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Tributes continue to pour in after the death of Mali’s former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on Sunday. Keita’s rule was riddled with lots of controversies and criticism especially from the opposition before he was toppled through a coup in 2020. In the weeks before the 2020 coup, he had been struggling with protests […]
Actor, Femi Branch, is not happy with the way Nigerian culture is being rubbished by some people. Citing the instance of controversial cross dresser, Idris Okuneye, aka Bobrisky, who was allegedly sent away from Edo State because of a disrespectful statement he made about the king, Branch said such behaviour should not be condoned. […]
The Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd), has paid tributes to Prof. Lawrence Baraebibai Ekpebu, renowned scholar and diplomat, who died on January 2, 2022. Ekpebu, who died at 86, was the first African graduate of Harvard University in the United States. Dikio, while paying a condolence visit to […]
A middle-aged woman resident in Ekpan community in Delta State has been arrested by operatives of the State Police Command for allegedly pouring boiled water on the breast of her own daughter, Nwankwo Merit. The name of the suspect was yet to be ascertained as of the time of filing this story. But the […]
The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested a man, Patrick Odey, for allegedly raping a 21-year-old salesgirl. The victim, it was gathered, recently started working at a garden in Orozo in the Angwansarki area of Abuja and lives in one of the apartments in the garden. Odey was said to have forcefully […]
The Authorities in Burkina Faso has arrested a total of fifteen people in involvement in an attempt to destabilize Institutions. The group includes one senior Army Officer as well as soldiers. The announcement was made by the Defence Minister Colonel Major Aimé Simpore, on Thursday. This legal action which was decided by the Military […]
The two chambers of Nigeria’s National Assembly have indicated their readiness to rework the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021 in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s dispositions. President Buhari vetoed the Bill, and the National Assembly has said it will exercise its powers to override him. Chairman of the House Committee on Treaties, Protocols […]
Hollywood couple, Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet, have announced their separation after four years of marriage and 16 years of knowing each other. This was announced in a joint statement signed ‘J & L’, which they shared on their individual Instagram pages on Thursday. The announcement read, “We have all felt the squeeze […]
A Japanese woman is giving up her child and suing her sperm donor after she learned he lied about his ethnicity and educational background. The woman, a Tokyo resident in her 30s, shares a child with her husband and was seeking to have a second child. But after learning her partner had a […]
United States on Wednesday has imposed sanctions on five North Koreans linked to the country’s ballistic missile program, a day after Pyongyang carried out what it said was the launch of a hypersonic missile. The Treasury Department said the five North Koreans being sanctioned were “responsible for procuring goods for the DPRK’s (North […]
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