Naomi Silekunola Ogunwusi, the estranged wife of the Ooni of Ife, has called for a public apology and retraction from Olufunke Ayokunle, a content creator and gospel musician, for sharing an old video of her dancing following the recent deadly stampede in Ibadan, Oyo State. According to Naomi, the video, originally recorded in 2022 was…
The Omoluabi Progressives, a political group led by former Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has announced its decision to exit the All Progressives Congress. In a statement signed by the group’s Organising and Publicity Secretary, Oluwaseun Abosede, and obtained in Osogbo on Sunday, the resolution to leave the APC was said to have been reached…
Olusegun Osoba, a former governor of Ogun State, has recounted how he discovered the bodies of Nigeria’s first Prime Minister, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa and the then Finance Minister, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh in the bush after the January 15, 1966 coup. Osoba, in a Vanguard interview, first published in 2010, narrated how he was informed of…
Nigerian actress and film director, Ronke Odusanya has founded the Ronnie’s Academy today. The academy is a training ground for actors and actresses. In a move aimed at giving back to the society that has given her fame, Nollywood actress and producer, Ronke Odusanya, has decided to open an acting school called Ronnie’s School of…
PornHub has ranked Nigeria as the highest patron of its pornographic content in the whole world. Ghana came second at the top of the list while Kenya and Eygpt maintained the third and fourth spot respectively. Interestingly, although Ghana boasts of cooking better jollof rice than Nigeria, the latter has taken the top position on…
Popular Nigerian gospel artiste, Mercy Chinwo, has released a statement via her lawyers addressing the lawsuit against her former label boss, Ezekiel ThankGod, more popularly known as Eezee Concept. In a press release posted on her Instagram page, Chinwo recounted her journey with the music producer, from starting as his background singer to becoming his…
Famous actor, Charles Inojie, has stated that the Nigeria film industry should not be held responsible for the ills in the society. Inojie, who stated this during an interview with Saturday Beat, emphasized the need for parents to instill family values in the younger generations by reorienting them that quick fixes mostly end in catastrophe….
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointments of board Chairpersons and Chief Executive Officers for 42 federal organisations and a secretary to the board of the Civil Defence, Immigration, and Prisons Services. This is contained in a State House release issued on Thursday by the president’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga. According…
These men and women who go and ‘kiss the mic’ on a popular radio programme in Ibadan, Oyo State, please whose children are they? Who raised them? Sure I enjoy the programme tremendously too. I am not ashamed to confess that when I’m tensed or trying to control my temper, I rack up old broadcasts…
Wife of former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Mrs. Beatrice Ekweremadu, has returned to Nigeria. A reliable source on Wednesday confirmed her return to Nigeria. It will be recalled that Senator Ekweremadu, his wife, and Dr. Obinna Obeta were sentenced by a UK court over charges related to organ harvesting. The former Deputy Senate…
