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) marched from the main gate to the Senate building, brandishing…
“To everyone asking if I didn’t insure my music house, let me clarify. How could I erect such a mighty building and not insure it? Years ago, I insured all my musical equipment. Unfortunately, there was an accident in Sagamu, and all my equipment was destroyed. Naturally, I expected the insurance company to act immediately,…
