GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that Heartland Football Club’s vehicle was on Friday involved in a ghastly accident. The accident occurred at Umunna, near Okigwe, Imo Statehen the club’s players and officials were on their way to Abakaliki for the Ifeanyi Ekwueme TICO/SELECT Pre-season Tournament. It was gathered that some players and officials of the Heartland FC…
President Bola Tinubu, on Friday afternoon, arrived the Mapo Hall venue of the coronation of Oba Rashidi Ladoja as the 44th Olubadan of Ibadanland in Oyo State. His aircraft landed at 1;45pm and was received by the Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, top government functionaries, and notable politicians from the political divide. Tinubu and entourage,…
The federal government says it is working to expand the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) to 50 million primary school pupils in 2026. The National Programme Manager, National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), Aderemi Adebowale, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. “We are working to include…
President Paul Biya, who is the longest serving African President has “reportedly” died. According to news filtering from Cameroon, Diya has passed away. Biya, born on 13 February 1933 is a Cameroonian politician who has served as the second president of Cameroon since 6 November 1982, having previously been the prime minister of Cameroon from…
The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) on Thursday said it is no longer considering implementing the planned 15 per cent duty on imported petroleum products. The development was announced by the Director, Public Affairs Department, NMDPRA, George Ene-Ita, in a statement while warning the public to shun panic buying. On the 29th…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that Oba Abimbola Owoade has been crowned the 46th Alaafin of Oyo. Owoade succeeds the 45th Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, who died on April 22, 2022, at the age of 83. The coronation event took place today (Saturday) at Oliveth Baptist High School in Oyo, where Governor Seyi Makinde led…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that 96 per cent of A-level results submitted to Bayero University, Kano (BUK) for Direct Entry admission in 2024 were forged. According to the examination body in its bulletin, out of 148 A-level results presented to BUK, only six were genuine, while the remaining 142 were…
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has claimed he saw the mass revocation of visas and green cards by the President Donald Trump administration coming. He stated this in an interview published by BBC News Pidgin on Facebook on Wednesday. Recall that Soyinka’s visa was recently revoked by the US. But the respected writer and author…
Israel has launched airstrikes on Yemen’s Ras Issa and Hodeidah areas, targeting Houthi infrastructure in a bid to block Iranian supplies from reaching the region, according to a statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Sunday. In a statement on Sunday, the military said it had targeted Ras Isa and Hodeidah. The IDF said,…
Umar Damagum, acting chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has blamed party leaders for exacerbating the ongoing crisis within the party. Speaking on Wednesday at a meeting of the Board of Trustees (BoT) at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, Damagum cautioned PDP leaders against prioritising their ambitions over the party’s unity. He said…