Actor and movie producer, Saheed Balogun, has lost his daughter, Ziinat Balogun. Announcing the sad news on Saturday, 5 October, 2024, the actor took to his verified Instagram page to post a picture of a candlelight surrounded by flowers and captured it with heartbroken emojis. His friends and colleagues in the movie industry have since taken to the post to offer condolences on the sad news. Also mourning the death, popular actress, Fathia Williams, who is a stepmother to the late Zinnat, posted on Instagram, “Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un.” Zinnat was born to Saidi by his first wife,…
Author: Abimbola Ogunaike
From Chuks Collins, Awka A yet-to-be identified gunmen, Friday, 4 October, 2024, stormed at Umunze, a major Anambra Community with Imo/Abia states and kidnapped the President-General of the Umunze Progressive Union in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State, Ezekiel Iheazor, and a chieftain of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Nze Ike Okoli. The unfortunate incident according to eyewitness account took place at Nze Okoli’s residence in Lomu village during the Friday downpour heavily shooting sporadically into the air, in the early hours of the day. The hoodlums, apparently aided by the sporadic gunfire and the heavy rain succeeded…
From Chuks Collins, Awka A group under the aegis of Solution Marshals has concluded its one-day inspection and monitoring of some ongoing and completed projects in parts of Anambra State with commendation for the governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo. The leader and national Coordinator of the group Comrade Osita Obi while addressing journalists at the end of the tour, at the Okpoko General hospital, Ogbaru Council area of the State, near Onitsha canvassed for the re-election of Anambra State Gov Soludo, in the coming 2025 gubernatorial election, “as a reward for his remarkable achievement within the two years of his stay…
Through its women-focused proposition, SARA by Wema, Wema Bank, Nigeria’s most innovative bank and pioneer of Africa’s first fully digital bank, ALAT, has partnered with the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs to launch MOWA x SARA Accelerator Programme, an initiative aimed at empowering 500,000 women across Nigeria with vocational and business management skills. SARA by Wema is Wema Bank’s women-focused proposition established with the goal of promoting gender inclusion and equality by empowering women with tailored resources, opportunities and solutions essential to enable them thrive personally and professionally. Through SARA, Wema Bank continues to empower thousands of women across Nigeria…
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Umo Eno, has said that the death of his wife will not halt the machinery of government. Speaking on Friday, 5 October, 2024 in Uyo, the state capital Eno said he was overwhelmed by the condolence messages and visits from across the country, noting that his focus on service to the people would not shift. He commended President Bola Tinubu for his personal call and the visit of his wife, Remi Tinubu, the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and other national and state leaders, groups and individuals who commiserated with him on the death of his wife.…
The Borno State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Baba Gana, has confirmed 17 cases of cholera in the state and vaccinated 287,708 people against the disease. Gana, who declared the cholera outbreak in Maiduguri, the state capital on Friday,5 October, 2024, said no death has been recorded in the state so far. “We have 451 suspected cases discovered in Maiduguri, Jere, Konduga, Mafa and Monguno local government areas. “We took the samples to the National reference laboratory, out of which 17 were positive for cholera,” he said. According to the commissioner, the state had received 300,000 doses of Oral Cholera Vaccines (OCV) from the…
The Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN), has announced that the Electronic Foreign Exchange Matching System (EFEMS), for foreign exchange transactions in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM) will commence on 1 December, 2024. The Director, Financial Markets Department (EFEMS) Omolara Duke, who made this disclosure in a statement, said that the new system was expected to enhance governance, transparency, and facilitate a market-driven exchange rate that will be accessible to the public. “This development is expected to reduce speculative activities, eliminate market distortions, and give the CBN improved oversight capabilities to effectively regulate the market. “Authorised dealers would subsequently conduct all…
As part measures to tackle youth unemployment across all the 774 local government areas of the country, the Federal Government has announced plan to create one million jobs. The Minister of State for Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, made who made this disclosure on Friday, 5 October, 2024 in Abuja. According to Olawande, the federal government is determined to educate, inspire, and connect Nigerian youths to careers and opportunities in the insurance sector using the power of digital technology. The Minister reiterated the government’s commitment to increasing youth participation in the insurance sector, to create jobs and enhance financial inclusion.
Famous veteran Nollywood actress, Binta Ayo Mogaji, has advised women above 35 years to get pregnant outside wedlock. The 60-year-old actress stated this during an interview on Oyinmomo TV. Sharing her thoughts on marriage, motherhood, and societal pressures, the actress, who welcomed her first child at age 40, encouraged single women over 35 to have children outside wedlock if they desire motherhood. Mogaji further emphasized the need for women to prioritize motherhood over societal expectations. “What I’m saying is, once you are 35 or older and you don’t have a husband, but there is someone in your life who is…
A Texas man named Garcia Glenn White, expressed deep remorse before his execution by lethal injection on Tuesday, 35 years after he murdered 16-year-old identical twins in Houston. 61-year-old White was executed at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville, becoming the sixth death row inmate put to death in the past two weeks. White had confessed to killing five people over a six-year period during the late 1980s and early 1990s, yet prosecutors only charged him for the murders of Annette and Bernette Edwards, the teenage sisters he killed back in 1989. White was pronounced dead at 6:56 p.m., according…