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Veteran Nollywood actress, Joke Silva, has detailed her last moments with late singer Onyeka Onwenu. DAILY POST reports that ace singer Onyeka Onwenu died in July 2024, after she collapsed at the 80th birthday party of CEO of Emzor Pharmaceuticals, Stella Okolie. She was buried on August 30 at the Ebony Vaults in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State. During her latest interview with media personality, WithChude, Joke Silva narrated her final moments with Onwenu. Silva, who witnessed the incident, disclosed that Onwenu died nearly two hours after she collapsed and not immediately. “We were at the party together at…

The Managing Director of National Hydro Power Producing Areas Development Commission, N-HYPPADEC, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq Yelwa, has warned beneficiaries of the Youth Transportation Programme, YTP, that failure to provide guarantor letters will result in withholding of starter packs. Yelwa gave the warning at a YTP training workshop, held in collaboration with the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, in Minna, Niger State. He said the measure was adopted to prevent beneficiaries from selling their starter kits immediately after receiving them. The MD noted that against this background, the Commission decided to approach the CAC to ensure that each beneficiary’s business is formally…

The Senator representing Borno South, Mohammed Ali Ndume, has appealed to the military under the Theatre Command, North East ‘Operation Hadin Kai’ and other security agencies to intensify more efforts towards clearing remnants of Boko Haram members in Borno State. According to him, Boko Haram insurgents are still hibernating around Sambisa forest, Mandara mountains and other hideouts in border communities within Gwoza and the Republic of Cameroon. The lawmaker said pockets of attacks recently perpetrated by the terrorists are still posing serious economic setbacks to resilient farmers newly resettled in liberated communities of Ngoshe, Kirawa, Warabe, Wala, Pulka and even…

The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has called on the federal government to stick to the claim by the Minister of State for Petroleum, Mr Heineken Lokpobiri, that President Bola Tinubu administration did not instruct the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL, to increase the fuel pump price by ordering the corporation to reverse the announced increment. In a statement signed by the organisation’s spokesman, Comrade Jare Ajayi, Afenifere asserted that Nigerians are currently going through a lot of challenges as a result of the biting socio-economic crunch and the attendant hardships. “It is therefore the wrong time to come up…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared that Nigeria is not difficult to manage, blaming the country’s woes on a lack of quality leadership. He maintained that the country is a complex one that must be well understood to be managed properly. The former president spoke on Wednesday in Lagos at the maiden memorial lecture in honour of the late Akintola Williams, themed, “Leadership Dynamics: Current Realities and Way Forward.” The lecture was organised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, ICAN, in Lagos. “I always say Nigeria is a complex country. You must understand that. But Nigeria is not…

The Bauchi State House of Assembly has directed the State Shari’ah Commission to expedite its investigation into allegations of a suspected meeting involving gays and lesbians in Bauchi. The directive followed claims made by an Islamic scholar from Kano, Dr Abdallah Usman Gadon-Kaya, in a viral social media video. In the unverified video which circulated on social media last week, the cleric claimed that gays and lesbians from across Northern Nigeria gathered at a facility in Bauchi for a 10-day orientation. Although, Dr Gadon-Kaya did not specify the exact date and location of the alleged event, he maintained that he…

The Lagos State Government has extended its work-from-home policy for workers for the next three months to alleviate the hardship orchestrated by the hike in petrol pump prices. The State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu approved the extension in a circular signed by the state Head of Service, Bode Agoro, on Wednesday. Recall that the governor had on February 28, directed that the workers operate remotely on some days. He directed that workers on grade levels 01 to 14 were allowed to work from home for two days a week, while those on grade levels 15 to 17 were allowed to work…

The Benue State House of Assembly has approved the sum of Six billion, Six Hundred and Forty four Million Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight Thousand, Nine Hundred Naira, N6,644,778,900 for the conduct of local government elections. The House gave the approval on Wednesday during the Plenary presided by the Honourable Speaker, Hyacinth Dajoh. The Governor, Hyacinth Alia had in a correspondence sent to the Assembly which was read on the floor of the house by the Speaker sought for the approval of the Supplementary Budget for the conduct of the October 5th Council elections. The Supplementary Budget reflects Governor Alia’s…

Unidentified gunmen have reportedly shot a security guard at the Action People’s Party (APP) secretariat in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. This is coming barely a month after the party’s secretariat in the New GRA of Port Harcourt was bombed. Addressing newsmen on Wednesday at the party’s secretariat, the state chairman of the party, Sunny Wokekoro, said details surrounding the shooting remain unclear. According to him, the injured security guard is currently receiving treatment at a hospital, while police officers deployed to the secretariat after the bombing incident are yet to brief the party on the latest attack. Wokekoro expressed concern…