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Timaya has revealed that it is only Innocent ‘2baba’ Idibia that can call himself a legend among the active artistes in the Nigerian music industry. The ‘Bam Bam’ singer frowned at the situation where artistes start referring to themselves as legends after making music for 10 years. Timaya made the comment during a radio interview with SoundCity FM. He said: “In this part of the world, many artistes when they get to 10 years, they…

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he’ll leave some difference in the presidency if he wins the 2019 election and “survive the next four years”. The president made this known in an interactive session with Nigerians in diaspora on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. “If I win the next election and I survive the next four years, I will do better,” TheCable quoted Buhari as saying. In a statement released by the president’s media aide Femi Adesina,…

President of the Senate and Chairman of the PDP Presidential Council on Osun State, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has reiterated that the recently-conducted supplementary election in Osun State was a charade and an embarrassment to Nigeria’s democracy. His position was contained in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu. Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) defeated Senator Ademola Adeleke of the PDP with 482 votes in the rerun…

Starboy, Wizkid has hinted thatbhe would be dropping yet another hit on the 1st of October and it would be huge. The award winning singer who has been making his country proud with his talents and sound made a come back to his city with the track ‘Soco’ and helped singer Duncan Mighty get back his grip in the music industry with the banging collaboration ‘ Fake Love’, he has now annouced that there is…

Nearly 200 people have died in flooding caused by heavy seasonal rains across 12 states in Nigeria, the country’s main relief agency said on Thursday. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said 199 people had lost their lives after the main Niger and Benue rivers burst their banks. A national disaster has been declared in the central states of Kogi, where the two rivers meet, and Niger, plus Delta and Anambra in the south. NEMA…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said the current trade war between the United States of America (USA) and China has the potential to adversely affect Ghana. According to the President, even though Ghana was far from these two countries, the inter-dependence of countries across the globe makes it possible for Ghana to feel the spillover effect of the trade war. President Akufo-Addo, who was addressing world leaders at the 73rd UN General Assembly yesterday…

Nigerian Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, has said the organised private sector is not part of strike action by the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Unions Congress, TUC. Director-General of NECA, Timothy Olawale, made this known in a letter to all members of the association, which was sighted by DAILY POST in Abuja late Wednesday. He said the leadership of national labour unions had assured NECA that the private sector was not the target…

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South African actress Shoki Mokgapa is dead. According TshisaLIVE, the 34-year-old Intersexions star passed away on Tuesday night from a yet to be confirmed cause. Following her shocking death, South Africans have taken to social media to mourn the vibrant actress who won a SAFTA award in 2017 for Best Actress in a Feature Film. View image on Twitter Clive Morris Productions@CMPTVee We are extremely sad to hear about the passing of Shoki Mokgapa. Everyone here at CMP loved working with her…

President Donald Trump claimed on Wednesday that China is working to interfere in November’s midterm elections with the aim of damaging him politically. “Regrettably, we found that China has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming 2018 election coming up in November against my administration,” Trump said during remarks at the UN Security Council. The President offered scant details or evidence, which came during a session meant to focus on issues of nonproliferation. He suggested the meddling…