An aircraft with 81 passengers on board has crashed in Colombia, south of Medellin’s international airport, according to reports. The plane which had members of a Brazilian soccer team known as Chapecoense, was coming from Bolivia the incident happened. First responders are at the crash site already, but details on the number of injuries and fatalities...
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Vocal Catholic priest, Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka says the arrest of some judges in the country is a welcome development, The Vanguard reports. The Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry, Emene, Enugu, who stated this at the thanksgiving Mass to mark the Enugu State Judiciary 2016/2017 legal year at the Adoration ground, commended the Federal Government...
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From the papers this morning – a Tracklist. Rivers Police kill 3, foil attack on airline – YNaija Rivers re-run: l have video evidence of CP plotting to rig – Wike – YNaija Lagos-Ibadan expressway accident kills 1, injures 4 – YNaija Ebonyi govt. begins seizure of foreign rice – YNaija N4.7bn fraud: Obanikoro to...
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Senator Benedict Murray-Bruce is everyone’s favourite legislator who just wants to make common sense. No he’s not? Okay then. Senator Ben Murray-Bruce currently represents the Bayelsa-East local government of Bayelsa State in the Senate and he regularly does this thing he calls “making sense”. While this post is hardly about the merit (or lack thereof...
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Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, has agreed to testify against Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State and his aide, Mr. Abiodun Agbele, The Punch reports. According to a source in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Obanikoro said this when he visited the anti-graft agency’s Abuja office. “Senator Obanikoro came to the EFCC office on Monday morning as...
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The Government of Ebonyi has set up a taskforce to begin the confiscation foreign rice in markets in the state. Governor David Umahi made the announcement on Monday in Abakaliki, the state capital, during a ceremony to commence the construction of an ultra modern Kpirikpiri market in the capital city. The governor said, “We have...
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An accident on the Warewa Long Bridge end of the Lagos Ibadan Expressway has left one person dead and four others with serious injuries, The Punch reports. The accident involved a blue Toyota bus, with number plate, KTP 610 XA, a Honda CRV, with number plate, KJA 30 AE and a Toyota Jeep, with number plate EKY...
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Governor of Rivers, Nyesom Wike says he has in his possession a video recording of how the Commissioner of Police in the state, Francis Odesanya intends to rig the Dec. 10 re-run election. According to The Punch, the governor made the allegation while speaking during a ceremony to commence the rehabilitation of the General Hospital, Abonnema...
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The Rivers Police Command on Monday foiled an attack on an airline in Port Harcourt, the state capital, The Punch reports. Three of the armed robbers were killed by the Nigeria Police Force during a shootout at the busy UTC Junction in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, while one of them, identified as Peter James sustained...
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday denied reports that he and the National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu were not in good terms. According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President said he was in contact with Tinubu during and after the...
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November 27 was about one woman and her alone! Toke Makinwa!! The launch of her book On Becoming held at Wheatbaker and the attendees spanned from media personalities to artistes to Nollywood actors and everyone who matters in the Nigerian media space. No doubt, it was a successful launch and judging by the conversation excerpts...
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The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen Tukur Buratai on Monday said the army was working to ensure that remnants of terrorist group, Boko Haram are totally eliminated. Buratai said this while speaking with journalists at the media workshop, organised by the Nigerian Army School of Public Relations and Information (NASPRI) at 81 Division Officers’...
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by Ikechukwu Yadi I sat in class drawing on an exercise book. Someone sat beside me. “How far your church girl?” “Titi?” “No, Mary Magdalene.” “She came to my house yesterday with some church women.” I cupped from the slip up. “So if I didn’t ask, you wouldn’t…” I didn’t respond. Kay continued, “What happened...
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The Executive Chairman of the the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Tunde Fowler on Monday said Nigerians will now pay Value Added Tax (VAT) before obtaining their passports. Fowler made the statement at the 136th meeting of the Joint Tax Board in Abuja. He also said those who wants to renew their passports or want...
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by Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto That was my wife, Chiamaka, approaching. People thought her puerile and naïve but I deemed her exquisite. She was blithe and permissive, carefree and lax. We had been married for five months through the declarations of our parents and other adults. I was seven years old and she, just six. Her mother...
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Honestly, at this point, in this 2016, we know very well not to take the tabloids for it but this one …This one eh. It makes us feel a certain type of way. Dropping Vice-President Osinbajo for former Abia State governor, Orji Uzor Kalu? This paper’s headline this morning says the presidency plans to take on...
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Bleaching is a thing in Nigeria; a very serious thing. To understand just how serious it is, Bobrisky, one of Nigeria’s cross dressers claims to “gross over N2 million, sometimes N1.5 million monthly”, and his profit is “N300,000-400,000 monthly”. That’s just one individual. If you enter Balogun market in Lagos Island, there’s a bleaching cream...
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These are the top five stories that drove conversation today. 1. BREAKING: Legislative aide dies at National Assembly entrance A senior legislative aide on Monday died at the entrance of the National Assembly, after collapsing. 2. Justice Abang is a cancer eating the judiciary – Fayose Governor of Ekiti, Ayodele Fayose has said Justice Okon Abang of the...
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said those who served the country diligently will not experience difficulties in getting their pensions. In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President was quoted to have said this at a meeting he had with the Executive Secretary, Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate,...
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Following the circulation of this clip below, where a lady caught her son with another man, neurosurgeon and writer Jasper Chinedum, who tweets @JajaPhD, shares his thoughts about the number of men in Nigeria still hiding in the closet. Do see below: https://twitter.com/Hellamud/status/783707563665653760 https://twitter.com/JajaPhD/status/803134964015435780 https://twitter.com/JajaPhD/status/803136643263819781 https://twitter.com/JajaPhD/status/803137676752789504 https://twitter.com/JajaPhD/status/803138648220651520 https://twitter.com/JajaPhD/status/803139242431913984 https://twitter.com/Kemji/status/803142422163312640 Reactions https://twitter.com/TheTrueSaheed/status/803159051659943936 lol TBH, if I...
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BAT cigarettes aren’t killing more than its smokers, are they? British American Tobacco (Nigeria) Ltd. is the multinational company responsible for your favorite cigarette brands; Benson and Hedges, Pall Mall, St. Moritz, Rothmans, Consulate and a few more. It has operated in Nigeria since 1912 and has its three factories in Ibadan, Port Harcourt and...
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The Federal Government is planning to construct a 1000-kilometer crude oil pipeline in Kaduna State to import oil from the Niger Republic. This was revealed by Maikanti Baru, Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) at a Town hall in Kaduna. He said the decision was made following difficulties to transport crude...
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by Joachim Mac-Ebong As the dust settles from the Ondo elections, it is time to pick the winners and losers! The winners APC: Now, the ruling party has added Ondo to its kitty, bringing the number of governorships it controls to 23 out of 36 states. They also have 5 of 6 South-West states, and...
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Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose has said Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court is after him for asking the National Judicial Council to sack him. Fayose had asked the NJC to sack Abang after the Court of Appeal aside his ruling of October 14, which conferred recognition on Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim as the...
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If there’s anything we’ll never ever forget after this administration of the President Muhammadu Buhari, it is all the blaming. Along with recession, the slow response syndrome and #TheOtherRoom. But the one thing that we will forever remember is their go-to response for every enquiry, complaint, outcry, or anything else really: It is the other people;...
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Chris Izu Okafor It’s quite easy to stereotype. It eases up the responsibility of explaining. Stating without variations is often much easier than describing exceptions and the whys that follow. Stereotypes do not give room for explanations too. They are cut-in-stone conclusions. The indelible absence of buts design them. All aspects of sexuality has been...
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by Umar Hassan The absence of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and some APC South West Governors from the November 12th rally held in support of the Party’s candidate in the Ondo gubernatorial elections Chief Rotimi Akeredolu spells doom for President Buhari’s 2nd term chances. It’s one thing to not have the party in his grip and...
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The candidate of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) in the Ondo governorship election, Olusola Oke has conceded defeat and congratulated governor-elect, Rotimi Akeredolu. At a press conference in Akure on Monday, Oke commended both the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security operatives for ensuring the election was free and fair. He said, “The resultant...
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One word we can use to describe our Lady Boss today is ‘pioneer’. Seun Tayo-Balogun, CEO of Brief Essentials saw a gap in the e-commerce sphere and set up an online shapewear and lingerie business at a time when no one was doing so. In our interview with her, Seun shares the story of how...
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