Businessman, Femi Otedola, on Wednesday, revealed that a former House of Representatives member, Farouk Lawan, demanded a $500,000 bribe from him to remove his company, Zenon Petroleum and Gas Limited from the list of oil companies allegedly involved in fuel subsidy fraud. At a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja,[…]
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Celebrity chef, Chef Fregz has posted an untitled poem, written by his friend, late Tosyn Bucknor, where urged people not to cry for her. Rather, they should shed tears for themselves. The poem suggests Tosyn lived intentionally, despite her many battles with sickle cell anaemia. In the poem, Tosyn stated[…]
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The original certificate belonging to one Abisoye Azeez Oluwaseun, a graduate of the Lagos State University (LASU), has been found. According to information by the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), the certificate was “almost being used to wrap ‘suya’ in Epe”. The certificate showed that Abisoye graduated with a[…]
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Nigerian travellers are forward-thinking and ready to embrace new technologies more readily than their counterparts from Europe and other parts of the world. This was a major finding of the 2018 Global Digital Traveller Research, an independent global travel study conducted by Travelport, the world’s leading global commerce platform. The[…]
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Queen of afro-pop music, Tiwa Savage, has revealed that in spite of the glitz and glamour she displays on social media, she sometimes feels depressed by low self-esteem. According to the ‘Ma Lo’ crooner who recently floored Davido, Fally Ipupa, others, at the just concluded MTV Europe Music Awards, when[…]
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In what appears to be an emerging battle for the control of Lagos State, the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has set up a separate campaign group to secure at least 4.5 million votes for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 in the state. Although the[…]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja hailed his predecessor, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, for voluntarily conceding defeat in the 2015 general elections, describing him as a true democrat. Buhari said this at the unveiling of a book titled “My Transition Hours” by Jonathan. The book launch was attended by hundreds[…]
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There are palpable fears that 10 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, may experience total outage of telecoms services in the next few days, following the shutdown of several base stations by the Kogi State Internal Revenue Service. The affected states, which are sharing borders with[…]
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Amidst the brouhaha still trailing the allegation levelled against Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, of collecting kickbacks from contractors, the National secretarial of the All Progressive Congress (APC) said it would not substitute his name in 2019 election. Also, a high-ranking member of the state chapter of party claims[…]
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The Bayero University Kano (BUK) 1992 set of Alumni have called on religious leaders and political elites in Northern Nigeria to tackle the myriads of socio-economic ills hindering development in the region. The call was made at the end of the forum’s Annual Conference in Kano, themed: “Addressing the social[…]
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