Popular music producer, Don Jazzy has advised artistes to learn from singer Davido in promotion of their musical projects. The Marvin Records director, in a tweet, recounted the marketing efforts of the OBO crooner towards his album despite his popularity. According to Don Jazzy, Davido never felt complacent and concluded that everyone will embrace his album. He urged musicians to emulate Davido’s marketing strategy, adding that it won’t reduce their reputation. “Dear artists hope you can see how Davido is marketing his album. He didn’t form oh I’m OBO so everybody will cop my shit,” he wrote. Davido recently released…
Author: Victor Fola
The Federal Government has called out Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi to clarify himself regarding a leaked audio recording of a conversation he purportedly had with a popular cleric. The audio tape, which was made public by an online site, purported to be a conversation between Bishop David Oyedepo, the man who started the Living Faith Church Worldwide, and Obi. Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the minister of information and culture, said in a statement to the media on Monday in London that Obi should clarify his claim that the leaked discussion was “a fake doctored audio call.” “I need to…
The All Progressives Congress has prayed the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja to dismiss the case submitted by the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, challenging Bola Tinubu’s election as president-elect on February 25. The APC, the 4th respondent, urged the PEPC to reject the petition in its notice of preliminary objection marked: CA/PEPC/03/2023 and filed at PEPC’s Secretariat on Monday night by Thomas Ojo, a member of the party’s legal team led by Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, in Abuja. The petition was deemed frivolous and without merit, so the party requested that the tribunal reject…
Ify Aniebo, wife of Labour Party’s gubernatorial candidate, postured as an activist and anti-corruption advocate, but days after her father’s dark legacies made the headlines, including his role in the violence and butchery of Abacha’s dictatorship, she has chosen the complicity of silence, opting instead to blame the opposition for unearthing the uncomfortable facts. Reports of how Aniebo stole N113 million from the coffers of the Kogi state government while in power recently awash the media, with many startled and disturbed to find out he is the father of Ify. It was also uncovered that Aniebo was a close ally…
More details have emerged of how Peter Obi’s loss at the 2023 presidential polls dashed many hopes, the result of which has been deep seated angst against the ruling party, APC, and president-elect, Bola Tinubu. According to a top source within the Labour Party, after sidelining the Lamidi Apapa faction of the party, Peter Obi appealed to the tribalistic instinct of certain Igbo nationals including Oby-Ezekwesili and Chinamanda Adichie, assuring them that if they used their prominent positions to campaign for him, he would reward them with ministerial positions when he won. Although the source noted that the details of…
Spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential campaign council, Festus Keyamo has bragged about the party being the leading party in the South East. Keyamo said this in a tweet on Monday. He mocked the Labour Party, stressing that in spite of the noise it made prior to the general elections and still making, the ruling APC floored it in a region where it was touted to dominate. The minister wrote, “In the midst of all the noise by the Labour Party and Peter Obi, guess what? The APC is now the leading party in the South East: it…
A former Deputy Governor of Nasarawa State, Prof Onje Gye-Wado, who was kidnapped last Thursday night, has been freed after N4m ransom. Gye-Wado, the Professor of law, was kidnapped in his country home, Rinza, near Wamba, the headquarters of Wamba local government area. His kidnappers placed a ransom of N70m but the family bargained from N2m to N3.5m. But, it was gathered the abductors finally negotiated close to N4m before he was released. family source is quoted to have said, “They collected the ransom near Mada Hills Secondary School in Akwanga with N200 recharge card. Then he was released near…
Chairman, Senate Committee on Youths and Sport, Obinna Ogba (PDP, Ebonyi Central), has described the loss of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the recently concluded general elections as deserved. According to Ogba, Atiku should have allowed an Igbo man to fly the flag of the Party as the presidential candidate. He said, The National Working Committee, NWC, deserves to be suspended, starting from the national chairman who lost his booth, ward and state. All the conspirators who gave tickets to those who understood their languages lost. “Our presidential candidate (Atiku Abubakar) had no business contesting…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has requested that three opposition parties’ petitions disputing the election victory of Bola Tinubu, its candidate for president, be dismissed by the presidential election tribunals. The Action Alliance (AA), Allied Peoples Movement (APM) and Action People’s Party (APP) had, challenged the election of Mr. Tinubu as president-elect in separate petitions. In three distinct responses, the APC urged the tribunal to disregard the petitions. Thomas Ojo, a member of the party’s legal team in Abuja under the direction of Lateef Fagbemi, filed them at the secretariat of the presidential election petitions court on Sunday night. In…
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in Lagos State, has expressed his gratitude to the people of the State for voting for him. The governor said he considered it a honour to have been reelected into office, pledging to work tirelessly to deliver a greater Lagos for all. He condemned the ethnic profiling that has characterized the polls, saying he will do everything it takes to bring healing to the land. He said this in a tweet on his Twitter handle on Monday morning. He wrote, “Thank you Lagosians! “I am deeply humbled and grateful for the…