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A two-year-old boy is now fighting for his life in hospital after he was brutally beaten by his drunk mother’s friend who was babysitting. Giovanni Reichert has undergone multiple operations over the past several months after his mother asked her friend McKinley Sloan Hernandez, 25, to watch over him. ‘I received a text message from…
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The House of Representatives Committee on Health on Tuesday raised concerns over the decline in the country’s health manpower. The committee disclosed that due to the relocation of doctors and nurses from the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) to various parts of the world, five wards comprising 150 beds have been shut down. LUTH…
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There is anxiety among federal civil servants as about 5,000 of them may not get November and December salaries. The National President of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), Dr Tommy Okon, who disclosed this in Abuja, urged the Federal Government to resolve the issues swiftly. He explained that out of the…
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Seoul condemns ‘provocative acts’ as tensions rise after launch of spy satellite in defiance of UN sanctions North Korea has started rebuilding guard posts and stationing heavy weapons along its border with South Korea, the defence ministry in Seoul has said, after the countries’ withdrawal from a key confidence-building agreement designed to prevent a war.…
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Mr Wahab charged Lagosians to respect the state drainage master plan to avoid property demolition. The Lagos State commissioner for the environment and water resources, Tokunbo Wahab, has issued a seven-day contravention notice to owners of buildings on Orchid Road, Agungi, Ajiran, Conservation Road, Osapa all along the Ikota River. This is contained in a…
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Mediator Qatar said on Monday that a truce between Israeli and Hamas forces in Gaza had been extended by two days, continuing a pause in seven weeks of warfare that has killed thousands and laid waste to the Palestinian enclave. Hamas officials said the truce was extended under the same conditions as a four-day ceasefire,…
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The president/ chief executive of Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote, has announced intentions to publicly list the subsidiary of the Group, Dangote Petroleum Refinery on the Nigerian Exchange Limited. Dangote made this known in an interview with the Financial Times, stating that the company has resolved challenges about crude oil supply and is now prepared…
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ordered a massive rehabilitation of dilapidated federal roads across the country. The roads include the Makurdi-Nsukka 9th Mile, East West road, Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Benin bypass, collapsed bridges of Enugu-Port Harcourt road, collapsed bridges of Shandam-Plateau, Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano and Gombe- Bauchi roads, among others. Umahi, in a statement, noted that despite inheriting…
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The student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Subair Enitan, who embarked on a handwashing marathon to set a new Guinness World Record, has landed in hospital. Enitan had ended the marathon in the early hours of Monday. Enitan ended the marathon after 58 hours, surpassing her initial plan of 50 hours. A video now circulating social…
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Some screenshots have leaked online where one of the deported guys from the Happie Boys team was seen begging for money to settle hotel debt. Recall that a few weeks ago, viral dancers,Happie Boys were deported back to Nigeriaafter one year of being sent on scholarship to the country, Cyprus. According to reports, they had…