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“Incredible moment for our #YoungFamousAndAfrican family! I can’t thank you enough for the mind blowing support!!! “The National Reality Television Awards is pleased to announce that Young, Famous & African is nominated for this year’s prestigious 11th annual National Reality TV Awards 2022 (UK).Young, Famous & African is nominated for …

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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress [APC] Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has announced Senate President Ahmed Lawan as the consensus presidential candidate of the Party.   Adamu made the announcement at the meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) in Abuja today June 6.   Other aspirants including Asiwaju Bola …

Two sons of the Chief Judge of the Federation Justice Ibrahim Tanko have clinched National Assembly tickets for the 2023 elections.   Siraj Ibrahim Tanko who won the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket for Bauchi North Senatorial seat, defeated two other contestants, including the incumbent Senator representing the constituency, Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa, …

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the National Health Insurance Authority Bill 2022 into law.    The new law which 83 million Nigerians will be benefitting from, repeals the National Health Insurance Scheme Act 2004.   Speaking during the signing of the bill, President Buhari said the new law makes provisions …

Former Presidential spokesperson and TV anchor, Reuben Abati, clashed with Dr. Victor Oye, the National Chairman of APGA, on National TV this morning.   Trouble started when Abati asked Mr. Oye to take full responsibility for the defamatory statements he made about another politician during the program.   Abati accused …

The management of  National Hospital in Abuja has dismissed claims of corpse of popular gospel singer, Osinachi Nwachukwu singing one of her popular songs ‘Ekwueme’ at night while in the mortuary.   The hospital in a statement released by its spokesperson, Dr Taiwo Haastrup, said it is just the imagination of people …

Former President Goodluck Jonathan last night had a closed-door meeting with the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress APC. The meeting lasted for an hour, specifically between 9pm and 10pm.   The meeting came hours after a group of Almajiris purchased the APC presidential nomination forms for the former …

The National Population Commission (NPC) has warned that by 2050 Nigeria could be the most populous nation on earth. According to Dr Mohammed Abdulmalik Durunguwa, the NPC commissioner, overpopulation is a time bomb in Nigeria and may explode in 2050. Dr Durunguwa noted that the nation’s population can’t be compared …

BMO said in a statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke that facts on ground showed that former US President Donald Trump had given his approval to the deal within one month of assuming office in 2017. “It has come to our notice that former Senate …