Sanusi Lamido Sanusi -  Former Emir of Kano. The former Central Bank of   Nigeria   (CBN) governor will be in the United Kingdom from October as a visiting fellow at   the Oxford University   institution’s African Studies Department. As far as he's concerned ,  service to the nation does not have to be through only politics and recalled how he “started off as an academic and after just two years, I completed my masters and went into banking for some reasons. I have been a banker, a regulator, an  emir . “People have been talking to me about politics when I was in the CBN. I have never had an interest in partisan politics,” he said in an Arise TV interview”. He added: “The nature of my family is that we consider ourselves the leaders of the poorer people and...

        Mary Hester Powell, May 21, 1922 - August 27, 2020 Powell, May 21, 1922 - August 27, 2020   Mary Hester Powell, age 98, beloved cousin and friend, died peacefully August 27, 2020, at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, NC. Mary Hester was born in Oyo, Nigeria, West Africa, to missionary parents, the late Rev. Julius Carlyle Powell and Rosa Beatrice Hocutt Powell, on May 21, 1922. She was given a special Yoruba name, ‘Abiose,’ meaning ‘Born on Sunday.’ Her birth was registered as an American citizen in Ghana, the nearest consulate. In her early years she was home-schooled in Nigeria through the Calvert School of Baltimore, MD. Beginning in the fifth grade, her education continued in the States. Mary Hester graduated from Meredith College in 1942 and from John Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing in 1948. She was appointed by the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1949 as a nurse to the Frances Jones Memorial Nursing Home in Og...

                                                                            Tyler Perry Tyler Perry , who was once homeless, is  unmistakably a  billionaire , according to Forbes. The 51-year-old entertainer  has earned $1.4 billion in pre-tax income since 2005, the money outlet reports.  He owns the entirety of his creative output, including more than 1,200 episodes of television, 22  feature films  and at least two dozen stage plays, as well as a 330-acre studio lot at the edge of Atlanta’s southern limits,” the outlet claims. “He used that control to leverage  a deal with ViacomCBS  that pays him $150 million a year for new content and gives him an equity stake in BET+, the streaming service it debuted last September. "I love when people say you come fr...

                                                        Mr .  Boss Mustapha    The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF)  and t he chairman Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19   has warned Nigerians to remain vigilant in spite of the lowest number of cases recorded in four months. Mr Boss Mustapha, gave the caution on Monday at the briefing of the task force in Abuja. He said, “For us in Nigeria, the last three weeks have shown a slowdown in the number of confirmed cases. Indeed, in the last four months of testing, the lowest daily figure of confirmed cases (138) was reported on August 30. “The PTF still urges caution and vigilance on the declining numbers because the virus is still potent and very dangerous.” According to the SGF, this position is informed by the fact that despite the nation’s enhance...

 Image Courtesy - LASEMA. A helicopter crash has killed two people and seriously injured one person in Lagos State on Friday, according to a state official. Sources say that the helicopter a Bird 206, which belongs to Quorum Aviation, came in from Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital with two crew members and a passenger. According to the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Gboyega Akosile, the injured victim has been taken to the hospital, while the dead bodies have been deposited at the mortuary. The helicopter crashed at 16A Salvation, Opebi Road in Ikeja, Lagos.

                                                Femi Fani - Kayode Femi Fani-Kayode, former minister of aviation, says the Nigeria Union of Journalists (N U J) misunderstood the flare-up between him and  a reporter. He   attacked Eyo Charles  ,   a journalist who asked him a question at a press conference in Calabar, Cross River state, last week.  In a statement released on his social media handles, described the question by the journalist,  as “an assertion and insult”, saying he has been arranged by his political enemies who wanted to give  him a hard time. The full Statement: During my tour of the South and after a long and successful press conference in Calabar, Cross Rivers state, a journalist put up his hand for the last question and said, "Well we do not know who is bankrolling you". This is not a question but an asse...

               Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIODCOM). No fewer than 100 Nigerian students in northern Cyprus have been killed in the last four years,  Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIODCOM) made this known on Monday and warned Nigerian parents against sponsoring their children to universities in the country. The students were killed between 2016 and 2020, in mysterious circumstances. Their attackers were never prosecuted for the crime, NiDCOM said in a statement. She gave the warning when she received in her office, a delegation led by Justice Amina Bello, mother of a Nigerian student, Ibrahim Khaleel Bello, who was allegedly killed in unexplainable occurrences in a country that is not recognized by united nation. The NIDCOM boss, who read out 15 names of Nigerians from a list of more than 100 who were killed in the country, said it was difficult to emplo...