Author: Feyisayo Helen

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Femi Fani-Kayode, the director, new media for the APC presidential campaign council, on Monday, shared a video of Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar, talking and smiling at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, in Abuja earlier in the day. Tinubu is the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, while Atiku is the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, flag bearer. FFK in the video shared on Twitter, described the former Governor of Lagos, Tinubu and former vice-president of Nigeria, Atiku as “two great gladiators”. He wrote: “Two great gladiators at Nnamdi Azikwe Int. Airport, Abuja…

There is pandemonium in ASCON area of Ibafo, Ogun State, as fire razed a Chinese factory on Monday, 14 November, 2022. The cause of the fire outbreak and the number of casualties are not yet known at the time of filing this report. The fire outbreak comes five months after fire razed a footwear warehouse at 118/120, Mandilas, Broad Street, CMS, Lagos, and destroyed goods worth millions of naira. A security guard, who claimed that the inferno was caused by a power surge, said prompt arrival of responders prevented the fire from spreading to other buildings. But as at the…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – The Oyo State police command has vowed to clamp down on political thugs destroying campaign billboards belonging to rival parties in the State. The Leader of the Southwest zone of New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Alhaji Bisi Olopoeyan, on 3 November, raised an alarm that almost 30 of the party’s billboards at the cost of N350,000 each, have been destroyed by political thugs. He alleged that the thugs are working for the incumbent and candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Governor Seyi Makinde, across Oyo State. Olopoeyan made the allegation while addressing the party’s…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Mr. Ibu’s daughter and content creator, Jasmine Okafor has split from her husband of nine months after getting married within two months of meeting, dating. The once sweet, lovey-dovey relationship seems to have hit the rock as fast as it started. Jasmine ended the union after finding out her now estranged husband was previously married with three grown kids. Taking to her Instagram page, Jasmine wrote: “This was the best 9 months of my life! I have no regrets whatsoever! I just won’t settle for a lie regardless! I forgive easily, I remember asking…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Facts have emerged on how Tayo Ayinde, the Chief of Staff to Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu lost his wife, Princess Raliat Adedoyin Ayinde nee Ojora. Princess Raliat died in the early hours of Sunday, 13 November, 2022, at age 36 after a brief illness, both families revealed on Sunday. The families of Ayinde and Ojora confirmed her death in an obituary released on Sunday evening. The obituary read: “The families of Ayinde and Ojora are deeply saddened to announce the sudden death of their daughter, sister and wife, Princess Adedoyin Raliat Ayinde Nee…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Nigeria on Sunday, after spending almost two weeks in the United Kingdom for a routine medical check up. Buhari travelled to London in 31 October to see his doctors. He left shortly after he presided over an emergency meeting with security chiefs at the State House, Abuja. According to a tweet by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, Buhari is expected back in the country in the “second week of November.” The Special Adviser to the President on Digital Communications, Bashir Ahmad, announced Mr…

Tiffany Trump, the daughter of former United States President, Donald Trump, married her lover, a Nigerian-bred Michael Boulos, on Saturday. The wedding took place at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. Donald Trump and his wife, Melania were at the wedding. Following the spectacular wedding, Tiffany, 29, waltzed on to the dancefloor arm-in-arm with the groom before the doting couple shared their special moment to a cover of Toploader’s ‘Dancing in the Moonlight,’ the Daily Mail reported. Changed from her stunning wedding gown, Tiffany wore a flowing white dress as she showed off a diamond necklace and her sharply-dressed husband beside…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – A Nigerian woman, Patience Adesuwa Ajao has taken to her Facebook page to celebrate her promotion as the branch manager of a leading bank in Canada. In her post, Mrs. Ajao recalled how people said she would never be promoted when she was employed as a Customer Service Representative with the bank eight years ago. “Upon relocating to Canada eight years ago, I was told to abandon all thoughts of building a career, and just survive. A few months later, I accepted the Customer Service Representative role with one of Canada’s top five Banks,”…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Nigeria-born UFC fighter, Israel Adesanya aka The Last Stylebender, has lost his UFC middleweight belt to Brazil’s Alex Pereira following a knockout defeat in the UFC281 main event at the Madison Square Garden, United States, in the earlier hours of Sunday. Pereira, a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist and former kickboxer, is the new UFC middleweight champion after knocking out longtime opponent Israel Adesanya in the fifth round in only his fourth bout. Adesanya’s kickboxing career involved a few losses, with Pereira having outpointed Adesanya in 2016 and knocked out the “Last Stylebender ”…

IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- One person has been reported dead and another injured after a warehouse under construction collapsed in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. It was learnt that the building, which collapsed on a mosque beside it, left one person injured. It was gathered that the incident happened in the Soka area of Ibadan, around the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Friday. A resident told The Punch correspondent on Saturday that the deceased was identified as Bolaji, a teenager. The incident was said to have been reported at the Sanyo Police Station in Ibadan and policemen from the station were…