The Calabar Xmas Festival Is Exactly 20 Years this 2024. It’s heartbreaking that after 20 Years of The Calabar Xmas Festival with billions of Cross River tax payers money spent, much has not been achieved. No Artist from Cross River has hit the national grade from the Calabar Xmas Festival. Hence, making the purpose of…
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Friday appointed new military commanders following the deaths of key security officials in Israeli airstrikes on Tehran, local media reported. The appointments comes after Israel launched a wave of airstrikes early Friday targeting Tehran and other Iranian cities. The strikes killed Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Mohammad…
Men of the Nigeria Police have arrested singer, Idowu Smart Emmanuel aka Lil Smart for ‘criminal defamation, cyberstalking, cyberbullying and falsehood’ against singer, Naira Marley. Recall that in December 2024, Lil Smart came online to alleged that his former boss, NairaMarley and Zinolesky had attempted to kidnap him. He warned that they should be held…
Bandits have abducted Ambassador Bashir Isa Gusau, the North-West Youth Leader of the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Organisation, Zamfara State chapter, in a fresh attack in Gusau, the state capital. The media gathered that the abduction occurred when no fewer than 30 heavily armed men invaded Gusau’s residence and forcefully whisked him away in the presence of…
Notorious terrorism kingpin Bello Turji has said suspects recently arrested by the Nigerian military are not bandits and has threatened the residents of the surrounding communities over the arrests. Mr Turji, in a video released on Christmas Day, said that those arrested were ‘innocent’ elderly people in his ancestral community. The Director of Media Operations,…
The Nigeria Police Force says its operatives arrested 23 robbery and kidnapping suspects targeting fun seekers during the Christmas celebrations in different parts of the country. The Police said this on Friday through a statement by its Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi. He said, “On the 25th of December 2024, at about 1am, the police…
Nigerians have on Monday stormed Abuja in protest against fuel scarcity. The protests led by the Coalition of Concerned Civil Society Organizations of Nigeria, was initiated to create awareness and push the federal government led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to act in response to the scarcity of fuel in the country. Convener of the…
Garba Shehu, a former aide to late President Muhammadu Buhari, has said that his deceased boss would have welcomed the controversial EndSARS protest if it was not hijacked by subversive elements. Shehu stated this on Tuesday while fielding questions on Arise Television’s Morning Show programme. GISTSMATE MEDIA reported that Buhari died at the age of…
The Clerk to the National Assembly has said his office cannot facilitate the resumption of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, stressing that only the Senate or a competent court can decide on the matter. In a statement signed on Monday by Bullah Audu Bi-Allah, Director of Information, for the Clerk to the National Assembly, the office explained…
Scientists said Tuesday they have turned human skin cells into eggs and fertilised them with sperm in the lab for the first time — a breakthrough that is hoped to one day let infertile people have children. The technology is still years away from potentially becoming available to aspiring parents, the US-led team of scientists…
