By Abimbola Ogunnaike One of the world most popular pop diva, Celine Dion, has announced the release of new music on Thursday, 13 April, 2023 — her first since revealing last year that she was suffering from a rare neurological disorder that was affecting her singing. The new album “Love Again” is the soundtrack for a film of the same name, and contains five new songs as well as past hits. It is the 55-year-old Canadian Dion’s first since her 2019 album “Courage.” “I had a lot of fun doing this movie. And to have the privilege of appearing with…
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By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Kwara State police command has paraded a member of a kidnapping gang who allegedly abducted Magistrate Oladapo Jumoke Bamigboye, wife of former Military Administrator of Bauchi and Osun States, Colonel Theophilus Bamigboye, last January. The suspect, Abubakar Shehu aka Dogo, was apprehended by men of the state police command after another kidnap incident. Speaking to newsmen while parading some suspected criminals, ritualists, kidnappers and cultists in Ilorin on Thursday,13 April, 2023, the state Police Commissioner, Paul Odama, said Dogo was part of a five-man kidnap gang arrested in March in collaboration with the local vigilantes. He…
(Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, April 14, 2023) Dear Mr Obi, Today being Friday, I should’ve wished you Barka Jumat if you were a Muslim, but being a dyed-in-the-wool Catholic, who cringingly curried Christian favour in the just-concluded presidential election, I think it’s better to wish that the power of Christ’s resurrection heals your frailties – be they moral or political – this Easter season. I pray the same prayer for myself too because no one is a saint. As we were both born in the 1960s, I’ll not be sheepish, bootlicking and manipulative to ‘yes daddy’ you because…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A student of the Kwara State College of Education, Aminat Akanke Tajudeen, has slumped while receiving a lecture and died. The incident, according to a northern based national newspaper, occurred around 1:30 pm on Wednesday, 12 April, 2023 shortly after the deceased collected her matriculation gown for the ceremony scheduled for Thursday, 13 April, 2023, and returned to the class. A senior staff member of the school, who spoke anonymously on the issue, said the late Tajudeen was rushed to the school clinic after she suddenly slumped during a lecture. A student nurse that was also part…
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has announced its plans to host a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Summit on April 25th, 2023, at the Eko Convention Centre, Eko Hotels & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos. According to the Managing Director/CEO of the NDDC, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, the summit, themed “Rewind to Rebirth,” will launch the NDDC’s new initiative for sustainable development in the region.He revealed that the event will bring together stakeholders from various sectors and industries to explore opportunities for collaboration and investment in the Niger Delta. In an invitation to the NDDC PPP Summit participants, Dr. Ogbuku disclosed, “The NDDC…
The Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has urged the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to collaborate with the state governments in executing big-ticket projects that will impact on the lives of the people. The Governor made the appeal when he hosted the NDDC Managing Director, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, the Bayelsa State representative on the Governing Board of the NDDC, Senator Denyanbofa Dimaro, the Executive Director, Projects, Mr. Charles Ogunmola and other directors of the Commission, at Government House, Yenagoa. Governor Diri said that the Commission should endeavour to execute legacy projects, noting: “We all want to leave legacies in places where we work.…
By Ibrahim A. Jagaba The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Idowu Owohunwa, has commended the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), unit of the command, describing the squad as the pride and mainstay of stable security the entire command has been able to put in place. The police helmsman, made the assertion on Wednesday, 12 Apri, 2023, during his official working visit to the RRS headquarters at Alausa secretariat, Ikeja Lagos. He noted that, consequent upon the towering successes of the squad in crime bursting across the state, Rapid Response Squad, has now become a super model worthy of emulation by…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has confirmed that no fewer than seven persons were burnt to death while 18 others sustained varying degrees of injury in a road accident that occurred along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Thursday, April 13, 2023. The Spokesman of the FRSC, Florence Okpe, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta, on Thursday. It was gathered that the accident occurred on the Sapaade bridge along the highway at about 9:21am, involving a Toyota Sienna marked BWR762PV and a Mazda bus with registration number BDN18 LG. It was also gathered that driver of the Sienna…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A Chief Magistrates’ Court presided over by Mrs. Roseline Iyorshe in Makurdi, Benue State on Thursday, April 13, 2023 has remanded a 59-year-old clergyman, Kelvin Iorfa, in a correction centre for alleged assault. It was reported that the 59-year-old church deacon was seen in a viral video brutally beating his sister, Mrs. Nguwasen Iorfa. He used what looked like a belt to whip the young woman until she fell to the ground. Iorfa then used a travelling bag to hit the lady until she fell and became unconscious. Even then, he kept kicking her and screaming at…