American singer and actor, Meat Loaf, whose album Bat Out of Hell is one of the best-selling albums ever and who played Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, has died at the age of 74. The Grammy winner, born Marvin Lee Aday, died Thursday night, Jan. 20, surrounded...
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Popular Nigerian blogger, Linda Ikeji has been spotted rocking an expensive Hermes Birkin bag reportedly worth millions of naira. The Hermes bag is reportedly worth N23m. She also rocked a designer. Sharing the post, she wrote, “Life is abundant! Life is beautiful! Live grateful! And learn to...
Adele has postponed the start of her Las Vegas residency because the show is not ready, having been “absolutely destroyed” by delivery delays and coronavirus. The award-winning singer said she and her production team had tried “absolutely everything” to pull the show together in time but that it had...
The fresh trial of Professor Ignatius Uduk, a lecturer at the University of Uyo, commenced on Thursday at the Akwa Ibom State High Court 9 sitting in Uyo, the state capital. Uduk faces a three-count charge bordering on publishing and announcing false electoral results. The case was filed by...
Pubs, popularly called beer parlour, is a thriving business in Nigeria which attracts patronage from a huge number of clients on a daily basis. A trip to some beer parlours in Lagos by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday revealed that men are the major customers when...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba has traced the prevailing calm in Cross River to Governor Ben Ayade’s relentless support to the state’s police command. The IGP who spoke yesterday at the State Executive Council Chamber of the Governor’s Office, Calabar, during a courtesy...
History does matter and has shown clearly that ordinary calculation can be upturned by extraordinary personalities. Working under this assumption, it will not be considered an overstatement to conclude that the People Democratic Party (PDP), is set to upturn the present political calculation in Nigeria. For the sake of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Damaturu – Goods worth several millions of naira were on Friday destroyed during a fire incident that occurred at the Potiskum grain main market in Yobe State. Residents told our correspondent on phone that the fire began as early as around 3:00 am which attracted the...
The Plateau chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the party has a timetable from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the House of Representatives and State Assembly bye-elections in the state. Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency and Pankshin State Constituency seats became vacant following the demise of...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, never denied being the leader of the outlawed organisation while taking his plea at a Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday, his lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has said. Ejiofor said the clarification became...
Extreme poverty in West Africa rose by nearly three per cent in 2020, another fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, a UN-backed report launched on Thursday that looks at the socio-impact of the crisis has revealed. The proportion of people living on less than 1.90 dollars a day jumped from...
Some persons will tell you that struggles are a part of the human life. This mainly emanates from the fact that the human life is finite and has limitations. However, the existence of struggles could be far less important than how the individual is in position to face the...
The Students Union Government (SUG) at the Federal University, Birnin Kebbi, has urged politicians not to drag students into their political calumny and machinations in the state. The President of the union in the university, Mohammed Mohammad, said in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday while briefing newsmen, that some politicians...
A political pressure group supporting the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), known as Action 2023 Group, has advised the party to beam its search light on 2023 presidential aspirants in their 50s. The pressure group in a statement by its National Chairman, Dr Rufus Omeire, in Abuja on Thursday, cautioned...
The Nigerian Army says it does not discriminate between male and female soldiers in its internal security operations. Maj.-Gen. Olufemi Oluyede, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 6 Division, Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, stated this on Thursday at a sensitisation workshop organised for troops of the division in the Rivers...
Sen Abdulaziz Yari, a former two term governor of Zamfara and a frontline All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairmanship aspirant says his party membership card is still valid. Yari was reacting to reports in the social media that he did not have a valid party membership card in a...
Following is the line-up of the round of 16 matches at the ongoing 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Cameroon, after the conclusion of the group stage matches on Thursday (in the order of fixture, venue and Nigerian time): Sunday (1) Burkina Faso vs Gabon, in Limbe at...
Following are the final tables of the six first round groups at the ongoing 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Cameroon, after match day 3/final group fixtures on Thursday: Group A Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts Cameroon 3 2 1 0 7 3 +4...
A truck carrying explosives collided with a motorcyle in western Ghana on Thursday, causing an immense conflagration and the “loss of lives”, President Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo has said. The accident happened around noon in Apiate, near the city of Bogoso some 300 kilometres (180 miles) west of the mineral-rich...
Diogo Jota fired Liverpool into the League Cup final against Chelsea as the Portugal forward’s double sealed a 2-0 win at Arsenal in the semi-final second leg on Thursday. Jota put Liverpool on course for Wembley with a first half strike and he clinched their berth with a late...