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Funke Akindele Finally Confirms Crash Of Her One-Year-Old Marriage
After five days of holding her fans and other Nigerians in suspense, star actress Funke Akindele has finally admitted the end to her fairytale marriage to property mogul, Kehinde Oloyede-Almaroof. An...
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Okagbare Finally Hits The 7M Mark In Long Jump
Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare yesterday at the IAAF diamond league meeting in Monaco made history as the second Nigerian nay African woman to legally hit the 7m mark in the long jump. The 2008 Beijing...
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Abacha’s Daughter Under Fire For Attacking Soyinka
Gumsu, one of the daughters of the late maximum ruler, Gen. Sani Abacha, has taken to Twitter to snarl abuse at Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka. She described the iconic writer as an “empty...
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GSM Services Restored in Borno
Telecommunication services have been restored in Borno State, the hotbed of the Boko Haram insurgency.The Nigerian government had suspended telephone services in Borno since May. The Federal...
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FG in cash trouble
There are concerns in government circles that the country’s revenue projection for the 2013 fiscal year may not be realised. Saturday PUNCH learnt that the gross oil revenue accruing to the Federation...
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[PHOTOS] Meet the World’s Oldest Mother, Who Gave Birth at Almost 70
When Rajo Devi Lohan made headlines around the world by becoming the world’s oldest first-time mother, critics said she was putting her health at risk and condemning her daughter to the agony of...
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Nigerian student graduates with First Class from UK University
Nigerian student Ihuoma Njoku has graduated with a First Class degree in Computer Science from the University of Manchester. Worthy of celebration. Congrats girl!
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[PHOTOS] Meet The 35 Nigerian Senators Who Voted In Support Of Child Marriage
The following Senators voted in favour of underage marriage in Senate during the week: 1. Sen. Abdulmumin M. Hassan (Jigawa South West, PDP) Sen. Abdulmumin M. Hassan (Jigawa South West, PDP) 2. Sen....
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I Was Distressed By What Achebe Wrote About My Dad –Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosumu
Dr. Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosumu, a former ambassador to the Netherlands and Executive Director of Obafemi Awolowo Foundation, shares her experience in this interview. Somebody would think you would be...
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Man In Wheelchair Attempts To Blow Up Beijing Airport
A man in a wheelchair ignited a home-made explosive device at Beijing’s international airport Saturday, state media reported, injuring himself but no others. The man, identified as Ji Zhongxing from...
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Forbes’ List Of Hollywood’s Highest Paid Actors of 2013
Forbes, a few days ago, released their annual ‘Highest Paid Hollywood Actors’ list and Iron Man actor Robert Downey topped the list. See what the top 10 actors earned between June 2012 & June...
View ArticleNuhu Ribadu: Truths, Lies And My EFCC days
by Nuhu Ribadu I read Mahmud Jega’s Daily Trust column a fortnight ago, with the title “Gra-gra versus softly-softly”. It was composed in his characteristic meticulousness which also touched a nerve...
View ArticleJonathan, Northern governors in closed door meeting with Obasanjo
Four Northern governors on Saturday played what could be described as a hide-and-seek game with President Goodluck Jonathan when the two parties separately visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo at...
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18 Year Old Anna Ebiere Banner wins Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria 2013
Anna Ebiere Banner, representing Bayelsa State: winner, MBGN 2013 The 26th edition of the beauty pageant took place in Yenogoa, Bayelsa tonight the 20th of July, 2013 and 18-year-old Anna Ebiere...
View ArticleKeshi donates boots to Deaf and Dumb National team
Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi on Saturday extended a hand of fellowship to the National Deaf and Dumb team which is currently preparing for a tourney abroad with the donation of a...
View Article73-yr-old CBN Retiree Duped N10m, Narrates Ordeal
Operatives of the Special Fraud Unit, SFU, Ikoyi, Lagos have smashed a syndicate which specialised in defrauding members of the public by sending congratulatory text messages for winning jackpots in...
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Buhari, Tinubu Are Not Democrats – PDP Leadership
The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has told the leader of Congress for Progressive Change, Maj.- Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and the National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria,...
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Tolu Ogunlesi: Senator Yerima and the marriage age controversy
by Tolu Ogunlesi The last time the Nigerian Constitution was in the news like this, the spotlight was on Section 145. And, that was in 2010. It took the Senate President, David Mark’s ingenious...
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Dozens Killed, Hundreds Escape As Militants Attack Two Prisons in Iraq
Militants attacked two Iraqi prisons, including notorious Abu Ghraib, with mortars, bombs and gunfire, freeing at least 500 inmates in assaults that cost more than 40 lives, officials said Monday. The...
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Father of five who was declared dead shows up 16 years later with gay lover
Eric Myers went on a business trip to San Diego in 1991 — and ditched his wife and five children. He has now returned to Phoenix, calling his disappearing act ‘the most selfish thing in the world....
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