The Apps are known as 4Sale and Haraj and can be downloaded on Apple’s app store and Google play. The use of these apps is widespread across the Middle East, and the BBC Arabic Service Undercover team decided to investigate how users of these apps use them for the buying and selling of black slaves, […]
Abayomi Adeshida, a photo-journalist with Vanguard, was on Thursday morning reportedly beaten up by security aides of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo. According to reports, the incident took place at the banquet hall of the presidential villa in Abuja where the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), chaired by Abike Dabiri-Erewa, organised a summit. Adeshida was taking […]
One of the leading stars in The Masquerade, a television drama series now rested, Mrs. Lizzy Lizzy Ovueme, popularly known as Ovuleria, reported on social media and some online publications to have passed on is hale and hearty. She spoke with The Nation on phone from her Port Harcourt home indicating she is alive. Though […]
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project(SERAP) has vowed to challenge the social media regulation bill that is being reintroduced by the senate. The senate yesterday November 5th reintroduced the bill which according to the sponsor of the bill, Senator Mohammed Sani Musa, is to curtail the spread of fake information on social media. Reacting to […]
Lizzy Evoeme, one of the stars of the 80s TV sitcom, ‘The New Masquerade’, has passed away. Lizzy Evoeme plays the submissive wife of Chief Zebrudaya (played by Chika Okpala) in the sitcom that also has several characters. Evoeme’s death was announced on Twitter by Churchill Ebhodaghe on Tuesday, November 5, 2019. No details have […]
See the obituary poster of Emmanuel Ifeanyichukwu Ikenga Gbulie. He was a veteran Nollywood actor whose face was can easily be recognized in many movies. May his soul rest in peace.
Papy Mumbere Mahamba, a 35-year-old radio host who helped to spread the word in the fight against Ebola, was found stabbed to death at his home in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo. Though why Mahamba who lives in the town of Lwemba in the troubled Ituri region was killed is not yet known, it was […]
A journalist was diagnosed with breast cancer after agreeing to live-stream her first ever mammogram for breast cancer awareness month. Ali Meyer, 41, appeared relaxed and happy while sharing preparations for what she thought would be a routine screening at the Stephenson Cancer Center in Oklahoma City last October. But the KFOR reporter filmed herself […]
Wazobia FM has apologised and retracted its story on the allegations made by Timi Frank that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo received N90 billion from FIRS as campaign funds for 2019 polls. Wazobia FM apologized to Prof. Osinbajo, saying that it had since discovered, like other well-meaning individuals and Nigerian organisations including Vanguard Newspaper that the […]
Dele Agekameh, a well-regarded Nigerian journalist and writer, has passed on at the age of 60. Late Agekameh, a columnist for Premium Times and the Nation newspaper, passed on Friday night in Lagos after battling renal disorder for seven years. His first son, Fabian, a lawyer, confirmed the development saying his father was another victim of Nigeria’s […]
Yemi Alade has lashed out at some City FM OAPs who were mocking female artistes in a video that has gone viral on social media. The “Johnny” crooner said she is more concerned about the mental state of the OAPs even though she was ”insulted in a language she doesn’t understand.” Noting that women do […]
The National Broadcasting Commission has sanctioned 45 broadcasting stations which allegedly breached its code in the 2nd quarter of 2019. NBC Director General, Mallam Ishaq Kawu, made this known while addressing a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja. He said the contraventions included breaches of the rules on hate speech, abusive and inflammatory broadcast. Kawu […]
While a number of their men are looting shops and killing foreign nationals in their country in the guise of Xenophobic attacks, women in South Africa are enraged over the massive rape, killing and harassment of the females by men in that country. Two women staffers staged a walkout during the live broadcast of The Uprising morning […]
By Teniola Egbuwalo Development is a vital aspect of every Society and the rural areas play a key role in the national development. Rural development is one of the major problems facing Africa today, including Nigeria. As a result of the large share of the country’s natural resources located in the rural areas, also due […]
Some people just love your favorite celebrity without bothering about their private life while some others would want to know all about these stars. Anderson Cooper, one of CNN’s leading TV hosts, is a household name across the globe but what most people might not know is that he is openly and proudly gay. […]