Jackie Appiah
9 Nov
The 20th edition of Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), which held last Saturday at the Balmoral Convention Centre, Ikeja, Lagos, brought together African film practitioners, who showcased the continent’s film industry growth and resilience, amid pomp and pageantry.
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Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAAB) says it will be graduating 120 First Class students and 136 with doctoral degrees at its 32nd convocation. The institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olusola Kehinde, disclosed this at a news conference to herald the 32nd convocation of the university scheduled for Saturday. Kehinde said that 3,567 students would be graduating,…
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Brothers Across Nigeria International (BAN INT’L), a nonprofit organisation, has provided food items and cash worth N45 million to 145 families of its late members worldwide. Through its welfare arm, the BAN Int'l Outreach Commission (BANOC), the organisation spent over N45 million in December 2024 to support these families, ensuring they could enjoy the festive…
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Nasarawa State Governor, Engr. Abdullahi A. Sule, has expressed his determination to support the cultivation of every piece of arable land in the state as part of his administration’s vision for agriculture and wealth creation. He lamented that the state possesses vast land that is rich and suitable for agriculture but remains grossly underutilised. Governor…
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The Lagos State government has announced that anyone caught sharing or forwarding child pornography and obscene publications about children on social media risks a 14-year jail term, as provided in the state’s domestic and sexual violence law. The Executive Secretary of the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency, Mrs Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, disclosed this during…
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More than 40,000 card-carrying members from various opposition parties have defected and joined the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in Katsina State. The defectors were received at the Government House by Governor Dikko Radda on Tuesday evening. Leading the group of defectors were former Deputy Speakers of the State House of Assembly, Yakubu Idris and…
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A doctor at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH) in Anambra has been kidnapped by gunmen at his residence in Anambra. The Guardian reports that the victim has been identified as Dr Collinus Onuigbo. He was abducted on Tuesday, a few days after Governor Chukwuma Soludo launched Operation Udo ga-achị, a joint security force…
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Many traders were injured at the Ediaken Market, popularly called Uselu Market, on the Benin-Lagos Road axis as political thugs engaged in sporadic shooting on Tuesday in an attempt to overthrow the leadership of the market union, leaving many scampering for safety. The incident, which occurred Tuesday evening, entered its second day as women trooped…
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Dr. Ejike Oji, Chairman of the Association for the Advancement of Family Planning in Nigeria (AAFP), says there is no better time for the Nigerian health sector to be innovative than now. Oji said this on Wednesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Abuja, while responding to the pulling out of…
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Mrs. Beatrice Ekweremadu, wife of former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has returned to Nigeria, according to the Vanguard Newspaper. It will be recalled that Senator Ekweremadu, his wife, and Dr. Obinna Obeta were sentenced by a UK court on charges related to organ harvesting. The former Deputy Senate President was sentenced to 10…
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US President Donald Trump ordered federal employees of diversity offices to be put on paid leave by Wednesday night, and called a Washington bishop "nasty" after she asked him to "have mercy" for migrants and LGBTQ children. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that US government workers in diversity offices must be put on…