Authorities in China have banned BBC World News from broadcasting in the country. The news follows a move by Britain’s communications regulator to strip the state-run China Global Television Network (CGTN) of its broadcast license in the U.K. last week. The CGTN was also found in breach of British broadcasting regulations last year, for…
A 101-year-old grandma who tested positive for Coronavirus has been successfully treated and discharged from Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife, Osun State, after recovering from the disease. The lady who was formerly admitted in a private hospital for treatment, was transferred to OAUTHC after it was noticed she was showing some symptoms of COVID-19 like the acute…
Actor Uche Maduagwu has replied Bolu Okupe, son of ex-presidential aide, Doyin Okupe, who on Thursday, February 11, asked the actor not to make a joke of the LGBTQ community in Nigeria with his coming out. Bolu in a video posted on his Instagram page asked Uche not to make a mockery of the…
Davido’s second baby mama, Amanda has gone public with her relationship with her baby daddy who she shares a daughter with. In an Instastory post she shared, Amanda described herself as a “fine ass babymama with one kid and no babydaddy problems”.
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has said that he believes his counterpart in Kaduna state, Governor Nasir El-Rufai does not understand the issue of insecurity very well. Reacting to El-Rufai’s comment of North West Governors not winning the fight against insecurity in the region because they are fighting differently, Ganduje recalled speaking with El-Rufai and the governor of…
A man from North Carolina, USA, David Kyle Reeves, 27 has been charged with making threats to kill US leader Joe Biden. According to a federal criminal complaint unsealed in court Thursday, February 11, David Kyle Reeves, was arrested February 5 for knowingly and willfully making threats to take the life of and inflict bodily…
Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has slammed Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, over his handling of the farmer-herder clashes. Speaking at the closing ceremony of the 2021 Press Week of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Bauchi State Council on Thursday, Feb 11 at the Command Guest House, Mohammed also faulted…
US President Joe Biden has announced the purchase of 200 million COVID-19 vaccines to vaccinate all Americans. During a visit to the National Institutes of Health, the Democrat said the federal government signed the final contracts on Thursday afternoon for 100 million more doses of the Moderna vaccine and 100 million more from Pfizer…
Katherine Creag, a popular television news anchor with NBC New York, has died. She was 47. Ms. Creag, who was among the presenters on NBC’s “New York Today” morning show, was said to have died unexpectedly on Wednesday evening January 10. Her death “was unexpected”, NBC New York said, and “she had not been ill…
Yoshiro Mori, the president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Organising Committee, has said he is resigning after he made sexist comments that sparked an outcry. The 83-year-old Japanese politician, who served as Prime Minister of Japan between April 2000 and April 2001, had said women talk too much during an online meeting of the…
