The United Nations World Food Programme (UN WFP) has earmarked $2.5 billion under its 2023-2027 Nigeria Country Strategy Plans (CSP) to achieve zero hunger and improve nutrition nationwide. Seriene Loum, head of programme at WFP, made this known on Wednesday, February 5. 2025 at the organisation’s co-creation workshop held in collaboration with the National Social…
Nollywood has lost another legend. Actor Columbus Irisoanga has passed on, according to his colleague Hilda Dokubo. Ms Dokubo took to Instagram to mourn him, writing: “There can’t be shortage of Angels in heaven that the few here are called home like this na! “This one is heavy on Uniport Rivers state Nollywood.” She added:…
America-trained Nollywood filmmaker, Mbadiwe Emeka, has been sentenced to five years in prison for trafficking in 17.30 kilograms of Canada Loud, Cannabis Sativa. Mbadiwe Emeka was handed the jail sentence on Wednesday, February 5, 2025, by Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of a Federal High Court in Lagos State. The 40-year-old, who was nabbed two months ago for trafficking the narcotic drug, which is…
Popular Nigerian TikToker Olumide Ogunsanwo, widely known as Seaking, has been rearrested during a court appearance on Thursday, allegedly over his recent social media posts exposing police corruption. A Nigerian human rights activist Omoyele Sowore, disclosed the development via his X handle, condemning the arrest as an attempt to silence critics of the Nigerian…
Actor/comedian, Bovi says he moved his children’s schooling to the United Kingdom because of bullying in schools here in Nigeria. While speaking in a podcast recently, Bovi said he went to a boarding school but chose not to send his children to a Nigerian boarding school due to what he described as a normalised…
