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NANS Slams Sanwo-Olu Over LASU Stampede

January 7, 2020 9:34 am

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Southwest Zone, has blamed Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for the stampede that occurred Monday at the Lagos State University, LASU.

The student body said it frowns at Gov Sanwo-Olu’s “look away” attitude on educational development in Lagos.

NAN reported the management of Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, as saying that the desperation of some students to force their ways into a 500-seat Computer Based Test (CBT) Centre led to a stampede, causing injuries to some of them.

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It was learnt that some students

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Solskajer Slams Festive Fixture Pile-Up

December 27, 2019 1:53 pm

Manchester United’s Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has become the latest Premier League manager to complain about the “unfair” packed programme of fixtures over Christmas and New Year.

United play their final league match of 2019 against Burnley on Saturday, just over 48 hours since competing for a 4-1 comeback win over Newcastle.

Those matches form part of a sequence of seven games in 21 days that is hard to square with modern notions of rest and recovery.

But such is the commercial appeal of the traditionally congested programme that change does …

Solskjaer Defends De Gea, Slams United After Watford Loss

December 22, 2019 4:15 pm

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer came to the defence of David De Gea after the goalkeeper’s blunder proved pivotal in a 2-0 loss away to Premier League bottom side Watford on Sunday.

The Vicarage Road clash was still goalless when De Gea somehow allowed a tame, spinning effort from Ismaila Sarr to creep through his hands and in at the near post.

Watford doubled their lead four minutes later when Troy Deeney fired home from the penalty spot after Aaron Wan-Bissaka brought down Sarr with a misjudged sliding tackle and not even the returning Paul Pogba, on as a …

#MeToo Documentary: 50 Cents Slams Oprah Winfrey

December 13, 2019 3:00 pm

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 …

Greta Slams ‘Misleading’ Climate Pledges At UN summit

December 11, 2019 3:49 pm

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg accused rich countries of “misleading” people over climate action at UN talks in Madrid on Wednesday as scuffles broke out between security guards and environmental protestors.

The UN climate forum tasked with saving the world from runaway global warming has become an “opportunity for countries to negotiate loopholes and to avoid raising their ambition” to act on climate, the 16-year-old told delegates and observers to vigorous applause.

“Countries are finding clever ways around having to take real action.”

Nations are gathered in Spain’s capital to finalise the rulebook f the 2015 landmark Paris climate accord, which …

North Korea Slams Planned US Military Drills With South

November 6, 2019 3:24 pm

North Korea on Wednesday slammed Washington for plans to conduct a joint military exercise with Seoul next month, as negotiations over Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal remain deadlocked.

The allies cancelled the combined air exercise known as Vigilant Ace along with several other joint drills last year amid a rapid diplomatic thaw with the North, which considers them a rehearsal for invasion.

But Pentagon spokesman David Eastburn said this week that the US had “no plans to skip upcoming combined exercises” this year.

A senior North Korean official said Wednesday that the …

Palestinian Rights Activist Slams Israel’s Travel Ban

November 3, 2019 3:14 pm

A Palestinian human rights campaigner struck with a travel ban by Israel has described the government’s rationale as “completely false and ridiculous”, terming the move “punitive measure” against the work of his employers Amnesty International.

Laith Abu Zeyad, who works as Amnesty’s campaigner on Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, was stopped by Israeli authorities at the King Hussein/Allenby border crossing on October 26 while on his way to attend a relative’s funeral in Jordan.

After being held for four hours, he was told he was banned from travelling abroad for what Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, called

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$200m new parliament: Sarkodie slams Ghanaian government

July 5, 2019 12:42 pm

Ghanaian Hip-hop recording artist, Michael Owusu Addo professionally known as Sarkodie has slammed the Ghanaian government over its plan to build a new parliament, which will cost about N72 billion ($200m).

Sarkodie in his reaction described the move of the proposed new Parliamentary complex as a misplaced priority considering that the country and her citizens are facing lots of challenges.

The Parliamentary is expected to have a 450 sitting capacity, house facilities including diplomatic offices, a library, a museum, a church, a mosque, eateries, press conference rooms, galleries, a car park, an upper gallery garden, and a post office. The …

US slams WikiLeaks Julian Assange with 18-count charge

May 23, 2019 10:14 pm

The United States Justice Department has charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with receiving and publishing what it calls one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States.

The 18-count charge was announced Thursday by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger for the Eastern District of Virginia, Assistant Director John Brown of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division and Acting Assistant Director in Charge Timothy Dunham of the FBI’s Washington Field Office made the announcement.

The new charge goes far beyond an initial indictment against 47 year-old Assange made …

‘Guy get sense, get sense,’ Akprororo slams Daddy Freeze

May 7, 2019 5:52 am

Comedian Akpororo has hit back on OAP personality Daddy freeze for taunting him over the low turnout of people at his Comedy show titled `Akpororo Live on Stage.’

Akpororo held a comedy gig at his neighbourhood in Okokomaiko on May 4, Lagos.

A video however surfaced online showing organisers slashing ticket price and at some point making the show ‘free’ due to ‘low turn-out’.

Daddy Freeze, who once had a fall-out with Akpororo over paying of ‘tithes’ reacted to the video.

“Wasn’t this the same comedian that insulted me and called me a wall gecko at the House of the

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