Most Nigerian Artises Are Ungrateful

Kehinde Adegbite, popularly known as Mallam Yankee is the chairman, The Bank club, Abuja and Yankee Entertainment. He is an entertainment entrepreneur who has worked with several Nigerian artistes and has given many a good platform that launched them into reckoning in the music industry. Mallam Yankee is so visible on the entertainment scene that he is being regarded as the man that transformed entertainment and nightlife in Abuja. In this chat the Abuja baron of nightlife talks about his hard-knocks life in the entertainment industry. Excerpts:

You have been talking so strongly on the growing activities of entertainment in Abuja;what is the secret of this renaissance?

Parents Should Allow Thier Children To Study The Courses Of Their Choice

Vice-Principal, Corona Secondary School, Mr. Paul Oba has urged parents to allow their children study whatever course they are good at, nothing that success in does not only depend on your discipline but on what you have passion in. He stated this during Corona Secondary School’s   three days Art Exhibition held at Gbagada branch of the school to mark the school 60th anniversary.

He urged parents to let go of their child who have talents in art. Records abound out there about people who went through education to do what their parents want them do. At the end of the day, they still came back to what they have passion for. People are earning their livelihood on things they take as hobby. Oba said: “It is not about forcing the child to do what you want, if you do, the child will not be happy. Some people who obeyed their parents doing what they want, ended up dropping it for what they love. We have a lot of parents in our school who came to us to say, “I went through this and I don’t want my children to go through that.”

Eagles Still Needs To Be Work On

Benin – A former coach of the Golden Eaglet, Godwin Izilein, on Monday said that the Super Eagles victory against the Cameroonian national team, should not be taken to mean “the Eagles have arrived.’’

The Eagles on Sunday defeated the Indomitable Lions 3-0 in an international friendly in Belgium as part of Eagles preparation for the World Cup and Nations Cup qualifiers.

Izilein said in Benin that although the Eagles won the match, they committed lots of mistakes during the match.

The former coach observed that the mistakes included Eagles streams of faulty passes and play.

“I had expected a sharp improvement from our match against Congo but what I saw against Cameroon wasn’t encouraging.

“The passes were not only faulty but questionable as well.

“We must not lose the fact that much work needs to be done on the team.

“Even though we won, we didn’t play well and for the fact that we played against 10 players,” he said.

Eagles Humiliated Cameroun

Super Eagles last night in Brussels put to sword fierce rivals Cameroon 3-0 in a much improved display from the loss to DR Congo.

After the shambolic showing against DRC on Thursday, the Super Eagles raised their game against the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon to win this friendly and ease pressure on coach Sunday Oliseh after his major falling out with Lille goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama


WINNERS. . . Super Eagles squad before the friendly match against the Indomitable Lions of Cameroun in Belgium.
Nigeria deserved their lead in the 39th minute through Efe Ambrose.

The Celtic defender rose above the Cameroon defence to power home a free kick from the right taken by Mikel Obi.

Incidentally, it was just minutes after Ambrose almost put the ball into his own net when his back pass beat an onrushing goalkeeper Carl Ikeme.

I Never Thought I'll Get all A’s in WASSCE

The West African Senior School Certificate Examination is not something students take without much fasting and prayer. Ask anyone of the 1.6 million candidates who took the examinations this year. Only about 59.61 of them scored five credits and above in the examination.

Oghenebrorhie Emuophedaro is not just lucky enough to be in the top percentile;  he scored straight As in all his nine WASSCE subjects.


Oghenebrorhie Emuophedaro
After six years at Faith Academy, Ota, Ogun State, the 16-year-old will now embark on his dream of studying petroleum and gas engineering at the University of Lagos, UNILAG.

He took time out to share his experience as well as his advice for Nigerian students.

How were you able achieve such a great feat of scoring nine As in the WASSCE? What sacrifice did you have to make?

HIV/AIDS Ends In 2030

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS has welcomed the commitment expressed by Nigerian leaders to end HIV/AIDS infections by 2030.

The UNAIDS Country Director for Nigeria and UNAIDS Focal Point for the Economic Community Of West African States, Bilali Camara said, “We welcome President Muhammadu Buhari’s call to action to end AIDS by 2030. We are looking forward to supporting government efforts at federal and state levels to free Nigeria from the AIDS epidemic,”

I Declared Emergency In Education

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State on Thursday declared a state of emergency in the education sector of the state.

He made the declaration in his speech at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium in Kaduna, during activities to mark the country’s 55th Independence Anniversary.

According to him, the nation is being liberated and there is the need to also free the people by making quality education accessible to all.