By Abimbola Ogunnaike Grammy award-winning American singer, Billie Eilish reveals she’s obsessed with Wizkid’s song. The ‘Happier Than Ever’ music exponent disclosed that ‘Frames’ by Nigerian Afrobeat star, Wizkid is her favourite song at the moment She revealed this during a question-and-answer session with her fans on Instagram. A fan asked her “[what] song you are obsessed with these days?”. Eilish then replied with a picture of ‘Frames (Who’s Gonna Know)’ by Wizkid. ‘Frames’ was contained in the Nigerian singer’s fifth studio album ‘More Love, Less Ego’ which was released last year via Starboy Entertainment, Sony Music and RCA Record.
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By Abimbola Ogunnaike The International Organisation for Migration(IOM) has confirmed that at least 400 migrants died between January and March 2023 while attempting to cross the Central Mediterranean. The Central Mediterranean route – stretching overseas from North Africa to Italy and, to a lesser degree, Malta – is the world’s most dangerous maritime crossing. IOM, in a statement issued on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 stated that the figure was the deadliest in the first quarter on record since 2017. Although, the UN agency in its Missing Migrants Projects had documented 441 deaths during this period, noting that the true figure…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Olalekan Jacob Ponle, known as Mr Woodberry, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud, just as he also agreed to forfeit $8 million in proceeds of wire fraud as well as luxury cars and watches to the foreign government. Woodberry, a known associate of the now-imprisoned internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas, better known as Hushpuppi, recently in a plea declaration submitted at the United States District Court of the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division on April 6, pleaded guilty to count one of the indictments, the Peoples Gazette reports. According to his plea agreement, he is required to…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council(APCPCC), Festus Keyamo, has drummed it to the ears that cared to listen that the the 2023 elections are credible. Keyamo, who alongside the Minister of Sports, Sunday Dare, and others, addressed the press at Washington DC, United States, on Wednesday, said the fact that the APC leaders including the sitting President, the President-elect and governors, lost their home states to the opposition, was enough justification for the credibility of the 2023 elections. “For the first time, 20 sitting governors lost their states, mostly those of the ruling…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Famous Nigerian cross-dresser and social media personality, Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju, popularly addressed as Bobrisky, has revealed that he no longer has male genitals. The controversial celebrity, who disclosed this in a social media post, said he now has thick thighs with a sexy shape. He wrote, “I no longer have a manhood, just thick thighs with sexy shape that come with a v.” The 31-year-old has openly declared being a transgender woman and LGBT personality despite the law in Nigeria stating that same-sex relationships are punishable by up to 14 years imprisonment.
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Kogi State House of Assembly Majority Leader, Alhaji Murktar Bajeh (APC-Okehi), has resigned his position in protest of the terrorist tag thrown at him and eight other colleagues. The state Governor, Yahaya Bello, had on March 23 branded nine of the 25 assembly members as terrorists for their alleged roles during the March 18 House of Assembly elections held in the state. Bello had requested the legislature in a letter to the Speaker, Mr Matthew Kolawale, to suspend the nine members, including the Majority Leader, and investigate their roles during the Assembly election. But Bajeh, in…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A speeding truck on Wednesday, 12 April, 2023 crushed at least five persons to death along Epe/Ijebu-Ode Expressway in Ogun State. It was gathered that the accident involved an unmarked truck, an empty Benz low-bed of a construction company with registration number BWR 281XC and a commercial motorcycle. The spokesman for the State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, who confirmed the accident in a terse statement made available to newsmen in Abeokuta, blamed it on “excessive speeding” on the part of the truck. “The road traffic accident was caused by excessive speed on the part…
President of Turkey, Tayyip Erdoğan, has joined the list of world leaders that have sent congratulory and goodwill messages to Nigeria’s President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. President Xi Jinping of China, United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, President of France, Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, are among global leaders that have since sent goodwill messages to Asiwaju Tinubu. In his congratulatory letter, President Erdoğan, who described Asiwaju Tinubu as a brother, called for mutual cooperation and partnership that would further the friendly relationship between Turkey and Nigeria. Erdoğan, in his letter, also underscored the importance of Nigeria…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Imo State Police Command has confirmed thatAugustine Ukegbu, a police inspector has been killed by some gunmen at his village, Umuoshike Ogbor in the Aboh Mbaise Localof the state after celebrating the Easter with his family. The Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Henry Okoye, who confirmed the incident, said the police had commenced investigation. Police sources said that the inspector was kidnapped from his house upon his arrival from his base in Owerri and was later found dead in a bush along Mbutu in the local council. The source said that the cop was abducted at Aboh Mbaise…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed on Wednesday, 12 April, 2023, said the call for his arrest and prosecution for admonishing Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, over inciting the public to violence is unjustifiable. Mohammed stated this on Wednesday, 12 April, 2023 in London while reacting to the call by Edwin Clark, an Elder Statesman and Leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), that he should be arrested and prosecuted for spreading “fake news” about Obi. The Minister said he stood by his admonition of Obi, a former Anambra State Governor,…