Popular Afro-pop singer and dancer Yemi Alade has revealed how she ignorantly ghosted popular American Singer Beyonce for two months. According to her, her management was in charge of her emails and they had no idea why she received the email incessantly. It was on the manager mentioning “email from Parkwood” that she realized that it was Beyonce. She said: …
Uncontrovertibly one of the most intellectually engaging historians of our time, Professor Abdul Gafar Siyan Oyeweso, manifests by the day in several discourses on account of his selfless services. I had just been part of a radio programme on Friday, January 8, 2021, when one of the promoters of the online broadcaster, Spirit of Nigeria, Dotun Atilade, called me. In …
Worried by the economic hardship in the country, the Lagos State chapter of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Lagos State Government to ameliorate the sufferings of the people, saying that the poverty in the land was alarming. Its Lagos State Chairman, Adedeji Doherty, made this call at the Chairman’s Virtual Town Hall Meeting recently. He said …
Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello released N3.8 billion for capital projects for the first quarter of the year, Finance, Budget and Economic Planning Commissioner Asiru Idris said on Sunday. He said the projects cut across the three senatorial districts, adding that the governor has proven himself as a detribalised leader. The commissioner said in a statement that the implementation of …
As Young Africa Works and International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), begin training of 30,000 young Nigerians on agribusiness in Lagos, Kaduna and Kano, Professor of Agriculture, Emmanuel Ikani, has called for deliberate government policies to bring Nigerian youths into mechanized agriculture. Prof. Ikani, who is the Executive Director, National Agricultural Extension Research Liaison Services (NAERLS), Zaria made the call …
President Muhammadu Buhari has celebrated Nigeria’s first female newspaper editor, Dr Doyin Abiola, as she clocks 75. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, the President recalled Dr Abiola’s contributions to responsible journalism, commending her for nurturing many young Nigerians into building successful careers in the media industry. While encouraging Dr Abiola, who …
