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Nigerian Afro singer, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems has bagged the Best International Act Award at the 2022 BET Awards...


The BET Awards which is organized to celebrate Black excellence in music, culture and sports was held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles and it was anchored by American actress, Taraji P.Henson..

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/bet-awards-2022-tems-wins-best-international-act/

Governor Abubakar Atiku of Kebbi State on Sunday bade farewell to the first batch of intending pilgrims from the State to Saudi Arabia...

Speaking during the epoch making event at Sir Ahmadu Bello International Airport, Birnin Kebbi, Bagudu urged the intending Pilgrims to fervently pray for peace and an end to the insecurity and other challenges facing the country while in the holy Land .

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/hajj-2022-bagudu-urges-intending-pilgrims-to-pray-for-nigeria/

In order to forestall any likely accidental collapse and also save lives, officials of Lagos State Building Control Agency, LASBCA, have started the removal of five defective buildings in Ikoyi...

The structures comprising four floors, each still under construction at the end of Patrick Harbour Estate, Ikoyi, were found sinking and tilted, thereby making it imperative to discontinue further construction works at the site.


https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/lasbca-begins-removal-of-defective-buildings-in-ikoyi/

I need to point out that I know none of these men, nor have I dealt with them in any capacity now or in the past. I am only here to give a psychological picture of what I call the Buharian image of the Nigerian space; “Nigerians are the problem.” A mass problem that is further complicated by the media, where the influence of money and power has taken charge of journalism at the behest of media ethics...

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/nigerian-hypocrisy-at-work-again-it-was-buhari-atiku-and-now-tinubu-lets-focus-on-issues/

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has charged the students of New Fountain Secondary School and Christian Council of Nigeria School, both in Festac Town, Lagos, to exhibit attributes of integrity...


https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/members-of-students-anti-corruption-club-charged-to-imbibe-integrity/

The Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu Nigeria (AMEN), and Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka is a Catholic Priest who courts controversy and sees himself as an ecumenical ‘star’ awaiting heaven. Unlike a rock star who cares less about heaven Mbaka hopes to have his paradise both here on earth and hereafter, in heaven! No one is sure who would make heaven whenever Armaggedon happens. God operates in an unusual way that baffles mortals. But He remains a God of justice, love and kindness. The mundane rock star like a prostitute could make heaven whereas those shouting ‘hallelujah’ hypocritically could end up in hell!

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/rev-fr-ejike-mbaka-demystified/

The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) has commenced the engagement of Primary and Secondary School Students on its Safeguarding the Rights of a Child (STRAC) initiative as part of efforts to curtail domestic and sexual abuse in the State...

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/lasg-engages-school-children-in-strac-initiative-to-curtail-abuse/

Abuja 21 June 2022 – The Delegation of the European Union to Nigeria and to the ECOWAS congratulates all stakeholders and the people of Ekiti on a largely peaceful poll...

We encourage voters, and in particular the youth and women, to sustain their participation beyond the elections by holding candidates accountable for their campaign promises.

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/2022-ekiti-state-gubernatorial-election/

Nigerian Music duo consisting of twin brothers, Peter Okoye and Paul Okoye also known as P-Square are set to rerelease brand new songs next month. The signees of Akon’S Konvict Muzik record label, shared in a tweet the announcement of their soon to be released song, urging fans to get ready to update their playlist....


https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/musical-duo-p-square-set-to-drop-new-hit-songs/

Many Nigerians were taken aback that at the last presidential primaries of both the PDP and the APC, an overwhelming majority of the delegates from the South-east geopolitical zones failed to vote for candidates from the zone – despite the perennial clamour for a President of Igbo extraction, and the Igbo use of the ‘marginalization’ argument to engage the national political process....


https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/2023-and-the-igbo-political-behaviour/

As the crises resulting from a recent outburst by an Enugu-based Catholic Priest, Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka continue to rage, the candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi on Monday made it clear that he holds nothing against the priest….


Last week, Fr Mbaka, who is the founder of Adoration Ministries, Enugu, while addressing his congregation at a program in his ministry at Enugu, said Nigerians will not vote Obi in the Presidential election because he was stingy but later apologized for the utterance.

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/i-hold-nothing-against-mbaka-obi-reacts-to-demeaning-comments-by-cleric/

To consolidate its success, TotalEnergies Plc has informed shareholders that the company remains ready to become a multi-energy corporation that will play a vital part in the country’s energy transition....

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/totalenergies-reaffirms-its-dedication-to-energy-transformation/

For the first time in history of the FIFA World Cup tournament, three nations will jointly host the prestigious competition in 2026 and 48 nations will participate, as against 32 previously known. FIFA announced this development on Wednesday. The United States has 11 slots, Mexico has 3 and Canada has 2...

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/sixteen-cities-from-three-nations-will-jointly-host-the-2026-fifa-mens-world-cup/

Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, has urged the Y2022 Hajj intending pilgrims from Lagos State to be good ambassadors and shun any act capable of portraying the State and Country in a bad light as they embark on the holy pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia...

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/y2022-hajj-hamzat-urges-intending-pilgrims-to-be-good-ambassadors/

Aristotle said: “Choice, not chance, determines your destiny”. But can Nigerians say sincerely that there is a choice among the fossilised beings the parties are presenting to us as candidates? The choice we made in 2015 has pushed the Naira from N197 per Dollar to N600 per Dollar, while wellness has gone down south. Many in Katsina and Zamfara, who in 2019, chorused ‘Sai Baba’ (meaning only Baba Buhari can do it) are buried today in unmarked graves dug by bandits. Choice, not chance, will determine if we will live to see beyond 2023. Unfortunately, what faces Nigerians in the coming election is a no-choice. Our situation is something like buying a no-cure for a disease that threatens to kill...


https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/the-no-choice-before-nigerians/

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is preparing to implement a licensing framework for the development of Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) in Nigeria, paving the way for widespread internet penetration in the country’s unserved and underserved areas...

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/the-ncc-plans-to-expand-broadband-penetration-by-issuing-mvno-licenses/

Before I begin this piece, let me issue some caveats. I am a Christian and a Catholic and a proud one at that. I am not a pastor, of course, I cannot be a priest because I had chosen the path of holy matrimony and I have beautiful children, to the glory of God. So for all I shall be saying here, I don’t lay any claim whatsoever to the effect that they are revelations from heaven to me; let us take this as a case of a man who is speaking carnally....


https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/is-peter-obi-the-rock/

Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has called on people in authority to use their positions to make the lives of the people they lead better.

Okowa made the call on Sunday at a Thanksgiving Service for the 3rd anniversary of the 7th Assembly of Delta House of Assembly held at Living Faith Church, Asaba...

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/make-society-better-with-your-positions-okowa-charges-leaders/

As the compass leading Nigeria to a destination yet unknown continues to malfunction wildly, the long – suffering people of Southern Kaduna must be asking themselves their offence or the offences of their ancestors that now warrant that their children and women continue to be used as baits in Nigeria`s blood-curdling and bone-chilling blood games...

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/southern-kaduna-and-a-gathering-of-hyenas/

TAs Nigerians debate the suitable running mate of the presidential candidate of the All People’s Congress (APC), Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, an Islamic human rights organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has advised Tinubu to consult the ‘Noble Dozen’. The Noble Dozen is the name given by MURIC to the twelve sincere Northern governors who stood by the idea of the transfer of power to the South....

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/consult-the-noble-dozen-muric-advices-tinubu-on-vp-post/

A round table conversation with key stakeholders in Nigeria’s financial industry will focus on the government’s key policy of creating an inclusive financial system that will benefit people from all walks of life...

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/nigerias-financial-inclusion-project-will-be-discussed-by-experts-at-a-conference/

Mohamed Salah wins the PFA player of the year, his second since joining Liverpool. The Egyptian has joined the likes of Kevin Debruyne, Gareth Bale, Cristiano Ronaldo, Thierry Henry, Alan Shearer and Mark Hughes to become another player who has won the award twice. The 29 beat his Liverpool teammates Virgil Van Dijk and Sadio, Kevin Debruyne, Cristiano Ronaldo and Harry Kane to win his second after 2018...


https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/liverpool-forward-mohamed-salah-wins-pfa-player-of-the-year/

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), will be granted access to the database of the International Police (Interpol) which the Commission will utilise in profiling Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), and money laundering and illicit financial flows suspects....

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/interpols-database-access-icpc-to-profile-peps-money-laundering-suspects-owasanoye/

Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has asked that youth corps members undergo drug test as they report for their mandatory one year national service at the various orientation camps across the country as part of drug demand reduction efforts of the anti-narcotic agency...

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/marwa-seeks-drug-test-for-youth-corps-members/

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has congratulated the winners of the presidential election primaries in two other parties, Kola Abiola of the People’s Redemption Party (PRP) and Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP)...

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/other-primaries-muric-felicitates-with-kola-abiola-kwankwaso-etc/

Harry Kane helped the Three Lions from suffering their second defeat in the tournament to Germany, having lost to Hungary.

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/uefa-nations-league-englands-draw-against-germany-saves-them-from-ignominy/

On June 3, Judge Santiago Pedraz of Spain’s national court, the Audienca Nacional, issued a summons for former CIA director and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to testify in an ongoing investigation into the conduct of private security firm UC Global and its founder, David Morales…

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/a-spanish-court-calls-mike-pompeo-we-want-you/

The strongman and leader of South-West politics, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has been at the receiving end of all manner of attacks in the past few days, including from members of his own political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). The attacks are coming not only from those who hate him, those who secretly admire his guts, those who fear him, but also from those who have been eating from him for a long time. But what exactly did Tinubu do to warrant the kind of bile that has been lately unleashed on him?


https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/tinubu-lest-we-forget-because-of-just-one-slip/

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 185 concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), asking the court to “declare unconstitutional, illegal, and incompatible with international standards the failure of the electoral body to extend the deadline for voter registration to allow eligible Nigerians to exercise their rights.”

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/primaries-serap-185-nigerians-sue-inec-over-failure-to-extend-voter-registration/

Any political investment that is anchored on personal reward is nothing far from selfish investment. A Yoruba man reigned as president from 1999 to 2007 and never provide any traceable tangible development for the region, it took a Fulani man faced with global financial meltdown and Covid 19 logjam to build the Lagos -Ibadan Expressway afresh and linked Lagos to Abeokuta with modern rail transport at a time his region of Bauchi-Kano- Borno that rained in the thunderous votes have no traces of these critical infrastructures.…

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/power-is-never-fought-for-its-negotiated/

President Muhammadu Buhari has described the gas explosion Friday at a Kano factory as “extremely horrific,” saying he is distressed by the tragic accident, the second in the city in a month...

https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/kano-gas-explosion-extremely-horrific-says-president-buhari/

Operatives of the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the EFCC have arrested 92 suspected internet fraudsters (aka Yahoo Boys) in a sting operation at various locations in Port Harcourt, Rivers State...
https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/moses-kelechi-90-others-nabbed-over-internet-fraud-in-port-harcourt/