Category: News
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Nigerians desperate to travel abroad have been warned to desist from the marriage contract scheme, as many men are trapped by it. Travel agency expert, Ruth Joseph-Audu, who issued the warning in an interview with Daily Trust in Lagos, admitted that Nigerians are moving in numbers to seek greener pastures in foreign countries, but lamented…
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Hip Hop mogul, Diddy’s partnership with Capital Preparatory Schools has come to an end amid his ongoing sexual assault allegations. On Tuesday November 28, Dr. Steve Perry, the founder and head of schools for Capital Preparatory, released a statement regarding the severed partnership between the company and Diddy. According to the statement, the decision was…
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The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, says the promised automation of the passport application process will begin “in the next one week”. Tunji-Ojo first gave the assurance to Nigerians in an October 4 interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, saying citizens would be able to use the feature from December. He made an appearance again…
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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…