The palace of Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, is reportedly on fire. According to Daily Post, officials of Lagos state fire service have arrived at the scene working hard to put out the fire. The cause of the inferno was not ascertained as at the time of filing this report. It was gathered that the monarch is unhurt and has been taken to a safe place. This is coming a few days after the Oba publicly snubbed the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi. Multiple reports say a certain Tunde Awoyeni had claimed that the Ooni of Ife palace would…
Author: David Folami
The Senate has begun the screening of 27 Resident Electoral Commissioner nominees sent to it by President Muhammadu Buhari. The legislators had threatened not to treat the list of nominees based on the way the Presidency handled the refusal of Ibrahim Magu as the substantive Chairman of the EFCC. It was, however, not clear why the upper chamber made a U-turn on Tuesday, May 2. The leader of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, presented the president’s request for approval of the nominees at plenary in Abuja. After the motion, the senate directed its Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission to screen…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha, has denied several reports claiming her husband’s health has gone from bad to worse. The President’s rare public appearances lately has fuelled speculations that all is not well with his health. Buhari had returned from the United Kingdom on March 10 after an extended medical vacation, but he only appeared publicly a few time since then. According to Mrs. Buhari, her husband’s health is not as bad as it is being speculated. The First Lady revealed this on Tuesday, May 2, in a series of tweets. “I wish to inform everyone that his health is…
Gov. Rauf Aregbesola, on Tuesday signed an executive order setting up a coroner inquest into the death of Sen. Isiaka Adeleke. The governor, while signing the executive order in Osogbo, also appointed Mr Olusegun Ayodele, a Magistrate, as the head of the inquest. Aregbesola, also directed that the inquest be carried out in Osogbo within three weeks. The governor said the inquest became necessary because of the suddenness and the circumstances surrounding the death of the Senator. According to him, a coroner inquest is a long established procedure, dating back to the eighth century and is generally applied in the…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has expressed displeasure over the unsuccessful prosecution of high-profile corruption cases. He said this is not a serious concern for only Nigerians but the international community too. Obasanjo stated this on Tuesday, May 2, while delivering a lecture at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). The inauguration lecture of the Olusegun Obasanjo Good Governance and Development Research Centre was titled, “Leadership, Governance and the Challenges of Development in Nigeria: The Way Forward.” The ex-president lamented that in spite efforts by successive governments in the anti-corruption fight, it still poses a threat to the development of…
An inexplicably bad display from Atletico Madrid saw their Champions League campaign all but come to an embarrassing end as they were thumped 3-0 by great city rivals Real Madrid. From the off Atleti looked sluggish and shy. In the end, they were dominated by a Merengues side who so often save their best for this competition. It is no disgrace to lose to Real in the Champions League, but to lose in this fashion is. That Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat trick just compounds the misery. The Calderon faithful will be praying for a miracle next week — not…
There did not seem to be anything particularly pressing to talk about when speaking with a group of British journalists at a Paris hotel in October 2014, so Monaco vice president Vadim Vasilyev shed some light on the new path his club wished to take. The short-lived boom period on the Cote d’Azur appeared to be over. Radamel Falcao and James Rodriguez, both signed the previous year for huge fees, had been moved on during the summer as Monaco sought to cut their cloth according to the demands of financial fair play. Many frills that had brought attention on the…
Real Madrid dominated Atletico Madrid and put three goals past Diego Simeone’s side for a second time this season after the league derby victory last November. Cristiano Ronaldo bagged a hat trick to essentially seal Real’s place in the Champions League final for a second consecutive season. Positives Real came out firing and peppered Jan Oblak’s goal with 10 of the side’s 17 attempts coming in the opening 25 minutes. It was also the perfect stage to secure a first Champions League clean sheet of the season. Negatives It’s difficult to find any in a performance that completely nullified Antoine…
Cristiano Ronaldo said Real Madrid’s progress to the Champions League final is not yet sealed after scoring all of his side’s goals in a 3-0 win over Atletico Madrid in Tuesday night’s semifinal first leg. The Portugal forward headed Real in front on 10 minutes, then in the second half lashed the ball in from the edge of the Atletico penalty area, before Ronaldo turning in a Lucas Vazquez cut-back on 86 minutes to complete his treble. “It was a total game from the team, we played phenomenally well,” he said after the game, “We have a good advantage, but…
“I think Luke Shaw’s must be a big injury,” said Jose Mourinho after Manchester United’s latest underwhelming result, a 1-1 draw against Swansea last Sunday. “To leave the pitch after 10 minutes I am expecting a very big injury.” Depending on how you treat the context, you could view this as an expression of concern for a hurt player. But knowing what we know about the often prickly public relationship between Shaw and Mourinho, we can safely assume this was another example of the United manager’s passive-aggression towards a player he seems suspicious of. It was like an irked parent…
Cesc Fabregas appears destined to leave Chelsea this summer after being restricted to a limited, albeit important at times, role under Antonio Conte, with the Sun reporting Manchester United and Liverpool are leading the chase for the Spaniard. Both clubs are pushing to sign Fabregas for £25 million after Nemanja Matic and N’Golo Kante were preferred in a two-man midfield by Conte. The 29-year-old has struck four times and assisted nine more this term, but started only 10 times for the Blues in the Premier League. Fabregas has just two years remaining on his contract and might have his value…
Rampaging Monaco midfielder Tiemoue Bakayoko, who has less than a year to run on his contract, has not held talks with Paris Saint-Germain, his agent said Tuesday. The 22-year-old whose late last-16 header sent Manchester City out of the Champions League is expected to be one of several players to leave Monaco in the transfer window. But the player’s agent, his brother Abdoulaye Bakayoko, told AFP on Tuesday talks with PSG widely reported in the French media simply did not happen. “There are plenty of rumours and the ones saying Tiemoue has held talks about a contract with PSG are…
Singer and photographer TY Bello in a recent interview says she was sexually molested as a child. According to her, it had a negative effect on her during her formative years. The Greenland singer shared all this in an interview with Kemi Adetiba on King Women. “I was sexually abused as a child and because of this, I felt like there was something ugly about me that made me encounter this. This was not the abuser’s fault, this was me. I used to see other girls as flowers and I saw myself as dirty cement, hard and ugly. I never…
Yvonne Okoro is single for the most unique reason. As hard as it is to believe, the actress is convinced that men her intimidated by her. The Nollywood actress disclosed this during an interview in Accra, Ghana. The 32-year-old explained why she has remain single in the last two years, at least. Okoro revealed that although she is very ready to date, most guys find it difficult to walk up to her. She said: “The issue is men don’t have balls to come forward to ask me out because they think I am already hooked or perhaps I am very…
Mercy Aigbe’s husband, Lanre Gentry, in a recent interview, claims he went through a lot while married to the actress. According to him, most men wouldn’t tolerate what his wife has done to him in the past 7 years, they’ve been married. He told BON that he had shown her love and support in the last seven years despite some unbelievable things he had seen her do and endure for the sake of keeping the marriage and her image intact. “Would she have been in my house for 7 years if I beat her? I don’t know why she pulled…
Governor Ayo Fayose has said that he will not vie for a seat in the Nigerian Senate in 2019. According to Punch, Fayose said he will continue to agitate for a better Nigeria, after leaving office. The Governor said this while meeting with civil servants in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday, May 3, 2017. Fayose also seized the opportunity to praise the workers for their commitment, despite the economic challenges and inconsistent salaries. The Governor also debunked reports that Ekiti state has received the second payment of the paris club loan. He said “I don’t want to contest again, not even for…
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has insisted they will honour the heroes of the Biafra war on May 30, 2017. IPOB said that their supreme leader, Nnamdi Kanu has made it clear that he will not rest until Biafra is liberated. According to Vanguard, the group’s spokesman, Emma Powerful also called on ‘Biafrans’ to ignore reports that the rally has been cancelled. Powerful said “This annual event, which is now observed by Biafrans all over the world as a mark of perpetual respect to the bravery of the few men and women who stood for three years to resist…
Governor Obaseki has said that there is no free grazing land for herdsmen in Edo state. According to Channels TV, the Governor also said that the state cannot be forced to allocate land for free to the herdsmen. Obaseki said “As far as I’m concerned, grazing is an economic activity if they (the herdsmen) go to the local governments who feel they have the land, they have the water etc. “In fact, anybody who wants to come and graze and pay, let them come so that they will do so.” The Governor added that the herdsmen have to also conduct…
At one stage of Real Madrid’s Champions League semifinal destruction of Atletico Madrid, it seemed to be a case of one No. 7 coming to the party and the other staying at home. But in the end, that perspective would do not only Cristiano Ronaldo but also Antoine Griezmann a disservice. That simplistic comparison, legitimately based around Griezmann’s emergence as a genuine heir to Ronaldo’s crown as football’s most magnificent seven, was ultimately rendered meaningless by the Real forward’s stunning hat trick of a first-half header and two second-half strikes. Griezmann is a player of great talent, one who could…
Gianluigi Buffon says playing in the Champions League makes him “feel young” ahead of Wednesday’s semifinal meeting with Monaco — but is wary of the challenge their in-form opponents will bring. Buffon, 39, has won almost everything over the course of a career which has spanned two decades. He has lifted the World Cup, seven Serie A titles, three Coppa Italia and the UEFA Cup but, despite playing in two finals, the Champions League is still missing from his collection. He can move closer to completing the collection by beating the Ligue 1 leaders on their own patch, and he…