American superstar Rihanna has named the streaming Nigerian song ‘Unavailable’ by Davido featuring South African singer, Musa Keys, as her ‘Song of the Year.’ She disclosed this in a side interview with Complex at a recent event of her fashion brand, Fenty, The Creeper.p. Rihanna was asked to name her album of the year, but…
The Federal Road Safety Corps, has reported the organization of 800 staff for exceptional watch tasks in Beñue State to guarantee mishap free Christmas merriments. The various axis assigned to coordinate includes Wurukum Roundabout, Benue Link’s U- turn, SRS Junction, Bolek Filling Station Junction, along Modern Market road, all in Makurdi town, as well as…
The President of the Premium Breadmakers Association of Nigeria, Emmanuel Onuorah, has disclosed there will be an increase in bread prices ranging from 15 to 20 percent in Nigeria starting January 2024. During a Wednesday interview with Channels Television, he linked the anticipated rise in bread prices to mounting production costs attributed to heightened cargo…
An NGO, Resource Centre for Human Rights and Civic Education, CHRICED, has called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on unemployment in the country. Executive Director of CHRICED, Ibrahim Zikirullahi, made the call at a news conference on the state of the nation on Wednesday in Abuja. He also called on…
In Nigeria’s Omo Forest Reserve, a protected tropical rainforest, cocoa farmers are illegally cultivating cocoa beans, a practice that poses significant environmental threats. Despite the area being designated for conservation, farmers have been documented harvesting cocoa in zones where such activities are banned. This encroachment has been linked to some of the world’s largest cocoa…
The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, HoSF, Folasade Yemi-Esan, has insisted that Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, of the Federal Government have no excuse not to digitalise their operations by 2024. Situating the theme ‘Towards the Digitalisation of the Public Service by 2025’, the HoSF stressed that all the FCSSIP25 pillars are…
A Magistrate’s Court in the Yaba area of Lagos State has arrested two friends, Noah Tovohome and Rajay Zannu, in a correctional centre for killing their friend, Segun Zusu, over 36 bags of rice. The duo appeared before Magistrate Linda Balogun on Tuesday on two counts bordering on murder. It was gathered in court that…
The national secretariat of the Young Progressive Party, YPP, has observed with great displeasure the continuous leadership crisis in the Abia State chapter of YPP. It advised Uzodinma Nwoko, who was recently appointed as the acting Chairman by the SWC, to stop parading himself. It advised that the status quo before the crisis should be…
A renowned family medicine consultant and fistula surgeon, Professor Sunday Lengmang, has linked the alarming prevalence of Vesico-Vaginal Fistula, VVF, to poverty. Lengmang, serving as the Project Director of the Evangel VVF Center at Bingham University Teaching Hospital in Jos, Plateau State, said this in an interview with journalists in Taraba State. Asserting that poverty…
Celebrity Designer, Toyin Lawani has expressed regret over her appearance in the controversial reality show, Real Housewives of Lagos. She said she is still in shock that she participated in the show, describing it as a “joke.” On her X (formerly Twitter) handle, Lawani wrote: “[I] Can’t believe I was part of a joke #Rholagos…
