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Dr. Nafisa Nasir Idris, founder and chairperson of the Nafisa Nasir Charity Development Foundation (NANAS Foundation) and wife of the governor of Kebbi State, Mohammed Nasir Idris, will be a recipient of the Humanitarian Award at the 2024 ceremony in Abuja. The recognition, according to the event organisers, highlights Dr. Nafisa's unwavering dedication to humanitarian…
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A man and his wife were caught in a crossfire between the joint Police and vigilante shootout with kidnappers during a foiled kidnap attempt in Ilorin, Kwara State. The incident happened in the early hours of Wednesday in the Oluwalose community, Ilorin-West Local Government, along the Okolowo-Jebba highway. According to findings, a group of nine…
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Minister, Federal Ministry of Youth Development, Dr. Jamila Bio Ibrahim, has appealed to Nigerian youths to take advantage of the N110 billion Youth Investment Fund instead of engaging in the proposed nationwide protest that may lead to widespread unrest and instability. The Minister also reiterated the Federal Government's commitment to launching and implementing a comprehensive…
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Nigerian singer, Ayra Starr, made a recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The 22-year-old took the stage to deliver a performance of two tracks from her newly released album, The Year I Turned 21, which debuted on May 30, 2024. Ayra Starr's setlist included a medley of two singles from the album.…
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South Africa police said on Friday they detained 95 Libyans after a raid on a farm that appeared to have been used as a military camp. Police spokesman Donald Mdhluli said those held were being taken in for questioning following the morning operation near Witbank in the northeastern province of Mpumalanga, about 360 kilometres (220…
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France's high-speed rail network was hit by arson attacks that disrupted travel for hundreds of thousands of passengers on Friday, just hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. A source close to the investigation told AFP the attacks were coordinated acts of "sabotage". "This is a massive attack on a large scale to…
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The Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, has revealed that over 600,000 households have benefited from the direct cash transfer programme of the federal government since the resumption of the project. He disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja during the half-year review ministerial press briefing, tagged, ‘Economic Recovery and Growth: Progress and Prospects 2024’. Recall President…
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Former US president Barack Obama endorsed his fellow Democrat Kamala Harris' bid for the White House on Friday, delivering a major boost to her campaign to beat Donald Trump in November's presidential election. "Earlier this week, Michelle and I called our friend Kamala Harris. We told her we think she'll make a fantastic President of…
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The Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN) has shut down 571 illegal shops found selling substandard, contraband drugs and operating unapproved premises in local government areas of Bauchi State in one week. Director of Enforcement of the Council, Pharmacist Stephen Esumobi, while briefing journalists at the end of the Council’s monitoring exercise in Bauchi on Thursday,…
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There is a 70-80 percent chance of "moderate to heavy" rain at the Paris Olympic Games opening ceremony starting at 7:30 pm (1730 GMT) Friday, French weather channel La Chaine Meteo said. "There is still uncertainty about the trajectory and exact position" of the rainstorm, meteorologist Cyrille Duchesne said in a post on the channel's…
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Hope Payment Service Bank (Hope PSBank), one of Nigeria’s leading payment service banks, recently averted a fraudulent cyberattack targeted at its banking platform, retrieving billions of Naira in the intended attack. Investigations revealed that the digital bank was promptly alerted of the attack and was able to truncate it at the nick of time. Speaking…