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George Martin, the author of the ‘A Song of Ice and Fire,’ book series that inspired HBO’s award-winning drama Game of Thrones, has revealed that the book will have a different ending. Martin’s announcement came as good news for fans who were dissatisfied with the ahow’a finale. READ ALSO:‘Game of…

The Niger Government has warned people living and farming around flood-prone areas to move away from such places, to avoid flooding. Alhaji Ahmed Inga, the Director-General of the State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA), gave the warning in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Minna. He said…

Wife of Edo Governor, Mrs Betsy Obaseki, has identified man-made poverty, greed and bad governance by past administrations in Nigeria as the root causes of irregular migration. Obaseki made the remark on Tuesday in her speech at the end of “Project dissemination on the creation of alternatives to migration through…

Tobi Ijalana Africa’s largest art collector, Yemisi Shyllon, is the suitor for choice metaphors in Akeem Lasisi’s new poetry video, ‘House of Memory’. The video released about two weeks ago is in tribute series the acclaimed performance poet started with the celebration of the Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka. READ…

The Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, has disowned a new guideline that demands tax certificates from media houses to get their representatives accredited for covering the Senate. Saraki disowns Agada over issuance of It is one of the points in a set of rules issued by the National Assembly’s Director…

Nigeria’s foremost deep-water oil and gas company, Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited (SNEPCo), paid N366 billion in 2018 as revenue to the federal government from its exploration activities, while it made another N2.1 billion as statutory payment to the Niger Delta Development Commission, SNEPCo’s Managing Director, Bayo Ojulari,…

Samuel Oladipupo Essoodee Popular actor, Yomi Fabiyi, paid a visit to veteran Nollywood actor, Baba Suwe, who has been sick for some time now. He currently out of the country for proper treatment. READ ALSO: 10 things you didn’t know about the woman who gave Baba Suwe N10m According to the…

Veteran actor, Kayode Olasehinde, popularly known as Pa James, was badly affected by the downpour that Lagos witnessed on Monday as his house was flooded. His son, Samuel Ajirebi, shared photos and videos of the bad state of the veteran’s compound on his Instagram page. According to him, it is…

Family rejoice as murderer of their daughter gets death sentence The family of a woman murdered two years ago have expressed consolation as the murderer was, on Tuesday, sentenced to death in Lagos. Mrs Dayo Adeleke was slaughtered by her gardener, Leudjoe Koyemen Joel, about two months after she employed…

Kunle Afolanya, veteran Nigerian filmmaker says there is so much segregation in filmmaking between the Francophone and Anglophone countries in Africa. Afolayan expressed concerns as African filmmakers under the ‘Pavillon Afriques’ at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes) called for co-production of films to boost distribution of African…