Category: News
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No fewer than twenty persons lost their lives in the Sunday night pipeline explosion at Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni local government area of Rivers state with fifteen persons who sustained various degrees of fire burns and hospitalized responding to treatment. The chairman of Ogba Egbema Nodoni local government area, Vincent Job, who confirmed the number of casualties to…
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Governor Peter Mbah has signed a N521.5bn Enugu State 2024 Budget into Law, saying it would engender disruptive economic growth, radical infrastructural development, and efficient service delivery. Mbah, who said that the Enugu State 2024 Appropriation Law, consisting of N414.3bn Capital Expenditure, representing 79 per cent of the budget, and N107.2 billion, representing 21 per…
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Another Nigerian man has been arrested in the UK for chatting with a 14yrs old girl, and sending pictures of his penis to the underage girl. A trending video on X (formerly Twitter), which has garnered well over a million Views posted by one Oyindamola with handle @dammiedammie35, has sent a lot of Nigerians tongue…
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The dust over the probe of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is yet to settle. Titan Trust Bank Chairman, Mr. Babatunde Lemo, and two others have been invited by the Special Investigator on CBN, Mr. Jim Osayande Obazee. The other invited shareholders are Mr. Cornelius Vink and Mr. Raul Savara. Lemo, who was CBN deputy…
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Moscow: Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has confirmed his arrival at what he described as a snow-swept prison above the Arctic Circle and said he was in excellent spirits despite a tiring 20-day journey to get there. Navalny posted an update on social media via his lawyers after his allies lost touch with him…
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The Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, is dead. A family source told SaharaReporters on Wednesday that Akeredolu died in Lagos. SaharaReporters learnt that he was managed by State House doctors up to his death because they could not fly him abroad. “Akeredolu is dead; he died in Lagos,” the source said. “They were looking for…
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Today marked the highly anticipated boxing clash between Portable and Charles Okocha. The bout, extensively promoted in the preceding weeks, unfolded on December 26. In a riveting contest, Portable emerged victorious in the fourth round, demonstrating his prowess with a strategic flurry of punches. Several of these strikes proved decisive, culminating in a notable knockout.…
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The rift between Governor Godwin Obaseki and his deputy, Philip Shaibu, may have taken another dimension as N345 million was allocated to the Office of the Deputy Governor in the 2024 Budget as against the N19bn allocated to the Office of the State Governor. An analysis of the budget which the governor signed into law…
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Super Eagles captain Ahmed Musa has attracted negative comments from some members of the Muslim faith after he shared a picture of his Cross River wife, Juliet Ejue, and wished Christians a merry Christmas. Musa took Juliet, a Christian from Ogoja local government in Cross River, Nigeria, as a second wife in 2017, after reportedly…
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The U.S. military carried out strikes on three sites used by Iran-backed forces in Iraq on Dec. 25 after an attack wounded American personnel earlier that day, Austin has said. The U.S. military has launched strikes on three installations in Iraq targeting what it said was a terrorist group backed by Iran that Washington has…