Author: Rashaad Harris

The Director General of Peter Obi’s Campaign Organisation, Doyin Okupe has today stepped down from his position. Mr Okupe revealed this in a letter a few hours ago, following a ruling by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that convicted him of violating the Money Laundering Act on Monday. The letter was addressed to the presidential aspirant of Labour Party, Peter Obi.The letter unfolds thus: “Dear Peter, you will recall that I briefed you yesterday about my personal travails in seeking justice and clearing my name using the Nigerian legal system to pursue the same. “I have invested too…

Tobi Amusan, the reigning world champion for 100 m hurdles, gained another accomplishment when she was named the fifth-best female athlete in 2022. Using the athletics scoring tables, World Athletics assigned points to each athlete based on how well they performed throughout the season.With Amusan, she earned the majority of her points from her 12.12-second World Record (WR) run at the World Championships in Oregon, her 12.30-second victory at the Commonwealth Games, and her 12.29-second victory in the Diamond League. The 12.12s is comparable to times of 10.67s for the 100 and 200 meters as well as 48.38s for the…

The UK has just unveiled the new Pound Sterling notes and will start circulating not in 2023, but in 2024! The new bank notes which feature King Charles III for the first time were released by the Bank of England on Tuesday. King Charles’ portrait will appear on all Bank notes, £5, £10, £15, £20 and £50. The new notes will enter circulation around mid 2024, however, existing notes featuring Queen Elizabeth will still be accepted as legal tender. In the United Kingdom, whoever is the reigning monarch has their face engraved on the currency. The launch of the note…

Nigerian Afrobeats superstar – Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu (Burna Boy) has emerged as the most-streamed artiste on the music streaming platform, Boomplay for the year 2022. The Portharcourt-born singer leads the chart as the musician with the most streamed album (Love, Damini) with Asake (MMWTV) and Kizz Daniel (Barnabas) behind him as second and third respectively. “Love, Damini” is also the fastest-growing project on the streaming platform, amassing 300 million streams in just over four months since the release, thereby becoming the first ever project to collate such numbers on Boomplay, invariably making the album the most streamed on the music…

The wife of a Lagos medical doctor, Femi Olaleye, who was accused of rape has told the court how he allegedly gave her sleeping pills in the night to be free to allegedly rape her 16-year-old niece. Mrs. Aderemi Faleye said this before the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja, Lagos State on Monday, December 19, 2022. Dr. Olaleye is facing two-count charge of defilement of a minor and sexual assault by penetration. His alleged rape victim, turned 18 years old in March. Olaleye who is the managing director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation was arraigned by the…

The Minister of State for Health, Ekumankama Nkama has bemoaned the dearth of medical practitioners in the country and insisted the dilemma is responsible for the hit the country’s health sector is experiencing. Nkama said this at the opening of the labour ward, paediatric intensive care unit, neonatal intensive care unit, and intensive care unit at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital.Represented by the Director of the National Cancer Control Programme of the ministry, Dr David Atuwo, he said, “This ‘japa’ syndrome is adversely affecting services in our hospitals, to the extent that some wards are closed for lack of…

Football governing body, FIFA has released its latest rankings after the conclusion of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar on Sunday. Due to the away goals rule, the Super Eagles of Nigeria were eliminated from the World Cup in the most recent playoff round against fellow West African country Ghana, after a 1-1 draw in Abuja. The Super Eagles were rated 31st in the world in May of this year when Jose Peseiro was hired as their head coach, but since his hiring, the squad has dropped down the FIFA rankings ladder. The Latest fall for the Super Eagles now…

The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has said the body won’t relent in tackling vote buying during the 2023 general elections. Speaking in a stakeholders summit at Abuja on Monday, the chairman addressed the influence of money in the 2023 general election. Yakubu said INEC harboured no illusion that it was going to be easy to root out the negative influence of money on the election, saying however that it was determined to tackle it. In his words, the body’s chairman said: “We fully realized that today’s initiative will not go down well with…

INEC’s National Commissioner, Festus Okoye, said the electoral management body has already made provision for the use of the BVAS in the over 176,000 polling units in the country. However, INEC has also made provision for spare BVAS machines. “For each electoral ward, we are going to have some spare BVAS to be deployed speedily if there is any issue or any challenge in any of our polling units. We have also trained technical support staff that can also intervene if there is any challenge with the BVAS, “But if there is sustained malfunction up to the time of the…

In recognition for her exceptional performance during the 2021–2022 Primera División Season with FC Barcelona, Super Falcons star Asisat Oshoala was handed the top scorer crown. The 28-year-old who has been playing for the Spanish Liga F club since departing Chinese Female league side Dalian Quanjian shared the prestigious award with her teammate Geyse Ferreira for notching 20 league goals at the Marca Women’s Soccer award on Monday. The BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year for 2015 was presented the award which was hosted by the Marca by its director and the Liga F president Beatriz Alvarez. The award extended…