The popular British/Ghanaian TV personality and Media Entrepreneur, Peace Hyde has just landed the top journalist position at Forbes Africa. The Lagos based role, will see Peace telling Africa’s Entrepreneurial success stories in the number 1 monthly read business magazine. Peace Hyde who recently joined the cast of the hit TV series MTV Shuga has 7 years teaching experience specialising in teaching pre university students physics, chemistry and biology. During her tenure in the UK education sector, she rose to the level of senior management. Peace Hyde holds a 1st class degree in psychology from Middlesex University. Peace Hyde has…
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President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) was honored with a traditional title “Manahouwhe’ Gbede” during his one day visit to the Republic of Benin on Saturday August 1st, 2015. The title “Manahouwhe’ Gbede” means, “I will never forget you”. See the photos from the ceremony below:
Popular American superstar rapper, Snoop Dogg was on Friday the last day of July apprehended by Italian authorities while he was about to board a private plane bound for Britain with $422,000 cash in his luggage. In the European Union, the maximum amount of undeclared cash one can take on board a plane is 10,000 euros. Snoop Dogg, who has been touring Europe after releasing the album “Bush” earlier this year, was forced to pay a fine and half the money seized from him. His lawyer stated that the money came from concerts he had performed around Europe; there was…
Famous Ghollywood actress, Yvonne Nelson was honored as one of Africa’s ‘top 50 trailblazers’ by The Africa Report magazine. Paris-based magazine described the celebrity and others as “pioneers who will lead us to the Africa of tomorrow. Yvonne Nelson was chosen based on her selfless dedication to the #DumsorMustStop vigil. “In a country where most celebrities avoid straddling the line between showbiz and politics, the Ghanaian actress most recently caught the attention of the public and political elite when she co-launched a protest march -with celeb colleagues Lydia Forson and Sarkodie- against the power crisis in the country,” The Africa Report…
The Peoples Democratic Party caucus in the House of Representatives said on Sunday that its members reeled in shock at the revelation that President Muhammadu Buhari actually supported Femi Gbajabiamila’s ambition to become the Majority Leader of the House. The All Progressives Congress had endorsed Gbajabiamila as its sole candidate for the position of Speaker but he lost to Yakubu Dogara, also of the APC, due to the overwhelming support the latter got from PDP Reps’ members. He was again put forward by the party as candidate for Majority Leader but the insistence by Dogara to abide by Federal Character…
The Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State has berated Governor Akinwunmi Ambode and the state House of Assembly for refusing to conduct elections into the state’s local government councils. The Lagos PDP described the government and the House’s refusal to conduct the local council polls as a demonstration of their lack of commitment and sincerity. In a statement issued on Sunday by its Publicity Secretary, Taofik Gani, the PDP said the delay in the conduct of the council elections showed that Ambode was not prepared to govern Lagos in accordance with the provisions of the constitution. The statement read, “Governor…
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has said that the party is least concerned about the toga of “too slow” tagged on the new government it heads after two months in office. Odigie-Oyegun, who stated this at a reception held in Kafur to honour Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State at the weekend, pointed out that the party had to concentrate on laying a solid foundation for proper take-off. “We are not disturbed, anybody who makes a judgment of four years period in two months, something is obviously wrong. There is three years, ten months,…
Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, has expressed concern over decline in the number of female members in the 8th Assembly. Aisha spoke on Sunday in Abuja at a reception organised by the Committee of Friends in honour of former Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State. She said for the nation to attain the 35 per cent affirmative action by 2019, men must encourage and support women to occupy key elective positions in the country. “Supporting women to contest elective positions has become imperative as the number of female legislators have declined because some of them lost their seats…
Dr. Amina Bello, wife of the Niger State Governor, Abubakar Bello, on Monday warned parents to desist from abandoning their babies, adding that there is presently no legislation that says people must have children. Mrs. Bello, who gave the warning in Minna, the capital of Niger, after inspecting an orphanage home in the state, expressed shock at the rising cases of abandoned babies across the country. “Abandoning a baby is among the worst crimes anyone can commit against humanity”, she said. The wife of the governor warned those who abandoned innocent babies to desist, stressing that the act had a…
An ex-militants’ leader, Mr. Ramsey Mukoro, has advised the new Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme in the Niger Delta, Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh(retd.), to be wary of sycophants as he faces the task ahead. Mukoro, leader of the Niger Delta Ex-Agitators Solidarity Front, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Yenagoa, that the appointment of Boroh was well deserved and commendable. He applauded Buhari for ignoring the pressure to appoint self-seeking politicians and heeding the yearnings of the Niger Delta people. Mukoro noted that Boroh, an accomplished scholar on peace building and a military strategist, had all that…
Acting Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Mr. Haruna Jauro, has approved the redeployment of some members of its senior management. This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday in Lagos by Deputy Director and Head, Public Relations Unit of NIMASA, Hajia Lami Tumaka. According to the statement, the new postings are expected to reposition the agency toward meeting its statutory mandate as enshrined in the NIMASA Act and other enabling instruments. “Mr. Ibrahim Jibril is the Director of Administration and Personnel Services; Mr. Felix Bob-Nabena is Director of SERVICOM; while Mr. Olayemi Abass takes…
President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to carry out far-reaching reforms in the country’s judiciary if his anti-corruption war is to succeed. The Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde, who made the call on Monday at a two-day workshop on Budget Monitoring and Tracking, organized for NGOs, CBOs, Media and local government staff in Akure, Ondo State, expressed concern over the frequent clash between the act guiding the activities of the commission and the constitution of the country. He, therefore, urged the federal government to establish a “Special Court” that would only focus on corruption cases.…
The President, National Council for Women Societies (NCWS), Taraba chapter, Virginia Bambur, has said women in the state would not accept anything less than 40 per cent appointments in Governor Darius Ishaku’s government. Ms. Bambur, who made the assertion in Jalingo at a reception to honour the wife of the governor, Ann Ishaku, said the women were resolute not to accept anything less. The NCWS president said women in the state gave their overwhelming support for the election of the governor at the 2015 election. “We massively supported Darius during his electioneering activities as well as his subsequent election triumph…
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The immediate past Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, said at the weekend that he was satisfied with the apology offered by a former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe over his unruly behaviour during the collation of results at the last presidential election. Speaking in Ilorin, Kwara State, where he attended the 80th birthday ceremony of a former National Commissioner of INEC, Dr. Abdulkadir Oniyangi, the Bayero University Kano lecturer said he had since forgotten about the matter. It would be recalled that Orubebe, who was the PDP agent during the last…
Former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has accused his successor, Nyesom Wike, of painting him bad in the eyes of people of the state due to the incumbent’s fear of his rising influence in the current All Progressives Congress-led federal government. Amaechi noted that since Wike and members of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state are jittery over the likelihood of his appointment under the current dispensation, have moved to tarnish his image in the eyes of President Muhammadu Buhari, who stance on corruption is unmistakable. The Rivers governor had recently advised President Buhari to distance himself from Amaechi,…
A meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Peace Committee for Bayelsa State, was held in in Yenagoa, the state capital on Sunday with a call on all aggrieved members and stakeholders in the State to close ranks and work for the re-election of Governor Seriake Dickson ahead of the December 5 governorship polls. The meeting, which was convened at the instance of former President Goodluck Jonathan, was chaired by Acting Chairman of PDP Board of Trustees, Haliru Mohammed. The meeting also resolved to reverse the suspensions and expulsions placed on some high profile members of PDP, who have…
The Chief Priest of Ile-Ife, Chief Olajide Farotimi Faloba has insisted that the Ooni of Ife Oba Okunade Sijuwade is alive. He described several reports relating to his deaths and transportation of his corpse as totally false. In an interview with Vanguard at the Ile Oduduwa, an ancient grove believed to have housed the first Ooni of Ile-Ife, Chief Faloba debunked the reported arrival of the monarch’s corpse, saying Ooni was hale and hearty and was still in the United Kingdom. “I just came from the Ooni’s palace and there was nothing that showed that he (Ooni) is dead. If…
The immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alexander Sabundu Badeh (retd.) has opened up on some of the factors that hindered the war against insurgency in the North-East, including unserviceable and obsolete equipment, saboteurs and inadequate training for officers and men of the Nigerian Armed Forces. Badeh, who was sacked as Chief of Defence Staff over two weeks ago by President Muhammadu Buhari, was speaking in an interview with Channels TV at the weekend. He said: “We found out that we had fifth columnist in the military that were leaking information to terrorist and then we also…