A construction worker in Sagamu, Ogun State, was severely injured on Sunday after falling from a building onto live electric wires along street poles at Ijokun. A disturbing viral video trending online shows the unidentified man struggling as his body caught fire while entangled in the wires. Moments later, he fell to the ground as onlookers rushed to his aid. Eyewitnesses said the victim was immediately taken to a nearby hospital for urgent medical attention. His current condition remains unknown at the time of filing this report. The incident has raised fresh concerns over safety measures at construction sites and…
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Father of Comfort Emmanson, the girl involved in the Ibom Air airport controversy, has called on the government to compensate his family for the ’embarrasement’ the incident inflicted on his daughter, reports thegazellenews.com Udeme Emmanson who is popularly called Papa Comfort in his neighborhood, complained that neighbours were making jest of him and his family hence the need for government to compensate the family. He wrote:”Anytime I step out, my neighbors and people in my neighborhood who know me very well as Papa Comfort will just say; ‘eyahh I no fit believe say na you born that kind fine pikin’.…
Confusion has engulfed the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) following an unverified report alleging the removal of its Director-General, Salihu Abdulhamid Dembos, and the appointment of a new management team by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The unconfirmed report—surfacing barely a week after a similar rumour about the purported resignation of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) Group Managing Director, Bayo Ojulari—claims that sports entertainment executive, Rotimi Pedro, from Lagos, has been named as the new NTA Director-General. It further alleges that Karimah Bello from Katsina State has been appointed Executive Director, Marketing; Stella Din from Plateau State as Executive Director, News;…
Details have emerged of how Olusegun Remi, known in the entertainment industry as Chief Kanran, died have emerged, reports thegazellenews.com Thegazellenews.com reported on Friday, 15 August, 2025, that Chief Kanran died early same day after a brief illness. However, according to a post on the Facebook page of popular entertainment promoter and owner of the Best of Nollywood (BON) award, Seun Oloketuyi, the veteran actor allegedly slumped and died in his bathroom. Thegazellenews.com reports further that Chief Kanran lived at Meiran axis of Alimoso Local Government Area. “Segun Remi this afternoon slumped in the bathroom and died instantly,” Oloketuyi wrote…
The richest black man on earth, Aliko Dangote has narrated how music icon, David ‘Davido’ Adeleke rejected his offer of $2.1 million not to be at his Miami wedding reports thegazellenews.com According to Africa’s richest man, Davido and his wife came to his house in Atlanta to invite him to their wedding. “So I told them I’m sorry I will not be able to attend the wedding because of my busy schedule. “So I said I was going to support him with the sum of $2.1 million but he immediately said no to the offer saying all he needed was…
Veteran Nigerian actor Segun Remi, popularly known as Chief Kanran is dead, reports thegazellenews.com. This medium learnt that Chief Kanran died on the morning of Friday, 15 August, 2025, after what family sources described as a brief illness. He was 72 years old. The celebrated Yoruba film star passed away on Friday morning. Details about the cause of death were yet to be disclosed at the time of filing this report. Chief Kanran was a household name in the Yoruba movie industry, renowned for his distinctive style, humour, and commanding performances in stage plays and films over several decades.
By Kayode Fayemi An article on Wednesday, 13 August 2025, entitled “Sorting Nigeria Out” by Mr Lekan Sote, a columnist with the Punch newspaper, triggered this article from me. Before him, Senator Babafemi Ojudu wrote a critique of what was purportedly attributed to me on the same issue last week, and even earlier, several social media posts had been written amplifying the same narrative. And it’s all about a purported statement from me claiming that opposition to President Goodluck Jonathan’s removal of fuel subsidy in 2012 was all politics or something to that effect. And I must thank my friend,…
Weeks after their record-extending and record-breaking victory at the Women African Cup of Nations (WAFCON), six members of the victorious Super Falcons are yet to get their luggage, report thegazellenews.com. According to report posted on the Facebook page of Ifeoluwa Leo-Olagbaye, the six Super Falcons are still battling to retrieve their luggage weeks after the end of the competition. Thegazellenews.com recalled that the Super Falcons beat Morocco after coming back from two goals down in the first half to win 3-2 thereby their record of most WAFCON wins to 10. Thegazellenews.com also recalled that the Super Falcons also broke the…
By Tunde Odesola Unenviable bee life. Despite buzzing from pillar to post in the field, transporting tonnes of nectar sugar to its hive for honey, the bee, like the Value Jet aircraft passenger, is ultimately deboarded from its hive in an extractive process to yield nature’s sweetest and goldiest liquid, honey; a perfect example of the product outvaluing the producer. As a youth looking forward to sitting the secondary school-leaving certificate examination, the release of the album, Talazo’84, by the new kid on the Fuji music bloc, Wasiu Ayinde Barrister, presented to me an opportunity for defiance, self-belief and entertainment.…
By Bamidele Johnson It has to be one of life’s greatest mysteries that COZA’s Biodun Fatoyinbo is thought to be a Christian, let alone a shepherd of souls. It cannot be unreasonable to say the souls he shepherds are those of livestock. Otherwise, his congregation would not watch him say that if God Himself told him seed sowing did not work, he would say, “Sorry, Sir. It works.” That video is available online. Not Abraham, not Moses, not even Paul, men recorded to have met God in fire, cloud and blinding light, ever presumed to correct the Almighty. Yet, Fatoyinbo…