Founder/Chief Executive Officer, Africa Movies Academy Awards (AMAA), Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, is dead. It was learnt that the respected filmmaker breathed her last on Monday, 9 January, 2023 at St Nicholas Hospital, Lagos, after a brief illness. In a terse confirmation that the respected and influential filmmaker breathed her last, Obi Emelonye, Producer of Last Flight to Abuja said: “Thank you and good night dada Peace,” in a short tribute to her on the social media network, Facebook. Meanwhile, the Anyiam-Osigwe family has also release statement to announce the filmmaker demise. Peace Maria Ogechi Anyiam-Osigwe: An Epitome of Creative Transcendance The…
Author: Soffiyyah Olamide
By Vivian Okafor It is a known adage that “education is the hope of the poor.” The poor believe that once they are able to train their children in school, they will be liberated out of poverty. This is because when their children graduate and get good jobs, they will be able to fend for their families. This is why some parents go to any length including borrowing to see their children through school. Some even starve in order to save up for tuitions. The question is, ‘Is education accessible for the poor?’ In Nigeria today, a lot of factors…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Candidate for Lagos Central Senatorial District, Rt. Hon. Wasiu Eshilokun-Sanni, has called on the electorate Lagos State, particularly in Apapa Federal Constituency, to see the Presidential Candidacy of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a great opportunity for the State. He reminded all about Asiwaju Tinubu’s support for every political office holder in the state since 1999. He therefore saw the coming elections as a pay back time for the APC Presidential Candidate. He assured the audience that a vote for Tinubu is a vote for opportunities for Lagos, especially in terms of employment of unemployed…
This is Nasara James Dabo From Southern Kaduna. She is just 13 years old but has become a global celebrity. She has become a Mathematics genius. Nasara made history by solving 34 questions on Mathematics in 172 seconds to win International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) In the just concluded International Mathematical Olympiad competition. 13-year old Nasara James Dabo is a student of Ideal international College, Narayi, Kaduna. The young prodigy who participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) finished the contest gathering a total score of 145 points, solving 34 Mathematical questions in 172 seconds (less than 3 minutes). This record…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of the former Commissioner for Home Affairs in Lagos State, Dr Abdul Hakeem Abdul Lateef new Chairman of the board of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC). The letter conveying the appointment was released on Monday, 9 January, 2023, from the parent ministry, the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning. The appointment is for a four year term. The last appointment was made on 9 December, 2018.
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of the former Commissioner for Home Affairs in Lagos State, Dr Abdul Hakeem Abdul Lateef new Chairman of the board of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC). The letter conveying the appointment was released on Monday, 9 January, 2023, from the parent ministry, the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning. The appointment is for a four year term. The last appointment was made on 9 December, 2018.
The Federal High Court sitting in Maiduguri, the Borno Capital has instructed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to remove the name Hon Mohammed Umara Kumalia as the Borno- Central Senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming election. The court also ordered Hon Kumalia to immediately stop parading himself as the PDP Senatorial Candidate for Borno Central ahead of the election. The All Progressives Congress ( APC ) and its Borno- Central Senatorial candidate, Hon Kaka Shehu Lawan had approached the Federal High to sought the disqualification of Hon Mohammed Kumailia, whose was at a time…
A Magistrates’ Court sitting in Yaba, Lagos, has remanded a 49-year-old man, identified as Lawrence Itakpe, for stabbing his wife to death in Ajah area of the state It was gathered that the defendant killed his wife, Rebecca, 47, at their home on Monday, 5 December, 2022. The couple, who were married for 11 years with two children, had an argument over sachet water, during which Itakpe was said to have rushed into their kitchen and returned with a knife, with which he reportedly stabbed his wife. The defendant was said to have stabbed Rebecca multiple times in the chest…
By Igwe Peace ‘Opoor’, ‘Cut soap for me’, ‘shege’, ‘japa’, ‘sapa’, ‘vawulence’, ‘we are outside’, or ‘we dey outside’, amongst many others, are Nigerian Pidgin slangs and expressions which have gained semantic ground on Internet discourse in recent times. Each of them, one way or the other, has been used to perform several functions. Some are used to create humour, some to threaten faces, some to portray a self-image in a pitiable light, some to display wealth and so on. ‘Cut soap for me’, is a slang used by Internet fraudsters, what Nigerians call ‘yahoo yahoo’ boys, which is a…