100m hurdles World record holder, Tobi Amusan will be Team Nigeria’s flag bearer for the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games. Badminton star, Anuoluwapo Opeyori has been named team captain. The duo’s appointment was announced in a statement released by Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) press officer, Tony Nezianya. Amusan, the reigning world champion in…
Manchester United are reportedly pushing hard to secure the transfer of highly-rated Arsenal youngster Chidozie Obi-Martin. The 16-year-old Danish forward of Nigerian descent is expected to make a final decision on his future in a couple of days, having attracted interest from clubs across Europe. The young striker has a Nigerian father, while his mother…
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has announced that he intends to remain silent for now regarding the performance of Bola Tinubu’s administration. Soyinka made this statement during an interview held in commemoration of his 90th birthday. The team inquired when Soyinka would fulfill the promise he made to speak on President Tinubu’s performance after the…
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Olisa Agbakoba, has warned the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited not to take over the Dangote Refinery. Agbakoba was reacting to a comment by the businessman that the NNPC should buy the refinery if that would put an end to calling him a monopolist. Dangote made the comment amid the…
Dele Momodu, the publisher of Ovation Magazine, has advised President Bola Tinubu to ensure there is discipline within the administration, especially looking at the ongoing political situation in Rivers State. Momodu who gave the advice in an open letter to President Bola Tinubu, on his verified X handle titled, “URGENT MESSAGE FOR PRESIDENT TINUBU”. said…
Veteran Nollywood actor, Kareem Adepoju, widely known as, Baba Wande, has said that he stayed with his boss, late Oyinlola Adejobi, for so long because he does not want the group to fall apart. The veteran revealed this in an interview while talking about his journey into theatre. “I celebrated fifty years on stage in…
Aminu Bayero and Lamido Sanusi, made public appearances outside their palaces for the first time since the tussle for the Kano emirship crisis began. The reinstated emir, Mr Sanusi, attended the state government’s distribution of fertilisers to small-holder farmers at the Government House on Thursday. In contrast, the deposed Mr Ado-Bayero participated on Saturday in…
Embattled Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, has claimed that she is being targeted by certain government cabals due to her refusal to sign a $500 million World Bank loan request. It will be recalled that on July 10, 2024, a near-physical confrontation was narrowly avoided between Kennedy-Ohanenye and the House of Representatives Committee on…
Emir of Kano, HRH Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has reacted to the controversies between Dangote Refinery and the NNPCL. Emir Sanusi in a trending statement condemned the NNPCL Management clauming that the people in NNPC does not want to end their lucrative subsidy scam. “Dangote refinery… my view – SLS* I honestly do not think it…
It is not entirely surprising, yet the implications can be far-reaching. Beyond the potential for an unprecedented first female president in America, Uncle Sam’s Land of Liberty, facing the toughest threat yet to its superpower supremacy, could be in for an inflammable Donald Trump’s second term at the White House. Whichever way the pendulum swings,…
