The Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) has called on the Police to apprehend actress Empress Njamah’s ex-lover, George Wade, who was alleged to have recently leaked a nude video of the actress.
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Tesla’s move marks a reversal from the automaker’s strategy over the last two years when new vehicle orders exceeded supply. It comes after CEO Elon Musk warned that the prospect of recession and higher interest rates meant it could lower prices to sustain growth at the expense of profit.
ASHENEWS reports that a Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’ suit seeking the disqualification of Sen. Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), and his vice, Mr. Kassim Shettima, for the 2023 general elections. Delivering judgment, Justice Inyang Ekwo, dismissed the suit on the ground that the PDP lacked locus standi to institute the suit. Justice Ekwo, who held that the case was caught by the principle of issue estoppel, described the suit as an abuse of the court process. The PDP, in its originating summons, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1734/2022, had sued the…
The Lagos state governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor) on Friday said he remained committed to faithfully deploying state resources to ease the burdens and hardship of residents and end their worries. Adediran in the company of party leaders made the pledge when his campaign train landed in the Somolu local government area of Lagos, in continuation of his tour of the 245 wards of the state. The governorship hopeful, in interactive sessions with various artisans, religious and other groups in the council, said that his ambition was not personal but for the interest of the masses. According…
A Prosecution Witness (PW) on Friday told an Ajaokuta High Court sitting in Lokoja, Kogi that the corpse of his alleged murdered brother was found in a locked up metal storage drum behind the house of his suspected killer. Mr. Taiye Ajayi, PW1, made this known while being led in testimony by a prosecuting Counsel, Mr. Badama Kadiri, in a culpable Homicide case brought before Justice Hauwa Yusuf of Ajaokuta High Court. The state ministry of justice charged Francis Julius and Obiodun Yusuf with three counts of criminal conspiracy, theft, and culpable homicide. They were accused of conspiring and murdering…
Nigerian policymakers and implementors love fiction and we as citizens play along. I just remembered that our next census is going to be in April, immediately after the elections in February and March. If there is a need for a run-off presidential election, it would happen just as the census is taking off. No sane country would roll out two massive high-cost events that require massive logistics and security arrangements just days apart. Sanity says they simply cannot happen in the same year. In Nigeria, no one cares because we all know it is make belief and will not happen…
By Tina George, Minna The Executive Director of the New HIV Vaccine and Microbicide Advocacy Society (NHVMAS), Mrs. Florita Durueke has advocated for the inclusion of pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers in clinical trials, especially in the HIV prevention clinical research and trials. Speaking during a recent virtual webinar training for female journalists across Nigeria, she noted that pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers remain profoundly underrepresented in clinical trials of new prevention interventions like pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). According to Durueke, without evidence specific to pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers, these individuals may be inadvertently under or overdosed and exposed to…
The Earthshot Prize, a global environmental prize to discover, accelerate, and scale ground-breaking solutions to repair and regenerate the planet, has begun its 2023 search for breakthrough solutions to solve the globe’s biggest environmental challenges. MultiChoice, the official African broadcast partner and member of The Earthshot Prize Global Alliance, is issuing a call for entries from African organizations, businesses, governments, and individuals who are doing scalable and impactful work in this capacity. Potential nominees can enter into any of the five categories of the Earthshot Prize, including Protect and Restore Nature, Clean our Air, Revive our Oceans, Build a Waste-Free World…
ASHENEWS reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said it recorded 26 bid winners of different properties on the third day of the ongoing sale of forfeited real estate in Abuja on Wednesday, January 11, 2023. The estates comprise apartments, and plots of land, according to the commission in a statement by its spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren emailed to ASHENEWS on Thursday. “At the session, a total of 39 properties in Lot 5, located in different parts of the Federal Capital Territory, were offered for sale through a competitive bidding process. The exercise which commenced at 10 am continued…
Some stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State on Wednesday boycotted the presidential campaign rally held in the state capital. The stakeholders were at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport Enugu to welcome the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and disappeared from there. The stakeholders were the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, the former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, the former Governor of the state, Mr. Sullivan Chime, and former Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Eugene Odo, among others. Briefing journalists, Chime said that the stakeholders were at the airport to receive the…