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      Nollywood Actress is spotted with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala today.The former Minister of Finance shared this information on her social media today when she shared all these photos with the caption '' Proud to welcome award-winning Nigerian Actor, Director and Film Producer Omoni Oboli to the presentation to the Gavi board of her gut-wrenching film on child’s marriage, “Wings of a Dove”. Built on true-life stories of several girls and women in Northern Nigeria, it shows how marrying girls off early and depriving them of education, has a detrimental impact on maternal health, child mortality, childhood nutrition, and immunization rates. This film is relevant to the Sahel, large parts of Africa, and the developing world. It is a must-see for our communities, civil society, cultural and religious leaders, lawmakers and policymakers. For access to this film please contact Omoni Oboli''.More photos below.

      In keeping with its tradition of immortalizing fallen heroes, especially those that paid the supreme price while serving the nation, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has named a newly built block of six 3-bedroom flats at the NAF Base, Asokoro, Abuja after late Group Captain Ubong Nnamso Akpan. The late senior officer who was a combat helicopter pilot died while on a combat mission in counterinsurgency operations in the Northeast on 13 November 2014. The building project, which was commissioned today, 26 June 2019, by the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Defence (MOD), Mrs Nuratu Batagarawa, was executed in furtherance of the Federal Government’s determination to meet the residential accommodation needs of officers and men of the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN). Speaking during the commissioning ceremony, the Permanent Secretary assured the NAF of the commitment of the Federal Government towards ensuring adequate provision of basic infrastructures for AFN personnel thro...

     Popular Nollywood Director, Kagho Harley Akpor, has died after drowning inside the swimming pool of a popular hotel in Asaba, Delta State. The deceased was at a film location, shooting a movie along with other crew members when the incident occurred. He was allegedly found drowned at around 1a.m on Sunday. Rip to him...More photos below.

       The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Office on Wednesday, June 26, 2019 secured the conviction of three persons charged on offences bordering on romance scam. The convicts are, Akeem Mustapha (alias Patricia Cuppa), Abolarin Sunday (alias Cindy Holland), and Murtala Abdulrasheed (alias Cindy Holland). They were convicted and sentenced to one year imprisonment by a Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilori n by Justice Mustapha Abdulgafar. They pleaded “guilty” to the one-count amended charge levelled against them by the anti-graft agency. The one count amended charge reads: “That you, Murtala Abdulrasheed (alias Cindy Holland), sometime in February 2019, at Ilorin, within the judicial division of the Kwara State High Court, did attempt to cheat by personation, when you pretended to be one Daniel Aaron, a Vice Admiral in the United States Navy who is a single dad; a representation you knew to be false and thereby committed an of...

     The General Officer Commanding 6 Division, Nigerian Army (NA) and Land Component Commander (LCC) Joint Task Force Operation Delta Safe (JTF OPDS), Maj Gen Jamil Sarham has on behalf of the Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen Tukur Yusufu Buratai formally declared opened the 2019, 6 Division Inter-Brigades Sports Competition. The ceremony took place at the 6 Division Sports Ground in Port Harcourt Barracks, Rivers State, heralds several sporting activities including Football, Volleyball, Basket ball and Tug-of-War between the various formations and units under the Division. The event is an annual activity in the NA Calendar and will last from Monday 24th to Friday 28th of June 2019. At the occasion to declare the competition opened, the GOC was represented by the Chief of Staff (COS), Headquarters 6 Division, Brig Gen Olatokumbo Bello described the event as a landmark that would bring together both officers and soldiers from various formations and units under the Divisio...

     The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has called on religious leaders to partner with anti-graft agency in the fight against corruption.   Magu made the call during an interactive session he had with senior Islamic Scholars and Christian leaders in Kano, on June 25, 2019. “It is my view that all religions prohibit corruption, which is why I thought it wise to engage religious groups, because they have easy reach-out to the public,” he said. He also told them that fighting corruption cannot be won if only the government is fighting it. “All stakeholders need to take the ownership of the fight because fighting corruption needs multi-dimensional approach,” he said. Magu further promised to organise a Workshop for religious leaders “where they will learn corruption fight the EFCC way”. He further revealed that a committee for the workshop had already been initiated at the session, with Sheik Umar Sani Fa...

      Nollywood actress Queen Wokoma   and  Prince Kalada   Allison   have separated after one year together as a married couple. Wokoma, a lookalike of fellow Nolywood actress Ini Edo, married the Rivers state-born politician in September 2017. The couple, who share a son together, have remained private about their relationship until Tuesday morning when Allison took to his Instagram page to reveal the crash. “There is always an end to everything, this is the end of us, it’s best we go our separate ways, please no bashing for the sake of our innocent son,” he wrote. “I believe this is the best decision ever, peace is priceless, and no man wants to die before his time, I am by this formally letting the general public know that Queen Wokoma is no longer my wife, pending our final annulment (divorce). “I wish her and whoever she intends to spend her life with the best in future. #peaceispriceless.” Wokoma joined the movie industry in 2011...

      The Lagos State Ministry of Education has announced new dates for the 2019/2020 Entrance Examinations into the State Model Colleges and Upgraded Schools, the Placement Test into JSS 1 in all Public Secondary Schools across the State and the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). According to a release by the Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mrs. Olatokunboh Adel eye, the examinations are aimed at testing the applicants’ academic capabilities for their choice of classes in the State-owned Schools. She stated that the new dates for the examinations are as follows: BECE: Monday 15th -Tuesday, 23rd July 2019; Computer-Based Screening Test (CBT) is scheduled for Monday 15th - Friday, 19th July 2019, while the Paper Pencil Test (PPT) will hold on Saturday, 20th July 2019. The Placement Test is slated for Saturday, 27th July, 2019. Speaking further on the conduct of the Examinations, the Permanent Secretary assured applicants that ...

    OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT   PRESS RELEASE    Our attention has been drawn to misleading reports in a section of the media purportedly made by and attributed to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, on the security situation in Nigeria, in New York. For the purpose of clarity, and the records it is pertinent to state that Prof. Osinbajo was entirely misquoted and his words taken out of context in the said media reports especially those that quoted him as saying that "Kidnapping in Nigeria is exaggerated and not entirely new" Nowhere in the Vice President's remarks at the townhall meeting with the Nigerian community did he use the word "exaggerated," not even by implication. His remarks about the social media being hysterical was a general response to comments made by participants at the meeting about information on happenings in Nigeria especially as they relate to security being shared on social media platforms by unverified sources. WHAT THE VP ...