According to the Director-General of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, 17 bodies have been recovered, while 25 casualties are being treated for injuries from the pipeline explosion that rocked Abule-Ado area of Lagos state on Sunday. He stated that the raging fire had displaced several residents who fled their abodes for […]
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This Spring, following the record-breaking results achieved in October 2019, Sotheby’s auction of Modern and Contemporary African Art (https://bit.ly/2wVm3Sv) will return to London for a fifth consecutive season. Since the inauguration of the series in 2017, Sotheby’s (www.Sothebys.com) sales in the category have achieved more than sixty world records, championing the work of artists across […]
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It was a funny and scary moment for many as a man attempted to grab President Muhammadu Buhari in Kebbi State. In the video that surfaced online, the president was posing for photograph, standing in-between governor of Kebbi State, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, and that of Jigawa, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, when the incident occurred, after inspecting […]
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Nigerian playwright and Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has said Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano state, was not given good advise on the dethronement of Muhammadu Sanusi II. Read the piece, FOR WHOM THE GATES OPEN below: These are depressing times – stemming from different factors of course – for a largesector of the nation. Insecurity, […]
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Arsenal football club of England has closed its London Colney training centre after head coach Mikel Arteta received a positive COVID-19 result on Thursday evening. The club stated that personnel who had recent close contact with Mikel will now self-isolate in line with Government health guidelines. “We expect this to be a significant number of […]
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The dethroned emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, has filed a suit before a federal high court in Abuja, seeking an order for his release from confinement following his dethronement. Sanusi is praying the court for an interim order releasing him “from the detention and or confinement of the respondents and restoring the applicant’s rights to human dignity, […]
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The Federal Government has described the ongoing two-week warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as illegal and an act of corruption. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, made the government position known while fielding questions from State House correspondents at the end of the meeting of the Federal […]
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Paris Saint-Germain shrugged off having to play in an empty stadium as Neymar set the French club on their way to a 2-0 win over Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday that took them into the Champions League quarter-finals 3-2 on aggregate. PSG came into the game at the Parc des Princes needing to overturn a 2-1 […]
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The federal executive council (FEC) on Wednesday approved a N29.4 billion contract for the rehabilitation of the 9th Mile section of the Enugu-Onitsha expressway. Babatunde Fashola, minster of works, said the contract was retrieved from an contractor “for incompetent execution”. It has now awarded to RCC construction firm, which is already handling the remaining stretch of […]
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Atletico Madrid ended Liverpool’s defence of the Champions League on Wednesday as Marcos Llorente’s double and Alvaro Morata’s late strike stunned Anfield with a 3-2 win after extra time to progress 4-2 on aggregate. The holders looked to have ended Atletico’s dogged resistence when Roberto Firmino put them ahead in the tie after Georginio Wijnaldum’s […]
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