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14 Dec
Nigerian superstar Tems, fresh off her Oscar nomination for "Lift Me Up" from "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," has spoken out about the intense online harassment she faced following rumors of her pregnancy with rapper Future. In a recent interview with The Beat 99.9 FM in Lagos, Tems revealed the shocking extent of the abuse, including…
29 Oct
'The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history,' says George Orwell. This cannot be more accurate when you look at the situation in Nigeria. It is appalling that till this moment, except where necessary, most Nigerian students do not recognise the importance of history, and…
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An Ikeja, Lagos State Sexual Offences & Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a man identified as Tayo Akinboyewa to life imprisonment for defiling a twelve-year-old girl. The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) confirmed this in a statement on Wednesday. DSVA said Akinboyewa's name will be registered in the Sexual Offenders Register as…
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The Katsina State government has shut down three filling stations suspected of supplying fuel to bandits in the state. Jabiru Tsauri, the Chief of Staff to Katsina governor, Dikko Radda, led the task force that carried out the raid that led to the closure of the affected fuel stations. The task force was set up…
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A recent study conducted by a team in Finland suggests that young people who spend excessive amounts of time online are more likely to miss school due to illness or truancy. Published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood journal, the research indicates that teenage girls, in particular, are more prone to excessive internet use…
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The Federal Government, on Tuesday, suspended all mining operations around the vicinity of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) and Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex (OAUTHC) in Ile-Ife, Osun, State. This decision was announced by the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake, in Abuja, after a meeting with OAU Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Adebayo Bamire,…
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Businesses shut down in major towns and cities across Uganda on Wednesday in protest at high taxes and a newly enforced revenue collection system. The week-long action was launched by the Federation of Uganda Traders Association on Tuesday and has spread from the capital, Kampala, to many other parts of the country. "We have called…
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In a dramatic twist to the intriguing political preamble to Thursday's National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a vote of confidence has been passed on the party's Acting National Chairman, Amb Umar Damagum by the National Working Committee (NWC). Damagum's continued stay as acting chairman has attracted serious opposition from…
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The Federal Government has pledged to address the issue of rising prices of goods and services in Nigeria. The acting Vice Chairman/CEO of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), Dr. Adamu Abdullahi, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. The prices of food items and commodities have spiked in recent months despite the…
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has transmitted its final message to Earth and will now serve as an immobile data-gathering unit on the red planet's surface, the space agency said on Tuesday. The tissue box-sized aircraft made history by achieving the first powered flight on another planet after hitching a ride under the belly of the…
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Justice Kolawole Ogundare of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has granted a businessman and socialite, Pascal Okechukwu, popularly known as Cubana Chief Priest, N10 million bail with two sureties in like sum. The judge granted him bail following his plea of not guilty to the charge brought against him by the Economic and…
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The president of the Association of Bureau De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON), Aminu Gwadabe, said the recovery of the naira against the dollar and other foreign exchange is happening faster than expected. Gwadabe said this during a phone-in interview on Channels Television’s ‘Business Incorporated’ programme on Tuesday. Gwadabe said as of Tuesday afternoon, Bureau…