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Ngozi Nwosu Tri-lingual award winning actress, Ngozi Nwosu, has refused to confirm tales  surrounding her failing health. Choosing rather to rain curses on the reporter and his source, a call placed through to Kunle Bamtefa’s Peaceful Peace of the Fuji House of Commotion fame, resulted in an aggravation of emotions. In the past months, the actor per excellence has continued…

An attack by suspected armed robbers on the facilities of the Africa Independent Television (AIT) and Ray Power 105.5 fm, Benin City station has kept the station off air. The suspected armed robbers numbering about 25 allegedly attacked and overpower the security men on duty, and tied them after inflicting injuries on them. One of the security men on duty…

The students of Olabisi Onabanjo University{OOU}, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, yesterday called for the scrapping of the university’s Academic Staff Union of Universities {ASUU}, accusing the lecturers of intransigence on their prolonged strike. Addressing a press conference in Abeokuta, the state capital, Rufai Uthman, the students union president, in company of other executives of the union, said, “Lecturers should henceforth…

Mohammed Abacha, the governorship candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Kano State, said his nomination as the party’s flag-bearer in the April elections is “an act of God.” Mr Abacha’s name appeared on the list of candidates displayed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Kano State, against earlier speculations that his closest rival, Lawal Ja’afaru…

Medical doctors in public hospitals and health institutions in Kano State have threatened to go on strike on February 14 to protest the non-implementation of the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS) by government. The chairperson of the state’s branch of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Daiyabu Ibrahim, announced on Tuesday in Kano that the union would meet on Tuesday to…

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to involve all stakeholders in the ongoing process of removing double and multiple registrations from the newly-compiled voter’s register to ensure transparency. The party, in a statement on Tuesday, said that the reports it is getting from the various states where INEC has dispatched experts…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Enugu state has withdrawn the gubernatorial candidate list released on February 7. The state resident electoral commissioner, Josiah Uwazuruonye, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the withdrawal was as a result of a directive from the INEC headquarters. According to him, the National Commissioner, Legal Affairs, Philip Umeadi said that the list…

Twelve participants (six males and six females) that excelled in the just concluded Quranic recitation competition in Bauchi have each been offered a seat by the state government to this year's pilgrimage (Hajj) to Saudi Arabia. The Bauchi Quranic recitation competition was contested among youth from the age of 25 years and below in which 16 out of the 20…

For many years, Agwagune, a coastal community in Biase Local Government Area, Cross River state suffered flood disasters but a solution came last weekend through the provision of housing units five kilometers from the bank of the river that yearly wrecked its ancestral location. The joy of the people knew no bounds as they rolled out the drums singing, dancing…

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has condemned the state of education in describing the country educational system as a colossal failure. Mr. Soyinka said this at the opening of a two-day education summit organised by the Osun State government in Osogbo, the state capital. He added that the government has failed woefully in the education sector, and thereby called on the…

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Bisi Fayemi, the wife of the Ekiti State governor, at the weekend urged the police and other security agencies in the state to apprehend the killers of Taiwo Oluwole, the wife of the minister-in-charge and founder of Mount Zion Baptist Church, Igede-Ekiti. Mrs. Oluwole, 56, was killed two Saturdays ago at a farm in Igede-Ekiti by alleged ritualists. Mrs. Fayemi…

Amassoama,the host community of the Bayelsa state-owned Niger Delta University, has been cut off following the collapse of a bridge linking it with Yenagoa, the state capital.The bridge located between Edepie roundabout and Tombia in Southern-Ijaw local government area, was constructed by Shell Petroleum Development Company in the 60s. Though no life was lost, an eyewitness explained that the steel…

It has been three months of endless auditions, selections and screening. The organizers have combed the nooks and crannies of Nigeria in search of the first ever Nigerian Idol, and last Saturday, they unveiled the 13 final contestants who will go on to compete for the prize. Like Timi Dakolo, Omawumi, Ruben Studdard, Kelly Clarkson and other Idol finalists, the…