There was a restaurant close to my place of work; a private affair with mauve curtains and cold air blasting from the A.C. I shivered as we entered, not from the cold but from anticipation and trepidation about what awaited me inside. I was about to sit down and have a conversation with my ex-fiance! What would Ronke say if she knew? She definitely will not approve. She was all for leaving the past in the past and moving on. And so was I, or so I thought. What if Austin was here to ask to have me back? What…
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The Deputy Governor of Imo State, Prince Eze Madumere has called on well-meaning Nigerians to support sports development in the Society as a means to emancipate young people. This he said while playing host to the Managing Director of Monarch and Co and the Imo State Executive Members of the Youths Sports Federation of Nigeria who paid him a courtesy visit at his official residence in Owerri, Imo State. Prince Madumere promised to partner with YSFON to host first female football competition in Imo State in collaboration with other stakeholders as sports according to him, has in no little way…
Group Managing Director and CEO, UBA Plc, Mr. Phillips Oduoza has emerged the 2015 Ai Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) 30 CEO of the year at this year’s 8th annual Ai CEO Investment Summit. This is the second time he is winning the award after winning it first in 2013. He was named the winner from a long shortlist that included Nassef Sawiris, CEO, Orascom Construction Company, Sifiso Dabengwa, CEO, MTN Group, SA, Guillaume Roux, CEO, Lafarge Africa, Segun Agbaje, CEO, GT Bank, Graham Clark, GMD, Dangote Sugar and Ben Kruger/Sim Tshabalala, Co-CEOs, Standard Bank. The event took place in New…
Africa Movie Academy Awards, AMAA held in far away, Port Elizabeth, South Africa during the weekend and Nollywood heavyweights were present at the event brandishing their colours, styles and panache. Pride Nigeria, brings you the authentic winners’ list . See below… Major winners of the night include Afolayan’s ‘October 1,’ ‘iNumber Number ‘ and Timbuktu Check out full list of winners below: Best Animation – The Legacies of Rubbies (Nigeria) Best Child Actor – “Layla Walet Mohammed and Mehdi A.G Mohammed – Timbuktu” Best Nigerian film – ‘October 1′ Best Documentary – Egypt Modern Pharaohs Best Diaspora – ‘Supremacy’ (USA)…
Comedian, Julius Agwu just survived a brain surgery and ever since had been grateful to God for saving him from the shackles of death. Narrating his ordeal to celebrity magazine in Lagos, Julius Agwu said he started losing weight mysteriously and he was rushed to the hospital after he had a seizure in May. According to the magazine, “On the genesis of his ill health, he said he can’t say specifically when and how it started. But all he could recollect was that at some point, he went on and on losing serious weight, which got many people wondering. Some concerned…
Its just two days left for us to bid the month of September goodbye and Nigerians are eagerly in expectation of President Buhari’s Ministerial list and not much has been heard of it. It would be recalled that the President through his media aides promised to release his Ministerial list this September, but up till now, there are no indication that the Presidency may release the much anticipated list before the month runs out. Some sources are squealing that President Buhari and his party, APC leaders are at loggerheads concerning those picked for Ministerial positions, but as at the time…
HOLY HUMOUR ARTHRITIS A drunken man who smelled like beer sat down on a subway seat next to a priest. The man’s tie was stained, his face was plastered with red lipstick, and a half empty bottle of gin was sticking out of his torn coat pocket. He opened his newspaper and began reading. After a few minutes the man turned to the priest and asked,” Say, Father, what causes arthritis?” “My Son, it’s caused by loose living, being with cheap, wicked women, too much alcohol, a contempt for your fellow man, sleeping around with prostitutes and lack of bath.”…
Riding on the euphoria waves of the completion of the merger between Heritage Banking Company Limited and Enterprise Bank Limited Mr. Akinsola Akinfemiwa OON, the Chairman of Board of the new Heritage Bank Limited, says the bank is set for a seamless operation that will meet the huge expectations of its customers and stakeholders. Speaking at a parley with journalists in Lagos recently, Akinfemiwa explained that the bank has, to this end, integrated its “process, technology, people, and branch networks” to pave way for an efficient and smooth banking service for its customers all over the country and beyond. The…
Ebonyi State Government has promised to provide some quantities of Ebonyi Rice popularly known as Abakaliki Rice to internally displaced persons and soldiers fighting Boko Haram insurgents in Borno State. Governor David Umahi made the promise when he visited the Chief of defence staff, Brig. Gen. Abayomi Olonishakin, at the Defence Headquarters in Abuja on Monday. Governor Umahi, who was full of praises for the Nigerian Army for their gallant efforts towards ending the insurgence in the North- East, assured the CDS that the people of Ebonyi State would give necessary support to the Army at any time. He said, “I…
A People’s Democratic Party (PDP) stalwart, Dr. Henry Ofa, has described the entrepreneurial scheme of the state government and reinvigoration of the technical education as an enduring programme that will significantly check unemployment situation in the state. Speaking in an interview with journalists in Asaba, yesterday, Ofa said that “while 100 days may be too short,, a time for critical evaluation of a government, the state Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has within the period laid a solid foundation towards the full implementation of his prosperity for all agenda in spite of the current economic crunch in the country While…