Author: Rashaad Harris

A flight carrying 38 Nigerians touched down in the early hours on Thursday at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport in Lagos from Birmingham, United Kingdom. The deportees are said to be grandmothers and nursing mothers, as well as members of the LGBTQ community, who had sought asylum in the Kingdom. Despite their claims to have lived in United Kingdom for many years, an official from the foreign Affairs ministry stated that the most were said to have violated immigration laws of UK, leading to their deportation. A Twitter handle @justice_forum, dedicated to monitoring illegal immigration in the UK welcomed the…

The husband of popular Nollywood actress, Olufunke Akindele AKA Jenifa has announced the end of their marriage. Mr. Abdulrasheed Bello who raps under the moniker JJC Skillz took to his Instagram to announce that he has moved out of the couples home 3 months ago on the insistence of the actress. The marriage which produced 2 children was the actress’s second, after previously tying the knot with Kehinde Oloyede. It recently emerged that all wasn’t well with the marriage when the son of the rapper from a previous relationship accused both his dad and the actress of cheating on each…

American R&B Superstar Robert Sylvester Kelly AKA R. Kelly has been sentenced to a 30 year jail term for sex trafficking and racketeering in a Brooklyn Federal Court, New York. The singer who is 55 years old has been held in a Brooklyn jail since his arrest in 2019. R. Kelly had a strings of hits in the 1990s into the early and mid 2000s, winning 3 Grammy awards for his exploits. At the height of his career, the multi platinum selling singer was considered by many to be the King of R&B. In sentencing the disgraced singer to jail,…

A video/tourism blogger has described his underwhelming experience while flying Air Peace from Kano to Lagos via Abuja and from Lagos to Johannesburg South Africa. File Photo Josh Cahill an American, who also have German roots narrated how his flight was delayed for several hours before eventual departure from Abuja to Lagos. His luggage was also wrongly labelled and tagged for the wrong flight. He was however fortunate to have recovered his bags at the carousel in Lagos on arrival, after having to explain to the baggage claims agent the reason for the wrong tags. On the Lagos to Johannesburg…

A video has emerged of Kano State Traffic Agency (KAROTA) chasing after a car on a full speed reverse. Though the personnels of the agency are not captured in the video, several eyewitness who took to Twitter to comment on the video of the incident fingered the body for the wild car chase and the subsequent accident, which is said to have claimed 3 lives. https://twitter.com/HafsatNaseer3/status/1522660985886154752?t=Yxak-faCZoooaqBhvOnY1g&s=19 The video starts with a silver coloured 4 door sedan reversing at a full speed and ultimately crashing into spectators. People could also be seen hanging out the windows of the car as it…

President Muhammadu Buhari has finally sent out his first tweet since lifting the Twitter ban his administration placed on the popular micro blogging app in June 2020. The ban came into effect after Twitter had removed a tweet by the president that had referenced the Civil war and threatened repercussions for those agitating for secession. While justifying the ban, the minister of information Alhaji Lai Muhammad said Tweet had engaged in activities capable of causing the distruption of the corporate existence of the country. In January 2022, the ban was lifted but the president never took to it till today,…

A Nigerian lady has narrated how she got relieved of her appointment as an On Air Personality (OAP) in Yoruba language by a radio station during the Ramadan for her inability to properly verbalize “R”. Zainab Fakunle who goes by the Twitter handle @fakurizy stated she had resumed her position barely a month ago only to be terminated at the end of the Islamic fasting period of Ramadan for reasons the management termed as “misconduct and non professionalism”, a charge she vehemently denies. https://twitter.com/fakurizy/status/1520652082474278912?t=f2PIse3vtUB_ej_sCTPUMw&s=19 She listed her previous employers as SunCity 32 FM and Dux FM. “I’m in pain!After almost…

American billionaire and founder of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk has added to his growing list of investment portfolios the popular social media giant Twitter. Reports emerging indicates that the business man parted with $44 billion after the Twitter board accepted his offer for the take over. He had earlier twitted that he wanted even those opposed to his ownership of the site and general critics, remain on the site as that is the bedrock of free speech. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518623997054918657?t=SVaN8I7ae7wWIhrLWUSiLg&s=19 He also released a statement promising to make Twitter algorithms an open source for more transparency and to verify all humans using…

Twitter board is said to be willing to accept the $43 billion dollars being offered by US billionaire and world’s richest man Elon Musk. Elon Musk Weeks earlier, the owner of the electric vehicle giant Tesla had made an initial offer to the board but was turned down. The new bid however seems to have worked the magic as the board is currently meeting to consider the offer. Elon Musk who weeks ago polled his Twitter followers as to whether Twitter was protecting freedom of speech or stifling it had people overwhelmingly voting for the later. There’s has being growing…

A video has emerged online of a Nigerian man protesting at a branch of foremost Nigerian bank, Fidelity Plc with an accompanying live Band. Fidelity Bank MD A Twitter user who goes by the handle @Divinedft shared the hilarious but effective protest on his timeline. In the video, the leader of the pack can be seen hauling invectives and insults at the bank and it’s services while pacing back and forth, with music accompanying the verbal tirade. Due to the short duration of the video, it’s difficult to glean from it the purpose for the protest, the venue and date…