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13 Feb 2024
An unexplainable incident unfolded when a woman, presumed deceased, suddenly regained consciousness moments before her scheduled cremation at a funeral parlour. Bujji Aamma, a 52-year-old resident of Berhampur, India, had suffered severe burns in a house fire on February 1st. Rushed to the hospital for treatment, she had burns covering half her body. Despite her…
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Governor Bassey Otu of Cross River, says his administration will take proactive steps towards tightening security around the border areas. Otu who disclosed this on Friday in Calabar while meeting with elders and stakeholders of the state, said the move was critical to security and economic growth of the state. It would be recalled that…
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The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has appealed to Gov. Dikko Radda of Katsina State to fulfil his pledge to install solar-powered lights across the orientation camp in the state. The state NYSC’s Coordinator, Alhaji Ibrahim Sa’idu, made the appeal in Katsina on Friday, during the swearing-in of the 2024 Batch ‘C’ stream ll Corps…
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Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State on Friday crowned Oba Olatunji Fayemi as the first Onitedo of Mahintedo. Oba Fayemi became king following the recommendations of the Justice C.E.T Ajama Commission of Inquiry on Chieftaincy Matters and the subsequent approval of the Onitedo Kingship stool by the Ondo State Government on December 9, 2024. Performing…
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US President Donald Trump made his first trip Friday since returning to power, heading to fire-scorched California and hurricane-hit North Carolina as a row blazed over disaster funding. The visit came as the White House said that deportation flights on military aircraft had begun, launching Trump's promised operation to expel "millions" of undocumented migrants. On…
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The Vice-Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Prof. Simeon Bamire, has charged new students in the institution to be diligent in their studies and shun cultism and other social vices. Bamire gave the charge during the Matriculation Ceremony for new students for 2023/2024 academic at the OAU Amphitheatre, on Friday, in Ile-Ife. He said that…
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The Lagos Bus Services Ltd. (LBSL) has transported about 60 million people in its five years of operation. The Managing Director/ of LBSL, Mr Idowu Oguntona, disclosed this at a capacity building workshop for bus captains in Lagos on Friday. Oguntona said that in spite of challenges in 2024, the company exceeded its target of…
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European authorities on Friday said they had seized more than six million euros in cash and arrested 25 suspects in Spain after dismantling a Barcelona-based international cocaine smuggling network. EU law enforcement agency Europol said the investigation that began in 2022 unearthed a scheme in which Bulgarian, Colombian and Spanish citizens colluded to smuggle the…
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The DR Congo army and M23 fighters clashed outside Goma on Friday as the UK, US and France urged citizens to leave the main city in the country's volatile east, warning the situation could deteriorate rapidly. Since peace talks failed, the militia group backed by Rwandan troops has gained swathes of territory in mineral-rich eastern…
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday threatened to block the renewal of EU sanctions on Russia, linking his support to efforts to reopen a gas pipeline across Ukraine to Central Europe. The European Union has imposed 15 rounds of sanctions on Russia since its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The EU's 27 members…
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Vice-President Kashim Shettima has returned to Nigeria after his engagements at the 2025 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. Mr Stanley Nkwocha, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Communications, Office of the Vice-President, made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Shettima, who represented Nigeria at the annual global…