Actress Yvonne Jegede is engaged to actor cum musician Abounce. According to popular blogger Linda Ikeji the actress who added a year on Thursday, August 25 said yes to her hubby’s proposal. The two have been an item for quite a while now and their engagement would not come as a surprise to many. Yvonne has been...
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by Roqeebah Olaoniye Yesterday the President met with Governors Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara and Kashim Shettima of Borno and though we do not know for certain what the purpose of this meeting is, we won’t be surprised if it’s connected to the recent #Zamfara killings. Another thing that won’t surprise us is if Governor Yari...
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The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu has said that the president has nothing to do with the arrest of the man who named his dog ‘Buhari’. Being a lover of cartoons, especially caricatures of himself, Shehu said he is certain that the president is having a good laugh...
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FC Barcelona has signed 27 year old Dutch goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen from Ajax Amsterdam on a five-year contract. The transfer fee is a guaranteed 13 million euros plus a further two million in variables with a buyout clause set at 60 million euros. The player arrived in Barcelona this morning and after taking a medical examination, he...
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The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Raji Babatunde Fashola has reiterated the Federal Government’s resolve to focus on capital spending in a bid to reflate and stimulate enough growth in the nation’s economy to effect the lives of the common man. The minister delivered a speech at the 5th National Council on Lands, Housing...
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The Ekiti State House of Assembly on Thursday passed the bill to ban free grazing in the state. The bill also prescribed six months imprisonment without an option of fine for any offender. It also banned the movement of cattle after 6pm in the state. The bill was passed after the House received a report...
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by Roqeebah Olaoniye Of course by now you already heard about the which was signed into law on August 15. It protects the proprietary rights of Land and Property owners in Lagos State and criminalizes any act of forceful and unlawful entry or occupation of premises i.e Omo-oniles are now criminals. Well legally. These...
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President Muhammadu Buhari has urged traditional rulers to support his efforts to tackle the crisis in the Niger Delta and the Boko Haram insurgency. Buhari made the call when he received the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III on Thursday at the Presidential Villa. Addressing State House Correspondents at the end of the meeting, the Alaafin...
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Chelsea have confirmed the signing of goalkeeper Eduardo from Dinamo Zagreb. The 33-year-old was a part of Portugal’s triumphant Euro 2016 squad this summer and joins the Blues on a one-year contract following two seasons with the Croatian champions. After completing his move to The Blues Eduardo said, “Having the opportunity to come to the Premier...
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a fake NATO officer for defrauding a Vietnamese woman of $145,000. The EFCC said in a statement by its spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said the suspect defrauded the woman under the pretence that he would marry her. The statement read, “The EFCC, on Tuesday, August 23, 2016,...
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They say money is the root of all evil and the case of a Vietnamese woman who paid her friend to chop off her foot and a section of her arm as part of an insurance scam proves just that. According to Vietnamese newspaper Tuoi Tre, Ly Thi N, 30, planned a ruse which involved her getting involved...
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Troops of the Nigerian Army on Wednesday arrested three kidnappers in Bauchi state. The troops also recovered a bag containing the sum of N439,000. This is contained in a statement released on Thursday by the Army spokesperson Colonel Sani Usman. The statement read, “Following a tip off by well meaning Nigerians, troops of 33 Brigade Nigerian Army,...
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The UEFA Champions League draw has set up some interesting fixtures in the group phase as Pep Guardiola leads Manchester City to face his former side Barcelona. Bayern Munich Coach Carlo Ancelotti will also be facing familiar foes Atletico Madrid who he beat in the finals of the 2014 edition. Other mouth-watering fixtures sees French...
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Nigerians have gone on a tweeting spree after a Twitter user said a 200k (N200,000) monthly salary earner should not think of getting married. According to this mysterious tweeter, she cannot get married to anyone who earns that ‘low’. Well, trust Nigerian Twitter, they made a topic out of it with users tweeting their opinions....
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Cristiano Ronaldo has been named UEFA’s best player in Europe. The Portugal captain was announced as winner during the UEFA Champions League draw beating Real Madrid teammate, Gareth Bale and French forward, Antoine Greizmann. While receiving the award Ronaldo said to Bale and Griezmann: “You deserve [to win the award] too because you are unbelievable players.”...
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by Tolu Omoyeni The Emir of Kano and former Central Bank governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is resolute in his opinions on how the country should be run. When he speaks at public lectures, there’s always a rare bluntness to his tone and he serves his comments without fear or favour. His diagnostic approach to explaining...
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Manchester City have completed the signing of Claudio Bravo. The Chilean goalkeeper joins the Blue side of Manchester from Barcelona after signing a four-year-deal. Bravo, 33, has won 106 caps for his country Chile and has won two successive Copa America titles. After his signing Bravo said: “I’m very proud to be joining Manchester City....
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Joe Chinakwe, the man who named his dog ‘Buhari’, the name of Nigeria’s president has been released after meeting his bail conditions. The trader was arraigned before Bolaji Ojikutu of Sango-Otta Magistrate’s Court on Monday morning and was subsequently granted a N50,000 bail. Chinakwe met his bail conditions on Wednesday after a human rights lawyer, Inibehe...
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A 40-year-old man has been arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on Thursday for allegedly raping a 13-year-old Internally Displaced Person in Borno State. The Borno State NSCDC Commandant, Alhaji Abdullahi Ibrahim who confirmed the incident said the victim was staying with her aunt at the Colori Camp. According to Ibrahim, the victim was lured to...
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by Tolu Omoyeni Just few weeks back, Nollywood actor, Bob Manuel Udokwu said in an interview, “I am pessimistic we can succeed in getting good power supply again in this country”. But the Electricity Distribution company is set to prove the man wrong. It is difficult to deny that electricity supply has notably improved in...
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guest post, by Roqeebah Olaoniye Africa’s youth are hungry for success and they are not letting the grim conditions around the continent derail them. There’s a young man redefining auto sales in Nigeria, a lady who has a PR firm run just by women, and there’s Angel Adelaja, one of the finalists at the recently concluded...
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by Roqeebah Olaoniye The bar On Tuesday 23rd August, the Central Bank of Nigeria released an updated list of 9 banks who failed to remit $21.2billion meant for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) into the Treasury Single Account (TSA). Their punishment is to remain barred from foreign exchange transactions until all the monies are remitted....
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has said that the nation’s currency, the naira is the third worst perfoming currency globally this year. In a series of tweets on its official Twitter handle, @PdpNigeria, the opposition party compared the naira to other currency of other African Nations. The graph showed that the Naira has dropped the lowest....
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Comedian, actor and producer, Ayo Makun popularly known AY on August 19th clocked 45 and got two surprise parties from his wife, Mabel Makun. On August 19th, a party was held on his football training pitch by Mabel and her team members. The biggest surprise came on Sunday, August 21 when he walked into a...
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Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from various camps in Maiduguri are presently protesting on the streets over hunger and thirst. The IDPs who are in their hundreds barricaded the city’s main entry point, causing a gridlock along the Kano Maiduguri highway. One of the IDPs who identified herself as Aisha from Marte said, “We are not...
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Four surveyors lost their lives on Wednesday in Ekiti state after drowning in a river. The surveyors who came to the state for an inspection drowned after the boat they were sailing in capsized in the Egbe river. The victims were part of a seven-man survey team from the Development Dams and Irrigation Scheme in...
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by Roqeebah Olaoniye Anyone who followed the last campaign would recall that one of the reasons many people voted Buhari in as President was because his electioneering strategy banked heavily on the failure of the last administration to return the missing Chibok girls. Now, Mr. President is under serious fire for not doing enough to...
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by Roqeebah Olaoniye Emir of Kano and former Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, yesterday distinguished himself from the bunch. Yet again. We gave you The Thread HERE. However you choose to feel about him, you’ll have to admit that the man is worth listening to. So to get your day going, we compiled 5 of...
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by Roqeebah Olaoniye While the rest of the country might have been focused on other things, a lot has been going on in secessionist news. Accusations The Movement for Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), on Monday accused the federal government and the British police of connivance to jail a London-based Biafra activist, Yagozie Emmanuel,...
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Another edition of EM (Exquisite Magazine) has, as they say, hit the newsstands. Yeah, we know. You probably weren’t aware they were still printing. Or you are that thing they call a millennial and you probably never got to find out that this used to be one of the top magazines in the country (at...
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