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During the press screening of her latest film, set to premiere on January 31, 2025, Ogunsola revealed the five-year journey it took to bring her ambitious project to life. “It took five years of my life,” Ogunsola said. “And during that time, I couldn’t work on anything else. The funding challenges alone were enough to make anyone quit.” For Ogunsola, …

During the press screening of her latest film, set to premiere on January 31, 2025, Ogunsola revealed the five-year journey it took to bring her ambitious project to life. “It took five years of my life,” Ogunsola said. “And during that time, I couldn’t work on anything else. The funding challenges alone were enough to make anyone quit.” For Ogunsola, …

A man has been sentenced to two years imprisonment in Abuja without an option of a fine for cutting off his female friend’s finger after seeing her with one of his friends.   The man, Mas’ud Yusuf, who resides at Dei-Dei market, was arraigned before an Abuja magistrates’ court sitting in Jiwa for causing grievous hurt and assault on his …

A mum has been jailed for 10 years after her four sons were k!lled in a house fire after she locked them inside to go shopping at Sainsbury’s.  Deveca Rose, 30, left her two sets of twins alone in the unsafe terraced house in Sutton, south-west London when the huge blaze broke out on the evening of December 16, 2021.   Leyton and …

Stronger wages have contributed to the decision by Japan’s central bank to raise rates to about 0.5%. The BOJ reiterated that it may in the future raise interest rates again, if required. ADVERTISEMENT The Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised its key interest rate to about 0.5% from 0.25% on Friday, noting that inflation is holding at a desirable target level. …

A British teenager who murdered three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event was jailed for at least 52 years on Thursday, January 23, for an atrocity prosecutors said was so violent it appeared he had tried to decapitate one of the victims.    On Monday, Axel Rudakubana, 18, admitted carrying out the killings last July in the northern …

Jemimah Osunde has gone on X to share her health struggles.  The actress revealed that her stomach, and entire gastrointestinal tract (GIT), have been problematic.  She then stated that she got h pylori from food she ate on set in Ibadan and she’s been fighting for her life for three years.  She wrote: “My own stomach is my greatest op.  …

Renowned radio on-air personality, Oladotun Ojuolape Kayode, popularly known as Do2dtun has officially announced his exit from radio after 20 years. The ever-ebullient media personality via his Instagram page reflected on his journey from the moment he began to learn the ropes as an intern under the tutelage of radio greats like the late Dan Foster, Olisa Adibua, and Daddy …

Award-winning music star Adekunle Gold will be co-producing a documentary that will span the last century of Yoruba music in collaboration with White House Productions. The documentary, titled “The Odyssey”, will trace the history and evolution of different subcultures within the music, including Were, Sakara, Apala, Juju, AfroJuju, and Fuji, among many others. The documentary’s stellar cast of producers, headed …

A British-Nigerian drug gang leader Enoch Odubanjo, who exploited vulnerable people to flood Southend with class A drugs has been jailed in the United Kingdom.   Essex Police in a statement on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, said Odubanjo, 26, was sentenced to seven years in prison at Basildon Crown Court on January 14, after being arrested and charged with being concerned in …