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Men still pester me for love – 57-year-old singer Salawa Abeni reveals

According to Punch, Abeni revealed that although she cannot accept the proposals she gets from these men but she has learnt to treat them with so much respect. The beautiful grandmother also dished out a word of advice to young ...

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I’m a queen, I have no business with being a king – BBNaija Alex says

BBNaija’s Alex has made an attempt to school some of those people by airing her opinion about the distinction between a queen and king. In a recent post shared on Twitter, the 22-year-old revealed she has no business being referred ...

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Woman sets house on fire because she was not invited to a party

A Tennessee woman has been accused of setting fire to a home because she wasn’t invited to a party. The lady identified as Shameka Howse was arrested on Wednesday and charged with vandalism, aggravated arson and reckless endangerment/assault with a deadly weapon ...

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16-year old female student of UNILAG declared missing (Photo)

A 100 level female student from the University of Lagos has been declared missing   The student identified as Boluwatife Olorunsola has been missing for almost one week with no leads on her whereabouts.   According to statement credited to ...

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South African police officers to face trial for killing Nigerian

Some South African police officers in the coming weeks will be arraigned for allegedly killing a 25-year-old Nigerian, Ibrahim Olalekan-Badmus, in 2017.   The Nigerian Mission in South Africa in an interview today said that the officers were implicated in the ...

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Aregbesola’s chief of staff, Adegboyega Oyetola emerges APC governorship candidate in Osun State

Adegboyega Oyetola has emerged as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), ahead of the Osun State governorship election slated to hold on September 22, 2018.   He was one of 17 aspirants who participated in the exercise which ...

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US groups warn of security threats to 2019 Nigeria vote

Widespread violence in Nigeria could affect next year’s presidential election, two US pro-democracy groups said on Friday. Voters in Africa’s most populous nation go to the polls in February next year, with President Muhammadu Buhari looking to secure a second, ...

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21 Nepalese girls ‘rescued’ from Kenya strip clubs

Police in Kenya rescued 21 young Nepalese women during a raid on two strip clubs in an upmarket suburb of the capital Nairobi, detectives said on Friday. “Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Protection ...

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Zimbabwe jails Mugabe’s ex-minister for graft

A Zimbabwe court on Friday handed a four-year jail term to a former energy minister who served in Robert Mugabe’s last cabinet after he was found guilty of corruption, state media reported. Samuel Undenge, 62, will serve just two-and-half years ...

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Croatia’s Kalinic turns down World Cup medal after being sent home

Croatian striker, Nikola Kalinic who was sent back home after he refused to come on as a substitute against Nigeria during their first group stage clash, is yet to receive his World Cup silver medal after his country came second at the 2018 World ...

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19-year-old man stabs 18-year-old girlfriend to death in Edo

The police in Edo state have arrested a 19-year-old man identified as Junior Baba, for stabbing his 18-year-old girlfriend, Matilda Odiri, to death at his home on Akugbe Street in Benin metropolis in the Ovia South-West Local Government Area of Edo State ...

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Former South Korea female president who is already serving a 24 year jail term for corruption, gets another Eight years

Park Geun-hye, the South Korean former President who was jailed for 24 years for corruption, has been slammed with an additional eight-year jail term for receiving bribe from the country’s National Intelligence Service (NIS).   A Seoul Central District Court ...

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Concerned citizens rescue 10m-long python runover by car

Residents of an island in southern Indonesia successfully rescued a 10-metre-long python after it got run over by a car. The above picture shows concerned locals on the Axis 10 road to Palopo in the village of Basokan, north Toraja, ...

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Tens of thousands of married women in Uganda are secretly undergoing ‘the cut’ (Genital Mutilation)

Gladys Chemtai, 27, says she felt relief after undergoing the “cut” recently. That’s because the procedure, better known as female genital mutilation (FGM), now gives her standing in her village of Kapchorwa in eastern Uganda. “I’m very happy because I’m ...

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After 18 years apart, Ethiopian man finds his family in Eritrea

When Ethiopia and Eritrea went to war in 1998 and deported each other’s nationals en masse, Addisalem Hadgu thought he had nothing to worry about, safe in the belief his Ethiopian passport would shield his Eritrean wife from expulsion. Two ...

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US tags Kenya’s Al-Hijra as terror group

Kenya-based wing of Al-Shabaab, Al-Hijra, has been added to the US list of terrorist organisations. “Terrorism designations expose and isolate organisations and individuals, and deny them access to the US financial system,” the State Department said on Thursday. “Moreover, designations ...

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Nigeria flying home 152 citizens stranded in Russia after World Cup

Nigeria has made arrangements for 152 of its citizens who were stranded in Russia following the end of the soccer World Cup to be flown home, a foreign affairs spokesman said on Friday. The month-long tournament, which attracted fans from ...

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10-year-old girl bleeds to death after genital mutilation in Somalia

A 10-year-old girl has died after undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM) in Somalia, the first confirmed death in years in a country where complications from the procedure are usually denied, activists claim. According to anti-FGM campaigners familiar with the case, ...

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Ugandan Government To Start Paying Civil Servants Daily

The Ugandan government is to introduce biometric gadgets for the implementation of daily salary payment for civil servants. The gadgets are to be introduced following the resolve of the government to start paying civil servants according to the number of ...

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Man kills mother over N20,000 pocket money in Lagos

According to reports, Emmanuel had visited his 61-year-old mother, Helen,  at her shop on Jinadu Street, Ajangbadi, Lagos State, on July 6, 2018 and asked her to give him pocket money which she refused to.   He got angry and went ...

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