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Veteran Nigerian actor, Femi Ogunrombi aka Papa Ajasco is dead. This news of Ogunrombi’s death was confirmed by a theatre practitioner, Husseini Shaibu, on his Twitter handle on Sunday, He wrote, “I have just been reliably informed that the ethnomusicologist, former Music Instructor with #NATIONALTROUPE and one time stand in for the ‘Papa Ajasco’ …

Papa Ajasco, real name Femi Ogunrombi, was a Nigerian comic actor popular for his portrayal of the eponymous ‘Papa Ajasco’ in Wale Adenuga’s television series. Abiodun Ayoyinka initially played the role of Ajasco, a portly wealthy man with funny mannerisms – but Ogunrombi took over the role after he pulled …

An ATR 72 aircraft of Yeti Airlines that flew to Pokhara from Kathmandu has crashed in Pokhara of Kaski district on Sunday morning. A total of 68 passengers and four crew members were on board the aircraft that crashed between the old airport and the Pokhara International Airport, Sudarshan Bartaula, …

Redeemed Church, RCCG, Nigeria’s Pentecostal Fellowship Invite Presidential Candidates, Sowore, Tinubu, Atiku, Obi, Others To Political Summit The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has invited the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, and other Nigerian presidential candidates for the 2023 general elections to a youth …

Properties worth millions of Naira have been destroyed as fire gutted the Araromi spare parts market in Ibadan, Oyo State.The fire broke out in the early hours of Saturday, January 14.About 45 shops were affected by the fire incident at the spare parts market, which is one of the major …

No fewer than 473,429 Nigerians have called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to ban and criminalise child marriage in the country. The call was contained in a petition, which started on the global change website, change.org, by a civil society group, Never Your Fault, run by three …

Not since 1993 when MKO Abiola chose Babagana Kingibe as his running mate has the religious complexion of a presidential ticket excited the passions of Nigerians as much as Bola Tinubu’s choice of Kashim Shettima as his running mate. It at once got some Christians enraged and some Muslims engaged. …

No fewer than 473,429 Nigerians have called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to ban and criminalise child marriage in the country. The call was contained in a petition, which started on the global change website, change.org, by a civil society group, Never Your Fault, run by three …

The state Commissioner of Police, CP. Paul Odama, disclosed this while parading the suspect before reporters at the police headquarters, Ilorin, on Friday. He said the suspect presented himself to the victim as an American on TikTok, a social media platform with the name, Howard Adams, and defrauded her of …

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a mother, Busola Oyediran and her lover, Akebiara Emmanuel, for allegedly physically assaulting their two children aged five and two. It was reported that the couple was arrested on Friday in the Egbeda/Idimu area of Lagos, following reports by their neighbours. It was …