APC Crisis: Timi Frank asks Buhari to probe Oyegun over alleged N10m bribery...Read It All On Tafia World

 ABUJA – ‘Suspended’ Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Comrade Timi Frank has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to order an immediate investigation of a report alleging that the national leadership of the party was bribed by Senate President, Bukola Saraki to pave way for Thursday’s emergence of his ally, Bolaji Abdulahi as the substantive spokesman of the party. This was even as Frank threatened to sue Abdullahi for contempt of court should he assume his new office and begins to speak for the party. APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and...read it here...

Nigeria’s Soyinka not surprised Buhari’s shine is dulling...Read It All On Tafia World

 Nigerian literary icon Wole Soyinka on Thursday said he was not surprised that President Muhammadu Buhari has lost popularity just 18 months into office, given the high expectations that weighed on his government. The former military ruler won the 2015 election on an agenda of “change”, vowing to tackle the Boko Haramre...read it here...

KSA inducted into Hard Rock Hall Of Fame...Read it All On Tafia World

 Legendary Nigerian musician, King Sunny Ade, KSA, yesterday made history as the first Nigerian artiste to be inducted into the Hard Rock Café Hall of Fame. He is also the first Nigerian to have his memorabilia hanging from the Hard Rock Café. Hard Rock’s archive includes over 77,000 items, and is the largest private collection of Rock and Roll memorabilia in the world. king Sunny Ade At the star-studded ceremony, which held at the Hard Rock Café, Oniru, Lagos, the youthful boyish-looking performer, donated rare items from his collections including his much-treasured Vintage Fender Guitar, shoes and album cover to hang as a memorabilia at the edifice. A visibly excited KSA told the audience that he composed his...read it here...

Music meets Art as Uwaifo holds exhibition in Lagos...Read It All On Tafia World

Veteran musician, writer and sculptor, Sir Victor Uwaifo, is to hold an art exhibition and also release a new album. The exhibition, tagged Biomimetics of Sculpture: Research and What is Art, will showcase his works of art. It is scheduled to open on December 2, 2016 at Bogobiri Art Gallery, Ikoyi, Lagos. (Sir Victor Uwaifo The event, which will also feature the release of his new 12-track CDs album titled, You’re the Finest, (WABUGIE), a beautiful, sweet sight and sound, is expected to be graced by important dignitaries which include, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Information and Culture minister, Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, Prof Wole Soyinka, among others. The unveiling and declaration of the event will be at 4.00 pm. The exhibition will run till 9th December 9, 2016.

Rapper Kanye West released from hospital: Media reports...Read It All On Tafia World

Rapper Kanye West was released from hospital on Wednesday, according to media outlets citing unidentified sources, more than a week after he was admitted for exhaustion. CNN and the Los Angeles Times said West left the UCLA Medical Centre. Kanye West’ People magazine quoted an unidentified source as saying West was “home, getting some rest’’. Representatives for West could not immediately be reached by Reuters for comment on West’s health status or hospital release. A spokeswoman for West’s wife, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, said in an email that there were no updates and referred queries to West’s representatives. The “Jesus Walks’’ rapper, 39, was taken to the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at the University of California, Los Angeles, last week after police responded to a call for help, several media outlets reported. Sources close to the rapper told People he was exhausted from a “spiritual crisis.’’ West’s hospitalisation followed a series of public rants and the cancellation of the rest of his concert tour. It came after a demanding couple of months for the rapper and his wife after she was robbed at gunpoint in Paris, forcing the family to reassess its security and public profile. Kardashian, according to reports, has been by West’s bedside during his hospitalisation. Her E! Network reality show, “Keeping Up with the Kardashians’’, is “currently in production and has not been halted’’, a network representative said in a statement.                                                  

The question of having another country out of Nigeria is going to be very difficult – Buhari...Read It All On Tafia World

 ABUJA-President Muhammadu Buhari has canvassed for the establishment of special courts to expedite the trial of corruption suspects, saying it would underscore the seriousness of his government’s anti-corruption war. He also stated that it would be extremely difficult for agitators of Nigeria’s break-up to succeed.This was even as south-east zone present a list of demands on the pitiable infrastructural deficits of the area. The president spoke while playing host to the Council of South-East Traditional Rulers led by their Chairman, His Royal Majesty, Eze Eberechi Dick who is also the chairman, Abia State Traditional Rulers Council at the...read it here...

I threw away the green card, I have relocated, says Wole Soyinka...Read It All On Tafia World

  Nigerian Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka said Thursday he has fulfilled his pledge to throw away his US residency green card and leave the country if Donald Trump won the presidential election. Shortly before the vote, Soyinka had vowed to give up his permanent US residency over a Trump victory to protest against the Republican billionaire’s campaign promises to get tough on immigration.I have already done it, I have disengaged (from the United States). I have done what I said I would do,” the 82-year-old told AFP on the...read it here...

Churches drag el-Rufai to court over regulation of preaching...Read It On All Tafia World

KADUNA—The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, has instituted a case before Justice Hajara Gwadah of Kaduna State High Court against Governor Nasir el-Rufai and two others. PFN asked the court to declare as null and void a controversial executive bill before Kaduna State House of Assembly, which seeks to strengthen a moribund 1984 Kaduna State law that regulates preaching in the state. Gov. Nasir-El-Rufai The case, filed by President of PFN, Professor (Rev) Femi Ehinmidu, through the Counsel of PFN, Sunday Akani, joined Kaduna State House of Assembly...read it here...