The CEO of Phillip Morris International (PMI), a leading tobacco company, André Calantzopoulos has said that youths should not use any tobacco or nicotine containing product. He made this know in a press release on Wednesday April 24, 2019. According to him, “Given the rapid pace of innovation in the tobacco products space, we are emphatic that youth should not use any tobacco- or nicotine-containing product. Nicotine is addictive. It is not risk-free, and it poses particular risks for adolescents. We know that great care must be taken to achieve our smoke-free goal. Youth should not become nicotine users. Former…
Author: Peters Okwudili
Notable movie director Ifeanyichukwu Onyeabo has passed on. He was said to have slumped and died while shooting a movie in Jos, Plateau state in the morning of Good Friday, April 19. While speaking with newsmen on Friday, President of Directors’ Guild of Nigeria, DGN, Mr Fred Amata, on Friday, said that Onyeabo’s death was shocking and unbelievable, and had left him pondering on what may have gone wrong. He, however, could not say the cause of the incident, saying “we are still trying to ascertain what went wrong while at the venue of the film shooting. “We do not…
“She doesn’t love or appreciate me like you do”, “I love you and not her”, “I am only tolerating her because of my kids”, “I wish I met you earlier”, “she is outside the country and we haven’t spoken in years”, and the new and latest one, “I am not really married”. These can be described as the “national anthem” of the cheating husbands club. The term side chick is not uncommon in our society today. We talk about it all the time; we see stories where the wife gets to confront the side chick and sometimes this leads to…
World’s richest man and founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari on his re-election. Speaking in a telephone call with the President on Wednesday evening, Mr. Gates said he was happy to be associated with the president, adding that he would be committed to the success of the administration and the well- being of the country, expressing his willingness to do more. President Muhammadu Buhari commended Bill Gates for his consistent and generous support to public causes around the globe, and specifically for supporting the eradication of polio and HIV diseases in Africa and Nigeria in particular.…
Nigerian billionaire oil mogul, Igho Sanomi has lost his private jet and is set to lose his 3 apartments in London to Credit Suisse, a Swiss bank over a $3million debt. According to Bloomberg, Sanomi was a guarantor for a credit facility extended to one of his companies. His company, Taleveras Energy, trades more than 100 million barrels of crude oil annually and is targeting biofuel investments. In a statement by Andrew Brown, a Credit Suisse Lawyer, he said that three properties owned by Sanomi including apartments in Chelsea, west London, and Belgravia, in the heart of London’s diplomatic quarter,…
