Nigerian singer, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has won her first Grammy Award. She won the award at the ceremony at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles which took place on Sunday, 5 February, 2023. Her contribution to the hit ‘Wait For U’ by Future featuring Drake won her the award. In a viral social media video, Tems, who dressed in a white gown, was seen conversing with Roc Nation founder, Jay-Z and his wife, Beyoncé. The pre-Grammy brunch was held at a private residence in Bel-Air, Los Angeles. Meanwhile, award-winning singer, Damini Ogulu, known better…
Author: Olamide Obayemi
The attention of the NIS has been drawn to an online story of the Premium Times of February 1, 2023, by one Mojeed Alabi titled “Months to tenure expiration, Aregbesola set to ‘commercialise Nigeria’s resident permit processes, others”. In the story, the author has accused the Minister of Interior of commercializing some immigration services. Ordinarily, we would ignore this but for the need to correct some errors and in fact save the unsuspecting public from being misled, It is imperative to put matters in proper perspective viz: a). Already, many services of the NIS have long been commercialized…
By Bayo Onanuga We are constrained as a matter of public record to react to another farcical Presidential Election Poll result released by an organisation that calls itself Nextier, a public policy advisory firm that overnight turned itself into a Nigerian Gallup Poll or Ipsos. We are reacting for the sake of unsuspecting Nigerians, so that they are not misled by the Patrick Okigbo-led organisation, which appears to have the agenda to create confusion and chaos in our country. For a start, Nigerians should know that promoters of Nextier are members of Mr. Peter Obi’s Presidential Campaign Council and active…
By Abiodun Komolafe To start with, election candidacy ought not to be an impromptu decision. For inspiration, we may have to turn to the Western civilization for succour. After all, our social structures and institutions are patterned after theirs. In the United Kingdom, as in other saner climes, young men and women who participate in school politics – and are interested in running governments – are provided with the ample chance to express themselves in an enabling environment; and they follow through till they graduate from these schools. It’s like a recruitment centre; and they eventually form the bulk of…
The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has expressed the readiness of the Nigerian government to cooperate fully with India on the stoppage of the use of fake Nigerian passports to travel into India. Ogbeni Aregbesola gave this assurance in his office, Friday, 4 February, 2023, while receiving His Excellency, Mr Gangadharan Balasubramanian, Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, who was on a courtesy visit to his office in Abuja. According to the Minister, Nigeria will ever remain grateful to the Government and people of India for her support to Nigeria during Nigeria’s anti-colonial struggle that led to her Independence. The…
The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) on Saturday, 4 February, 2023, urged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop playing politics with the new Naira policy and challenges Nigerians faced in accessing the new notes. Alhaji Yerima Shettima, the National President of the AYCF, in a statement on Saturday, 4 February, 2023, in Lagos, frowned at Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, PDP Presidential Candidate, over his comment on the new Naira policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The campaign office of Abubakar, had on Wednesday, 1 February, 2023, in a statement, advised the CBN not to extend the Friday, 10…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday, 4 February, 2023, assured the All Progressives Congress (APC) party supporters that he will continue to campaign for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the ‘next president of Nigeria.’ The President spoke before a mammoth crowd at the presidential campaign rally in Lafia square, where he endorsed the candidature of the Presidential candidate, Tinubu; his running mate, Kashim Shettima; and the second-term bid of Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State. He thanked party supporters for defying the hot weather and standing in the sun for hours to express their support for the party’s flag bearers in…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that the All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will be the next President of Nigeria. President Buhari made the declaration in Lafia, capital of Nasarawa State, on Saturday, 4 February, 2023, at the APC Presidential Campaign rally that had thousands of party supporters and residents. The President confirmed Asiwaju Tinubu’s earlier statement on their over 20 years friendship, assuring Nigerians and the people of Nasarawa State that the APC Presidential Candidate would be a good President that will make the country better after him. President Buhari assured party members and supporters that…