Stop Fuel Hoarding, Sanwo-Olu Tells Marketers amidst Subsidy Removal
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has stated that some petroleum marketers are taking advantage of President Bola Tinubu’s announcement on the removal of oil subsidies to hoard the commodity and inflict suffering on the citizens. The governor said this in a video shared by his media aide Jubril Aremu Gawat on his Twitter handle […]
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Nigeria and Afghanistan Among 16 Nations Recognized as Global Hunger Hotspots
A joint report by the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has listed Nigeria, Afghanistan, and South Sudan as part of the 18 hunger hotspots in the world. The WFP-FAO report said all the hotspots at the highest level have populations facing or projected to face starvation or are at […]
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Canada Introduces Expedited Visa Processing for Dependents
Canada has introduced faster temporary resident visa (TRV) processing and more considerate application measures. Sean Fraser, minister of immigration, refugees, and citizenship, announced the development on Friday. Fraser said most applications will be processed within 30 days, and applicants will benefit from processing measures specific to their circumstances as spouses and dependents. So far, many […]
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Allison-Madueke sues EFCC and Malami’s office for N100bn over defamation
The Minister of Petroleum Resources in former Nigeria president Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has sued the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation N100 billion for libel and defamation. Alison-Madueke was represented by a team of her lawyers headed by Mike Ozekhome, a senior advocate, in […]
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Lagos CP Takes Action, Detains Officers who Brutalized Okada Man
Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, Idowu Owohunwa, has arrested and detained the policemen involved in the brutal assault of an Okada rider in Lagos. A video which has now gone viral on social media had shown the three officers decked in police uniform in a struggle with an Okada rider now identified as Al-Hassan […]
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Obi Alfred Achebe Celebrates 82nd Birthday, Soludo Sends Congratulatory Message
Governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR, has congratulated the twenty-first (21st) traditional ruler of Onitsha and Chairman of SouthEast Traditional Rulers Council, Obi Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe who just clocked eighty-two (82) years of age today. Obi Achebe has been chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University since 2015, and was earlier chancellor of Kogi […]
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“Teen’s Rights Violated: HURIWA Demands Release from Islamic Force Conversion!”
Civil Rights Advocacy Group and Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA) have joined forces to demand the immediate release of Esther Duniya. The 14-year-old girl is reportedly being held captive and forced to convert to Islam. The groups are calling on Federal Attorney General Abubakar Malami (SAN) and Director General of National Anti-Human Trafficking Agency (NAPTIP) […]
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“Abia State University names Ozekhome as Visiting Professor”
Abia State University has announced the appointment of Mike Ozekhome (SAN), a distinguished constitutional lawyer and prominent human rights activist, as a Visiting Professor of Law at its Faculty of Law, beginning from the 2022/2023 academic session. In the letter sighted by this media, dated April 5, 2023, and signed by the Vice Chancellor of […]
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Unimaginable: Mother cooks and consumes parts of her five-year-old son’s head.
A woman named Hana, 29-year-old, has allegedly killed her five-year-old son, Youssef, with a machete at their home in Egypt before boiling and eating parts of his head. Police arrested Hanaa after Youssef’s uncle found the boy’s body parts in buckets at the family house. According to the DailyMail on Tuesday, she admitted to the […]
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Dentsu joins effort for sustainable environment in Nigeria
Members of staff of MediaFuse-Dentsu cleaned strategic locations in the Ikeja GRA, Lagos State as part of activities to mark the company’s 2023 volunteering day tagged “One Day For Change”. One Day For Change is a global volunteering event held in alignment with Earth Day. This year, Dentsu in the Nigerian market focused its volunteering […]
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