Month: July 2023

Aboru Aboye: Tope Alabi Believes She is Above Everyone – Funmi Aragbaye

ADEOLA YUSUF

“If you speak with Pastor Bola Are, she will tell you the same thing.”   Veteran gospel act and current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Gospel Musician Association of Nigeria, Funmi Aragbaye, has slammed popular gospel singer, Tope Alabi, for her controversial use of ‘aboru aboye,’ a term commonly associated with Ifa worshippers, in a newly released song. Aragbaye, while reacting to the controversy trailing the recent viral video of fellow gospel artiste, Tope Alabi, where she sang using Yoruba words associated with greetings by Ifa worshippers,…

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BREAKING: Tambuwal Loses Out as Akpabio Names Minority Leadership

ADEOLA YUSUF

THEIR NAMES, THEIR POSTS: Full names of occupants of minority seats in a new “palace coup” in which Mr. Tambuwal, a former Governor of Sokoto State, and an ally of Atiku Abubakar was outsmarted   Aminu Tambuwal, a former Governor of Sokoto State and close ally to Ariku Abubakar, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the last election, has lost his bid to emerge as the Senate Minority Leader. Platforms Africa reports that this followed the announcement of the Senate minority leadership by the President of the Senate, Godswill…

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Mexican Mayor Marries Reptile

ADEOLA YUSUF

As onlookers clapped and danced, a mayor of a small southern Mexico town entered into holy matrimony with a female reptile in a traditional rite to bring good fortune to his people. Victor Hugo Sosa, mayor of San Pedro Huamelula, a town of Indigenous Chontal people in the Tehuantepec isthmus of Mexico, took as his betrothed a reptile named Alicia Adriana, re-enacting an ancestral ritual. The reptile is a caiman, an alligator-like marsh dweller endemic to Mexico and Central America. READ ALSO: Ibo Man Offers Ejikeme Scholarship, Says JAMB Action…

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Man Offers Ejikeme Scholarship, Says JAMB Action An attack on Igbo Race

ADEOLA YUSUF

An Ibo man identified as Galus Chibueze has reportedly offered a 100% scholarship to Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma to study in the United Kingdom,Canada or the United states af America, declaring that action by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on the candidate was an attack on Igbo race. Platforms Africa reports that JAMB, the examination board in charge of admission examination in Nigeria, declared the result being paraded by Mmesoma as fake. The candidadte who earlier claimed she had the highest score in UTME, insisted in a viral…

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JAMB Bars Ejikeme Mmesoma for 3 Years, Insists Result is Fake

ADEOLA YUSUF

“She picked UNILAG as first choice,” JAMB reveals details on Ejikeme Mmesoma’s “original” result, says no way notification of result displayed by candidate in viral video could have been downloaded from its portal.   The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has reiterated that the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result being paraded by Miss Ejikeme Mmesoma ”is patently fake.” It has also barred Mmesoma from sitting for its examination for the next three years. READ ALSO: Anambra UTME ‘High Scorer’ Manipulated Result, To Be Prosecuted – JAMB Why Tinubu…

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Anambra UTME ‘High Scorer’ Manipulated Result, To Be Prosecuted – JAMB

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Joint Admissions and MatriculationBoard (JAMB), says it is going to prosecute Ejikeme Mmesoma, a 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate from Anambra State for “manipulating” her result in this year’s examination. “Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma had actually scored 249 and not 362 she claimed,” the Board said in a statement on Sunday signed by its spokesman, Fabian Benjamin. “She had manipulated her UTME result to deceive the public to fraudulently obtain scholarship and other recognitions.” JAMB also said the original result of Mmesoma would be withdrawn, stating that…

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Why Tinubu Met With Shell Global Upstream Director

ADEOLA YUSUF

The President had previously met with the Exxon Mobil Executives, Liam Mallon, Richard Laing and Adesua Dozie at the State House.     President Bola Tinubu has met with the Shell Global Upstream Director Zoë Yujnovich at the Presidential Villa, FCT Abuja. Platforms Africa reports that the meeting was Tinubu’s first engagement after the Sallah festivities and his foreign trips to France on June 20 and London on June 24. It is also part of ongoing consultations with leaders from the oil and gas sector since his administration discontinued petroleum…

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Man Files Lawsuit After Being Removed From WhatsApp Group

ADEOLA YUSUF

A WhatsApp group in Uganda called “Buyanja My Roots” recently made headlines after one of its members, Herbert Baitwababo sued the administrators for removing him from the group. According to the Daily Monitor, Baitwababo told the court that the WhatsApp group was formed to contribute to charity works, offer condolences and support to people and that each member was required to pay Sh.30,000 as membership fee. Mr Baitwababo said in his affidavit that trouble started when he asked the admin about the process that allowed them to manage the group’s…

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Why We’ve Not Paid Corpers’ June Allowance — NYSC

ADEOLA YUSUF

The National Youth Service Corps has revealed why it is yet to pay the June 2023 allowance of corps members. Eddy Megwa, Director, Press and Public Relations of the Scheme, made this known in a statement on Sunday. Megwa said: “The delay being currently experienced is due to the administration of funds by various banks who are yet to credit Corps Members’ accounts.” The Management of the scheme apologised to corps members over the delay in the payment, adding that it is aware of their worries and agitations over the…

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Davido Offered Me N3m To Abort My Pregnancy — TikTok User

ADEOLA YUSUF

Third pregnancy claim in two weeks: Before Flower_Chisom’s claim, an American OnlyFans star, Anita Brown, and a French lady, Ivanna Bay, have earlier claimed to be pregnant for the singer.   A new lady, identified on TikTok as Flower_Chisom has claimed she slept with singer Davido and was offered N3 million to abort the pregnancy. Taking to her TikTok, Chisom asserted that she and Davido had an affair during which she got pregnant and was instructed by the singer to get rid of it. READ ALSO: My Late Son, Ifeanyi,…

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