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Residents of Iseyin in Oyo State are currently gripped by palpable fear due to a fire outbreak at one of the stations of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The petroleum station, located at Agip area of Iseyin, caught fire around 2 p.m., causing panic among the residents. Efforts to quench the fire are…
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Nigerian singer Opeyemi Rahim, popularly known as Lyta, has expressed his desire to return to his former record label, YBNL Nation. Featuring in the Ginger Yourself Podcast, Lyta explained that he didn’t leave YBNL “intentionally.” He said, “I want to be back with YBNL, what I did back then [leaving YBNL Nation] wasn’t intentional. I…
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Mr David Greene, Charge d’Affaires at the US Embassy in Nigeria, has assured visa applicants that the mission is committed to resolving all visa-related issues. Greene made the pledge during an interview with newsmen in Abuja. He said visa troubles would be a thing of the past, and the mission is doing everything in its…
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The Acting Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Umar Damagum, has said the National Working Committee under his leadership will not suspend or dismiss any ‘disloyal’ member. This is coming on the heels of the recent admonition by some stakeholders within the PDP, asking Damagum to sanction former Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and…
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The Rivers State Police Command has said 13 of its officers were arrested for indecent dressing. The State Commissioner of Police, Olatunji Disu, disclosed this during a live programme on a radio station in Port Harcourt on Saturday, December 2, 2023. Disu said the police officers were arrested during a patrol by the…
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The foreign ministers of military-ruled Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger on Friday recommended creating a confederation as part of a long-term goal of uniting the West African neighbours within a federation. Mali and Burkina, ruled by juntas who seized power in coups in 2020 and 2022 respectively, rushed to back Niger’s military rulers when they…
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Are there any hidden benefit’s for sitting behind at a gathering, especially in a church. Its quite baffling to see people who on a daily basis make prophetic declarations like, ‘i am the head and not the tail”, ” i shall be a leader in my generation” but, when they get to church they run…
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When the author of Usefulness of Useless Knowledge, Donald Jordan, said “history is an aggregate of half-truths, semi-truths, fables, myths, rumours, prejudices, personal narratives, gossip and official prevarications,” he may have been frustrated by the historical contradictions of his time. And such inconsistencies have been the fate of history from time immemorial, making Karl Marx…
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A plane crash has left several dead, including a senior politician, in a horror accident just moments after it took off. The incident, which took place on Saturday, Dec 2, in Paraguay saw the plane turn into a fireball after it plunged into a field. Walter Harms, a legislator for the ruling Colorado party, was killed along with three…
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The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 27-year-old suspected cultist, Ahmed Ololade aka Small Mercy. Spokesperson of the command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, December 3, 2023, said the suspect was arrested by officers of the Orile Division. The suspect was found in possession of the following items:…