Day: May 10, 2024

‘I’m Quitting Music After My Next Album’ – Davido

ADEOLA YUSUF

Nigerian afrobeats singer David Adeleke, aka Davido, has hinted at quitting music. The ‘Unavailable’ crooner said he would quit music after his next album. Davido disclosed this on Thursday night while reacting to the recent pictures and videos doctored against him by some blogs. He claimed that some persons desperately want him out of the music industry. READ ALSO Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Arrive In Nigeria Electricity Tariff Hike: Labour Issues 7-day Ultimatum Ibrahim Babangida, Nigeria’s Football Star, Is Dead Tijani Babangida, Wife In Road Crash, Brother Dies, Couple Hospitalised…

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Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Arrive In Nigeria

ADEOLA YUSUF

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on Friday morning, arrived in Nigeria for their 72-hour tour. The couple arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport aboard a British Airways flight. The flight which arrived around 5am, was delayed because of a sick pilot, according to the Daily Mail. The Duchess of Sussex had flown into Heathrow yesterday to meet up with her husband at the airport’s VIP Windsor Suite. READ ALSO Electricity Tariff Hike: Labour Issues 7-day Ultimatum Ibrahim Babangida, Nigeria’s Football Star, Is Dead Tijani Babangida, Wife In Road Crash,…

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Electricity Tariff Hike: Labour Issues 7-day Ultimatum

ADEOLA YUSUF

The organized labour, under the umbrella of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, have written a protest letter to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC. The union, through the letter, jointly signed by the NLC president, Comrade Joe Ajaero and the TUC President, Comrade Festus Osifo, copied the secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Federal Minister of Labour & Employment, Federal Minister of Power and the All Electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOs), gave May 12, 2024 ultimatum within which NERC should reverse the hike…

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Ibrahim Babangida, Nigeria’s Football Star, Is Dead

Aliyu Aliyu

‘When, where he’ll be buried,’ Family announces final journey for patriot who died in a car crash   Former Nigerian footballer lbrahim Babangida, a member of the victorious 1993 FIFA U-17 World Cup team, tragically passed away in a car accident on Thursday. The incident also left his brother and ex-Super Eagles winger, Tijani Babangida, his wife, son, and maid hospitalized. According to PUNCH, Emmanuel Babayaro, the General Secretary of the Professional Footballers Association of Nigeria and an Atlanta 1996 Olympic gold medalist, broke the news of Ibrahim’s death. He…

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Tijani Babangida, Wife In Road Crash, Brother Dies, Couple Hospitalised

Ganiyu Amodu

Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games gold medallist and President of the Professional Footballers Association of Nigeria, Tijani Babangida, was on Thursday involved in a car accident that claimed the life of his younger brother Ibrahim Babangida. Ibrahim, who represented Nigeria at the 1993 U17 World Cup, sadly died from wounds sustained from the crash. READ ALSO Senate Hints At Failed Deadlines On PH Refinery, Expects 2024 Delivery Why Bonga Is Such A Success – SNEPCo MD Oba Sikiru Adetona, Orisa-Ijebu At 90 |TOLA ADENIYI The couple that was said to he…

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Senate Hints At Failed Deadlines On PH Refinery, Expects 2024 Delivery

Ganiyu Amodu

After several failed deadlines by the handlers of Port Harcourt Refineries, the Nigerian Senate in Far away Houston, Texas, United States of America, said the two refineries in Port Harcourt and Warri currently under rehabilitation would become operational this year. Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), Ifeanyi Ubah, gave the assurance at the ongoing 2024 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, Texas. The senator who was not specific on the timeline for their operations, however, said plans are already being implemented to achieve the target, adding that the Kaduna Refinery…

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Why Bonga Is Such A Success – SNEPCo MD

ADEOLA YUSUF

Bonga, Nigeria’s first deep-water development has been an outstanding producer due to effective leadership, cutting-edge technology, continuous improvement, integrated delivery and collaboration with partners and stakeholders, Managing Director, Shell Nigeria Exploration and Company Limited (SNEPCo), Elohor Aiboni. said on Thursday at the 2024 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas in US. Since coming on stream in November 2005, Bonga has maintained a track record of production that saw it achieve one-billion-barrel export on February 13, last year. Aiboni reflected on the success factors that enabled the milestone in a presentation…

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Oba Sikiru Adetona, Orisa-Ijebu At 90 |TOLA ADENIYI

Abibat Babalola

Alayeluwa Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, Ogbagba Agbotewole ll, the Awujale and Paramount Ruler of Ijebuland is not an ordinary man. He is not an ordinary mortal. And he has refused, like Prince of Aragon in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, to ‘choose what many men desire and be ranked with barbarous multitudes!’ Right from that blessed day on April 2, 1960, the six-footer 26-year old newly-crowned Oba made it clear in non-verbal communication, to the kingmakers, all of them his father’s age, that he would like to be ruled by his…

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NCDMB Co-Chair, Ekpo, Meets ES, Pledges Support For Local Content Programmes

Ganiyu Amodu

The Co-Chair of the Governing Council of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Hon. Ekperikpe Ekpo on Thursday in Abuja received in audience the Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe. The meeting provided an opportunity for the Executive Secretary and the Board’s top management to brief the Minister on the agency’s mandate, activities and initiatives. The presentation dwelt extensively on the Board’s third-party investments, over 60% of which are gas based. The NCDMB team informed the minister that…

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N2.7bn Fraud: Court Imposes Travel Ban On Sirika, Daughter

Abibat Babalola

The Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, barred the immediate-past Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, his daughter, Fatimah, and son-in-law, Jalal Hamma, from travelling outside the country. Justice Sylvanus Orji ruled that they must not leave the country pending the conclusion of their N2.7bn fraud trial. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Thursday on six counts, bordering on N2.7bn fraud. They were arraigned alongside Al-Buraq Investment Ltd. The anti-graft agency alleged that Sirika abused his office by awarding a consultancy N1.3bn contract for the Nigerian Air…

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