Kogi: Abubakar Audu Is Dead
Abubakar Audu guber candidate of the APC in Kogi state is dead. There are no details yet about what led to his death but his aides said he just slumped. The election in which he participated last saturday has been declared inconclusive by INEC.
Accident Scene of a BRT Bus on Lagos-Ibadan Express Way (PHOTO)
A red BRT bus with a registration number LAR 112 XA has veered into a shallow ditch close the median strip along Lagos-Ibadan expressway. An eyewitness said the driver was trying to move away for an on-coming vehicle. Another account from one of the passengers says the driver lost control. “I think the driver simple…
France Trails Attackers
Authorities in France have declared a three-day mourning period for 129 victims of the coordinated attacks in Paris last Friday. But as the world shares in its grief, France has said that it would not succumb to blackmail from the Islamic state, IS, which claimed responsibility for the attacks. They are living up to that…
Healthy Living with Quail Eggs
Want your child to have better memory, a strong nervous system, sharp vision and less visit to the hospital, then give him or her two quail eggs a day. The Chinese know these benefits, and that is why they make it mandatory that the children are well fed with quail eggs. Moreso, Chinese medical…
Money: Judges’ Fatal Attraction
Is there any connection between allegations of misdemeanor against Danladi Umar, chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT and the Supreme Court ruling in favour of Bukola Saraki, embattled senate president? Perhaps if there is any we may never get to know, at least for a long time to come. What we do know…
Mandela Widow To Visit Chibok Girl’s Parents
Graca Machel, prominent child rights campaigner and Nelson Mandela’s widow will be meeting some of the parents of the 219 girls abducted by Islamist Boko Haram militants last year. The date of meeting which will be held in Lagos is yet to be announced, but it is meant to support the parents of the girls…
Ooni: Coronation Holds November 30
All roads will lead to Ile Ife on Monday, November 30. It is the date that the Enitan Ogunwusi Ooni-elect who is still undergoing the mandatory traditional rites and initiation process at the Ilofi will be formally installed as the new Ooni of Ile Ife. When TELL contacted Adeyemi Aderibigbe, head of Giesi Ruling House,…
TELL Wins Again
On a day meant to reward journalists, TELL Magazine again walked tall as its reporter clinches the infrastructure reporting award It was another good night for TELL Magazine in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, November 13, as its reporter, Anthony Akaeze, a senior assistant editor, won the Zimeo Excellence in Media Award. Akaeze won in the…
New Book About HID Awolowo
As the November 25 burial date of the late matriarch of the Awolowo dynasty, Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo draws close, a book about her life and times, has been published. The book, In the Radiance of the Sage: the life and times of HID Awolowo, written by Wale Adebanwi, associate professor, University of California, Davis,…
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