An American man has drowned while proposing to his girlfriend underwater at an idyllic island off the coast of Tanzania, a luxury resort said in a statement Sunday. His girlfriend Kenesha Antoine posted on her Facebook page footage of Steven Weber proposing to her through the window of their underwater hotel room at the luxury […]
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Reality TV show, Big Brother Naija has seen a housemate, Frodd, win the Ultimate ‘Veto Power Game of Chance.’ In the game that saw him emerge winner, housemates were instructed to pick four random pictures from the veto power box this week. Biggie said the housemate that finds the picks the exact duplicate with the […]
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Former president of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo says it will be a fallacy to think xenophobic attacks will create more jobs for South Africans. In a letter to Mangosuthu Buthelezi, a politician and leader of the Zulu ethnic group, on Monday, Obasanjo said the attacks were capable of scaring investors away and crippling the economy. […]
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Ace Nigerian musician, Folarin Falana, better known as Falz, has emerged the only Nigerian rapper on the 2019 BET Hip Hop Awards nominee list. The Black Entertainment Television (BET) network introduced the ‘Best International Flow’ category to honour artists from selected countries around the globe. BET Awards celebrate African Americans and other American minorities in […]
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Former Real Madrid, Liverpool, Manchester United and Newcastle striker, Michael Owen has revealed that his 13 year old son, James Owen, will never be a footballer because he suffers from a degenerative eye condition. Owen, who has three daughters with his wife Louise, talked about his son’s condition for the first time on The Times. […]
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British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has more to worry about as another member of his governing Conservatives defected to an opposition party seeking to reverse Brexit on Saturday. Former universities minister Sam Gyimah was announced as a new member of the Liberal Democrats at its annual conference in Bournemouth, on the southern English coast. Gyimah […]
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A report by PremiumTimes has revealed how Alfa Belgore, a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, helped Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID), an Irish company, to win a $9.6 billion compensation against the Federal Government of Nigeria. Belgore, who acted as a legal consultant to P&ID, analysed Nigeria’s laws, “exploited their shortcomings” and cited case laws […]
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Saudi Interior Ministry announced on Saturday that drone attacks caused fires at two oil facilities of Saudi petroleum company Aramco. The ministry said in a statement on the Saudi Press Agency that attacks were reported on Saturday morning in Abqaiq in Eastern Province and Hijrat Khurais oilfield. The Aramco’s industrial security teams controlled and extinguished […]
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At the just concluded Forum organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), key speakers Tony O. Elumelu, Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) and Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) proffered entrepreneurship as the most sustainable solution to accelerating Africa’s transformation. During a one-on-one conversation […]
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Senator representing Kogi west, Dino Melaye, on Friday turned down his appointment as director-general of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship campaign in Kogi state. Musa Wada, a younger brother of the immediate past governor of the state, clinched the PDP ticket, and will face Yahaya Bello, incumbent governor, who is candidate of the All […]
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