Archive for month: February, 2017

Abraham Kiptum has won the Lagos City Marathon for the second year running with a time of 2 hours, 10 minutes. He will be going back to his country, with the star prize of N25m. In 2016, the Kenyan athlete, won the maiden edition of the marathon race with...

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. A bold robber in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, who snatched the mobile phone of a student of the Nnamdi Azikiwe university, took the daring step of uploading his own pictures on his victim’s Facebook account (Gabrilla Uchechi Eberechukwu) on Thursday.  . . The unidentified suspect, who changed the...

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. . Afrobest Chinedu Eze, a trader at the Alaba International Market, Ojo, Lagos, was arrested on Wednesday, after several efforts by the police to track him down.  . . Punchng initially reported how the victim, Blessing, was brought to the home of the Ezes to work as a...

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. . On Monday, Chioma Ochemba, a 37-year-old commercial sex worker in Ayobo, Lagos, smashed a wood on the head of her 7-year-old daughter, after accusing her of losing a N100 slippers she had bought for her the previous day. . . One of her neighbours, Mr. Busari Tajudeen,...

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. . Efcc has discovered a $37.5m (N11.75bn) luxury high-rise building on Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos, allegedly belonging to the embattled former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, Punchng reports. . . The discovery was made as part of investigations into a string of fraudulent activities in the NNPC,...

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