Mark Elliott, a longtime voice actor known for narrating numerous Disney movie trailers and television promos and home video ads, has died at the age of 81. Longtime friend of Elliott’s, Chris Van Dyke, told The Hollywood Reporter that Elliott, who was reportedly battling Lung Cancer, died Saturday, April 3, at a Los Angeles hospital…
Kano State Government has slashed the salaries of political office holders in the state by 50 per cent for the month of March due to dwindling resources. The State Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, who disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, April 6, said the action was due to shortfall in the…
A military veteran reunited with his primary school mates decades after their graduation and he took to Twitter to share photos of them when they were still in primary school and now as adults. Barade, a criminologist and security expert, said they graduated from primary school in 1967. He said he hosted them recently…
Four members of the Anglican Church of Zaria Diocese in Kaduna state, have reportedly been kidnapped by suspected bandits along the Kachia-Kaduna Road in Kajuru Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. Channels TV reports that the incident was said to have occurred on Tuesday, April 6, when the bandits barricaded the road and opened fire…
Following the recent killings of security personnel in the area, the Nigerian Military on Tuesday, April 6, launched an aerial bombardment of Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom. Essien Udim, the council area of the Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Senator Godswill Akpabio, and has been under siege by criminal elements alleged to…
Barcelona Football club has confirmed Nigerian international, Asisat Oshoala has undergone successful surgery on her foot. Oshola missed the Santa Teresa triumph after hurting herself in the first leg Champions League quarter-final match against Danish champions Fortuna Hjorring last month. She was later cleared to take part in the second leg against Fortuna in the…
Another aide to David Umahi, the Ebonyi State Governor, Hon. Monday Kenneth Eze, has resigned his appointment. In the resignation letter dated Tuesday, April 6, Eze, who was the Senior Technical Assistant to the Governor on Media, stated his reason as not being able to betray his conscience. The letter reads: “Pursuant to the dictates…
A man has gone viral on Twitter because of his height. The Twitter user, from Yobe state, stands at 6 ft 9 inches and says he’s a basketballer. He shared photos he took with others and all the photos show him dwarfing those who posed with him. His height has got Twitter…
After appointment and inauguration, what is the next line of action? The mandate and vision of the government has been pronounced and explained in clearer terms, which is “TO REPOSITION THE INSTITUTION AND CITADEL OF LEARNING TO THE TOP TEN UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD”. Let me start by congratulating you on…
A novel vaccine approach for the prevention of HIV has shown promise in Phase I trials. IAVI and Scripps Research reported that the vaccine which is being developed to act as an immune primer, to trigger the activation of naïve B cells via a process called germline-targeting, as the first stage in a multi-step vaccine regimen to elicit…
