Read Oprah Winfrey’s powerful Golden Globes speech

Actress and TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey poses with the Cecil B. DeMille Award during the 75th Golden Globe Awards on January 7, 2018, in Beverly Hills, California. / AFP PHOTO / Frederic J. BROWN
In 1964, I was a little girl sitting on the linoleum floor of my mother’s house in Milwaukee watching Anne Bancroft present the Oscar for best actor at the 36th Academy Awards. She opened the envelope and said five words that literally made history: “The winner is Sidney Poitier.” Up to the stage came the most elegant man I had ever seen. I remember his tie was white, and of course his skin was black, and I had never seen a black man being celebrated like that. I tried many, many times to explain what a moment like that means to a little girl, a kid watching from the cheap seats as my mom came through the door bone tired from cleaning other people’s houses. But all I can do is quote and say that the explanation in Sidney’s performance in “Lilies of the Field”:
“Amen, amen, amen, amen.”

Nigeria to supply US 1,440 tonnes of yams in 2018

The Technical Committee on Nigeria Yam Export Programme says it is targeting the export of about 480 tonnes of yams per month in 2018.
According to the committee, the United States has already requested for the supply of five containers monthly, which amounted to 120 tonnes of yams monthly and 1,440 tonnes of yams in a year.
The Chairman of the committee, Prof. Simon Irtwange, on Monday in Abuja said that the target would be achieved if all the challenges, which yam exporters experienced in 2017, were surmounted.
He said, “If everything works out well, the U.S. authorities say they will need about five containers every month and one container contains 24 tonnes of yams.

BREAKING: ‘Three Billboards’ wins Golden Globe for best drama movie

Martin McDonagh, Sam Rockwell, Frances McDormand, Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin pose with the award for Best Motion Picture Drama for 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' during the 75th Golden Globe Awards. Photo: AFP
Martin McDonagh’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” won the big prize of the night at Sunday’s Golden Globes — best drama motion picture.

Man overdoses on Viagra in airport, strips naked, hurls poo at everyone

A man swallowed too many Viagra and rampaged naked through an airport, screaming nonsense at people – before hurling lumps of his own poo at passers-by.
Steve Cho, 27, from New York, had to be subdued by six airport security guards in Phuket airport, Thailand, after smashing through shops destroying goods.
Witness Wannee Ming, 28, said: “This was the scariest and most disgusting thing I ever saw at an airport.

PDP will transform Nigeria – Atiku

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has assured Nigerians that the Peoples Democratic Party is the only party that will transform the country and take its economy back to its prosperity.
Atiku expressed this in Kaduna at the weekend, when one of his supporters, Miss Zainab Musa Pindar, organised a reception for him at the Arewa House, welcoming him back to the PDP.
A statement signed by Jacob Onjewu Dickson, spokesman for the Chairman of Atiku Care Foundation, Ambassador Aliyu Ibn Abbas, made available to newsmen in Kaduna on Monday, said the Wazirin Adamawa further told his supporters to spread the gospel of the PDP’s good plans to the people at the grassroots.

Man gets £85,000 fine for live-streaming Anthony Joshua’s fight

A man was hit with an £85,000 bill from Sky after his iPad was used to stream Anthony Joshua’s championship fight on Facebook Live by a ‘drunk friend.’
Dad-of-one Craig Foster, 34, was watching Joshua’s fight against Wladimir Kiltschko on his TV in April and had shelled out £19.95 to Sky for the pleasure.
But as the sell-out Wembley fixture started, one of his friends picked up Craig’s iPad, started recording over Facebook Live and pointed it at his TV.

New minimum wage ready this year, says Ngige

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has said President Muhammadu Buhari is desirous to give Nigerian workers an enhanced pay package this year.
He said the thinking of the Federal Government was to approve a minimum wage that would be acceptable to all stakeholders.
Ngige stated this in a chat with journalists at Ifitedunu, Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State on Sunday.
He said a National Tripartite Committee set up by President Buhari on minimum wage had commenced work and would likely conclude the exercise in the third quarter of this year.
Ngige said the committee was very dear to Buhari, who had given close supervision.

Police deny 2,000 Boko Haram members have infiltrated Asaba

 DELTA  State Police Command has dismissed, as false, the information that over 2,000 members of   Boko Haram have crept into Asaba, the state capital, as part of an elaborate   plot to Islamize Nigeria. Police Public Relations Officer, Delta Command, DSP Andrew Aniamaka, in a statement, yesterday, said: “The attention of the Delta State Police Command has been drawn to the spurious

and irresponsible rumour currently trending on WhatsApp, claiming that over 2000 members of Boko Haram are already in Asaba, as part of the agenda to Islamise Nigeria. “The Command considers such ill-conceived rumour-mongering as unacceptable and a calculated attempt to sow seeds of

Artistes to watch in 2018

2018 is just a few days old but there’s already a lot of excitement in the air, particularly in the entertainment industry. Many artistes have vowed to blow our minds this year but it remains to be seen how many of them will match their talk with action. Ashiwaju Media P takes a look at some of the top entertainers to watch out for in 2018

Military deploys fighter jets in N’East, silent on Benue killings

The military said on Saturday that more fighter jets had been deployed in Sambisa Forest, and the Lake Chad region of Borno State, adding that some Boko Haram terrorists were killed in the process.
The operation, which started on Wednesday saw the deployment of two fighter jets and two attack helicopters. It was jointly coordinated by the Nigerian Air Force and the Nigerian Army.
This is just as the Defence Headquarters, Abuja, has yet to comment on any deployment to tackle the herdsmen’s killings in Benue State and the reported violence in Adamawa State.

The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig Gen. Sani Usman, when contacted to know why the army had not  deployed more troops in Benue, said, “I will not tell you. Do I have to tell you why? I am not under any obligation to tell you why.”