Author: Biyi Lawrence

Sean Strickland stunned Nigerian-born New Zealander Israel Adesanya to take the middleweight title by unanimous decision in the main event of UFC 293. The event was the first Ultimate Fighting Championship event in Australia’s largest city in six years. The 32-year-old American (28-5), had caused a stir in the lead-up to the fight with sexist and misogynistic comments at a news conference promoting the bout. He won a five-round decision with all three judges scoring it 49-46. He did it with nonstop pressure and steady, upright boxing never once attempting a grapple. It is back to the drawing board for…

Abuja-based tailor, Mubarak Usman, who was shot at Garki Market by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), has shed light on the circumstances that led to the incident. In an exclusive interview with Channels Television, Usman says a woman who had come to him in need of his services reported him to a DSS operative on 23 August. According to him, the woman visited his shop to ask about the six pieces of fabric she had handed him, along with a sample belonging to her mother-in-law. Usman says he told the DSS operative that he had completed two…

Few Hollywood actors were present at this year’s Venice Film Festival with the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFRA) locked in industrial disputes over residuals, higher wages and artificial intelligence, among other things. The actors’ and writers’ strikes rendered one of the movie industry’s most glamorous red carpets eerily quiet. In the absence of some A-list celebrities that frequent the film festival every September, Adam Driver, for one, attended the premiere of his new movie “Ferrari” (in which he plays automative mogul Enzo Ferrari) thanks to a…

The National and State Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal in Bayelsa State has set aside the election of the member representing Sagbama-Ekeremor Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, Fred Agbedi. The tribunal stated this in a judgment delivered on Thursday, in Yenagoa by Justice Sylvester Odili on the petition marked EPT/BY/HR/01/2023 which was filed by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Michael Olomu. The Independent National Electoral Commission had declared Agbedi, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, winner of the election, having polled a total of 21, 430 votes, while Olomu had a total of 8,899 votes in…

Big Brother Naija All Stars housemate, Pere charged at Doyin on Friday afternoon and punched the wall as they engaged in a heated argument. Pere and Doyin have been at loggerheads over claims that he told her and Ceec that Cross, his friend likes Kim and is getting close to her when Cross knows he (Pere) also likes her. Doyin also claimed that Pere said Cross had told him that he likes former BBNaija housemate, Nengi, so he was wondering why Cross is going after Kim. Pere denied saying this to them and this got Doyin angry as she expected…

Senator Ned Nwoko of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been affirmed as the lawful winner of the Delta North Senatorial Election held on 25 February, 2023. The National and States House of Assembly Election Tribunal in Asaba, the Delta State capital, upheld the victory on Thursday. The three-man Tribunal led by Justice Catherine Ogunsola dismissed the petition filed by Ken Kanmma of the Labour Party (LP) for lack of merit. Delivering the unanimous judgment, the Tribunal held that the petitioner failed to prove his case as he could not tender before the Tribunal any relevant document to prove a…

Labour Party flag bearer at the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, on Thursday, rejected the judgment of the Presidential Election Petitions Court. He described the judgement as against justice, when speaking at his residence in Onitsha, Anambra State. He acknowledged the Tribunal’s adherence to statutory time frame and expressed respect for the court’s views and rulings but disagreed with the judgment’s rationale and final conclusions. He announced his intention, in his capacity as a presidential candidate and on behalf of the Labour Party, to immediately challenge the judgment through the appellate process, as permitted by the Constitution of the Federal…

May Yul Edochie, the daughter-in-law of Pete Edochie, has celebrated the legendary Nollywood actor after receiving double honorary doctorate degree. Pete Edochie had reached a significant milestone in his career when he was awarded two doctorates and a lifetime achievement award from Togo University, ISTM. The International School of Technology and Management, ISTM University, Togo, awarded Edochie a doctoral degree in Literature, another doctorate degree in Arts, and a lifetime achievement award. In a video posted online, University personnel visited the movie thespian at his home to decorate him and give him with the award plaque and diplomas. The honour…

The leadership of the Labour Party has rejected the outcome of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal which uphold the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as winner of the 25 February, 2023 election. This comes after LP petitions were dismissed by the Justice Haruna Tsammani-led panel, which the court said was ‘clearly based on rhetoric.’ Some of the claims made by the petitioners included the nullification of the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the election for failing to score 25 per cent in the FCT; Tinubu’s incompetence to contest the election following his forfeiture…

The Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja, has dismissed the allegation that President Bola Tinubu was convicted in the United States of America, USA, on a drug trafficking related charge. The petition was filed by the Labour Party and its 2023 presidential candidate candidate, Peter Obi. The court established that the $460,000 fine that was imposed on Tinubu in the US, was in a civil matter. It held that such fine did not translate to a criminal conviction that was capable of warranting Tibubu’s disqualification from contesting the presidential election that held on February 25. Justice Haruna Tsammani, who led…