Sir Shina Peters, a veteran Nigerian musician, has stated that there was an article written years ago claiming that he used 20 million naira to build a house the same year Jim Ovia used 20 million to start Zenith bank. In an interview with The Honest Bunch Podcast on Glitch Africa Studios, Sir Peters said…
Winner of Big Brother Naija Season 10, Opeyemi Ayanwale, popularly known as Imisi , has revealed her deep love for award-winning filmmaker and actress Funke Akindele , describing her as her number one mentor and dream collaborator. The 23-year-old reality TV star made this known during an interview with journalists shortly after receiving her ₦150…
Popular Yoruba monarch, the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade, has again come under the spotlight with his appearance at the 91st birthday thanksgiving service of renowned Nigerian businessman and philanthropist, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, as he was asked to vacate his seat for the celebrant. Oba Owoade had on Sunday joined other notable dignitaries at…
When you have a bachelors degree in English and Drama tucked in your belt, and follow up with higher degrees in Communication Studies up to doctoral level, you are poised to conquer the world of journalism. And that was what she did. Dr Doyin Abiola (née Aboaba) took Nigerian journalism by storm. From Daily Sketch,…
Veteran Nollywood actor Yemi Solade has stated that Pa Orlando Martins is the first Nigerian actor known in history. Speaking during an interview with The Honest Bunch podcast, Solade revealed that Martins, who is now deceased, left Nigeria in 1914 for the US, where he took up acting. He said the actor returned to Nigeria…
The recent upheaval in the leadership of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) has exposed deep-seated issues within the Tinubu administration’s approach to managing critical national institutions. This investigative report examines the whirlwind of appointments and sudden reversals that saw Salihu Dembos initially removed as Director-General only to be reinstated days later, along with other top…
Today, Friday, September 5 is the 16th anniversary of the death of Chief Gani Fawehinmi. There is no better way to honour Gani on the anniversary of his passing than to rebut the lies peddled against him by Mr Yakubu Mohammed, a director of Newswatch.First thing that struck me was the question – What would…
Nigeria today is the consequence of the choices we made in the past—political, economic, and social. When we ruptured the First Republic with our political intolerance and victimisation of opponents, we opened the gates for political violence in the Middle Belt and Western Region. That turbulence provided the opportunity for various shades of military governments,…
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…
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…
