Talka~G~blog

  Actress, producer and scriptwriter, Mosun Filani, has advised her colleagues in the entertainment industry to stop fighting over the outcome of the recent presidential election. Responding to a question on what she thought of the entertainers that had been ...

  Tickets for Anthony Joshua vs Jermaine Franklin have not been selling as expected and it appears fans have branded the contest uninteresting with thousands of tickets still available. The O2 Arena’s website shows that there are loads of sections ...

  The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has congratulated Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on his victory in last Saturday’s presidential election. The Ukrainian president took to Twitter to send compliments on Thursday, a day after Tinubu ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Rivers State has released the comprehensive result of the National Assembly elections conducted in the state last Saturday. Elections were conducted in the three senatorial districts and 13 federal constituencies of the ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari will on Saturday travel to Qatar for the 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Buhari’s trip to Doha, the capital, follows an invitation by the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad ...

  Dozens including women are feared dead following an explosion from a crude oil tapping point in Rumuekpe commumity in Emuoha Local Government Area of Rivers State. It was gathered that the incident occurred at about 2am on Friday when ...

  A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday, convicted and sentenced a former accountant, Pensions Account, Office of the Head of Service of the Federation, Garba Abdullahi Tahir, to 21 years imprisonment for stealing N26.1 million meant for ...

  Piers Morgan has sensationally claimed that his rival Dan Walker was “milking” his injuries following his terrifying bike accident last week. The broadcaster was flung onto the road after colliding with a car while cycling to Sheffield Train Station ...

  The Labour Party has picked Mr Kelvin Chukwu, the younger brother of the slain senatorial candidate for Enugu East senatorial zone, Oyibo Chukwu, for the March 11 senatorial election for the zone. Oyibo Chukwu was assassinated on Wednesday, February ...

  Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has backed the Supreme Court judgement extending the validity of old N200, N500, and N1,000 notes till December 31, 2023. Taunting the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Godwin Emefiele, Wike said he ...

  A spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Campaign Council, PCC, Senator Dino Melaye, has declared that the victory of the president-elect, Bola Tinubu is temporary and would soon be upturned. In a video broadcast posted on his verified ...

  The Supreme Court has ordered that the old N100, N200 and N500 notes should remain legal tender until December 31, 2023. The court, in a judgment on the suit filed against Federal Governments naira swap poly, held that the ...

  The Court of Appeal Abuja has granted the request of the candidates of Labour Party (LP) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar, respectively, to have access to all the sensitive materials the Independent National ...

  French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated Thursday that France harboured no desire to return to past policies of interfering in Africa after he began a four-nation tour of the continent. “The age of Francafrique is well over,” Macron said in ...

  The Flying Eagles have booked a spot in the semi-finals of the CAF U-20 Africa Cup of Nations after seeing off the Junior Cranes of Uganda 1-0. Thursday’s win at the Suez Canal Authority Stadium in Egypt also sealed ...

  The Social Democratic Party has accepted the result of the Saturday presidential election result as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission. SDP national chairman Shehu Gabam stated this at a news conference on the outcome of the presidential ...

  The Nigeria Labour Congress says the Labour Party belongs to it and plans to meet elected party candidates to discuss its programmes. The NLC said it would continue to be involved in politics to bring matters surrounding the welfare ...

  A man left with life-changing injuries after being crushed by a horse while driving was only recognisable to family via his nose. Ian Tilston was driving on the M56 from his home in Hawarden to Nantwich, Cheshire, when his ...

  Some members of the Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have attributed the victory of APC’s candidate, Bola Tinubu, in Rivers State to the intervention of Governor Nyesom Wike of the state. According to Vanguard, members ...

  In the dead of night, two men fired shots at a closed supermarket belonging to the family of Lionel Messi’s wife, before leaving a threatening message on the ground aimed at the seven-time Ballon d’Or winner. “Messi, we’re waiting ...

  Former Ghanaian president John Mahama on Thursday launched a campaign to run again as a candidate for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2024 elections, saying his experience could help salvage the economy. Despite being defeated in ...

  Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party for the 2023 presidential election has urged Nigerian youths not to leave the country in search of greener pastures. Daily Post reports that shortly after Bola Tinubu was declared winner ...

  The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the just-concluded presidential election, Atiku Abubakar has said the journey to become Nigeria’s president almost cost his life. The former vice president who spoke during a press conference in ...

  A mobile police sergeant on Thursday morning killed his suspected woman friend and later shot himself dead in school premises in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital. The incident, which happened early in the morning near the gate of a ...

  A former military governor of Ondo State, Bode George has described last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly election as shambolic. The former chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, said that the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, ...