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Veteran Nollywood Actor, Amaechi Mounagor, Is Dead

March 24, 2024March 24, 2024 Ganiyu Amodu

Nollywood legend, Amaechi Muonagor has passed away at the age of 61. The popular thespian reportedly died on Sunday. Prior to his death, he suffered kidney failure and was on dialysis. The news of his demise came just few days after a viral video in which fellow actor, Kingsley Orji, solicited for funds to help him undergo Kidney transplant in India. Speaking via his Instagram account on Sunday, he disclosed that Amaechi Mounagor left the hospital due to financial constraints. Orji who spoke in both Igbo and English said: “It…

13th African Games: Team Nigeria Finishes Second With 120 Medals

March 24, 2024March 24, 2024 Ganiyu Amodu

Team Nigeria finished second on the medals table at the 13th African Games in Ghana. The Nigerian contingent raked in 47 gold, 33 silver and 40 bronze medals across 25 sports at the competition. Weightlifting produced Nigeria’s highest medal haul. The team garnered 32 medals — 16 gold, 10 silver and six bronze medals. Athletics was Nigeria’s second most productive sport at the Games, with 22 medals won. Tobi Amusan won her third consecutive African Games gold medal in the women’s 100 meters hurdles. She then anchored the women’s 4×100…

Where Is Segun Olatunji?

March 24, 2024March 24, 2024 Abibat Babalola

Mr. Olusegun Adesola Olatunji, an Editor with the FirstNews, an online news platform, was whisked away by 10 gunmen in the evening of Friday March 15, 2024 from his house at Iyana Odo, Abule Egba area of Lagos State. For the past one week, his whereabouts have been shrouded in mystery. Seven days after he was taken away, it was not clear whether he was arrested or abducted by a lawful security agency. Olatunji, who will be 56 years old on October 13, this year, having been born in 1968,…

Another Bloodbath In Delta: Six Policemen killed In Ambush, Six Missing

March 24, 2024 Abibat Babalola

Another bloodbath in Delta: Six policemen killed in ambush, six missing. This incident is coming barely a week after 17 officers and men of the Nigerian Army were killed in an ambush in Okuama community, in same Delta State. It was yet another bloodbath in Delta State as the Nigeria Police Force, on Saturday, confirmed that six of its officers were killed in an ambush by hoodlums in Ohoro forest, while six others were missing in action. “The bodies of six of the slain officers have been recovered after a…

DHQ Declares Simon Ekpa, 96 Others Wanted For Terrorism

March 24, 2024 Abibat Babalola

…. Terror list: ‘Enough wotowoto’, IPOB’s Simon Ekpa replies DHQ The Defence Headquarters on Friday said it has declared 97 persons wanted for terrorism, violent extremism and secessionist threats against the state. Prominent among the wanted persons is the factional leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Simon Ekpa. Major Gen Edwaed Buba, Director, Defence Media Operations, confirmed the names and pictures of the people declared wanted in Abuja on Friday night. The wanted persons, terrorists/ bandits and insurgents commanders are from the North East,…

287 Abducted Kaduna School Children Released

March 24, 2024March 24, 2024 Abibat Babalola

Kaduna State Government has announced the release of the 287 school children kidnapped from Kuriga, Chikun Local Government Area, Kaduna State. The Platforms Africa reports On March 7, 2024, the schoolchildren from LEA Primary School and Government Secondary School, Kuriga, were abducted by the hoodlums who took them into the forest. A statement signed by the state governor, Senator Uba Sani, confirmed the release of the school children on Sunday. Sani said: “In the name of Allah the Beneficent, the Most Merciful, I wish to announce that our Kuriga school…