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The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Governorship Candidate in Kwara State, Prof Shuaib Oba AbdulRaheem has promised to invest in Sports and Youth Development, when elected as Governor come 2023. Prof Oba AbdulRaheem disclosed this on Monday while featuring on Media Parley organized by the Association of Kwara Online Media Practitioners (ASKOMP). According to him, Our administration will turn Kwara State to new destination for sports in because I am an admirer of sports. Kwara needs to give sports deserving attention to meet up the world standard. The former Sports Director at Ahmadu Bello University assured that he’ll take all…

Three black France players have been targeted on social media after their World Cup final defeat to Argentina. Aurelien Tchouameni, Kingsley Coman, and Randal Kolo Muani, who all featured in the final, were subjected to vile messages on their accounts, as reported by The Athletic. Tchouameni and Coman missed penalties in the shootout, while Kolo Muani missed a chance to win the game in extra-time. The trio received messages that included banana and monkey emojis. A spokesperson for Meta told The Athletic: ‘We don’t want racist abuse on Instagram, and we’ve removed the disgusting comments for breaking our rules. ‘We also…

President Buhari turned 80 on Saturday, December 17. He was in the US for the US-Africa summit when he celebrated his birthday. However, members of his staff in the state house gathered to celebrate him, earlier yesterday, December 19. Present at the celebration were the SGF Mr. Boss Mustapha, Chief of Staff Prof Ibrahim Gambari, Permanent Secretary State House, Alh Tijjani Umar, Commander President Guard Brigade, Brig General Muhammed Takuti Usman and Members of Presidential Guards. See more photos below…

Actress Nancy Isime has built and furnished a 6-bedroom apartment for her father and family. The actress shared videos and photos from the house opening and said it’s always been her dream to build a house for her father. She thanked him for letting her go after her passion at 17 and for giving his blessing when she decided to move out at 19 to chase her dreams. See below. Watch the videos below. https://www.instagram.com/p/CmXQkfktK32/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=5a6dbe3f-d092-4d43-86e0-e8c496e80870&ig_mid=3CB9D920-8C23-4D2D-AEF8-8C05C7240AE6

Football legend, Lionel Messi’s post celebrating his World Cup win has now become Instagram’s most-liked post by a sportsperson with 51 million likes and counting. After Argentina’s thrilling penalty shootout win over France, the PSG star took to Instagram to post 10 pictures of the celebrations in Qatar. In the 17 hours since he uploaded it, Messi’s post has racked up a staggering over 51 million likes, with the forward also surpassing 400 million followers on the social media platform. Messi accompanied the post with a caption that read: ‘WORLD CHAMPIONS!!!!!!! I dreamed of it so many times, I wanted it…

Another woman reportedly died after being injured in a crush at Asake’s concert at Brixton Academy. In the wee hours of December 19, 2022, 23-year-old Gabrielle Hutchinson passed away in the hospital. Hutchinson was one of the hired security personnel for the occasion that evening. The first victim was a woman, Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, who passed away from her wounds received at the performance. Dec. 17, early on a Saturday, she passed away. A third woman, age 21, is still in the hospital and is in critical condition. The three women were all in the building’s lobby in south London…

Grieving Lagos car dealer, Ikechukwu Ogbonna, popularly known as IVD says he misses his late wife. IVD made this known via his latest Instagram post on Sunday evening where he shared their throwback video vibing to a song in their car. He also shared his HIV test results. He captioned it: “I will forever miss you my besty’. Bimbo died from fire injuries after a dispute with her husband in their residence in Megamound Estate, Lekki. Her sister announced her demise few days after she was rushed to the hospital. The deceased had confronted IVD over alleged repeated assault and maltreatment. The fight resulted in their…

A few days after the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, released the redesigned naira notes in the denominations of N200, N500 and N1,000, fake copies of the new N1000 naira notes have been released into the economy. A mobile money and bank agent in a video disclosed this saying that a customer performed a bank transaction through his wife’s Point of Sale (PoS) using a fake copy of the redesigned N1,000. He went ahead in the video to show the difference between the fake and original redesigned N1,000 note. According to him, the original note has a gold seal at the bottom of the…

Canadian rapper, Drake lost a $1 million bet he placed on Argentina winning the World Cup yesterday, December 18, even though his prediction was right. He had placed a bet on the South American team winning the tournament in normal time. Mbappe’s two quick goals which pushed the match into extra time ruined Drake’s wager. Argentina was up 3-2 against France in the dying stages of extra time in the final, but Mbappe also found the back of the net in the 118th minute to level the scores. The French striker also became the second footballer ever hat-trick scorer in a World Cup final. Drake’s famous curse…

Nollywood actress, Jaiye Kuti has stirred marriage rumours between Eniola Badmus and the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi. The veteran took to Instagram to hail Eniola Ajao, who she described as the incoming Queen of Ife. Hailing her, Jaiye expressed how excited she is to be the new in-law to the monarch. “Your latest Olori Laafin Ojaja 11. Can’t wait to be in-law to Kabiyesi Ooni of Ife. Eniola Gbaraduro @eniola_ajao”.