Every man is different from the other; even identical twins. They feel things differently, see life differently and have different goals. If identical twins are different, how much more siblings, friends, and strangers who came together for the sole purpose of doing business or other purposes? In Nigeria’s music industry, we’ve seen different pairings between musicians and producers which produced several hits but went sour. In this piece, our source takes a look at some of these parings that went sour. D’banj and Don Jazzy: It is save to say this is the best artist/producer pairing Nigeria has ever seen.…
Author: Wale Adebayo
Arsenal’s midfielder Jack Wilshere requires surgery to his left leg in the coming days and will be sidelined for several weeks, the Premier League club have confirmed. The England international suffered a hairline fracture in his left fibula prior to last month’s Community Shield and manager, Arsene Wenger, last week, confirmed that he had suffered a “little setback.” Following further scans, the club have decided that an operation is required to properly correct the problem. The club said in a statement: “The decision to intervene has been taken quickly after regular reviews by specialists, who feel that Jack’s scans show…
Akwa Ibom State Chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Civil Liberties Organization (CLO) have condemned the state governor, Mr. Emmanuel Udom’s driver – Edet Bassey’s impersonation of a police officer. The APC and CLO in separate reactions to reports that Mr. Bassey, from Cross River State, allegedly impersonated a policeman while discharging his duties, said it was an act of impunity on the part of the governor to allow his driver wear the police uniform knowing fully well he’s not a member of the Nigeria Police. The state publicity secretary of APC, Mr. Ita Awak, said the driver’s alleged…
President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) will sustain reforms in the power sector inherited from the previous administrations of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Power, Godknows Igali, has said. He gave an assurance that the government would not only sustain the reforms but also fine-tune the policy guiding the operations of the sector in order to address the challenges facing the electricity industry. Where necessary, the perm sec added, the Buhari government would initiate new measures to improve the performance of the sector and provide electricity for the nation. Igali made this known…
Senator representing Bayelsa West Senatorial district at the National Assembly Foster Ogola has assured that the incumbent People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Governor Seriaki Dickson will be returned with ease in the December 5 governorship election in the state. He said that there were no serious contenders from the opposition. According to him, Dickson’s re-election has been made easier by the emergence of those he called expired politicians as the governor’s contenders from the All Progressives Congress (APC). he told newsmen in Abuja, yesterday, that neither former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Timi Alaibe, nor former governor…
Chelsea Manager, Jose Mourinho admits there is a downward blip in “confidence” around his Chelsea camp following their worst start to a season in 28 years. The Premier League champions have just one win from their opening 5 games; a dismal run which the Portuguese described as “so bad.” “When you are used to winning all the time, then when you don’t it is a strange feeling. Some people deal well with it, others not as good,” the 53-year-old said in his preview for Wednesday’s Uefa Champions League opening group game at home to Maccabi Tel-Aviv. Mourinho says it is…
The Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) has expressed shock over the abduction of Toyin Nwosu, wife of the Deputy Managing Director of Sun Newspapers, Steve Nwosu. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, in a statement on Monday, said the party was deeply saddened by the news of the abduction of Toyin, describing it is as a “devilish and barbaric act”. The national opposition party said it is deeply worried by the recent spate of abductions in the country, adding that the perpetrators cannot justify their actions under any guise whatsoever. The party said its thoughts and prayers go for the safe…
Governor Idris Wada of Kogi state has won the Peoples Democratic Party’s primary election making him the party’s flag bearer in the November 21 governorship election in the state. Wada scored 709 votes to beat his closest challenger, Isa Echoho, who got 139 votes in the primary election, which took place at the Lokoja stadium Monday. The election was supervised by the Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, who announced the result of the primary at about 9:42pm Monday evening. With the successful completion of the PDP primary, the two main contenders in the election are now known – they are Idris Wada…
Ahead of the December 5 governorship election in Bayelsa State, the Senator representing Bayelsa West senatorial district, Mr. Foster Ogola, says the incumbent governor and Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Seriaki Dickson, will win re-election. According to the senator, neither a former Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission, Timi Alaibe, nor a former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, who are aspiring to be governor on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, constitute a threat to Dickson. Ogola, who spoke with journalists on Monday in Abuja, called on Bayelsans and Nigerians to “ignore expired politicians” going about misinforming…
Student Union executives and legislators at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, have proposed to spend N1,837,550 to make official phone calls between August, 2015 and January, 2016, a copy of their budget has revealed. The leaders also had a separate budget for internet facilities and sending of bulk Short Message Service. The sum, which did not also include the one for purchase of phones, was budgeted by the leadership of the Central Executive Council and Students’ Representative Council led by Mr. Omotayo Akande and Mr. Adebari Aare respectively. Others are the clerk, deputy speaker, halls of residence executives, chairmen and…
Nigerian President’s Wife, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has urged government at all levels to enforce the law on rape, to protect women and children in the country. Aisha stated this when she received some staff of the Ministry of Women Affairs, UNICEF and National Population Commission, led by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Dr Ezekiel Oyemomi. The staff came to brief her on the plan to launch an action to end violence against children, slated for today. “We are aware of the national law on r*pe passed this year on May 25 (Prohibition Act 2015) which states imprisonment ranging from…
The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) led by Ralph Uwazuruike, has called on Igbo politicians to reject any appointment that might be offered them under the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. The Rivers South zonal leader Sunday Kalu-Amuzie, gave the charge after a thanksgiving service to mark the movement’s 16th year anniversary. Amuzie said opportunities abound in the Biafran nation for any position or portfolios they might want, urging them to come back home and occupy them with ease. “We are confident that our desire on Biafra has been realised and this informed today’s celebration.…
French President François Hollande has pledged his administration’s support of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) with equipment and intelligence gathering in the fight against terrorism and other forms of extremism in Nigeria and Africa. The MNJTF is the almost 9,000-strong force constituted by Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Benin to fight the Boko Haram sect. President Hollande made the pledge at a joint press conference at the Elysee Palace, with visiting President Muhammadu Buhari, who is on a three-day working visit to Paris. The French President also said the fight against Boko Haram and Islamic State jihadists is the same…
A new Ooni of Ile Ife is set to emerge as one of the four ruling houses contesting to be considered for the royal stool got the government’s nod. According to reports, the Giesi ruling house received a letter from the state government to make the list of its eligible princes available, putting an end to the ambbitions of princes from the Ogboru, Lafogido and Osinkola ruling houses. The Osun State Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, which is mandated to handle chieftaincy matters got the go-ahead from Governor Rauf Aregbesola, to commence the process of filling the stool,…
Wife of Mr. Steve Nwosu, Deputy Managing Director of The Sun Publishing Limited, Mrs. Toyin Nwosu has been kidnapped. According to reports, Nwosu was abducted in the presence of her family, from their Lagos residence in Amuwo-Odofin, Festac town, Lagos, at about 2:30am on Monday, September 14, 2015. Her kidnapping is coming just days after the release of Vanguard columnist Donu Kogbara who spent 13 days in the hands of her abductors. The kidnappers were alleged to have escaped through the canal at Amuwo area and are yet to contact her family. Vanguard reports that Toyin is 40 and a…
Lagos-based beverage company, La Casera Company Plc has sacked about 700 workers over unionism leading to protests, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported. The workers said they are protesting because the company’s management responded to their efforts at unionism by firing all of them. In its defense, the company described the protest as an invasion of its premises by ‘hoodlums.’ NAN reported that the crisis began after the workers arrived at the company premises in Amuwo Odofin Industrial Estate, Mile 2, Lagos, and found the gate locked against them and a notice of disengagement pasted at the entrance. According…
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Transport Secretariat says it has concluded plans for the inauguration of 74 solar-powered traffic lights in the territory on Sept. 18. Mr Ifeanyi Ughamadu, Head of Public Relations of the secretariat, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja. He said that the traffic lights, which will be inaugurated by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, were donated by the Chinese Government. “Sometime in 2012, the, the Federal Government had this offer of assistance from the Chinese Government to construct and install 74 solar-powered traffic lights. “The traffic lights were…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the PDP’s statement on the nation’s economy as part of the opposition’s ploy to distract the Buhari Administration from its task of nation building. In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the PDP’s statement was a litany of delusional self praise, rather than a genuine concern about the nation’s well being. “The question the PDP should ask itself is that if it had laid a solid foundation for the economy in its 16 years in charge, could such a foundation have…
As expected, Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has emerged the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the December 5 governorship poll in the state. His emergence, it was learnt, followed the disqualification of Dickson’s two other contenders for the governorship ticket – Senator representing Bayelsa Central Senatorial District, Senator Emmanuel Paulker and a former Local Government Chairman of Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area, Chief Ebikintin Diongoli. Reasons for their disqualification were yet to be ascertained as at press time but they were said to have been disqualified on Saturday during their screening at the party’s zonal office in Port Harcourt,…
The Emir of Suleja, Alhaji Muhammad Ibrahim, has apologized to the management of the National Youth Service Corps over the wrongful arrest, harassment and detention of three corps members serving in Suleja, Niger State. The Emir, who received top management of the NYSC led by its Director General, Brig. Gen. Johnson Olawumi in his palace, decried the incident and promised to educate his subjects on how to treat strangers in his domain. The monarch’s apology came on the heels of the harassment and detention of three corps members alleged to have resembled a gang of armed robbers that robbed a…