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Following the incident of US actor Will Smith slapping comic Chris Rock at the Oscars, Smith has been banned from the Oscars gala and other Academy events for 10 years. In a statement made by the Academy, the 94th Oscars had been overshadowed by the unacceptable and harmful behavior we saw Mr. Smith […]
Thursday in Costa Rica a cargo plane carrying mail and packages skidded off the runway and broke into two during an emergency landing which has led to a temporary closure of San Jose international airport. Smoke was billowing from the bright yellow plane of German logistics giant DHL as it ground to a […]
Zanku Records star, Zlatan, has dropped the official music video for his song “Money” featuring DMW boss, Davido. The song produced by Spellz is from Zlatan’s 2nd studio album titled, RESAN. Resan is actually a Swedish word that means ‘the journey’. “I called it that because there’s something particular about my journey from […]
Russia says it has suffered “significant losses of troops” in its war with Ukraine. Dmitry Peskov, Russia’s presidential spokesman, said this on Thursday in an interview with Sky News. “We’ve had significant losses of troops and it’s a huge tragedy for us,” he said. His admission is significant because Russia’s ministry of defence had […]
The National Assembly has begun moves to challenge, in court, the actions of some members of the federal executive who are bent on removing Section 84(12) from the Electoral Act 2022. The PUNCH on Thursday gathered that the nation’s apex legislature had started the process of appealing the judgment of a Federal High Court, […]
Market women at the Pocket Layout Market Woliwo, Fegge, Onitsha in Anambra State had clashed with the Ukwa family of Onitsha over ownership of the land where the market was sited. The women who are mostly widows and numbered over 500 claimed that goods worth millions of naira has been destroyed in their […]
The Aguta Local Government Area headquarters in Anambra State, where Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo hails from has been set ablaze by some unknown gunmen. On Thursday afternoon the gunmen attacked the council headquarters and set it ablaze. DSP Ikenga Tochukwu said the police command of the state has deployed men to the area […]
The House of Representatives has called for the cleanup and compensation of communities affected by the oil spillage that occurred from Conoil’s well head in some Communities in Sapele Local Government Area, under Okpe, Sapele and Uvwie Federal Constituency of Delta State. The House raised the concern on the devastating oil spill during […]
Australia on Thursday released the last refugees held in a former hotel where tennis superstar Novak Djokovic was spectacularly detained earlier this year, activists said. The eight men held in the Melbourne facility were originally in a group of refugees and asylum seekers transferred to Australia from offshore facilities to receive medical care. […]
The terrorists who bombed the Abuja-Kaduna train, killed eight passengers on board and kidnapped unspecified number of others, have released a video giving reasons for the attack. They spoke in a video shortly before releasing the Managing Director of Bank of Agriculture (BOA) Alwan Ali-Hassan. The terrorists, in the one minute, 21 seconds […]
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