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Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has said he ought to have died going by his lifestyle. The Playwright and Poet, said this in an interview with the Financial Times, London, where he disclose that he doesn’t drink water. The 83-year-old professor of literature and political activist was responding question on how long he intends to…
Ihuoma Chiedozie, Enugu An explosion, suspected to have been caused by an improvised explosive device, rocked Enugu as voters were coming out to cast their votes in local council elections on Saturday. The incident occurred in the Coal Camp area of Enugu, by the entrance of a road that led to a polling station located at…
AN 18-year-old housewife, Divine Preye Idan, has confessed to the Police in Bayelsa State how she assisted her 35-year-old husband, Idan, to rob a boutique in Biogbolo-Epie, Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state. Divine and her husband were arrested by the police after robbing a boutique managed by Uchenna and Juliet on September 21,…
All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has thanked Nigerians for their show of concern over the death of his eldest son, Jide. Thirty-seven-year-old Jide died of cardiac arrest in Lagos on Wednesday, following which condolence messages poured into the APC chieftain’s home from President Muhammadu Buhari, state governors, ministers and the generality…
Canada will boost immigration to one million over the next three years with a plan that “will guarantee” the country’s future prosperity, its immigration minister announced Wednesday. The number of immigrants will be increased to at least 310,000 next year, and continue growing to 330,000 in 2019 and 340,000 in 2020, said Immigration Minister Ahmed…
The time-tested saying that hell hath no fury than a woman scorned came on full display at a customary court in Ibadan, Oyo State when an enraged housewife, Mary Gbadamosi, described her husband of twenty years as a criminal and a serial pickpocket. “My husband is a criminal, a serial pickpocket. I did not know…
According to a report on P.M.News the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Suraj Adekunbi has made it clear that he would not step down for anybody in the race to Okemosan, the seat of government in Abeokuta. The Speaker has expressed his readiness to take over as governor of Ogun State, come…
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday struck out an application by former President Goodluck Jonathan seeking an order setting aside the subpoena issued to him to appear in defense of a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Olisa Metuh. The court presided over by Justice Okon Abang, also dismissed…
Buhari condoles with Tinubu over first son’s death President Muhammadu Buhari says he is deeply grieved to learn of the passing away of Jide Tinubu, eldest son of the APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. President Buhari in a telephone call on Wednesday to Asiwaju Tinubu on behalf of the Federal Government and his family…
For millions of Nigerians looking for jobs, there is a ray of hope as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is set to create one million jobs for them. To this end, the company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ondo State Government to establish a 65,000 million liters bio-fuel plant in…
