May 10, 2019

I need help, sickly Nollywood actor Fadeyi Oloro cries out

I need help, sickly Nollywood actor Fadeyi Oloro cries out

May 10, 2019 6:46 pm

It is no longer news that famed Yoruba actor, Ojo Arowosafe, who is more popularly known as Fadeyi Oloro, is sick and in need of medical attention. In this interview with DUPE AYINLA-OLASUNKANMI, the actor, who is down with complications resulting from tuberculosis and presently staying in Ado-Odo, Ogun State, away from the buzz surrounding him, speaks on his state of health and other issues.

There have been lots of reports on your death?

Emi ma re o (this is me). I am not dead o.

How are you feeling?

I am not okay, that is because I have exhausted
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Court stops Ganduje from inaugurating new emirates

Court stops Ganduje from inaugurating new emirates

May 10, 2019 6:22 pm

A High Court sitting in Kano yesterday issued an order against the appointment of four new emirs in the ancient city.

The ruling, however, coincided with Governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s appointment of Aminu Ado Bayero, son of the late Emir of Kano Ado Bayero, and three others as new emirs.

Ruling in an ex parte motion dated May 10, 2019 and filed by Hon. Sule Gwarzo, Justice Nasiru Saminu restrained Ganduje, the Kano State House of Assembly and the Speaker, Clerk of the Assembly, the Attorney-General and the State from implementing the division of Kano into five emirates.

In an order …

Mobile money agent rapes co-worker to death in Ogun

How I was abducted, raped in Rivers, by senior lecturer

May 10, 2019 5:57 pm

A female senior lecturer (name withheld) in one of the tertiary institutions in Rivers State has given graphic details of her ordeals in the hands of kidnappers.

She recounted how she was raped in the forest of Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers and miraculously escaped from the kidnappers’ den.

Amid tears, she told her horrific story on Friday at the 6 Division of Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt shortly after the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Aminu Iliyasu, handed over the three men who confessed to have kidnapped her to SARS.

The victim, who was accompanied by her husband …

US House passes $19.1bn disaster relief,

US House passes $19.1bn disaster relief, Trump opposed

May 10, 2019 5:39 pm
The US House on Friday approved $19.1 billion in disaster relief to help hard-hit communities like Puerto Rico, but President Donald Trump opposes the package which faces party bickering over funding.

On the eve of the vote in the Democratic-controlled chamber, Trump urged Republicans to reject the “BAD DEMOCRAT Disaster Supplemental Bill” and continue negotiating on the emergency package aimed at providing recovery assistance to Americans affected by storms, wildfires and floods.

But in a rebuke of Trump, 34 Republicans joined Democrats in supporting the measure, which cleared the House of Representatives 257-150.

At a Florida rally on Thursday, Trump

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Ganduje disagrees with Northern elders’ recall of Fulani

BREAKING: Ado Bayero’s son, three others appointed Emirs

May 10, 2019 5:19 pm

Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has appointed Aminu Ado Bayero, son of late emir of Kano Ado Bayero as the pioneer emir of the newly established Bichi Emirate.

Bayero held the title of Wamban Kano, a senior member at the Kano Emirate Council presided over by Muhammadu Sanusi II, Emir of Kano.

In an announcement on radio stations, Ganduje was reported to have appointed three other emirs for Gaya, Rano and Karaye emirates.

Read also: I am not against Sanusi, Ganduje clarifies

The emir of Gaya is Alhaji Ibrahim Abdulkadir Gaya, the emir of Rano is Alhaji Tafida Abubakar Ila …

Timi Frank warns

Timi Frank warns against creation of more emirates in Kano

May 10, 2019 11:12 am

Mr Timi Frank, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned that the planned creation of more emirate councils by Kano State Government would destroy traditional institution in the state.

He gave the warning in a statement on Friday in Abuja, noting that the Kano emirate has been in existence since 1805.

He noted that one of the things that make the state thick is the emirate which represents the cultural heritage of the people and should not be destroyed for selfish reasons.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the State House of Assembly has passed

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Ganduje

I am not against Sanusi, Ganduje clarifies

May 10, 2019 10:52 am

Kano State governor Abdullahi Ganduje said he has nothing against the Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II concerning the creation of new Emirates in the state.

“So, it is not vendetta, I am not against him. In fact, he is supposed to be reporting to the local government chairman according to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” the governor said in Abuja on Friday.

Ganduje Wednesday signed into law a newly passed bill on the appointment and deposition of emirs in the state.

The new law created four additional traditional institutions and emirate councils each with a substantive …

Jeff Bezos set to go to the moon

Jeff Bezos set to go to the moon

May 10, 2019 10:39 am

Jeff Bezos is ready to go to the moon. The Amazon CEO (who also just happens to be the world’s richest man) unveiled Blue Moon, a new spacecraft designed to land on the moon.

It’s made by Blue Origin, Bezos’ secretive rocket company. He took the wraps off a new rocket engine called BE-7, too. He not only wants people to go to the moon, he wants humans to be able to stay there to do work.

Read Also: Jeff Bezos, ex-wife agree $36 billion divorce deal

Bezos says humanity could solve some of its biggest problems, …

Filmmakers, regulators must unite to promote Nollywood

Filmmakers, regulators must unite to promote Nollywood

May 10, 2019 10:30 am

A university lecturer, Prof. Saint Gbilekaa, has called for dialogue between filmmakers, regulators and other stakeholders, to promote best practices in Nigeria’s motion picture industry.

Gbilekaa of the Department of Theatre Arts, University of Abuja made the call in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Friday.

He spoke on the sidelines of a capacity building workshop for officers of North-West Zone of the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB).

The workshop with theme: “Film and Video Works in the New Horizon,” is holding from May 9 to 10, with stakeholders from the academia and …

Court grants Iwu ₦1billion bail, still in prison custody

Man faces jail sentence for beating wife to death over sex

May 10, 2019 10:16 am

An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State on Friday remanded 31-year-old Godspower Johnson accused of beating his wife to death during a fight over sex.

Chief Magistrate O.O. Olatunji, ordered that Godspower should be kept at the Ikoyi Prison, Lagos, for the next 30 days pending  advice from the state Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on the case.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Insp. Oladele Adebayo, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on March 21, at 5:30p.m., at No. 28, Adekoye St., Igbo-Elerin, Ishashi.

Read Also: Carpenter sets neighbour’s car ablaze over denial of sex

He alleged …

‘My wife pushed, slapped my mother’ - carpenter

‘My wife pushed, slapped my mother’ – Carpenter laments

May 10, 2019 10:05 am

A carpenter, Chijoke Okonkwo, on Friday prayed a Customary Court in Nyanya, accused his wife, Ifeoma of ill-treating his mother and prayed the court to dissolve the one-year marriage.

Okonkwo the petitioner, who resides in Jikwoyi pleaded with the judge, Jemilu Jega, saying, “I cannot leave with a woman who lacks home training.

“I took my wife to the village for my mum to teach her good values and how to be a good wife.

“Instead of my wife to learn, she became worse. She snatched my mother’s phone from while making a call, pushed and slapped her,” he said.…

BREAKING Appeal Court faults order used to dismiss Onnoghen

BREAKING Appeal Court faults order used to dismiss Onnoghen

May 10, 2019 9:51 am

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has faulted the ex-parte order issued by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on which President Buhari acted in suspending former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen.

A three-man panel of the court, led by Justice Stephen Adah, held that, since Onnoghen was not yet arraigned as at January 23, 2019 when the ex-parte order was made, it was wrong for the prosecution to have secretary went behind him to obtain an order for his removal from office.

Despite its observation, the court declined to set aside the order, noting that the …

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