GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that the Nollywood has lost Shina Sanyaolu, a Nigerian producer and director famous in the Yoruba film industry, is dead. Bolaji Amusan, the president of the Theatre Arts and Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria (TAMPAN), confirmed Sanyaoluās demise via an Instagram post on Wednesday. āSleep well uncle Shina Sanyaolu,ā he wrote….
A member of the National Youth Service Corps serving in Ibadan, Oyo State, Rofiat Lawal, has been kidnapped by yet-to-be-identified abductors along the Benin-Ore Expressway. According to a Facebook post by a user, Agbakwara, on Wednesday that Lawal was returning from Benin, Edo State to report to her place of primary assignment on Tuesday when…
Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has criticised Nigerians for what he described as a culture of inconsistency, noting that despite widespread complaints about the countryās economic hardship under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the newly released iPhone 17 Pro Max has sold out across the nation. In a post on Facebook on Tuesday, Omokri argued that…
Singer Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, is in the news again after he was reportedly attacked on his way to his Zazu Bitters office. In a video sighted online by GISTSMATE MEDIA correspondent, the controversial artiste narrated how the man pointed a gun at him. While the man denied it, Portable asked him who…
The presidency on Tuesday said that 200 trucks are set to load petroleum products daily from the Port Harcourt Refinery. Speaking on his X handle, the Special Adviser on Public Communications and Orientation to the President, Sunday Dare, said that the refineryās Old Wing has resumed operations with a production capacity of 60,000 barrels of…
At least 57 students of Government Technical College in Orita Aperin, Ibadan, have been arrested by the police for allegedly invading CAC Grammar School and causing significant property damage. According to sources, the incident occurred on March 20, at about 3:20 p.m. The students were said to have raided the school and shattered all the…
Available information have revealed that no fewer than 13,171 Nigerians who applied for refugee protection from January 2013 to December 2024 were turned down by Canadian government. Sunday PUNCH reports that 811 Nigerians were rejected in 2024 alone. Official data from the Refugee Protection Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada ranked Nigeria…
In a bid to address the lingering security issue in Zamfara State, a group called the Northern Citizens Alliance for Justice (NCAJ) has called on President Bola Tinubu to immediately declare a state of emergency. The group cited the ātotal breakdown of governance, and the alleged complicity of the state government in criminal mining operationsā…
Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, the former Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, has advised President Bola Tinubu not to seek re-election if he is truly a smart politician. Baba-Ahmed, who appeared on Arise Televisionās political program, āPrime Time,ā on Friday, believes Tinubuās time is up, adding that everything is there for the president and the…
The FCT Police Command has announced the successful rescue of a day-old baby found abandoned along a bush path near Crush Rock, behind an uncompleted Red Bricks Market in Mpape, Abuja. According to a statement by SP Josephine Adeh, Police Public Relations Officer in Abuja, officers from the Mpape Divisionās Juvenile and Women Care Section…
