Academy Bans Will Smith For 10 Years Over Slap

Arts & CultureEntertainmentNewsAcademy Bans Will Smith For 10 Years Over Slap

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 9, 2022

Hollywood actor, Will Smith has been banned from attending the Oscars for the next 10 years, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced in a statement. This was the Academy’s response to the buzz-killing, shock-inducing scene of Smith, 53, striking comedian Chris Rock, 57, and cursing him live on camera before millions watching the Oscars on Sunday, March 27. The decision was made during a Board of Governors meeting held on Friday in...

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Crossdressing Bill: “I’m An Entertainer, Not A Cross-Dresser”, Tobi The Creator, Switches Career

EntertainmentFashionLifestyleCrossdressing Bill: “I’m An Entertainer, Not A Cross-Dresser”, Tobi The Creator, Switches Career

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 7, 2022

ABUJA — Nigerian Instagram content creator and fashion model, Tobi The Creator has denied being a crossdresser. Recall that the House of Representatives is considering a bill aimed at criminalizing cross-dressing except it is done for the purpose of entertainment. The bill was reported to pass its first reading on the floor of the House on Tuesday. With this proposed law, crossdressers now risk 6 months jail term or a fine of N500,000 if passed....

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The Female Wonders ―What You Do Not Know About the Vagina

ColumnsHealthLifestyleThe Female Wonders ―What You Do Not Know About the Vagina

PilotnewsApril 6, 20221

Let me guess. You are here because you have a vagina or are a friend of the vagina. Either way, you are welcome. Read through these genitalic words: “ikpu”, “toto”, cunt, camel toe, puna, fish lips, coochie, cookie, bearded clam, paradise, golden palace, papaya and most common of all, pussy. Apart from “ikpu (the Igbo word) and “toto” (the Yoruba expression), the reason why the vagina is coded as other slangy words might be because...

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FG Disburses N200,000 Grant to Local Producers of Assistive Devices

BusinessHealthFG Disburses N200,000 Grant to Local Producers of Assistive Devices

PilotnewsApril 6, 2022

LOKOJA — The Federal Government has disbursed N200, 000 each to some identified local producers of assistive devices across the 36 states of the federation. Hajia Sadiya Umar Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development (FMHADMSD) said this at a three-day capacity building workshop for Local Producers of Assistive Technologies (AT) in Lokoja, Kogi. The minister explained that the ministry in collaboration with state governments had earlier in 2018, through a forum...

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Health Minister Calls For Removal Of Barriers Hindering The Growth Of Traditional Medicine

HealthNewsHealth Minister Calls For Removal Of Barriers Hindering The Growth Of Traditional Medicine

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 5, 2022

The Minister of State for Health, Adeleke Mamora, has called for the removal of all barriers hindering the growth of traditional medicine in Nigeria and Africa. He was speaking at an event organised by the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development in Nigeria (NIPRD) to seek ways of improving the traditional medicine industry in Africa. Mamora explained that traditional medicine is part and parcel of the culture of Africa and must be encouraged to...

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Tacha, Basketmouth Hails Davido For 2022 FIFA Win, Wizkid, Burna Boy, Others Snub

EntertainmentMusicTacha, Basketmouth Hails Davido For 2022 FIFA Win, Wizkid, Burna Boy, Others Snub

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 4, 2022

Big Brother Naija season 4 housemate, Tacha, and Basketmouth have hailed Nigerian singer, Davido for his feature on the 2022 FIFA World Cup soundtrack. Davido had made history and made Nigerians proud as he, alongside Trinidad Cardona and Aisha, sang the 2022 World Cup soundtrack titled ‘Hayya Hayya’ (Better Together). Since this development and after his performance in Qatar on Friday night, many of his colleagues such as Burna Boy, Wizkid, Tiwa Savage, Don Jazzy,...

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Pastor Kumuyi Slams Female Choristers For Wearing Male Jackets, Wordly Dance

LifestylePeopleReligionPastor Kumuyi Slams Female Choristers For Wearing Male Jackets, Wordly Dance

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 4, 2022

YENEGOA — The General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi, has expressed disapproval of the female choristers’ mode of dressing and style of dancing at a recent crusade of the church. Speaking at the ministry’s global crusade-themed, ‘Full redemption for all through Christ’, in Bayelsa State, Kumuyi slammed the female choristers for wearing male jackets and dancing in a worldly way. Expressing disapproval of the female chorister’s dressing and style of dancing,...

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Wizkid, Femi Kuti, Made Kuti Loses To Angelique Kidjo At the Grammys

Award & RecognitionEntertainmentMusicWizkid, Femi Kuti, Made Kuti Loses To Angelique Kidjo At the Grammys

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 4, 2022

Wizkid, Femi Kuti and his son, Made Kuti have been defeated in the battle to win the 64th edition of the Grammy Awards. At the televised event held at the MGM Arena, Las Vegas on Sunday night, Wizkid, Femi Kuti, and Made Kuti lost out in two categories: Best Global Music Performance and Best Global Music Album. Wizkid was nominated for Best Global Music Performance category for Essence, his collaboration with Tems, alongside Femi Kuti’s Pa Pa...

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Follow Soludo Steps, Enugu Residents Cry Out Over Garbage Spill to Ugwuanyi

EnvironmentHealthFollow Soludo Steps, Enugu Residents Cry Out Over Garbage Spill to Ugwuanyi

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)April 4, 2022

ENUGU — The ambiance once enjoyed by the coal city residents and visitors have become a thing of the past as gory sights of garbage in all nooks and cranny of Enugu state raise questions on the existence or extinct of the waste management agency established in 2004 under Chimaroke Nnamani administration. The once spick and span environs of the city now compete with Onitsha in Anambra State and Aba in Abia state; Onitsha in...

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I Have Been Offered Millions Of Naira To Cut My Dreadlocks But I Refused – Daddy Showkey

EntertainmentLifestyleI Have Been Offered Millions Of Naira To Cut My Dreadlocks But I Refused – Daddy Showkey

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 3, 2022

Veteran Nigerian ghetto artiste, John Odafe Asiemo, known as Daddy Showkey, said he rejected an offer of millions of naira to cut his dreadlocks. Speaking as a guest during the Sempe Sunday service held at the God Bless Nigeria Church led by Pastor Tony Rapu on Sunday, March 27, the galala dance exponent known for his signature dreadlocks said he cannot cut his dreadlocks because of a covenant he made with God. Sharing his life story during the service,...

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