The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 91st annual Academy Awards, The OSCARS. Roma and The Favourite lead the pack, with 10 nominations each. See Full List of The Nominees below: Best {Read More..}
The trial of the embattled leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat has been adjourned to March 25th by a Kaduna State High court. El Zakzaky is currently facing trial over allegations of culpable homicide, unlawful assembly, and disruption of public peace. At the {Read More..}
Two sisters have been arrested by officers of the Kuje Medium Security Prison in the Federal Capital Territory for attempting to smuggle substances suspected to be cannabis and Tramadol into the prison premises for an inmate identified as John Ifeanyichukwu. A statement from the FCT prisons service command spokesperson, Humphrey Chukwuedo, {Read More..}
Eight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt, frustrated in his bid to begin a post-athletics career in football has declared his “sports life over” The Jamaican, 32, spent two months training with Australian side Central Coast Mariners, but left in November after the club failed to find financial backing for a professional {Read More..}
The Nigeria Labour Congress has rejected the twenty-seven thousand-naira minimum wages adopted by the national council of state on Tuesday. NLC general secretary, Peter Ozo-Eson in a telephone interview with AIT said the council has no jurisdiction to determine another amount after a tripartite committee submitted its report. The NLC {Read More..}
Cristiano Ronaldo was fined almost 19 million euros ($21.6 million) for tax fraud on Tuesday but will avoid serving a 23-month prison sentence after agreeing on a deal. Ronaldo, holding hands with his Spanish fiancee Georgina Rodriguez, came out of the courtroom smiling, pausing to sign autographs before leaving in a {Read More..}
The National Council of State has pegged the national minimum wage at N27,000 for states and the private sector and N30,000 as the minimum wage for federal workers. The council’s meeting held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja and was presided by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday. The labour minister, {Read More..}
A Taiwanese hiker and social media star who posed in bikinis on mountain summits, has died during a solo trek. Gigi Wu, 36, fell into a ravine in Taiwan’s Yushan National Park. She managed to call emergency services using a satellite phone on Saturday but efforts to rescue her from {Read More..}
Diamond Platnumz is set to marry his Kenyan girlfriend Tanasha Donna in February as he has already introduced her to his family. The Tanzanian star and his Kenyan radio presenter girlfriend, have been shuttling between the two East African countries since they started dating in December and according to sources, {Read More..}
Two days after former President Olusegun Obasanjo released a statement condemning the Buhari administration, both men have met at the Council of State meeting taking place in Abuja. It is the first time they would be meeting since the former president began to publicly criticise the Buhari administration. In a {Read More..}
Ex-footballers, Efe Sodje, 46, and Stephen Sodje, 43, and ex-rugby player Bright Sodje, 52, were found guilty and jailed for syphoning-off cash from their own charity set up to help African children, the BBC reports. This was made known on Monday following the conclusion of a separate trial involving former {Read More..}
Popular Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju Adewale aka Ishow Larry, is dead. The producer of Agbara and Ole passed on yesterday. He was said to have been admitted at a hospital, last week, after coming down with an undisclosed ailment.
Former professional footballers Efe and Stephen Sodje, along with brother Bright, were given prison sentences for fraud last year in the U.K. The three brothers were found to have siphoned off more than £60,000 given to the Sodje Sports Foundation (SSF). They were jailed in September – Efe Sodje for {Read More..}
Operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, have recovered 13 buildings, 10 cars, two tippers, a trailer truck and three AK-47 rifles from a notorious kidnapper, Collins Ezenwa, aka E-Money. E-Money, a dismissed policeman that had been terrorising Imo, Abia, Enugu and Rivers states, was {Read More..}
A prophet of one of the branches of the Cherubim and Seraphim church was lynched after he was allegedly caught eating bread and feaces, supposedly for money ritual purposes. The Prophet who is said to be the head cleric at Cherubim and Seraphim Church at Apata Isegun located on Mathew street, {Read More..}
Barcelona has confirmed the somewhat surprising transfer of Kevin-Prince Boateng from Sassuolo. The transfer includes an €8 million (£7m/$9m) option to buy, while Barca will pay a €2m loan fee for Boateng to feature for them the remainder of the season. The 31-year-old will be presented in late on Tuesday {Read More..}
The German coach who coaches a German male football team shocked a journalist who asked her a ‘gender-biased’ question when she retorted that she picked her team members based on the size of their joystick. Imke Wubbenhorst, the first woman to coach a football club in Germany’s top five divisions {Read More..}
A university student, Archie Day, 20, hanged himself in his room just hours after ‘sobbing uncontrollably’ because he had lost his iPhone, during a night of drinking. Day, 20, who is a eenk video blogger and journalism student was so upset at the loss of the Apple iPhone after a night out {Read More..}
The first ever Film Gala will be hosted by Moët and Chandon and Filmhouse on the 26th of January 2019 at the Wings Tower, Victoria Island, this is an evening of high style, glitz, and fellowship! The event is centered on celebrating groundbreaking achievements in the film industry, it will {Read More..}
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has ordered his government not to issue or renew licences for sports betting firms, the country’s Finance minister David Bahati has revealed. Mr Bahati said President Museveni issued the directive because of the negative impact the betting craze has had on young people. “We have received {Read More..}
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