The father of world champion and record holder Tobi Amusan, has urged Nigerians to ignore comments made by American track legend Michael Johnson after his daughter’s heroics at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon. Earlier this week, Amusan won her semifinal heat when she crossed the finish line at a time of 12.12 seconds, smashing the previous best of 12.20sec set by American Kendra Harrison in 2016. But Michael Johnson, who won four Olympic gold …
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Maureen Esisi has tendered a public apology for the comment she made after a troll laughed at her ex-husband, actor Blossom Chukwujekwu’s new wife, Ehinome. On Friday, May 20, Blossom got hitched to Ehinome, in a ceremony in Benin. Some Nigerians stormed Maureen’s page to mock Ehinome, saying she is not as hot as Maureen. Maureen while responding, laughed, a decision many felt was insensitive. In a post she shared on her page this morning, Maureen apologized …
Members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) popularly called Shi’ites on Tuesday November 3, burnt the French flag in the federal capital territory (FCT) over “anti-Islamic” comment linked to President Emmanuel Macron. Recall that there’s been heightened tensions between the French government and the Muslim world over cartoons, which Muslims consider to be blasphemous. This is centered on the republications of Mohammed’s caricatures by Charlie Hebdo magazine to mark the opening of the trial for a deadly attack against its staff in 2015 when the …
Watford have sold Pape Gueye to Marseille just 17 hours after he joined them following a controversial comment he made. Back in April, the Premier League club agreed a five-year deal for the 21-year-old French midfielder understood to be worth in the region of £45,000 a month. He was photographed holding a Watford shirt after putting pen to paper in the pre-contract agreement. Gueye was due to officially join Watford on Wednesday, July 1, as a free agent and had …
Former Formula 1 boss, Bernie Ecclestone has defended his controversial comment that ‘a lot of black people are more racist than white people’ after he was slammed by his successor Chase Carey and six-time world champion, Lewis Hamilton. The British billionaire, 89, was reacting to recent Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd in the US, when he made the controversial comment. He told CNN last week: ‘In lots of cases black people …
A Nigerian man has narrated how he physically attacked a church official for making a snide comment about his father who had stroke. According to @Otunbakush1, the incident occurred after he parked at a spot the church official claimed was meant for pastors and church workers. The Twitter user recalled telling the official that his father was the church’s head of protocol before he had stroke, but he (official) however passed a comment of his father “drooling like an imbecile”. My dad …