Outspoken international rapper, 50 Cent is known to call out fellow celebrities from time to time and while many may be quick to call him the king of petty, he is known to drop some factual points now and then.
The “Get Rich or Die Trying’” crooner is calling out respected media mogul, Oprah Winfrey over her upcoming spill-all documentary on Russell Simmons.
The rapper asked why Winfrey is going after Russell Simmons and Michael Jackson and not Harvey Weinstein or Jeffrey Epstein.
50 Cent made it clear he …
Some officials holding sensitive positions in the federal government have remained in their offices despite the fact that their tenures have ended.
Findings reveal that others are still in office because of the ambiguity in the laws establishing the agencies they are superintending.
Many political appointments made by President Muhammadu Buhari at the beginning of his first term in 2015 were to expire at the end of his tenure in May 2019.
In the alternative, the president has the option of renewing such appointments after he was sworn-in for a second term.
Though the president has made some fresh appointments …
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has reacted to the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Muhammad Tanko’s call for constitutional amendments to accommodate some peculiarities of Shariah law which have been ignored for so long.
The CJN made the statement while declaring open the 20th Annual Judges Conference at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Kaduna State, yesterday.
The CJN was represented by Justice Muhammad Danjuma, the Grand Khadi of Niger State.
MURIC backed the CJN’s suggestion, adding that the current constitution was a child of British colonial Christianisation of the country which had failed to take into consideration the …
The All Progressives Congress, APC, chairman in Osun State, Prince Adegboyega Famodun has revealed the rationale behind forum of APC state chairmen’s support for the National chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.
Famodun, who was speaking with newsmen at the NUJ Correspondents’ Chapel in Osogbo, the Osun State capital on Thursday, said the resolve to save Oshiomole’s job was informed by past political experiences and the need to galvanise the party against major crisis.
He explained that similar acrimony within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, while in power was responsible for its abysmal performance during 2015 election, adding that …
Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has downplayed the submission by the National Security Adviser (NSA), Maj-Gen Babagana Monguno (rtd), which rubbished the conduct of the November 16 governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi States, describing the two elections as a fiasco where the unthinkable happened.
Monguno, had on Wednesday at an Inter-Agencies Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) meeting in Abuja, said the polls in both states were not credible, despite the assurances of adequate security before the elections.
However, Bello told State House correspondents thursday in …
The committee added that there was an urgent need to review the admission process into the country’s tertiary institutions as Nigeria scored low on the internationalisation index.
The committee, headed by a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Attahiru Jega, stated these in Abuja on Thursday at the
President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa has revealed that 805 cases that emanated from the 2019 general elections has been successfully disposed off by the appellate court.
Justice Bulkachuwa said the appeals arose from the various petitions filed by aggrieved contestants against the results declared in the general elections.
Speaking at the 2019 annual conference of the Appeal Court justices held in Abuja, yesterday, Justice Bulkachuwa showered encomiums on his colleagues on the Appeal Court bench for their hard work and resilient during adjudications of the election cases.
The Appeal Court president at the conference attended …
There is no more hiding place for the real owners of crude oil and gas and mining assets in Nigeria as the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, has finally begun unveiling the extractive sector Beneficial Ownership Register for Nigeria on Thursday.
The disclosure began with the unveiling of the real owners of 270 licences in the mining sector, the owners of 61 assets and 56 companies in the oil and gas sector.
Speaking at the launch of the extractive sector Beneficial Ownership Register for Nigeria, the Executive Secretary of NEITI, Mr. Waziri Adio, said the register was a way …
This was announced in Lagos, yesterday, at a press conference addressed by the organisers, Flykite Productions. The bout is one of the nine scheduled for the show slated to hold on 28 December, at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos.
Chief Executive Officer of Flykite Productions, Jenkins Alumona, said the bout, which is the biggest to be staged on Nigerian soil in decades, is a part-fullfillment of the …
Democrats warned that US President Donald Trump was on the verge of dictatorship while Republicans fiercely defended his record at the opening of a stormy, historic debate on impeachment charges Wednesday.
The parties held tightly to diametrically opposed views of Trump as they weighed articles of impeachment at the beginning of a two-day debate.
Trump is alleged to have wielded the power of the presidency for personal and political gain by pressuring Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 US election.
There is little question about the outcome in the House Judiciary Committee: by the end of the week the majority-Democrat …
New Zealand’s military will embark on a risky dawn mission to retrieve eight bodies from the still-active White Island volcano, officials said Thursday, as pressure from distraught victims’ families mounted.
Teams will move in “shortly after first light” on Friday, deputy police commissioner Mike Clement said, despite volcanologists warning that the chances of another significant eruption in the next 24 hours had risen to 50-60 percent.
“They will go on to the island and they will make every effort to recover all of the bodies” and transport them to military frigate HMNZS Wellington anchored off the coast, he said.
With …
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and rival Benny Gantz prepared Thursday for their third election campaigns in a year, with the country trapped in its worst political crisis in decades.
Israel’s parliament dissolved itself and called March 2 elections in the early hours of Thursday morning, less than three months after an inconclusive general election saw neither Netanyahu nor Gantz able to form a governing coalition.
The September election followed a similarly deadlocked vote in April and opinion polls suggested the third round could again be tight, with neither Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc nor Gantz’s centre-left alliance currently on course for …
