Author: David Folami

Just when a lot of viewers thought that “The Last #Man On Earth” would be canceled because of the previous season’s poor ratings, Fox renewed the television show for a fourth season. Although there are fears that the television show’s fans will stop supporting the series, the network and the people behind the show are willing to take a risk. #Will Forte returns to reprise his role as the average guy Phil Miller. Aside from the returning cast members, there are two stars coming to join the remaining “The #Last Man on Earth” Season 4’s survivors. Chris Elliott joins “The…

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He broke up with his superstar fiance last year. But Taylor Kinney was spotted at his ex Lady Gaga’s concert for her Joanne World Tour on Friday night. The 35-year-old actor was snapped by attendees at the Chicago show as they posted pics on social media. A young fan tweeted: ‘Taylor Kinney, Gaga’s ex-Fiancé, is in the audience tonight!’ along with a selfie as Taylor gives a thumbs up in the background. Another little monster posted: ‘I met @taylorkinney111 last night and he’s such a cool guy. Best selfie I’ve ever taken.’ Lady Gaga, 31, got in on the Twitter…

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Versatile musician, sports enthusiast and businessman, Olanrewaju Fasasi, popularly known as Sound Sultan, has bragged of being a source of inspiration and motivation to many Nigerian artistes who are big in the music industry today. The talented singer said this in a recent chat that before the likes of Wizkid, D’banj, Timaya, Asa, P-Square among others hit the limelight, he mentored, inspired and moulded them into what they are today, which makes them his children in the Nigerian music industry. “So many artistes that are big now, when they were budding artistes I inspired and motivated them. From P-Square to…

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Popular artiste Davido may have recently welcomed his second child Hailey; this hasn’t stopped him from announcing his want for have another child. Taking to his Snapchat account, Davido shared a photo of Hailey with the caption “My last born, for now sha.” Meanwhile, Davido has been accused of pilfering the beat of his recent song Pere. Unkwown producer HOD also accused of being the one who gave Davido his own version of Pere that was released in 2015. Davido is yet to respond to the allegation.

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Taylor Swift returned on Friday (Aug. 25) with her new, highly-anticipated single “Look What You Made Me Do”, a fiery message to everyone on her “list,” promising them that “you’ll all get yours.” Shortly after Swift’s single released, Nicki Minaj sent out a cryptic tweet that many believe is a shot at the pop star. Using a line from Kendrick Lamar’s “Humble,” Minaj wrote, “N—-a sit down. Be humble,” in the wee hours of the morning, an hour after Swift’s midnight release. On “Look What You Made Me Do,” Swift sings about seeking revenge, singing lines like, “I’ve got a…

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Retired baller LaVar Ball is making bank with his LA Lakers star son Lonzo as the 19-year-old’s first shoe is starting to fly off the shelves at $495 a piece. One patron who didn’t seem to have his order fulfilled is rapper The Game who took to Instagram to put LaVar on blast for dropping the ball. Determined to get an answer for his problem, The Game took to Instagram where he explained the situation in the comments section under one of LaVar Ball’s recent posts with him and his son pictured, together. “Ordered shoes for my son & his…

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Alhaji Aliko Dangote, the President, Dangote Group on Monday revealed that the company would invest 450 million dollars in agriculture development in Niger State over the next three years. He said that a state-of-the-art fully integrated sugar refining industry would also be established. “The Dangote Group is committed to invest around 450million dollars over the three next years to establish a large scale rice processing mill for out growers.” “Our company is also establishing a state of the art fully integrated sugar industry involving the development of over 30,000 hectares of sugar cane plantation and the production of about 500,…

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Kemi Adeosun, has revealed that the Federal Government will begin taxing first class and business class air tickets in the country. During the broadcast, she said, “We signed something yesterday on luxury goods; champagne, brandy, whiskey, wine, jewelry, high-end jewelry. “We’ve signed something that will be a surcharge on first class and business class tickets, we are just doing the final parts of the implementation and we also want to try and amend the tax payer book on high end cars, and an additional surcharge on luxury cars. She said, “If we move our tax-to-GDP ratio up, it means two…

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The Nnamdi Kanu-led Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has taken back its threat to stop the conduct of the November 18 governorship election in Anambra State. Kanu agreed to make peace at a meeting organised by the Ala-Igbo International Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, held in Owerri, Imo State. With deliberations still continuing, leader of the foundation, Professor Uzodinma Nwala, said Kanu has promised Igbo leaders that IPOB will not disturb the November 18 governorship election. Eligible voters have been told to to go out and exercise their civic duty without fear of violence.

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has advised political parties to abide by electoral guidelines and party principles in the manner of conduct of their primaries for the Anambra Governorship election scheduled for Nov. 28, 2017. Prof. Antonia Okoosi-Simbine, INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman Elections and Party Monitoring Committee, made the statement recently. She said part of INEC job was to register and regulate political parties. “The only way we can regulate political party is to make sure that they follow the contents of the law they themselves brought forward to us as the guiding principles for all their activities.…

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Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra recently said he would provide 543 tricycle ambulances to 543 Primary Healthcare Centres in the state. “The ambulances will assist in emergencies and this is part of my commitment towards the provision of quality healthcare services in Anambra,’’ he said. “We will supply medical equipments, functional operational vehicles, conducive and clean environment to enhance efficient and smooth operations generally,” he said. “We divided health sector intervention into three; upgrading of health infrastructure, ensuring the comfort of patients and training/retraining of health workers and welfare,” he said. The governor said the state Health Insurance Scheme (SHIS)…

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Muhammadu Buhari was in a meeting with leaders of the ruling party, the All Progressives’ Congress (APC) and main opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday, August 25, 2017. This was revealed on the presidency’s official Twitter handle (@NGRPresident) which posted, “President MBuhari meeting with PDP and APC Leaders at the State House this morning. PDP Chairman Sen Ahmed Makarfi arriving for the Meeting”. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was also in attendance after returning from a commissioning trip to Taraba state on Thursday. The meeting took place at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

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Rashidi Ladoja, who ported to the Accord Party to contest the state’s governorship seat in the 2015 general elections, has returned to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He added that it was not his wish to leave the PDP when he did. “When I left the PDP some years ago, it was because of the injustice done to me. “We left because the PDP leaders, at that time, were not ready to protect the interest of all members. We are back now because the new leadership has promised to right all wrongs and avoid mistakes of the past. “I have…

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Federal Government has established six sickle cell reference centres in six Federal Medical Centres (FMCs) across the country, Prof. Isaac Adewole, the Minister of Health, said on Saturday. Adewole listed the FMCs as the Federal Medical Centres, Ebute Meta, Lagos; Federal Medical Centre, Keffi and the Federal Medical Centre, Gombe. Others are the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa; Federal Medical Centre, Birnin-Kebbi and Federal Medical Centre, Abakaliki. “I wish to passionately appeal to all partners to support the ministry to conduct National Survey so as to establish the current prevalence of NCDs for sound policy direction and planning in Nigeria,” Adewole…

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Muhammadu Buhari has asked for responsible opposition in the country after his meeting with leaders of the ruling party, the All Progressives’ Congress (APC) and main opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). President Buhari said, “Multi-party democracy is a very tried and tested form of government. Opposition does not mean hostility, enmity or antagonism. Democracy needs opposition, one which is vibrant but responsible. “I am imploring all Nigerians to continue praying for peace and prosperity in Nigeria.”

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Sen. Stella Oduah recently petitioned the Peoples Democratic Party’s chairman, Sen Ahmed Makarfi with a warning that she can withdraw from the Anambra guber race. An aspirant in the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra, Oduah has threatened to withdraw from the race, alleging irregularities in PDP’s build-up to the primary election. According to her, as if the case of hijacking was not enough, the ultimate result of the ward congress which was submitted by the Secretary of the panel was switched for a doctored result. “The exercise violated all known principles of democratic practice. Several complaints have continued to trail…

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Arsene Wenger has tipped Alexandre Lacazette to have a similar impact at Arsenal as Luis Suarez did at Barcelona — and he believes current prices in the market show the £53million price tag is his real value for money. His team travel to face Liverpool on Sunday and Alexis Sanchez could come into the side having returned to training following an abdominal injury, and Wenger is excited to see the pair play together. And Wenger says that, with the explosion in the transfer market seeing Neymar and Ousmane Dembele move for in excess of £100 million, it could prove to…

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Lionel Messi must leave Barcelona if he wants to prove his greatness, according to football agent Mino Raiola. Messi, 30, has spent his entire professional career at Barca since arriving from Argentina as a teenager. “A player like Messi must try another experience with a different club and prove how great he is,” the agent told Marca. “The market as we know it no longer exists,” Raiola said. “Now it is countries who are signing players, and that isn’t football. “But transfers of €200m are going to be normal from now on– it won’t be crazy to see that.”

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Jose Mourinho says he is “very confident” after Manchester United won their third straight game to open the season, but he’s not getting carried away quite yet. “We can look into perspective, last season we won against Leicester at home so that doesn’t make a difference but we had too many draws at home last season,” he said. “The difference is the quality of our football, we’re playing better today and if we hadn’t won this match I wouldn’t have anyone to blame. “The team is playing very well and I’m very confident. We are comfortable on the ball and…

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Paulo Dybala’s inspirational display saw Juventus fight back to win 4-2 after going 2-0 down in the first seven minutes of Saturday’s game away to Genoa. Tactically confused and in poor physical condition, Juventus started the match in the worst possible way and conceded an own goal in the first 20 seconds of the game. With Genoa doubling their lead six minutes later, it looked to be all over so soon. However, With Gonzalo Higuain acting as the director of play and Dybala playing like the champion he’s set to be, Juventus grew into the game and scored the goals…

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