82-year-old ace comedian, Moses Olaiya, popularly known as Baba Sala, is dead. Baba Sala died at his private residence in Ilesa, Osun State, on Sunday night. The media aide to the comedian, Mr Isaac Haastrup, said the deceased had been deposited at the morgue of the Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesa. Moses Olaiya, born in 1936 in Ijesha, was Nigerian comedian, dramatist and actor. Share on: WhatsApp
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At least 12 people have been killed in a 5.9-magnitude earthquake which struck off the northwest coast of Haiti late Saturday. More than 130 others were reportedly injured while homes in the poverty-stricken Caribbean nation, were destroyed, authorities said. The epicenter of the quake was located about 19 kilometers (12 miles) northwest of the city of Port-de-Paix, the US Geological Survey reported. President Jovenel Moise said he and Prime Minister Jean-Henry Ceant had reached “the zone affected by the earthquake to bring assistance to the population” and coordinate relief efforts.…
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Recent studies have indicated that Vitamin D supplements which are usually taken to improve the bones are irrelevant and have advised that health professionals should discontinue giving them to patients. For a long time, vitamin D has been related to reducing the risk of osteoporosis (a condition in which bones become weak or brittle) and hypertension. However, the authors of the research have said that there is “little justification” when it comes to bone health. The lead author, Dr Mark J. Bolland who is an associate professor at the University…
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Ifeanyi Chijioke, a 26-year-old man, has been sentenced to one month imprisonment by an Ogba Magistrates’ Court for stealing a phone valued at N150,000 and a sum of N20,000. The police arraigned Chijioke on one count of stealing. The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge. The magistrate, W.A. Salami, gave Chijioke, who was said to be a first time offender, an option of two months’ community service. Earlier, the police prosecutor, Abiola Adewale, told the court that the complainant, Folorunsho Funmilayo, reported the case at the Ikeja Police Station. According…
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The manner in which some of the primaries of the ruling All Progressives Congress were conducted has been condemned by wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari. She particularly took a swipe at the party’s National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, who she accused of allowing impunity under his watch. Mrs Buhari made her position known in a series of tweets she posted on her verified Twitter handle, @aishambuhari, on Sunday. She regretted that Oshiomhole, despite his activism background, could allow such a conduct under his leadership. She said the conduct negated…
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The Tambuwal Campaign Organisation has said that the outcome of the National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will not contested in court. The party’s elective convention is gradually winding down in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. The organisation, in a statement by its spokesperson, Dr. Okey Ikechukwu, said that they believed the fact that the process was transparent, open, free and fair. The statement stressed that all the agents of the presidential aspirants attested to the credibility of the exercise. The statement commended “the convention committee, party…
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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has polled 1,532, at the end of the count of votes at the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), To beat 11 other contestants. His closet rival, Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state scored 693 votes. Atiku, a native of a Fulani village of Jada in Adamawa state, was earlier at the end of votes sorting declared the winner of the primary by his agents Messrs Gbenga Daniel and Ben Bruce. With the win, Atiku Abubakar would have to face incumbent President Muhammadu…
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Gregorio De Santis, a Montreal man cleaning out a closet at his sister’s insistence received a shock when he found, in the lining of a jacket, a lottery ticket purchased 10 months earlier. The sisterly advice proved most profitable: Gregorio on Friday pocketed winnings of Can$1.75 million ($1.35 million). “When he went to have the ticket validated, he thought the number on the display screen was Can$1,750,” Loto-Quebec said in a statement about De Santis’s big day. “When he realized how much he had won, he says his heart almost…
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In a video shot by a passenger, an Indian driver was seen allowing a monkey drive his vehicle. The 36-year-old driver is seen smiling and patting the langur monkey as it sits atop the wheel of the moving bus . “Driver M Prakash has been taken off duty for allowing the monkey to sit on the steering wheel and handle it,” T.S Latha, a spokesperson for the government’s road transport corporation in southern Karnataka state said. “Passengers’ safety is paramount and the driver cannot risk it by allowing a monkey…
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A model and graduate of Adeyemi College of Education in Ondo town, Ajila Seun has been raped and murdered. The ugly incident happened around Sunday Bus Stop in Akure, Ondo State. Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN) has asked the state police command to identify the killers of Ajila Seun who was allegedly raped and stabbed to death. Akeredolu gave the directive on Saturday through a press statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Segun Ajiboye. The governor asked the police to ensure that Seun’s killers were arrested and prosecuted…
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