Author: Rashaad Harris

A United States Army Veteran, Tre Pennie has narrated how a decision he took as a teenager has helped better the lives of others. Pennie who is a Texas Conservative running for Congress made this known on Twitter on Sunday. He said when he got his then 16-year-old fiancee pregnant, her parents wanted to get rid of the baby, a decision he was against. But they wouldn’t listen, until he joined the army. “At 16 my girlfriend got pregnant. Since we were both teenagers, her parents sought to abort the baby. I pleaded to keep my baby, but they refused.…

Uyo, Akwa Ibom state capital stood still Sunday ahead of tomorrow’s flag off of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential rally. The presidential flag bearer of the party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who flew in from Cairo, Egypt, via Abuja, the nation’s capital, in the evening, was treated to a rousing welcome by Governor Udom Emmanuel, who is also the Chairman of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organization (PCO); along with the Vice Presidential candidate, Governor Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa of Delta state and his Sokoto State counterpart, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, the Director General of the PCO and the Chairman of the PDP…

Operatives of Ogun state Police command have arrested two suspected internet fraudsters popularly known as “Yahoo Boys” for killing 40 years old man Abdullahi Azeez. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Sunday and posted on the command’s Twitter handle. The statement said the suspects killed and cut the victim into pieces and used him for a money-making ritual. According to the statement, the suspects; Friday Abinya Odeh 21 years old, and Poso Idowu 20 years were arrested following a report lodged at Owode Egba divisional headquarters on the 9th of June 2022 by the relations of the victim,…

Musuliu Akinsanya, better known as MC Oluomo led a mammoth crowd of Bola Ahmed Tinubu supporters in a rally in Lagos on Sunday. Oluomo who is the chairman of Lagos State Parks and Garages marched with the rest of the APC supporters from Teslim Balogun Stadium all the way to Oshodi. The march caused heavy traffic in the state.

A teenage Nigerian, Oluwagbohunmi Ayomide Oyebode, has reportedly crashed a plane, killing his instructor, Viktoria Theresie Izabelle Ljungman, and another passenger. According to Daily Mail, Viktoria Theresie Izabelle Ljungman, 23, attended Virginia’s Hampton University on a tennis scholarship, eventually becoming a flight instructor. On Thursday, around 3p.m., she and Oluwagbohunmi Ayomide Oyebode, 18, got into a plane for a lesson. During an instructional training, Oyebode pointed the nose of the plane at too high an angle at over 100 feet, causing the plane to stall and crash into a ditch. Ljungman who was a licensed commercial pilot resident in Williamsburg,…

The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) has continued to maintain that 2023 general elections will be free and fair. The Commission reiterated this again on Saturday at the breakfast organised by the Christian Men’s Fellowship, St. James’ Anglican Church in Abuja. The breakfast event was titled ‘2023 and beyond: leadership, politics and citizenship engagement.’ According to the Commission’s Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the new Electoral Act 2022, the Bimodal Voter Registration System and other measures put in place will ensure hitch-free elections. Represented by the Deputy Director, Voter Education Provider, Election Monitoring and Observation, Chukwuemeke Ugbaoja, Mahmood Yakubu said, “With the…

Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has said prison escapees will be rearrested soon. The former Osun State Governor who said this on Sunday maintained that no one can run faster than the government. “They can only run, they cannot hide; they are like trapped mouse, we will get them. They will open bank accounts; they will have telephone numbers; they are just deceiving themselves; they will be caught. “They are like trapped mouse. Where is a trapped mouse going? If you release the rope used to trap the mouse, you are just entertaining yourself, later you’d retrieve the…

Nigerian music video director, TG Omori, also known as Boy Director, has publicly acknowledged the role Grammy award-winning singer, Burna Boy, played in his rise to fame. In a post on his Twitter handle on Saturday, the popular director said, “Burna Boy is so so inspiring, can’t even lie. Brother literally inspired me to stand out from being an everyday director to possessing so much star power unknowingly.” https://twitter.com/boy_director/status/1578549271800209409?t=fc4ipFW-hEb3LB4cOUco1A&s=19 TG Omori has directed music videos for recording artists across various genres of the new generation, including Olamide, Wizkid, Burna Boy, Tekno, Kiss Daniel, Fireboy DML, Falz, Timaya, Naira Marley, and…

Popular skit maker, Emmanuel Chukwuemeka Ejekwu, better known as Sabinus, showed up at Liverpool stadium, the famous Anfield. Also called Mr. Funny, Sabinus posted the pictures on his official Twitter handle on Friday saying “Visited the great Liverpool football club! ” In another tweet, he joked “Signed and sealed!! Sabinwa No 9.”

Fresh from speaking at Harvard University, Massachusetts, on Friday, Peter Obi again spoke at the University of Oxford. There he told his audience, who were mostly Nigerians that a country where those in government are richer than business people cannot thrive. READ MORE I will Cut Cost of Governance- Peter Obi says at Harvard ⁦Peter Obi⁩ who spoke at an interactive session at the historic Oxford Union that held at ⁦University of Oxford⁩, United Kingdom, said “You should not create wealth without enterprise. Oil Subsidy regime in Nigeria is a criminal enterprise. Any society where politicians are richer than business…