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Published   April 29, 2017 Share   Tweet    Share Pin it   +1 Gbenro Adeoye Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to disclose his state of health to Nigerians, stating that the President is a public property. Soyinka, at a forum in Lagos on Friday, themed, ‘Sacred Cow’, described the speculations surrounding the President’s true state of health as avoidable. The Nobel laureate saidBuhari’s failure to publicly disclose his state of health had increased political manipulations in the country. Buhari was on Wednesday absent from the Federal Executive Council meeting and the Juma’at service at the mosque in the Presidential Villa on Friday. Soyinka said, “Why is the President hiding his state of health? He’s supposed to understand he’s public property; me, I’m still private property, that’s why I’m not in Aso Rock (Presidential Villa). “Once you are in Aso Rock, or you occupy a ...

Published   April 29, 2017 Share   Tweet    Share Pin it   +1 Asiwaju Bola Tinubu Gbenro Adeoye The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Friday said he was working on a book that would detail how his party removed former President Goodluck Jonathan from office. Tinubu reportedly played an instrumental role in the merger of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Congress for Progressive Change and All Nigeria Peoples Party to form the APC that presented President Muhammadu Buhari as candidate. Buhari removed an incumbent President from office in 2015. Speaking at the launch of “Against the Run of Play”, a book authored by Chairman, ThisDay Editorial Board, Olusegun Adeniyi, Tinubu said he would soon reveal how the APC defeated the Peoples Democratic Party in the last presidential election. Tinubu, who was represented at the event by his media aide, Mr. Tunde Rahman, also noted that he played a big rol...

Published   April 29, 2017 Share   Tweet    Share Pin it   +1 Owa of Idanre Kingdom, Oba Fredrick Adegunle Aroloye IV The Owa of Idanre Kingdom, Oba Fredrick Adegunle Aroloye IV, a nonagenarian, in this interview with PETER DADA, speaks about his life before and during his reign as the paramount ruler of the Idanreland, Ondo State Please tell us about your background.  I was born on March 30, 1927 and I attended St. Paul’s Primary School and Methodist School, both at Idanre. I had my secondary school education at Western Boys High School, Benin and Hussy College, Warri and later went to England, where I attended Balham and Tooting College of Commerce and Law. When I finished there, I took up an appointment under Survey Country Council as a licencing officer. From there, I was transferred to Greater London Council as a Finance Clerk. When did you return to Nigeria and why? I left England in 1969 on ...

Published   April 29, 2017 Share   Tweet    Share Pin it   +1 Oil Libyan Naval forces says they have captured two vessels suspected of smuggling oil from the North African country, after gun battle that lasted several hours in the west of the capital, Tripoli. Ayoub Qassem, spokesman for the service said on Friday in Libya, adding that the forces frequently captured vessels smuggling oil and arms off the coast. The spokesman said the Ukraine-flagged tanker Routa and a vessel with an unspecified African nation’s flag named Stark were captured early Friday at the Sidi Said west of Tripoli. “The clashes lasted for three hours, but the two tankers were successfully seized,” Qassem said. He further said that Libya had become a haven for migrant smugglers who take advantage of the country’s turmoil to ship people across to Europe. Qassem, however, did not report any casualty or give details on what happened to t...

Published   April 29, 2017 Share   Tweet    Share Pin it   +1 American R&B singer Robert Kelly may be facing legal consequences for having an alleged affair with a Mississippi sheriff’s deputy’s wife, reports say. Hinds County Deputy Kevin Bryant filed the lawsuit April 21, and the “Same Girl” singer received a court order on April 24 requesting that he respond to the complaint. According to Bryant, his soon-to-be-ex-wife, Asia Childress, began her affair with Kelly in 2012 after attending one of his concerts. He also claims that she tricked him into quitting his job and relocating to Atlanta on the premise of furthering her career, but she really just wanted to be closer to the singer, Yahoo news reported. According to the lawsuit, R. Kelly was blamed for acting according to one of his songs, “I’m A Flirt”. He was accused of seducing Childress, which led to her filing for divorce and causing Bryant “emotio...

  Tweet   Pin it   +1 A Nigerian artiste, Wole Oni has been endorsed by Yamaha Corporation Yamaha Gulf FZE as Yamaha first artist signed in the whole of Africa. Wole Oni is a multi-award winning music producer. He is the founder of Instinct Productions. The Ondo State born producer, music writer and arranger has worked in many countries including Rwanda, South Africa, United Kingdom and the United States of America for several years writing and producing music for artists’ album projects, as well as scoring various radios, television and film projects. His first hit was producing “E wa fun mi ni visa” for Bembe Aladisa, but his first big break was producing the smash hit song “Kosobabire” which gained massive air play all over the world and earned a KORA award for Gospel songstress Folake Umosen. One of the pecks Oni got from his new endorsement is the new age customized machine ” Montage 8″ The artiste said Yamaha has been looking out for h...

Published   April 28, 2017 Share   Tweet   Pin it   +1 Bauchi fed poly gate Armstrong Bakam, Bauchi A student of the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi, Auwal Shehu, has been found dead in front of one of the school’s hostel. A student of the polytechnic, who spoke to  PUNCH Metro  on condition of anonymity on Thursday, said the students woke up on Tuesday to find the victim lying lifeless in front of the boys’ hostel. READ:   Man, 20, commits suicide in Rivers church “We were confused to find the student’s dead body in front of the hostel. We did not know what killed him, but we reported the incident to the management,” he said. Details of the cause of the student’s death appeared sketchy, but a source said the victim fell off the second floor of the hostel while reading in the night. Another source, however, said the student slumped and died while returning to the hostel from one of the lecture rooms. The Deputy Rector ...