Ayodeji Razaq
12 Jun 2024
A fintech company, Vesti, has announced it invested $250,000 in talented African youths through its Vista for Africans Initiative. Vesti detailed the five-year investment in a statement, adding that to achieve the initiative's aims, it has partnered with The Future Awards Africa (TFAA), often dubbed the "Nobel Prize for Young Africans." “The partnership marks a…
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A 10-man gang of kidnappers has reportedly abducted five persons, including a woman, her daughter, a visitor and two men at the Odo-Eku community in Isin Local Government Area of Kwara State. Members of vigilance groups, local hunters, and other security agencies have already been deployed to the surrounding communities in a bid to rescue…
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Israel on Thursday accused Hamas of backtracking on parts of the Gaza ceasefire deal announced a day earlier, and said cabinet will not meet on the deal until Hamas's agreement is confirmed.
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NOLLYWOOD filmmakers have always captured the essence of Lagos — whether in crime thrillers showing its murky underside, comedies portraying it as a city of chaos and errors, or romance stories where one can be swept up by passion and desire in the city that never sleeps. This, Jade Osiberu has done in Christmas in…
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The Italian Deputy Country Representative for the World Sustainable Development Goals Organisation (WSDGO), Alex Goodluck, on Thursday, reaffirmed his dedication to creating opportunities for Nigerian youths, aligning his initiatives with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A staunch advocate of sustainable development, Goodluck continues to spearhead programs that equip young Nigerians with the skills…
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Tour operators said Thursday that North Korea had reopened a border city to foreign tourists, five years after Pyongyang sealed its frontiers in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. North Korea shut its borders in early 2020 to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, and later bolstered defences along its northern boundary with China to deter…
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From January 8th to 9th, H.E. Wang Yi, Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Minister of Foreign Affairs, paid an official visit to Nigeria. During the visit, Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with President Tinubu and Foreign Minister Tuggar, which yielded fruitful results. After four…
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Apple lost its status as the best selling smartphone brand in the crucial Chinese market last year, new data showed Thursday, with a pair of local rivals surpassing it with surging shipments.
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The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has issued a default notice and intention-to-seal order to Atlantic Blue Hotel in Lekki Phase 1 for failing to comply with the state’s waste management regulations. The enforcement action was announced by LAWMA’s Managing Director, Muyiwa Gbadegbesin, in a statement on Thursday. According to Gbadegbesin, the hotel failed to…
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A middle-aged woman alleged to have abducted a three-year-old boy, Mohammed Naziru, who was returning from the mosque after prayer alongside his eight-year-old sister, last week Friday, in the Iwaya area of Lagos, has been nabbed by police decoy operatives. The woman, whose identity could not be immediately ascertained, was said to have covered herself…
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The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has raised alarm over what it describes as ongoing illegality within the Police Service Commission (PSC) and has given President Bola Tinubu a seven-working-day ultimatum to reconstitute the commission’s governing board or face legal action. In a statement signed by Emmanuel Onwubiko, the National Coordinator of HURIWA,…