The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has lamented the lingering insecurity and socio-economic challenges plaguing the region, stating that most people in the North can’t afford a single square meal daily. The coalition revealed this at a one-day community engagement held in Katsina under the chairman Professor Sani Abubakar Lugga, the fifth Wazirin Katsina. The…
Former Nigeria International goalkeeper Peter Fregene has died, at 77. Fondly called Apo by teammates and admirers, Fregene who has been critically ill and on life support over the last few days at a hospital in Oghara , Delta State, reportedly died in the presence of his two children and devoted wife, Tina. Erstwhile Green…
Obviously, because I am the unauthorised biographer of Ayinla Omowura, the musical enfant terrible of Yorubaland of the 1970s, I have been inundated by requests to lend a voice to an ongoing debate which has s” therefrom. Rather than the popular and legal affirmation that Omowura was murdered in a barroom brawl in May, 1980…
A former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has mocked the Peoples Democratic Party over its current internal crisis, saying the embattled party drama is now becoming exciting. Fayose’s comment came hours after a faction of the PDP National Working Committee suspended the acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum, and National Secretary, Samuel Anyanwu, for alleged disloyalty…
Dano Milk, Nigeria’s leading dairy brand has unveiled, frontline Nollywood actress and filmmaker, Funke Akindele popularly known as Jenifa, as its new brand ambassador. In a recent announcement, the company said “We are thrilled to welcome Funke Akindle to the Dano Milk family as our brand ambassador. It’s going to be an incredible journey full…
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has disclosed that becoming the first sub-Saharan African to win the Nobel Prize in literature exposed him to danger. The literary icon was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his “wide cultural perspective and… poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence”. But speaking in an interview with Larry…
The Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja has summoned Yahaya Bello, the former governor of Kogi State, over allegations of criminal breach of trust. The former governor, who was earlier declared wanted by the Economic Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over allegations of money laundering, is also accused of possession of the unlawfully acquired property….
Nigeria’s First Lady, Sen Remi Tinubu, has stated that her husband, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, not is not the cause of the current hardship in the nation, following the removal of the fuel subsidy. The subsidy removal, announced during Tinubu’s inauguration on May 29, 2023, has resulted in a sharp rise in the pump price…
A judge in New York, Robyn Tarnofsky, has declared on Thursday that he federal sex trafficking trial of the US rapper, Sean Diddy Combs, is scheduled to start on May 5. The embattled rapper was arrested on September 16 over sex trafficking and racketeering charges. The US magistrate judge Robyn Tarnofsky ordered that the entertainer…
Larry Madowo (born 14 July 1987) is a CNN International Correspondent and host of the African Voices Changemakers and Playmakers series. He was previously a North America Correspondent for the BBC and also anchored breaking news and presented BBC World News America from Washington, DC. He was a 2019-20 Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business…
