There is growing concern in Lagos after Private and public schools resumed for the first and second term across the State amid COVID-19 second wave. The Nigerian government had announced today, January 18 for reopening of school across the country despite efforts to quash the second wave of the virus. On Sunday, the Lagos State Read more
“A bad marriage is a bad marriage, no matter how you want to paint it.” Popular Nigerian Nollywood actress, Iyabo Ojo, has pointed out that most women in abusive relationships find it difficult to leave such marriage because they are afraid to face subsequent challenges and responsibilities. In an Instagram live video session on Saturday, Ojo expressed Read more
“President-elect Biden will take action not only to reverse the what has been termed the gravest damages of the Trump administration but, also to start moving our country forward,” The United States President-elect Joe Biden has disclosed that his administration will roll back enforcement of various executive orders ratified by predecessor Donald Trump when he Read more
Senator Jubril Martins-Kuye, a former Nigerian Minister is dead aged 79. Newsheadline247 understands the late Martins-Kuye who served twice as a federal minister, died on Sunday morning in his hometown of Ago-Iwoye. Martins-Kuye was trained as a chartered accountant, practising for several years in Lagos and overseas before moving to politics. He became a Senator Read more
Nigeria has so far tested 1,147, 523 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 on Feb. 27, 2020. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Saturday reported 1,598 confirmed new cases of COVID-19 and seven deaths due to complications from the infection. The NCDC, on its official Twitter handle, stated that the total Read more
Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa, a former military administrator of Lagos and Borno State, has been appointed as the Chairman/CEO of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) by President Muhammadu Buhari. Marwa, a close ally of President Buhari, had worked assiduously as Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Drug Abuse (PACEDA) between 2018 Read more
Governor Tambuwal had earlier led the groom’s family to the bride’s family home to seek her hand in marriage A former Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, has tied the knot with Aisha Saidu, daughter of Kebbi State Governor Atiku Bagudu, on Friday in Abuja the federal capital. The wedding held at Read more
“I pointed this out to Fela and told him that I was a possessive lover and would not be able to cope as an appendage to his harem.” Nigerian legendary singer, Onyeka Onwenu, has revealed why she turned down a marriage proposal from late Afrobeat crooner, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. Mrs Onwenu, in an excerpt of her Read more
The Pan Nigeria Presidency of Igbo Extraction Coalition (PANPIEC), has asked Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election and the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to drop their ambitions to for the presidency of Nigeria in 2023. The body gave the Read more
We are promoters of the Political Association, known and described as MOVEMENT OF THE PEOPLE Late Fela Kuti’s youngest son, Seun Kuti has requested to register his father’s political party, Movement of the People (MOP). Seun, a Grammy Award nominee, shared a photograph copy of a letter addressed to the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission Read more
