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Ekeleke Elumelu, the iconic reggae star of Rumbar Stylee fame, popularly known as Ras Kimono, Sunday, passed onto eternity. The singer reportedly died in a Lagos hospital after a brief illness. Born on May 9, 1958, Ras Kimomo started his music career as a member of the legendary Jastix Reggae Ital, alongside Majek Fashek, Amos McRoy Jegg and Black Rice Osagie. His music was greatly influenced by the poverty, inequality and hardship he witnessed in his early life. He released his solo debut album “Under pressure” on the Premier Music label in 1989, which propelled him to instant continental stardom.…

World number one Rafael Nadal won an 11th French Open title by beating Austrian Dominic Thiem in straight sets. Nadal, 32, won 6-4 6-3 6-2 to earn his 17th Grand Slam, three adrift of Roger Federer’s all-time men’s record. The Spaniard edged an intense opening set, tightening his grip in the second. And despite having cramp in the third he increased the tempo further, beating Thiem in his first major final when the 24-year-old returned long. “It’s a dream to win 11 times,” Nadal said. “It was important to play the way I did. It was a tough moment…

President Muhammadu Buhari’s declaration of June 12 as Democraciy Day is seen as a mere jamboree because it is not yet entrenched in the nation’s Public Holidays Act. Wednesday last week, Buhari issued a press release declaring June 12 as Democracy Day to replace the known May 29 usually set aside for the swearing in of the country’s President, vice President, Governors and Deputy Governors  and conferment of post-humous award of GCON on M.K.O. Abiola, the presumed winner. However, the President issued another press release Friday last week that June 12, 2018 would not be marked as public holiday, though…

Simona Halep fought back from a set and a break down to finally achieve her “dream” of winning a Grand Slam title. She beat Sloane Stephens 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 in a gruelling French Open final on Saturday. The world number one had lost all three of her previous major finals, including two at Roland Garros, and said she struggled to contain her emotions after staging a thrilling comeback. “In the last game I felt like I could not breathe anymore”, said Halep. It was the perfect way for the Romanian to banish the demons of her painful final defeat by…

Mixed reactions continue to trail the President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-invalidation of June 12 presidential elections presumably won by the late M. O. K . Abiola but was truncated by the then military junta. In this vein, a Nigerian university don has reminded military despots and apologists of June 12, 1993 presidential elections that nemesis cannot be averted by bribery or by divine retribution wished away by lip service. This came on the heels of a statement further collaborated by Prince Williams Akporeha, President of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, indicated that ”Without contradiction, the democracy Nigeria…

Today, we add a new page to our pledge to serve humanity. In our mission statement, we promise to give voice to the voiceless. And we start by introducing spicy, awed, and inspiring story under we aptly tag Street Interview, a maiden edition to enrich our reading menu daily for our teeming readers and followers. Please, send yours and your picture to us at no cost for publication in this page. Happy reading! “During my stint in the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State at the wake of militancy in the Niger Delta, I visited a friend at Abuloma Amadi…

It was a black Saturday as members of a protestant church in Ethiopia watched helplessly as their pastor who was baptising faithful at Lake Abaya was reportedly attacked and devoured by a crocodile. The lake covering 1,162 km² is known to host huge crocodile population and is close to Arba Minch city, some 500 kilometres to the South west of the capital Addis Ababa. An eye witness accounts who took the news to social media simply identified the victim as Doche. According to the eye witness, the pastor was reportedly baptising members of his congregation in the Lante locality of…

The Ramadan, the most important religious festival for Muslims, has turned awry for a 33-year-old man who now faces execution for excessive farting in the mosque seen as a blasphemous act, Islamabad Herald reported. Ramadan typically includes the increased offering of salat (prayers), recitation of the Quran and an increase of doing good deeds and charity. Farting is associated with bad smell. Islam prohibits a person from going to the mosque after eating too much onion or garlic as it causes foul smell in the mouth of the person. It is said that any odour discomforts persons who gather for…

As a way of turning Akwa Ibom State in the South-South region into a one-stop economic hub in the country, Technical Committee On the Actualisation of Ibom Deep Seaport and Industrial City may complete the certification process of the project before the end of this year for commencement of business. So far, the committee inaugurated in 2015 has completed a Pre-Bid Conference with three qualified bidders and other stakeholders for the seaport development. As a result, a consortium of Bollore and Power China, China Road Breach Corporation, CRBC and China Harbour Engineering Company of Nigeria have scaled through preliminary bidding…

As the nation’s technological drive continues to slide, Federal Government has come out with concrete measures to curb the ebbing technological education. As a step, Federal government has scrapped the award of Higher National Diploma (HND) by the nation’s polytechnics and shut out admission of students for the programme. Again, non-technical courses in the nation’s polytechnics are phased out to make room for technical courses to revive the country’s ailing technology. Moreover, polytechnics are to become campuses of the proximate universities with the Vice Chancellors of those universities appointing provosts for the polytechnics, subject to the ratification of the Universities…