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Nollywood actress Angela Okorie has slammed junior actresses in the movie industry to stop lying about their source of money. The actress in a video addressed her junior actresses who have been flaunting their mansions at expensive Estates and locations claiming to have bought their houses with money from their...

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The National Agency for Food and Dr¥g Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has declared that the prevalent use of skin bl£aching creams in Nigeria has become a national health emergency. The director-general of NAFDAC, Mojisola Adeyeye, made the declaration at the Media Sensitization Workshop on Dang£rs of Bl£aching Creams and...

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The President, Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of a Presidential Transition Council to oversee the 2023 transition programme. The president also signed the Executive Order No. 14 of 2023 on the Facilitation and Management of Presidential Transitions.

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Nigerian sprinter, Divine Oduduru, has been suspended indefinitely by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for allegedly viol@ting anti-doping rule. AIU in a statement on Thursday, February 9, said the 26-year-old sprinter, who is Nigeria’s second-fastest runner ever, is also at risk of a six-year ban. According to the statement,...

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The National Population Commission has disclosed that despite security challenges, census will hold in Sambisa Forest. NPC’s Chairman, Nasiru Isa Kwarra, disclosed this on Thursday, February 9, at the inauguration of the population and housing national census publicity committee in Abuja. “I can assure you your village has been...

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Police operatives in Kano State have arrested two men, parading themselves as journalists, for allegedly defr@uding a rice trader of N33,000, in Kano Municipal LGA of the state. The suspects: Mujahid Kabir and Abba Imam, both 30, allegedly used a fake bank transfer alert of N33,000 to buy a...

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No fewer than six students of the University of Calabar (UNICAL), Cross River State, pa$$ed out during an exam at the school’s premises on Thursday, February 9, 2023. It was gathered that the 100-level medical sciences students faint£d and were rushed to the hospital due to overcrowding and the...

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The Federal Government has ordered the closure of universities across the country ahead of the 2023 elections. The National Universities Commission (NUC) in a letter addressed to vice-chancellors and directors of inter-university centres, said all universities are to be closed for three weeks. Chris Maiyaki, NUC’s deputy executive secretary...

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Two former top officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Victor Briggs and Abiye Membere, have been sentenced to two years imprisonment by the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Justice Nnamdi Digmba handed them the sentence on Wednesday, February 8, 2023, after he found them guilty of...

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American businessman Bill Gates is reportedly dating Paula Hurd, 2 years after divorcing his wife of 27years, Melinda. Paula Hurd is the widow of Mark Hurd, the CEO of the software company Oracle, who di£d in 2019. According to People, the 67-year-old Microsoft co-founder has been dating Paula Hurd,...

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