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The actress with her baby after delivery Nollywood Actress, Funke Abisogun AlHassan is dead. She passed on a few days after child birth. Her husband, Toafiq Alhassan announced that she gave birth a few days ago. But the film industry was thrown into mourning yesterday after her death was announced by her brother in-law, Tunde Ola Yusuf. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); Yusuf wrote on...

The foul that earned Neymar, second left, a red card Neymar was both hero and villain as the Brazil superstar scored and was then sent off as Paris Saint Germain snatched a last-gasp 2-2 draw in a fiery clash with bitter rivals Marseille in Ligue 1 on Sunday at Velodrome Stadium. Marseille opened the scoring with a Luiz Gustavo long range...

Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, has created a ministry to punish “rats” who make use of the cyberspace to attack his government. Appointed as Head of this new Cyber Security, Threat Detection, and Mitigation Ministry is Patrick Chinamasa who is a former Finance minister. Zimbabweans have joked about the development, claiming Chinamasa’s appointment makes him the “Minister of WhatsApp and Facebook”. However, Chinamasa’s...

•Governor Dickson Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not playing its expected role as an opposition party due to its numerous internal crises. Dickson, who made the claim during a chat with newsmen in Yenagoa, however, said that he remained optimistic that the party would bounce back to winning ways ahead of the 2019 general elections. The...

•Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State Mr. Edward Soje, the Kogi State Grade Level 16 civil servant who recently committed sucide, was a cheat, the State Government said on Sunday. It made the allegation in a press statement signed by the State Head of Service, Deaconess Deborah Ogunmola. The statement says: “The Kogi State Government is saddened in no small measure by...

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) says it has recovered the body of Mr Oluseye Adekunle, who allegedly jumped into a Lagos lagoon on Friday. The LASEMA General Manager, Mr Adesina Tiamiyu, told newsmen in Lagos that a fisherman saw Adekunle’s floating body on Sunday morning by a river bank in Lekki. He said that the deceased had  jumped off...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday returned to Abuja after a four-day working visit to Ankara and Istanbul in Turkey. The President’s official aircraft which took off from Ataturk Airport, Istanbul at about 12 p.m (Turkish time) local time, landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at 4.05p.m. Buhari, accompanied by his wife, Aisha, was received at the airport by senior...

An acute scarcity of pilots has hit the United States Air Force, reports from that country said. The Force, according to the reports, has initiated moves to recall as many as 1,000 retired military pilots to active-duty service as a way of solving the problem. A report by ABC News quoted the White House and the Pentagon as announcing that...

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has called for all hands to be on deck in order to achieve positive transformation in the country's water sector. The Speaker made the call on Tuesday at the public hearing of the House Committee on Water Resources, on the National Water Resources Bill (2017). The Speaker revealed that the...

Thirty one percent of teachers in public schools in Sokoto state are not qualified, but educated enough to be trained to enhance their qualifications to be in the classroom, a government committee has uncovered. In addition, the committee recommended the employment of additional 548 teachers in order to achieve a teacher/student ratio of 1:40, the standard set for public schools...