To commemorate Nigeria’s Democracy Day, President Buhari will broadcast to the nation on Friday, June 12, 2020, at 7am. A statement from Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, asked Television and radio stations, as well as other electronic media outlets, to hook up to the network services of the Nigerian Television Authority and Radio Nigeria respectively for the broadcast. Nigeria’s Democracy Day was formally celebrated every May 29, the day Nigeria returned to democratic …
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American singer, Kelly Clarkson has filed for divorce from her husband, Brandon Blackstock after almost seven years of marriage. According to court documents obtained by The Blast, the American Idol winner quietly filed to end her marriage in Los Angeles last week. Clarkson and Blackstock first began dating in 2011 and got married in 2013. They have two children together, five-year-old daughter River Rose and four-year-old son Remington Alexander. Blackstock also shares his 13-year-old son Seth and 17-year-old daughter …
The lady who called out her about-to-wed schoolmate for rape has been dragged to court over the allegation. The accuser identified as Ebele Muogbo a.k.a Lighthouse Beacon was accused of making same allegation in 2015 and 2017 in spite of allegedly engaging in consensual sex with Femi Oloidi who is now a lecturer at University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The petition filed against Muogbo and her friend identified as Mark Anthony Osuchukwu reads;
Professor James Nwoye Adichie, the father of renowned Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has died. Late Professor Adichie died on Wednesday night June 10. Before his death, he was admitted into the Chira Memorial Hospital in Awkuzu, Oyi local government area of Anambra State. The Emeritus Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) celebrated his 88th birthday on March 1. He was the first Nigerian Professor of Statistics. He became a Professor of Statistics …
Men of the Osun state police command have arrested a 75-year-old man, Jacob Ayinla, for allegedly raping a 15-year-old local juice seller popularly known as ‘Pito’ in his apartment in Osogbo, Osun State on Wednesday, June 10. According to reports, the accused man lured the teenager into his apartment in the Olowo area in Osogbo under the pretense he wanted to buy the local juice. Immediately she entered his house, the man forcefully defiled her. “The girl always hawks …
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has revealed that 39.4 million Nigerians might be out of job by the end of 2020 according to projections received by the economic sustainability committee. Osinbajo who disclosed this while presenting the committee’s report to President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday June 11, said the National Bureau of Statistics also projects that the country would have a revenue shortfall of N185 billion monthly with oil prices at $30 a barrel. The Vice President stated the projection might come to reality …