D’banj releases new single – Oyato

Popular Nigerian singer, Dapo Oyebanjo, popularly known as D’banj has released a new single titled Oyato.

The single which he released on Saturday is the first Nigerian single the singer will be releasing after leaving Mo’Hits.

He said he has dedicated the single to his fans for standing by him through all his trying time.

D’banj after his split with Mo’Hits was signed to Kanye West’s G.O.O.D Music Label.

 

Suicide blast kills top MP, 16 others at wedding

Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan (AFP) – A suicide bomber killed a prominent Afghan lawmaker and 16 other people at his daughter’s wedding party in the north of the country on Saturday, officials said.

The attacker embraced MP Ahmad Khan, a former militia commander, in front of wedding guests before detonating the explosives strapped around his waist, a security forces spokesman said.

President Hamid Karzai’s office said in a statement 17 people were killed and around 43 wounded, revising an earlier statement that said 23 were killed in the attack in Aybak, capital of normally peaceful Samangan province.

Happy Birthday to our Great icon — Scholars, others celebrate Soyinka at 78

Wole Soyinka was born on 13 July 1934 at Abeokuta, near Ibadan in western Nigeria.

After preparatory university studies in 1954 at Government College in Ibadan, he continued at the University of Leeds, where later in 1973 he took his doctorate.

During the six years spent in England, he was a dramaturgist at the Royal Court Theatre in London 1958-1959. In 1960, he was awarded a Rockefeller bursary and returned to Nigeria to study African drama.

No foreign trained doctor will practise in Nigeria from October

By VICTORIA OJEME, Abuja

The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) recently declared that no foreign trained doctor will be allowed to practise in Nigeria from October, 2012 except showing evidence that he or she could have practised in the country of study.

The Acting Registrar of MDCN, Dr. Udugbai Ilevbare disclosed this in Abuja yesterday during the induction ceremony of 103 foreign trained medical and dental graduates.

According to him, they must show evidence from the health regulatory bodies in their countries of training that they are registerable and could have worked there.

New Nigeria’s Driver’s License now accepted in the USA

Information recently made available to 247ureports.com through principal sources within the Federal Road Safety Corps [FRSC] reveal that the new improved security features imbedded in the new driver’s license of the federal republic of Nigeria has been approved for acceptance by the State of Maryland in the United States of America [USA] as a valid driver’s license in the state of Maryland. This information was confirmed by the department of motor vehicles in the State of Maryland following a comprehensive inspection and evaluation of the new security features imported into the new driver’s license being launched by the FRSC.

Tension in Edo, as ACN, PDP mobilize for support

SIMON EBEGBULEM

…As armed soldiers take over streets
BENIN CITY- POLITICAL tension heightened in Edo state, as leaders of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), relocate to their villages ahead today’s governorship election in the state.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of the ACN will be slugging it out with Gen. Charles Airhiavbere of the PDP and Solomon Edebiri of the ANPP. But a public opinion poll on the Edo State governorship election conducted by an Abuja-based Centre for Public opinion and Media Research has placed Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and the ACN ahead with 75.8 per cent.

How Edo people will vote today

After several months of painstaken campaigns by the different political parties, the die is cast as the people of Edo will today through the ballot box decide who their governor will be. Gabriel Enogholase writes that one factor that cannot be ignored is that of ethnic politics which has become a corner stone in Edo politics.

BARRING last minute hitches, Edo people go to the poll today to elect the governor of their choice who will pilot the affairs of the

Rivers Petrol Fire: How it happened – Survivors

…As victims get mass burial
YENAGOA – Some victims of the Thursday dawn deadly fuel tanker blaze at Okogbe community in Ahoada West local government area of Rivers State on the border flank with Bayelsa State who were rushed to the Federal Medical Centre Yenagoa yesterday relived their harrowing experiences and miraculous escape from the jaws of death.

Over 100 persons, including pregnant women, youths and children were sent to their untimely death when a petrol tanker from which they were scooping fuel exploded.