Celebrating World Youth Day, youth leaders across the world are delighted that UNITLIFE will join the Act4Food Act4Change campaign to raise awareness among the young populations about the need for youth to play a major role in food systems transformations. The current food systems contribute to ongoing health, climate and biodiversity crises, and violation of human rights. We will only be able to achieve the […]
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Digital insurance companies, Heirs Insurance Limited (HIL) and Heirs Life Assurance (HLA), have confirmed that customers are now able to purchase insurance policies from their websites, www.heirsinsurance.com and www.heirslifeassurance.com, in mere minutes. The revolutionary, interactive websites—first of their kind in Nigeria—ensure that customers have access to quick insurance, completing transactions in minutes wherever they are, without any human […]
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A high court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo state has granted an ex-parte motion restraining the Department of State Services (DSS) and attorney-general of the federation from “arresting, intimidating, harassing, and blocking bank accounts of Sunday Adeyemo better known as Sunday Igboho”. The judge, Ladiean Akintola, granted the order on Wednesday following an ex-parte motion moved […]
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The suspended commander of the police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Abba Kyari, says Ramon Abbas, the self-confessed international fraudster popularly known as Hushpuppi reached his team to help recover N8 million for a friend. Abba Kyari, a deputy commissioner of police (DCP), had come under fire after Huspuppi, who is being tried in the US, […]
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Five people, including two children, have been abducted by gunmen who attacked some homes in Suleja, Niger state. The gunmen raided Kwankwashe, a community located along Suleja-Madalla highway in Niger State. Suleja is about 30 minute’s drive to the federal capital territory (FCT). Daily Trust reported that the incident occurred in the early hours of […]
Continue ReadingMembers of staff of the state house have taken an oath of secrecy and were warned against divulging classified information. Tijani Umar, permanent secretary, state house, sounded the warning on Tuesday in Abuja. The oath was administered by Hamza Muazu, a judge of the federal capital territory (FCT) high court. The permanent secretary said the breach of […]
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Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, on Tuesday, said that the silence of the Federal Government to killings by foreign militia herdsmen is an agenda of ethic cleansing and continuation of the 1804 Usman Danfodio Jihadist Movement across the country. Ortom, who made the remark at the Benue Peoples House Makurdi, faulted the alleged FG’s […]
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has banned sale of foreign exchange (FX) to Bureau De Change (BDCs) operators in the country. The governor of the apex bank, Godwin Emefiele, announced this decision at the end of the monetary policy committee meeting in Abuja on Tuesday. Emefiele said the apex bank received about […]
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Popular actress and comedienne, Ms Damilola Adekoya alias Princess, has narrated to an Ikeja Special Offences Court how Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James, popularly known as Baba Ijesha, allegedly defiled her foster daughter. According to her, the said daughter, (name withheld), was allegedly defiled while she was watching cartoons. Princess told the court that she first […]
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A close-circuit television (CCTV) footage in which nine-year-old girl appeared to be igniting the fire that engulfed Prince Ebeano supermarket in Abuja, on July 17, has surfaced online. The footage, which has the date stamp of July 17, showed the girl waddling into the gas section of the supermarket at about 7 pm. She waited […]
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