MacKenzie, the ex wife of the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, is now the 22nd richest person in the world after her huge divorce settlement and has promised to donate half of it to charity. Under the agreement, MacKenzie, 49, will receive 4% stake in Amazon.com shares and its valued at $38.3 billion, while Jeff, […]
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34-years-old Muyiwa Atoyebi, a graduate of the University of Ilorin, is among the 38 lawyers shortlisted for the senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN) title. Muyiwa Atoyebi is the youngest Nigerian lawyer elevated to that height. Also, Adedoyin Oyinkan Rhodes-Vivour, wife of Bode Rhodes-Vivour, a supreme court judge is among the 38 lawyers shortlisted. In a […]
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Three years ago, Anthony, then 11, showed signs of stunted growth as observed by African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) President Akinwumi Adesina during a visit to Madagascar’s Bas Mangoky region. To the Bank chief, the boy looked no more than 5 years of age. “I was transfixed by one of the children attracted by my helicopter […]
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Below are pictures of some pieces of jewellery and a customized gold iPhone, all valued at $40m belonging to Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former Minister of Petroleum Resources. Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos had on Friday (July 5, 2019) ordered the former minister to forfeit the items to the federal […]
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Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram experienced an outage on Wednesday, as users could neither download documents nor send audio and video files. Facebook acknowledged Wednesday an outage affecting users in various parts of the world and said it was working on a fix. Online monitoring service DownDetector reported earlier the outage began around 1200 GMT and […]
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Senator representing Adamawa North, Ishaku Abbo has apologized to all Nigerians, the Senate, his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), his family, friends, Nigerian women, Bibra (the lady he assaulted) and her family for his action towards her, which has, according to him “brought immense discomfort in our body polity.” The Senator set the social media […]
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As the fourth season of Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) officially open on Sunday, Multichoice Nigeria, has upped the ante with the announcement of N60 million worth of prizes for the winner. Twelve housemates are battling for N60 million worth of prizes as announced by M-Net West Africa. The housemates would be staying at the Big […]
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Samsung Electronics on Saturday unveiled its 2019 QLED TV line in Nigeria, offering a free Samsung UHD or FHD TV for buyers between July and August. Mr Dudu Mokholo, Chief Marketing Officer, Samsung Central Africa, made this known at the launch of the Samsung QLED 8K in Lagos. Mokholo said that 2019 QLED line was […]
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Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has decided to break his silence on the incident between him and an airline passenger. Recall that early in the week, Tonye Cole, politician and businessman, had narrated how a young man had asked the scholar to vacate a seat allotted to him on an aircraft. Cole said he was […]
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After the explosive revelation by Timi Dakolo’s wife, Busola, in which she stated that Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo, of COZA raped her when she was 18, the pastor through the official Instagram page of the church said that he has never raped anybody not even as an unbeliever. In his reaction, Pastor Biodun Fatoyinb said: “I […]
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