Author: Lilian Azuh

1 Name: Pete Edochie. 2 He is a revered Nigerian actor, Nollywood veteran and national icon cum brand. 3 Edochie, unarguably one of Africa’s most talented and celebrated actors was born on March 7, 1947. 4 The disciplinarian father of six, who holds the national honour of Member of the Order of the Niger (MON), is also a seasoned broadcaster and administrator. 5 The legendary thespian came into prominence in the 80s when he played the lead role of Okonkwo in NTA’s adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s globally acclaimed novel, Things Fall Apart. 6 Edochie who got into radio broadcasting in 1967 at the age of…

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With two days to the governorship and state assembly elections scheduled to hold on Saturday, March 18, the focus in the South-East state of Anambra will be on who controls the state House of Assembly. This is so because there will be no governorship election in the state. Nonetheless, both Anambra State governor, Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance and the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, will be slugging it out in the battle of who guides his party to control the majority of the membership of the state House of Assembly. Although Soludo belongs…

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The Court of Appeal in Abuja has dismissed an appeal by Assistant Commissioner of Police, Sunday Ubua wherein he sought to be admitted to bail. Ubua is an associate of the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, being prosecuted together by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for unlawful drug dealings and other charges. In a judgment on Friday, a three-member panel of the appellate court held that the appeal by Ubua was without merit and affirmed the ruling by Justice Nwite, delivered on March 28, 2022. The March 28 judgement rejected Ubua’s application for bail on the grounds…

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Popular Nigerian singer, Balogun Afolabi, popularly known as Seyi Vibez, announced the death of his mother late Thursday. Seyi Vibez who is currently making a wave in the industry with his Afro-pop shared the news of her death with a blank picture on his Instagram page. He wrote, “Today the Darkest day of my life March 16 I lost my ancestor ! Love you till I go six feet mum RIP.” Punch

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Musiliu Akinsanya, Lagos State Parks Management Committee Chairman, also known as MC Oluomo, has warned Igbos in the state ahead of Saturday’s governorship election. Addressing supporters of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at a meeting, MC Oluomo threatened Igbos who will not vote for the party to stay at home. “We have begged them. If they don’t want to vote for us, it is not a fight. Tell them, Mama Chukwudi, if you don’t want to vote for us, sit down at home. Sit down at home,” he said. This comes after Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP)…

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Afrobeats sensation, Divine Ikubor, popularly known as Rema, has reacted to the detention of five Iranian girls who were caught on video dancing to the remix of his global hit song with Selena Gomez, ‘Calm down’, in public. The 21-year-old said he was inspired by the girls as well as other Iranian women striving for a better world. “To all the beautiful women who are fighting for a better world, I’m inspired by you, I sing for you, and I dream with you,” Rema wrote in a tweet. The five Iranian girls had posted a video of themselves dancing to…

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With two days to the governorship and state assembly elections scheduled to hold on Saturday, March 18, the focus in the South-East state of Anambra will be on who controls the state House of Assembly. This is so because there will be no governorship election in the state. Nonetheless, both Anambra State governor, Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance and the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, will be slugging it out in the battle of who guides his party to control the majority of the membership of the state House of Assembly. Although Soludo belongs…

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