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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“I don’t want to make heaven if it’s where Adeboye, Kumuyi, Oyedepo will go”-Sex therapist, Angela Nwosu says

The writer and sex therapist Angela Nwosu said heaven will be boring if pastors such as Adeboye, Kumuyi, David Oyedpo and other religious leaders are there. She wrote: I don’t want to make heaven! If heaven is where Pastor Adeboye, ...

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Man steals car from date and went with another woman on a date

  A date went horribly wrong for a lady who claimed the man she went out with stole her car and went with another woman on a date in Memphis, Tennessee.  The lady named Faith Pugh told Police that the incident occurred on Saturday ...

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Former Zimbabwean energy minister gets four-year jail for corruption

Samuel Undenge, a former Energy Minister who served under Zimbabwe’s ex President Robert Mugabe was found guilty of corruption and sentenced to four years in jail today. His lawyer said that this is the first conviction of a Mugabe-era official since he ...

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“Any Love That Does Not Involve Giving Is Fake” – Pastor David Ibiyeomie

General overseer and founder of Salvation Ministries Church, Pastor David Ibiyeomie has said that love without giving is fake. According to him, the first was to prove love is giving. He said this 2 weeks ago during his church sermon. “Any ...

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Man Buys Ranger Rover Which Suddenly Developed Faults, see What He Did Next

A furious car owner has explained why he defaced his own £63,000 Range Rover before dumping the luxury vehicle outside a dealership. The black Range Rover Vogue was plastered in the customer’s complaints about the service he had received from ...

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Apapa Gridlock: FG Must Postpone The Closure Of Third Mainland Bridge – LASG

he Lagos State Government has called on the Federal Government to postpone the closure of the Third Mainland Bridge in order not to further paralyse traffic in the metropolis. A statement issued by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Kehinde ...

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Meghan ‘Planning Solo Trip To The US This Summer’

Meghan Markle is planning on making a solo trip to the US to visit family and friends this summer, according to reports. The Duchess of Sussex will reportedly go to New York and LA as sources claim she and Prince ...

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