Big Tobacco, Tiny Targets: Global Campaign Takes Aim at Tobacco Giants for Advertising to Kids near Schools
Through innovative technology, citizens can take a part in ending tobacco marketing to kids WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is launching a new global campaign to stop the world’s largest tobacco companies from targeting kids near schools in country after country around the world. Launched today, “Big Tobacco, Tiny Targets” takes aim […]
Ekiti 2018: Ojudu Declares For Governorship, Preaches Party Unity
The All Progressives Congress, APC in Ekiti State and the people have been summoned to form a formidable alliance that would present a virile front to oust the current administration and consequently deliver the state from lingering hardship. Leading APC governorship aspirant in the state, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, SBO, made the plea at the weekend […]
Elections sequence: Pro-Buhari, pro-Saraki senators spoil for war
More facts have emerged on the alleged gang-up against the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki; Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu; and other principal officers of the legislative chamber. Saturday PUNCH has reliably gathered that there is indeed a group of senators in the All Progressives Congress caucus who are loyal to President Muhammadu Buhari and […]
Guardiola Fined £20,000 For ‘Wearing Political Message’
England’s Football Association on Friday fined Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola £20,000 ($27,700) for wearing a yellow ribbon in support of jailed Catalan independence leaders. The City boss has also been warned as to his future conduct by the governing body after accepting a charge of “wearing a political message”. Guardiola has argued wearing the […]
Buhari Launches Tractor Ownership Scheme In Plateau Amidst Security Challenges
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday launched the Plateau State Tractor Ownership Scheme during his two-day working visit to Jos. The president arrived in the state on Thursday, as part of his efforts to call for peace in the country. He launched the Plateau State Roadmap to Peace and vowed to end the violence that has […]
PDP asks Ogbeh to resign over rice claim
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Audu Ogbeh, minister of agriculture, to immediately toe the path of honour and resign for “portraying Nigeria as a lying nation” and bringing the country to “international opprobrium by deliberately falsifying claims relating to Nigeria’s relationship with Thailand”. The party said the whole world was shocked when Wattana […]
FULL TEXT: OJUDU’s Declares Interest To Contest for Ekiti State Governorship Election
The Okeyinmi Declaration: Address To All Ekiti People My fathers and my mothers, My brothers and my sisters, The young and the old, Great sons and daughters of Ekiti. I come to you today with a heavy heart. I come bearing the cries of the people all over our state. I come carrying the […]
Olamide ‘Engaged’ To Mother Of His Child
Olamide Adedeji, a rapper popularly known as Baddo, has proposed to Adebukunmi Aisha Suleiman, his longstanding girlfriend and mother of his son. The lovebirds have been together since 2011 and have a son Maximiliano Adedeji, born in 2015. NAN reports that he announced the proposal on Snapchat @baddosneh, some hours after wishing her a ‘happy […]
VIDEO: Smitten Simi ‘Complete Me’
Simisola Bolatito Ogunleye has released the video for yet another single from her eponymous third studio album. In the video for ‘Complete Me’, Simi is smitten with her love interest whom she professes everlasting love to. Watch the video below.
Senate Probes Alleged Plot To Remove Saraki
The Senate has asked its ethics committee to probe an alleged plot against the Senate President, Bukola Saraki. At Thursday’s plenary, a Federal Lawmaker; Senator Obinna Ogba accused Senator Abdullahi Adamu of allegedly planning to destabilize the Senate. He further alleged that Senator Adamu is planning to organize protests against the Senate President at the […]
