Sunny Neji, Asha, Ohio join MCSN’s board

Showbiz personalities, Sunny Neji, Asha Gangali and Matthew Ohio, have been appointed to the board of the Musical Copyright Society Nigeria. The appointment of Neji and Gangali followed MCSN’s agreement with the Performing Musicians’ Employers’ Association of Nigeria, which provides that the music body would have two seats on the board of MCSN. On the other hand, Ohio’s appointment was …

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Nollywood veteran, Bruno Iwuoha dies

Nollywood veteran actor, Bruno Iwuoha has died, after losing a protracted battle with diabetes and blindness. He was aged 68. He died at the National Hospital Abuja early on Saturday, film maker Derik Zai said. Bruno, the Abia state born actor, had been in coma for about three weeks before giving up. His body has been deposited at the hospital …

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Only 4 COVID-19 cases remain in Lagos isolation centre

Lagos state commissioner for health, Professor Akin Abayomi said only four cases of COVID-19 remain in its isolation centre. The state had managed 3,902 of such cases since the first case of the pandemic, an Italian, was admitted on 27 February 2020. Abayomi disclosed this on Saturday, as he also revealed that 448 Covid-19 cases are being managed under home …

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Councillors suspend Lagos LGA boss for alleged N60m fraud, others

The Chairman, Surulere Local Government, Lagos State, Tajudeen Ajide, has been suspended for alleged financial impropriety and spending N60m without budgetary approval. In its resolution contained in a document with reference number SLG/LEGIS/RES/018/2021, the councillors alleged that the chairman awarded all contracts to only two companies, a development which was described as suspicious. It read in part, “The executive chairman …

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LAGOS FRSC CHARGES MOTORISTS TO PICK UP UNCOLLECTED PERMANENT DRIVER’S LICENCE

The Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps, Lagos Sector Command, Corps Commander Olusegun Ogungbemide on Wednesday admonished motorists driving with temporary driver’s licence to pick up their Permanent Driver’s Licence. Ogungbemide, who decried the huge number of permanent driver’s licence lying fallow at various capturing centres, said that the appeal had become necessary to offload all uncollected licences. According to …

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#EndSars: Panel Dismiss Fake Journalist’s Petition

The Ogun State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on matters of police abuse and brutality has struck out the petition by one Tobi Adepoju, a fake journalist who alongside other #Endsars protesters, attempted to raze Ajuwon Police Station. In the petition which was made available to our reporter, the fake journalist, Tobi Adepoju confirmed that he took part in the planning …

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Odumakin stood for Nigeria, Yoruba people – Obasa

The late Yinka Odumakin, activist and spokesperson of the Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, fought endlessly for a great Nigeria and a greater Yoruba race, the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. (Dr) Mudashiru Obasa, has said. Obasa made the remark on Tuesday when he led a delegation of lawmakers from the state Assembly to the …

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Edo Women Group Call out Tina Leemon Ikpea for Crashing Businessman’s 39year old Marriage

Notwithstanding the myriad of excuses spun by Chief Leemon Ikpea, the billionaire chairman of Lee Engineering and Construction Company, regarding his ignominious separation from Agnes, his wife of 39years, the Edo Women’s Rights Network, EWRN, has fingered Tina, his mistress, as the crooked wood that disrupted the fire of the marriage. Chief Ikpea had filed a divorce suit against Agnes …

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