Tag: Winners and losers

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Alexander OnukwueJanuary 15, 2018

Manchester City, Davido, the Buhari presidency | Here are last week’s winners and losers

A week of many tears, many broken hearts, of terrible disappointments and of the anticipation of a time when so ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 31, 2017

World football legend emerges Liberia’s President; Mourinho can’t find his magic touch | Here are 2017’s last week’s winners and losers

This should be very straightforward. No group of persons have been as consistent in repeating public relations disasters month-on-month throughout ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 17, 2017

The Tekno-Drake collaboration; Firdaus, the hijabi who was not called to bar | Here are last week’s winners and losers

by Alexander O. Onukwue We are just going to go right into it because everyone on this list has had ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 11, 2017

Trump’s controversial decision; Okorocha’s misbegotten Ministry of Happiness | Here are last week’s winners and losers

by Alexander O. Onukwue As the festive season draws closer, the presentation of awards and recognitions have increased. Stocktaking on ...

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EzinneNovember 25, 2017

Mugabe takes a bow; Malami’s 360 on Maina; Ebuka’s iconic agbada | Here are this week’s winners and losers

by Alexander Onukwue and Ezinne Ajoku This was a week in which an awful lot of people won. From the ...

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ToluOctober 8, 2017

Super Eagles, Aishah Ahmad, Davido, Patience Jonathan | Here are last week’s winners and losers

From sports to politics to entertainment and even literature, here are our winners and losers from last week’s biggest newsmakers: ...

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ToluSeptember 18, 2017

“Terrorist People of Biafra”, Operation Python Dancers, the $999 iPhone X | These are last week’s winners and losers

The nature of the events that took centre stage in Nigeria last week and the fact that we may have ...

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ToluSeptember 3, 2017

Super Eagles, Game of Thrones, Dino Melaye, Nigerian Army | These are last week’s winners and losers

For pop culture, last week was about smashing records and crunching numbers. HBO series, Game of Thrones dominated conversations for ...

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ToluAugust 20, 2017

Governor Fayose, Femi Fani-Kayode, Yemi Osinbajo, CNN | Here are the winners and losers from President Buhari’s return

President Muhammadu Buhari’s absence from the country had begun ruffling feathers from the moment he sent the Senate an official ...

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ToluAugust 6, 2017

Neymar’s destiny-changing transfer deal; Man up, Amir Khan; Usain Bolt | Here are last week’s winners and losers

Last week definitely had its share of political and pop culture drama but we liked that the news cycle was ...

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ToluJuly 16, 2017

Ademola Adeleke dances to victory, Sheriff out in the cold, Trump Jr and Snr | Here are last week’s winners and losers

From Nigeria’s looters gang to the rise and fall of political juggernauts and to America’s first family, here are the ...

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Oludolapo AdelanaJuly 12, 2017

Ahmed Makarfi, Modu Sheriff, Ayodele Fayose | Here are the winners and losers from the PDP chairmanship tussle

The chairmanship tussle in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) came to an end on Wednesday as the Supreme Court declared ...

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ToluJuly 2, 2017

Hushpuppi barks loud, Saraki wins N4bn in damages, Jay-Z’s 4.44 album | Here are last week’s winners and losers

It’s super easy to be the talk of town in these parts and it’s even easier to make our losers’ ...

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ToluJune 25, 2017

Five-months pregnant athlete, Alysia Montano; Otodo Gbame settlers | Here are last week’s winners and losers

Nigeria’s Acting President delivered a powerful speech that struck through the core of Nigerian’s souls, this 5-months pregnant athlete nearly ...

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ToluJune 17, 2017

Evans the kidnapper, Nathaniel Bassey, Kamala Harris | Here are this week’s winners and losers

The major newsmakers from last week still found their way into the this week’s buzz and although there are a ...

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ToluJune 12, 2017

James Comey and his book deal, #HalleluyahChallenge | Here are last week’s winners and losers

Last week saw the political audience across the world torn in separate directions as the United States and the United ...

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ToluApril 17, 2017

Reuben Abati, Efe Ejeba, The Whistleblower | Here are last week’s winners and losers

It’s super easy to be the talk of town in these parts and it’s even easier to make our losers’ ...

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ToluApril 2, 2017

Sen Dino Melaye, Omoni Oboli, Ali Ndume, 5K bae | Here are the winners and losers from the past week

by Tolu Omoyeni We could just put up the name of our biggest loser for the week, summarize all his ...

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ToluMarch 13, 2017

Apostle Suleiman, President IJGB Buhari, Kemen | Here are last week’s winners and losers

The Nigerian President shut naysayers up by making an unanticipated return, a man of God finds himself in a messy ...

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ToluMarch 6, 2017

Kemen, Sambasa Nzeribe, Trump, A Trip to Jamaica | See the winners and losers from last week

Most of the major events from last week happened at the tail end of the week and it doesn’t take ...

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ToluFebruary 26, 2017

Yemi Osinbajo, ThinTallTony, Ali Modu Sheriff | Here are last week’s winners and losers

Last week was by no means lacking in event but there were remarkably more winners than losers. From the troubled ...

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ToluFebruary 12, 2017

Hillary Clinton, Andrew Yakubu, Tiwa Savage | Here are last week’s winners and losers

News of President Muhammadu Buhari’s health status, vacation extension and late night phone calls to his ‘boys’ back home dominated ...

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ToluFebruary 5, 2017

Toke Makinwa, James Ibori, Seun Egbegbe | Here are all our winners and losers from last week

Phewww! It was such a week. From Trump’s travel ban and its eventual suspension to 2face Idibia’s planned protest and ...

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ToluJanuary 29, 2017

Lai Mohammed, Apostle Suleiman, Serena Williams | Here are last week’s winners and losers

Here are the individuals who made it to our list of winners and losers and there’s a reason the losers ...

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ToluDecember 30, 2016

Soundcity, Tekno, Do2tun | Here are the winners and losers at the #SoundcityMVP2016

The 2016 Soundcity MVP Awards was hyped and a lot of people who had been disappointed by the Headies Awards ...

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ToluDecember 19, 2016

Nana Akufo-Addo, award organizers, and more… Here are the winners and losers from #TFAA2016

Recurring in the fullness of its strength for the 11th time, The Future Awards Africa yet again proved itself as ...

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RoqeebahNovember 9, 2016

#AmericaDecides: Here are our winners and losers from the U.S presidential elections

It will go down in history as the most surprising victory in any elections in the world – we think. ...

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ToluOctober 17, 2016

From the kitchen to #TheOtherRoom, and the fall of Donald Trump – here are last week’s winners and losers

The week that just passed will undoubtedly go down in Nigerian history as one of the most action-packed in 2016. ...

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Adebayo EmuleomoJuly 22, 2016

The winners and losers in the Remi Tinubu and Dino Melaye fight

When on Wednesday, Senator Oluremi Tinubu declared that she had forgiven fellow senator, Dino Melaye for his uncouth comments and ...

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Kolapo OlapojuJanuary 25, 2015

“Tables turned for Emir of Kano, Naira goes digging for gold” – See our Winners and Losers of the week

by Kolapo Olapoju Winners & Losers is a roundup of the week’s major happenings, where we spotlight the ‘winners’ and ...

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