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Housemates hosted the first drama-free Saturday party in the ongoing BBNaija fourth season. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Saturday, which is the ninth since the show began, was the most peaceful housemates had experienced. Since the show started, the Saturday parties have moved from boring and not engaging to full of fights and…
Alex Iwobi’s 12th-minute strike and a Richarlison brace ensured Everton earned a dramatic 3-2 win over Wolves on Sunday. Everton’s Nigerian midfielder Alex Iwobi (R) passes the ball during the English Premier League football match between Everton and Wolverhampton Wanderers at Goodison Park in Liverpool, north-west England on September 1, 2019. (Photo by Paul ELLIS…
Khafi Kareem, has continued her winning streak carting home a 220,000 naira Scanfrost TV at the Saturday games. News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) reports that this comes a week after she won a IVM car from Innoson Motors and became Head of House. On Saturday, Housemates in the ongoing BBNaija reality show were tasked…
Glaucoma. Cataracts. Blurry vision. Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD). Myopia. If not detected and treated early, these are vision problems in the elderly that could lead to partial or complete vision loss. I understand how it feels because I was once in your shoes. My name is Mrs. Rosemary, and for several years, I used to…
By Emma Una CALABAR- CROSS River Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, on Saturday appointed Barrister Chris Agam Agara, a philanthropist and prominent political figure in the state as Grand Patron of its Press Club. Conducing the investiture, Comrade Victor Udu, Chairman of the State Council, said it is in recognition of the…
The Cross River State Government has berated human rights lawyer Femi Falana for linking it with the terrorism charges preferred against Mr. Agba Jalingo by the police. The government, in a statement by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Publicity, Mr.Christian Ita, accused Falana of deliberately obfuscating the facts of the matter…
A civil society organisation, Policy Alert, has called on the Police to immediately release an Abuja-based journalist, Agba Jalingo. Jalingo, who runs an online platform, Cross River Watch, was arrested last week allegedly on the orders of the Cross River Governor, Ben Ayade, for asking questions on the spending of N500m on a state- owned…
Bayelsa State elders at the weekend lampooned lawmakers at the National Assembly, who abandoned their seats to jump into the state’s governorship race. Rising from their meeting in Yenagoa, the state capital, the elders insisted that it was unbecoming of newly-inaugurated federal lawmakers to deny their constituencies effective representation following their selfish ambitions to govern…
The National Assembly Petition Tribunal sitting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital has dismissed three case filed by the candidates of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) challenging the election of three candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 general election. The petition were filed by Kehinde Agboola, Nicolas Olusola Omotosho and Duro Faseyi…
The African Development Bank (AfDB), says African countries import nearly 50 billion dollars net of food annually. A statement by AfDB’s Communication and External Relations Department said the bank’s Vice President for Agriculture, Human, and Social Development, Jennifer Blanke said this at a panel discussion at the 7th Tokyo International Conference in Japan. The News…