By OKECHUKWU PEACE All vehicles entering the Presidential Villa, including those of highly placed persons, must henceforth be throughly checked, according to a new security directive. This was contained in a new memo leaked to the media and signed by Chief Security Officer to the President, Bashir Abubakar. The memo, titled: “Use of tinted cars around the Presidential Villa, …
By OKECHUKWU PEACE From the missing budget saga and now to the public drama where Ministers denied their the budget of their ministrie, controversies has not ceased on the 2016 budget. Nigerians have been reacting on twitter and have dubbed it #BudgetofCorruption. See all the hottests reactions from twitter…
By FEMI SALAWU For Olajumoke Orisaguna, an end has come to a life of street trading and a new vista to a lucrative modelling career has now dawned. Less than 24 hours after she landed her first big magazine cover for Thisday Style, she may have landed lucrative deals with Payporte, a start-up company and April By Kunbi, a top …
By OKECHUKWU PEACE The fear of dominance of MTN Group Ltd in the data service market is the real reason Emirates Telecommunications Group Co is suing its Nigerian competitor, Bloomberg reported. With the latest acquisition of Visafone Communications Ltd, MTN will become the biggest player with its unrestrained access to Visafone’s 800 megahertz of spectrum. Abu Dhabi-based Etisalat’s Nigeria unit said …
By TEMILADE ENIOLA The first photos of the new born baby of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Femi Fani-Kayode and his partner, Precious Chikwendu has emerged. The baby who who was born on February 1 has been christened today February 8 at a quiet ceremony. Sources said he was christened Joshua Oluwafemi Emmanuel Lotanna Aragorn Fani-Kayode. See more photos after …
By TEMILADE ENIOLA Former President Olusegun Obasanjo in obeisance to cultural tradition and as a mark of respect prostrated before the new Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi during his visit on Friday to the palace of the royal father. In line with Yoruba tradition, all subjects who appear before a monarch must prostrate as a sign of respect and …
By OKECHUKWU PEACE Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has stepped into the saddle as Acting-President as President Muhammadu Buhari begins a short vacation. The vacation starts from today, February 5 to February 10, 2016. According to a statement by Femi Adesina, special adviser on media and publicity to the president, Yemi Osinbajo, the vice president, will perform the functions of the president …
By Ms Uduak for African Music Law It has been over three weeks since news broke that Wizkid, Starboy label owner and Nigerian music pop star, is allegedly the father of a newborn baby boy named Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, Jnr., Wizkid’s legal name. Wizkid allegedly fathered this child with Binta Diamond Diallo, an American of Guinean heritage residing in Georgia.Wizkid, …
By OKECHUKWU PEACE The search for the world’s first vaccine against mosquito-borne Zika virus may have been found, the News Agency of Nigeria has reported. The Head of the Biotech International Limited, Dr. Krishna Ella, said at a news conference that it had already filed for a patent for the Zika vaccine. “On Zika, we are probably the first vaccine company in …
By OKECHUKWU PEACE Former governor of Delta State, James Onanefe Ibori was immediately rearrested after he completed his prison terms in the United Kingdom. ExpressNG learnt that he was released from Her Majesty’s Prison in Bedford, outside of London, where he finished his prison term. He was also initially at the Long Lartin Prison in Worcestershire. “He is out of …
