Ekiti APC Primaries: Fayemi Refuses To Talk Media After Meeting Tinubu
Kayode Fayemi, minister of mines and steel, left a meeting which Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Tuesday without talking to the media. There were insinuations that Fayemi walked out of the meeting, but it later emerged that he went for another engagement after the break. Tinubu and some […]
Zidane Confident Ronaldo Will Be Fit For Champions League Final
Zinedine Zidane believes Cristiano Ronaldo will be fit to play for Real Madrid in the Champions League final. Zidane also said on Tuesday that Mohamed Salah deserves great credit for Liverpool’s surprise run in Europe but insisted the match in Kiev will not be a contest of the Egyptian against Ronaldo. Ronaldo was forced off […]
Iniesta Reportedly Keen On A-League Move
Australian football chiefs plan to contact the agent of Barcelona captain Andres Iniesta to sound him out about a move to the A-League, reports said Wednesday, as the domestic competition looks to recruit a marquee star. Spain’s Sports website named the A-League as the World Cup-winner’s “preferred destination” this week, although Japan’s Vissel Kobe is […]
Two Teenagers Killed In Failed Borno Suicide Attack
two female suicide bombers were killed on Wednesday morning while attempting to attack a mosque in Borno State, North-east Nigeria. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Damian Chukwu, confirmed this in a statement personally signed by him. He revealed the attackers tried to gain entry into the Alhaji Bunu Mosque during the morning […]
Trump Announces US Withdrawal From ‘Defective’ Iran Deal
President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced the US withdrawal from the “defective” multinational nuclear deal with Iran, as Washington moved to reinstate punishing sanctions against the Islamic republic. “The Iran deal is defective at its core,” Trump said in a televised address from the White House. “I am announcing today that the United States will […]
Medical trip: Buhari unfit to effectively govern, says PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says President Muhammadu Buhari is unfit to attend to state matters. The opposition party said this while reacting to the president’s medical trip to the UK. Buhari left the country on Tuesday. Speaking with journalists subsequently, Kola Ologbondiyan, spokesman of the PDP, said it is unfortunate that the president’s aides […]
Fayose’s Deputy Wins Ekiti PDP Governorship Primary Election
The incumbent Deputy Governor of Ekiti State, Professor Kolapo Olusola, has emerged candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the Ekiti state governorship election scheduled to hold on July 14, 2018. Olusola defeated his rival, former Minister of State for Works, Dayo Adeyeye, to emerge winner in the governorship primary election. Read Also: Ekiti PDP […]
Ekiti PDP Holds Governorship Primary Election Today
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State is holding its governorship primaries across all the 26 local government areas of the state today. More than 2,100 delegates will be participating in the exercise as the accreditation process is already underway. The delegates are made up of 1,585 statutory members of the party, and 547 […]
NAFDAC Shuts Down Three Drug Firms Over Codeine Syrup
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has shut down three pharmaceutical companies that were implicated in the BBC investigation on illegal manufacture and distribution of codeine-containing syrup. The three companies are Peace Standard Pharmaceutical Limited, Adewole Industrial Estate, Lubcon Avenue, Ilorin, Kwara State; Bioraj Pharmaceutical Limited, Kaima Road, Ilorin and […]
I Was The First To Make $1m Off The ‘Pon Pon’ Sound, Says Davido
Davido says he was the first Nigerian artiste to make $1m off the ‘pon pon’ variant of Nigerian pop music. When asked if he made the sound popular, Davido said: “I mean, I was the first to make a million dollars off it.” ‘Pon Pon’, a sound embraced by Tekno, Runtown, and Mr Eazi, gained […]
