All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, on Tuesday, unveiled the nominees list for the 2018 edition. The event which held at the Eko Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, had officials of the African Union Commission, Jury members and some stakeholders in attendance. The released nominees list covers the five Regional Categories divided into Female and Male categories […]
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A beauty pageant contestant has lost her life when a strong wave hit her during a photoshoot on the Oasis beach in Cape Coast on Thursday. The deceased had been one of the ladies participating in the Face of University of Ghana beauty pageant. They had been standing on rocks for a photoshoot when the […]
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Anna Amos, the 14-year-old secondary school student has narrated how she murdered the a septuagenarian woman she had lived with since March, 2018, as a house-maid in Benin, Edo state. Anna, a Gbagi girl who hails from Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, gave the horrible step-by-step description of how she committed the murder, when she was paraded […]
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Jethro Ibileke/Benin If only the number of criminals arrested by security agencies could guarantee security in the society, the streets of Edo State should be safe from criminality for a while, as the State Police Command paraded a total of 102 suspects on Friday. The suspects were arrested for offences from across the State, ranging […]
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The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted the presence of a deep weather system that would aid rainfall across the country for Friday. NiMet made this known in its Weather Outlook by its Central Forecast Office in Abuja on Thursday. It predicted morning thunderstorm over Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi, Kano, Katsina, Jigawa, Bauchi and parts of […]
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Former Plantashun Boiz group member, Blackface is in the news again. This time around he has sued the duo of Wizkid and Banky W over an alleged intellectual property theft. The ‘Hard Life’ singer, whose real name is Ahmedu Augustine Obiabo, filed the case on Tuesday seeking a declaration that ‘Slow Whine’, a song on […]
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The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution on Thursday, rebuking President Donald Trump’s statement that the news media is “the enemy of the people”. The Republican-led Senate, in the unanimous resolution across the aisles, affirmed that the news media is not the enemy of the people. The Senate affirmed its commitment to protecting freedom of […]
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The Federal Government has declared Tuesday, Aug. 21, and Wednesday, Aug. 22 as public holidays to celebrate the 2018 Eid-el-Kabir. The Minister of Interior, Retired Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau, made the declaration on Thursday in Abuja in a statement issued by Dr Mohammed Umar, the Permanent Secretary of the ministry. While wishing Nigerians a happy Eid-el-Kabir […]
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The national economic council (NEC) has set up a committee to decentralise the operations of the Nigeria Police Force. Babagana Monguno, national security adviser (NSA), disclosed this at the end of the NEC meeting chaired by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo at the presidential villa in Abuja on Thursday. Monguno said Ibrahim idris, inspector-general of police, […]
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The Federal Government on Thursday insisted that it did not pay any ransom to secure the release of the Dapchi girls released last March by Boko Haram. In a statement issued in Ilorin, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed challenged anyone who has any evidence of payment to publish it. The minister […]
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