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Nigerian media personality and content creator, Amarachi Amusi, popularly known as Ashmusy, has said that at 30, she is not in a rush to get married. She explained that after freezing her eggs to protect her dream of becoming a mother, she now feels secure. Speaking in a recent episode of the Echo Room podcast, Ashmusy revealed that she almost got married to someone she knew wasn’t her ideal husband out of desperation and the “myth of the biological clock.” She said, “I want to get married, but I am not desperate. Just in case the right suitor doesn’t come, I…
Kun Khalifat FC defender Chikamso Amaefula says he is anticipating a tough tie against Wikki Tourists. The Owerri-based club will lock horns with Wikki Tourists in their final match of the 2025-26 Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, season. The encounter is slated for the Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri on Sunday (today). Amaefula said the players will show improvement from their previous games. “We are taking good step to improve,” Amaefula told Kun Khalifat media. “It will be a tough game as our supporters have showed that they believed in us. “We need to give our all to get the maximum points.” Kun…
President Bola Tinubu on Sunday said the economic reforms pursued by his administration have been painful not only for ordinary Nigerians but also for him personally, adding that he has lost sleep and weight alongside citizens bearing the burden of the reforms. This was as he accepted the All Progressives Congress presidential ticket for the 2027 election. Addressing party leaders and supporters at the Bola Tinubu International Conference Centre in Abuja immediately after being declared winner of the APC presidential primary with 10,999,162 votes, Tinubu said he shares in the collective anguish of the nation in the past three years…
The Lagos State Government says 931 persons were arrested for waste offences during intensified environmental enforcement operations conducted across the state within one year. The Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this during the 2026 Ministerial Press Briefing in Alausa, Ikeja, on Sunday. Wahab said the ministry strengthened Monitoring, Enforcement and Compliance operations to ensure stricter adherence to environmental laws and sanitation standards statewide. He said, “Through the agency’s enforcement drive, 931 persons were apprehended for waste offences, 2,251 sites inspected, 1,711 contravention notices issued and 239 sites sealed.” He added that enforcement teams evacuated more than…
Eight-time Nigerian champions Enugu Rangers have launched an ambitious “Mission-9” campaign as they prepare for a potentially title-deciding clash against Ikorodu City in the final game of the 2025/26 Nigeria Premier Football League season at the Onikan Stadium in Lagos on Sunday, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. Rangers general manager and chief executive officer, Amobi Ezeaku, said the club was fully focused on reclaiming domestic glory and believed the occasion represented one of the most important moments in the history of the Enugu side. The Rangers boss expressed appreciation to the club’s supporters and the Enugu State Government for their backing…
Off Campus author Elle Kennedy revealed her favorite book change from the show — so far. Kennedy took to TikTok on Saturday, May 23, to answer a question, which read, “From all of the changes that happened in the TV show, which one was your favorite and why?” In response, Kennedy said she loved that “Justin is a musician” instead of an athlete. “I think it makes a lot of sense,” she replied. “Loved loved loved Allie and Dean’s JLo/maverick dance and them having this wild tension even before their hookup (in the book the hookup happens right off the…
President Bola Tinubu has secured a landslide victory in the presidential primary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), overwhelmingly defeating his sole challenger, businessman Stanley Osifo, in the nationwide direct primary conducted across the country’s 8,809 wards. The results, announced on Sunday by the returning officer of the APC Presidential Primary Election, Pius Anyim, during the collation exercise at the Bola Tinubu International Conference Centre, Abuja, showed the incumbent president dominating the contest across virtually all states of the federation. Mr Tinubu polled a total of 10,999, 162 votes, while Mr Osifo secured only 16,503 votes nationwide, recording zero…
Nigeria has become the proverbial forest of the heartless, the Igbó Òdájú. It is where mothers must take extreme care to double-strap their sucklings to their backs. Even when they do, these Òdájú, the heartless, violently yank suckling infants off their mothers’ back. It is difficult to say we have a government. Or a country. Thomas Hobbes must be smiling in his grave now. His famous 1651-propounded theoretical state of the life of nature, wicked as a brute, solitary as oyster, nasty and as short as brevity, has found practical fit in today’s Nigeria. It was Tandi we quarreled with for embarrassing us with the incongruity of his dancing steps. Tandi Tandi,…
Cast: Toyin Abraham, Wole Ojo, Temitope Aremu Director: Titi Jeje Writer: Kenny George, Toyin Abraham Producer: Toyin Abraham Nigerian society is fixated on weddings and marriage. There could be an asteroid falling on earth, about to obliterate us all, and we would keep selling asoebi and cooking party rice because it’s not over till it’s over, not for my family and me, and other such platitudes that define us. Our over-the-top celebrations have gained notoriety to the extent that “Nigerian wedding” has become a cultural phenomenon, and foreigners express how much they want to attend one. With this backdrop, it…
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has appealed to Nigerians to pray fervently for the safe return of the students and teachers who were recently abducted in Oyo State. The organisation made the call in a statement issued by its Oyo State chapter. The statement jointly signed by the President of the chapter, Okechukwu Nwabunike, and Executive Secretary, Promise Aja, was made available to DAILY POST on Sunday. DAILY POST reports that in some communities in Oriire local government area in Oyo State. Nwabunike, in the statement, condemned the abduction in totality. A statement issued on behalf of other members of the organisation described…
