Oscars 2025
14 Aug 2024
Popular American television host and comedian Jimmy Kimmel has rejected an invitation to host the 2025 OSCARS, an annual award ceremony organised by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour excellence in film. The comedian disclosed his reason for declining the hosting gig during a conversation with California Governor Gavin Newsom and…
Latest
18 mins ago
The Senate Deputy Chief Whip and Senator representing Ebonyi North Barr. Onyekachi Nwebonyi on Friday said that he is passionate about helping people, especially the downtrodden. Nwebonyi disclosed this during the inauguration of his projects in the zone, which includes three-bedroom apartments built for some widows in the Ebonyi North senatorial zone by the wife…
47 mins ago
Manchester United forward Amad Diallo could be sidelined for the rest of the season after suffering ankle ligament damage, according to reports on Saturday. Diallo is believed to have sustained the problem in training, with United yet to confirm the extent of the damage as the 22-year-old awaits further tests. The Ivory Coast international had…
58 mins ago
Their voices monotone and their faces staring mostly ahead, three Israeli hostages spoke in Hebrew on a Gaza stage before walking to freedom on Saturday, after more than 16 months of captivity in the Palestinian territory. The carefully choreographed handover to the Red Cross in Gaza came as part of an ongoing ceasefire deal with…
1 hour ago
A ninth mayor from Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM party, the third largest in parliament, has been removed from office because of alleged links to a "terrorist organisation", the interior ministry said on Saturday. The suspension of the mayor of Van, a majority Kurdish city in the east of the country, came with negotiations underway between the…
1 hour ago
The Adamawa Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, has trained 1,780 educators on Social Emotional Learning (SEL). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the programme was carried out under the auspices of Global Partnership for Education-Transforming Education System at State Level (GPE-TESS). The three-day capacity-building training for State-Level Master Trainers of the…
1 hour ago
The Plateau Government says it has rehabilitated and completed 49 abandoned road projects in the last 18 months. Mr Ubandoma Laven, the Commissioner for Works in the state, said this during a news conference on Saturday in Jos. Laven was reacting to the allegations raised by Rep. Yusuf Gagdi (APC-Plateau) that 80 per cent of…
1 hour ago
Iran said Saturday that it had received messages from the new government in Damascus following the ouster of its longtime Syrian ally, former president Bashar al-Assad. "The Islamic Republic of Iran is indirectly in contact with Damascus," Tehran's special envoy for Syrian affairs Mohammad Reza Raouf Sheibani was quoted as saying by the state-run IRNA…
1 hour ago
The American rapper, Rakim Mayers, popularly known as A$AP Rocky, has reached the closing stages of his felony assault trial in a Los Angeles courtroom on Friday night, February, 2025. The case centred on a November 2021 incident where Mayers allegedly fired a semiautomatic firearm at his former friend and A$AP Mob member, Terell Ephron,…
1 hour ago
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, says many FCT projects would be inaugurated in May to celebrate President Bola Tinubu’s second year in office. Wike stated this in Abuja on Saturday after inspecting the construction of a 30.4-kilometre road from Abuja-Lokoja Expressway to Gomani in Kwali Area Council of the…