The newly sworn-in Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr Sunday Dare, says he’s ready to engage in confrontation and dialogue to ensure that he delivers on his new assignment. He said this at the sideline of his inauguration on Wednesday in Abuja. Dare was among the 43 ministers that…
The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared Monday and Tuesday – August 12 and 13 – as public holidays to mark the 2019 Eid-Al-Kabir celebrations. The Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Interior, Georgina Ehuriah, declared this in a statement on Tuesday on behalf of the government. She made the…
Award-winning novelist Toni Morrison, who grew up in Lorain, Ohio, has passed on aged 88. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf says Morrison died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York following a brief illness. The Morrison family confirmed the news “with profound sadness,” saying she died after a short…
Senior Pastor of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), Biodun Fatoyinbo, has returned to the pulpit. In a packed church on Sunday, the pastor delivered a sermon titled, “Sudden Victories.” Fatoyinbo was accused on the 28 June by Busola Dakolo of raping her twice when she was a teenager. After the…
Four Turkish nationals have been rescued a week after being kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria’s western state of Kwara, police say. The four, Seyit Keklik (25), Yasin Çolak (33), Ergun Yurdakul (35), and Şener Apal (40), who are construction workers, were taken from a bar last week. The abductors had…
Senator Elisha Abbo has been brought to the Zuba Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, for arraignment for assault. The lawmaker who was brought by the police is expected to be arraigned on one count of assault today. According to reports from a reliable source on Sunday, which stated that the Police will,…
Jeff & MacKenzie Bezos are now officially divorced after 25 years of marriage, leading to the transfer of 19.7 million shares of Amazon.com to MacKenzie Bezos. The order formalizing the split was signed Friday by a King County, Washington judge. According to Bloomberg, MacKenzie will be taking 4% of Amazon’s…
Senator Elisha Abbo, representing Adamawa North district, has apologised after being caught on camera assaulting a woman. A video released by Premium Times on Tuesday showed the senator physically assaulting a woman at a sex toy shop, after she told him, “Take it easy.” The senator, during a media briefing…
The Senate on Wednesday, set up a bipartisan ad hoc committee headed by a former governor of Ebonyi State, Sam Egwu, to probe the alleged assault on a nursing mother by Senator Elisha Abbo. The embattled senator is a Peoples Democratic Party member representing Adamawa North Senatorial District. He slapped…
Senator Elisha Ishaku Abbo has reacted to the viral video where he’s seen hitting a woman at an adult toy shop in Abuja. The lawmaker representing Adamawa North told Channels Television‘s correspondent that he was called to the shop after his younger sister was “beaten to a pulp”. He said…
