Rihanna brought out Kanye West when she headlined DirecTV’s Super Saturday Night on January 31. Hours before the Super Bowl concert, the Unapologeticdiva was reported to be bringing out West and Paul McCartney to perform their new (and unexpected) song together, “FourFiveSeconds.” While that did not happen, the night still proved to be epic: Rihanna had introduced West by singing the hook to his 2011 hit “All…
The Guardian UK website which mistakenly published an article by Nigeria’s award winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on depression has been deleted. This was how the website announced the deletion of the article; [via THE GUARDIAN UK]
A former Central Bank Governor, Charles Soludo, has reacted to the criticism of his earlier article by the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. In a lengthy, over 6000 words article, Mr. Soludo on Sunday rejected claims by Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala that he performed poorly as governor of the Central Bank. He said his performance as CBN…
Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose, has declared that the advert he placed in which he raised doubts about the health status of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), was neither a death wish nor laced with sinister motives. Fayose clarified that his reason for taking the step…
Renowned economics professor, Pat Utomi, in this interview with TOBI AWORINDE, backs a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof. Charles Soludo, who accused the Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government of plunging the country’s economy into severe crisis. Do you think former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Prof. Charles Soludo’s argument, depicting the Federal Government as…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has extended the deadline for collection of Permanent Voter Cards to Sunday, February 8, 2015. This information was contained in a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr. Kayode Idowu, in Abuja on Sunday. He said this information supersedes the earlier deadline of Saturday, January 31…
The recent launch in Lagos of ARISE Television, a sister company of THISDAY Newspapers after a two-year incubation period during which it successfully debuted in Europe, the Middle East and the Americas, shows the resilience of the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Nduka Obaigbena and his ability to re-invent himself after every challenge, writes Nseobong Okon-Ekong. The…