For months, they remained unknown, unseen and unheard of. When many were mourning the loss of lives and asking questions, they remained quiet. Now the veil has been lifted off the owners of the collapsed Ikoyi building, which killed scores of workers and others, including the owner of Fourscore Heights Limited, the company that initiated…
By Florence Paul Nollywood seems to glory in bad behaviour. It sometimes seems actors go out of their ways to court controversies. This year alone, several scandals have unfolded, from actresses said to be sleeping with a cleric, Yul Edochie’s rumoured second wife, to Funke Akindele’s separation from her husband and Kalu Ikeagwu’s messy divorce…
Banditry kingpin in Zamfara, Bello Turji, has repented and embraced peace overtures by the state government. Zamfara’s deputy governor, Hassan Nasiha made the declaration in Gusau on Sunday. He said Mr Bello’s repentance had resulted in peace in Birnin Magaji, Shinkafi and Zurmi local government areas of Zamfara. The deputy governor spoke at the opening…
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), has said the prices of selected food items increased in July. The bureau stated this in its Selected Food Prices Watch Report for July 2022, released in Abuja on Monday. The NBS stated that the average price of 1kg of white beans rose by 23.22 per cent from N444.21…
Ukraine’s capital Kyiv banned public celebrations this week to commemorate independence from Russian-dominated Soviet rule and its second city Kharkiv declared a curfew due to a heightened threat of Russian attack, local authorities said. Near frontlines in the south of the country, Ukraine said Russia fired rockets into several southern Ukrainian towns north and west…
Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, the executive director of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), says Festus Keyamo, minister of state for labour and employment, is a man of contradictions. His statement comes after Keyamo said the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), a civil society organisation (CSO) led by Rafsanjani, is sponsored by opposition parties. TMG had asked…
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says 225 communities have been ravaged by flood following heavy and prolonged rainfall across 31 LGAs of Kano and Jigawa states since July. Nuradeen Abdullahi, NEMA coordinator, Kano/Jigawa territorial office, said this on Saturday in a statement made available to NAN. He said the Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NiMet), on…
Femi Fani-Kayode, former minister of aviation, says Nigerians, particularly Christians, do not have to worry about the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In a statement on Saturday, Fani-Kayode said Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the APC, does not have any plan to Islamise the country and he would make “major concessions” to…
Thousands of people gathered at the Zulu royal palace in South Africa for the coronation of a new king in the country’s richest and most influential traditional monarchy. Misuzulu Zulu, 47, is set to succeed his father, Goodwill Zwelithini, who died in March last year after 50 years in charge, but a bitter succession dispute…
