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A man has asked “What is it about a car that makes a man seem a hundred times more desirable than one with a good heart and intentions?” after a lady refused to date him because he doesn’t have a car. The man has being chasing the lady for...

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The First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has urged market women across Nigeria to avoid excessive price hikes on food items as the festive season approaches. The First Lady made the appeal at an event in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State on Saturday, November 17. at the 2024 Ebonyi Women’s Day Celebration...

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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has labelled Nigeria a ‘failing state,’ citing widespread corruption and leadership failures under President Bola Tinubu. Obasanjo said at an event in New Haven, Connecticut, USA on Saturday, November 16. According to him, “Nigeria’s situation, as we can see and understand, is bad. The more...

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Nigerian award-winning rapper, Chibuzor Nelson Azubuike, popularly known as Phyno, has expressed his views on the trend of relocating elderly parents to retirement homes or residential care facilities abroad. Speaking in a recent podcast, the rapper said: “We don’t put our dads in retirement homes in Africa. I know...

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The minister of water resources and sanitation, Joseph Utsev, has said that Nigeria needs 11.6 million additional toilets to meet its open defecation free (ODF) target by 2030. Speaking with journalists in Abuja on Friday, Utsev said that to reach the ODF target, Nigeria requires an annual budget of...

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  The immediate past Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, says he knows the people behind his probe by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The EFCC is probing Okowa, who was a two-term governor, over an alleged diversion of the sum of N1.3 trillion. However, speaking at...

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A 33-year-old Nigerian man, Babatunde Francis Ayeni, has been sentenced to 10 years in a U.S. federal prison for his involvement in a large-scale cyber fraud conspiracy. The scheme, which targeted over 400 individuals across the United States, resulted in a collective loss of nearly $20 million. The U.S....

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Patrick Akpoguma, a 28-year-old suspected internet fraudster, offered a $100,000 (approximately ₦174 million) bribe to the Zone 2 Police Command in Lagos in an attempt to secure his release. The suspect is accused of multiple cyber crimes, including romance scams, identity theft, hacking, cryptocurrency fraud, rit+alism, and cultism. While...

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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has instructed banks to primarily distribute cash through Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). In a circular to banks on Friday, Solaja Olayemi, the acting director of the CBN’s currency operations department, cautioned banks against handing naira notes to individuals involved in the illegal sale...

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23-year-old Godwin Emmanuel has confessed to st3aling a police officer’s phone from a patrol van while being transported to the Osun State Police Command. He was arrested alongside two others, 28-year-old Olajide Kareem and 33-year-old Mike Emmanuel, for allegedly r%bbing residents along the Ilesa-Osu Expressway in Osun State. Speaking...

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