MultiChoice’ South African TV network, Mzansi Magic, has announced the return of classic reality television show, ‘Big Brother Africa’, after a seven-year break The show is expected to be launched in 2022. According to new reports, casting has begun in earnest for the show, tagged ‘Big Brother Mzansi’, and produced by Randburg-based Red Pepper Pictures (same producers of the Nigerian edition of the show). M-Net’s Executive Head of Programming, Nomsa Philiso confirmed the forthcoming show. “This year marks 20 years since the very first Big Brother on MultiChoice’s M-Net and we are excited to celebrate this milestone by commissioning a…
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The Arewa Defenders Forum says it has identified certain elements commissioned by Southeast politicians to form ad-hoc groups to be deployed against the interest of the North in the buildup to the 2023 elections. “One such groups is a certain Arewa Concerned Civil Society Organisations of Nigeria (ACCSON) that recently attacked the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum President, Shettima Yarima for merely re-echoing the North’s position on the South East presidency debate. Reacting to the attack on Yerima, Coordinator of the Arewa Defenders Forum, Mohammed Lawal described the action of the ACCSON as indecent, outright betrayal of the general interests of…
Sokoto state governor, Aminu Tambuwal has told president Muhammadu Buhari that the state is left vulnerable to the activities of bandits and required urgent action from the presidency. The governor said this when he received the nation’s security chiefs led by the National Security Adviser (NSA), Babagana Munguno at the government house on Friday. Tambuwal said that Sokoto, in the last four days, had witnessed broad-daylight attacks and kidnappings “in some parts of Isa, Sabon Birni, Tangaza, Illela and several other local government areas of the state.” According to him, this situation was heightened by the influx of bandits and…
As insecurity ravages most northern parts of the country, the youths in the region have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to resign and pave the way for capable hands to handle the challenges. The call is contained in a statement by the president of the Northern Youth Council of Nigeria, Isah Abubakar issued on Friday. “President Muhammadu Buhari to humbly resign since it is obvious that he has run out of ideas on how to subdue the terrorists that have taken over significant parts of Sokoto, Katsina, Kebbi, Niger, Zamfara states and the busiest Kaduna-Abuja expressway on one side, and recently,…
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians and the international community of free and fair elections in 2023 general elections, and peaceful transfer of power. Mr Femi Adesina, the president’s spokesman in a statement on Friday in Abuja said the president gave the assurance in his remark at a Virtual Summit for Democracy organised by President Joe Biden of the United States. President Buhari said necessary mechanisms would be strengthened to ensure that Nigeria witness another peaceful transfer of power. “As we countdown to our next general elections in 2023, we remain committed to putting in place and strengthening all necessary…
The Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), on Friday launched the national policy on female genital mutilation (FGM), national protocol on management of its complications in the country. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, at the launching in Abuja, also presented the Revised National Policy and National Protocol on management of Survivors of FGM to the Public. As defined by the World Health Organisation, FGM means “all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons”. It can leave women and girls traumatised as well as…
The new President of the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA Alumni Association, Engr Adeyemi Bello, has canvassed for a sustained improvement in the support of members for the growth and development of their Alma Mater. He gave the advice during the inauguration of the new Executive Council of the Association on Thursday, December 9, 2021 in Akure. According to Adeyemi, “The FUTA Alumni worldwide will not relent in our support to the University in providing basic needs and infrastructure either through individuals, groups, graduating class of any set and chapters in the Diaspora”. He urged the University management to…
Nigeria’s security chiefs earlier despatched by President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday to visitbSokoto and Katsina states following protracted bandits attack in the states, are currently in closed-door meeting with the state governor, Aminu Tambuwal. Garba Shehu, a presidential Spokesperson had said in a statement on Thursday that Buhari had despatched a delegation made up of the heads of the nation’s intelligence and security services to Sokoto and Katsina. “The president is expecting an immediate situation report and recommendations on actions to follow to effectively deal with the worrying situation,” the statement reads. He said the Inspector General of Police, Usman…
The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation( WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and media entrepreneur, Mo Abudu have made the Forbes list as one of the 100 most powerful women in the world. The 2021 list is a definitive survey of foremost CEOs and iconic entrepreneurs, pioneer philanthropists, and policymakers who are solving society’s most intractable problems. Top of the list is philanthropist, author, and ex-wife of Amazon CEO, MacKenzie Scott, with a net worth of US$62.2 billion, owing to a 4% stake in the company. Okonjo-Iweala, who became the first female boss of the WTO, was ranked 91st on the list…
An English court has ruled that WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange be extradited to the United States to face criminal charges for allegedly breaking spying law and conspiring to hack government computers. Washington won an appeal over his extradition in Friday. U.S. authorities accuse Australian-born Assange, 50, of 18 counts relating to WikiLeaks’ release of vast troves of confidential U.S. military records and diplomatic cables which they said had put lives in danger. His supporters cast Assange as an anti-establishment hero who has been victimised by the United States for exposing U.S. wrongdoing in Afghanistan and Iraq. The United States won an…