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  • Your Daughters Would Be Ashamed Of You If I Reveal Your Secrets – Nkechi Blessing Tells Jide Kosoko

    Your Daughters Would Be Ashamed Of You If I Reveal Your Secrets – Nkechi Blessing Tells Jide Kosoko

    Actress Nkechi Sunday Blessing has reacted to Jide Kosoko’s threat that the leadership of the Theater Arts and Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria (TAMPAN), would frustrate her out of the Yoruba movie industry

    If you could recall, TAMPAN’s leadership, in a news conference on Sunday, promised to instruct all movie producers and directors to stop working with Nkechi Blessing and Iyabo Ojo.

    This was because the actresses were accused of fighting with their coworkers on social media over Baba Ijesha’s alleged rape case.

  • Akeredolu, Makinde visits Shasha, Appeal for Peace and Dialogue

    Akeredolu, Makinde visits Shasha, Appeal for Peace and Dialogue

    Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu and his Oyo State counterpart, Governor Seyi Makinde, on Sunday, visited the Shasha area of Ibadan, Oyo State, and appealed to the warring parties to embrace peace and dialogue.

    The violent clash between Hausa and Yoruba communities on Friday had reportedly led to the death of some residents, destruction of properties, and displacement of people in the area.

    Akeredolu was in Oyo in his capacity as the Chairman of the Southwest Governors’ Forum.

    The Ondo State governor, who was led to the Shasha market by his Oyo State counterpart, Governor Seyi Makinde, pleaded with elders in the area to call the youths to order as efforts were being intensified by government to find lasting solution to the avoidable violence which occurred last Friday.

    In a statement by Olabode Olatunde, the Special Assistant to the Ondo State governor on New Media, Akeredolu noted that the tension and charged atmosphere would not profit anyone.

    He also asked the people to consider the past and the peaceful coexistence that they have enjoyed over several decades.

    Akeredolu was quoted as saying, “We have come to plead with you that no matter how angry, we should not react violently. I know many things may get us angry, but as we know, we have been living together for long.

    “Let us think about the past, let us consider our peaceful coexistence in the past. Let us be calm.

    “I have come on behalf of all southwest Governors, I beg you to be calm.

    “Let us not take laws into our hands. The police are here and they are ready to work now. Amotekun officers are here for you. I’m not saying that for us as Governors that we are perfect or the police are perfect. But we can’t take laws into our hands. Let us cooperate with our Governor, Seyi Makinde.”

  • Wole Soyinka condemns video asking Igbo indigenes to leave Yorubaland

    Wole Soyinka condemns video asking Igbo indigenes to leave Yorubaland

    Noble laureate, Wole Soyinka has condemned a video of UK-based secessionist, Adeyinka Grandson asking the Igbos to leave Yorubaland amid the #EndSARS crisis in the country. 

    Soyinka in a statement he titled ‘Identity Thieves on the Rampage’ and released on Saturday October 24, enjoined Igbo indigenes to ignore such threats which seeks to create disharmony in the country. He averred that the threat “is the work of sick, cowardly minds”.

    The statement read; 

    “Undoubtedly in order to promote the video clip of an ethnic revanchist calling on Igbo to leave Yoruba land, this same lunatic fringe has exhumed, and embarked on circulating an ancient fabrication – several years mouldering in the grave – once attributed to me and vigorously denounced. 

    “That statement impudently expounds, as my utterance, what the Hausa want, what the Yoruba want, and what the Igbo want.

    “Such an attribution – let me once again reiterate – is the work of sick, cowardly minds that are ashamed, or lack the courage, as the saying goes, “to answer their fathers’ names.” At least the current ethnic rabble-rouser has the courage of his convictions, not so the sick brigade of identity thieves.

    “Normally, one should totally ignore the social dregs. However, in the present atmosphere where FAKE NEWS is so easily swallowed and acted upon without reflection, I feel once again obliged to denounce this recurrent obscenity.

    “As for our brother and sister Igbo, I hope they have learnt to ignore the toxic bilge under which some Nigerian imbeciles seek to drown the nation.

    “It is time also, I believe, to also enter the following admonition: one cannot continue to monitor and respond to the concoctions of these addicts of falsehood, and their assiduous promoters who have yet to learn to wipe the filth off their tablets.

    “The patrons of social platforms should develop the art of discrimination. Some attributions are simply so gross that, to grant them even a moment’s latitude of probability diminishes the civic intelligence of the recipient.”

  • Tension hits Lagos Resident as Hausa, Yoruba youths clash at Fagba

    Tension hits Lagos Resident as Hausa, Yoruba youths clash at Fagba

    Residents have expressed panic over a renewed clash between Hausa and Yoruba youths at Fagba, Iju Ishaga area of Lagos State.
    Reports had it that many people are injured in the clash.

    One of the residents said there are causalities, but that could not be immediately ascertained by our correspondent.

    There are also reports that buildings were damaged during the ongoing fight.

    Another resident, Aina, told our correspondent that “We have not been able to leave our homes. They started the fight on Tuesday. We thought it was over yesterday until they renewed the fight again today.

    “I don’t know the cause of the fight, but Isaw people running helter-skelter some minutes ago.”

    Efforts to reach the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, proved abortive as of the time of filing this report.

    Details later…