Pompeii
17 Aug 2024
Pop superstar Madonna spent her 66th birthday at Pompeii and donated to a local theatre project supporting at-risk kids, the archaeological site said Saturday. The Material Girl visited the famed UNESCO site Friday night with her entourage, meeting a group of teenagers involved in "Dream of Flying", a theatre project organised by the Pompeii museum…
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The Federal Government has expressed disapproval of the palliative works on the 34-kilometre Ikorodu-Itokin road and ordered the contractor to mobilise back to the site or risk arrest. Minister of Works, David Umahi, disclosed this during his ongoing inspection of Federal Government projects in Lagos. The Minister, who had already visited the 78-kilometre Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta Expressway…
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A village in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, is offering 1 Philippine peso ($0.017) for every five mosquitoes or larvae caught as part of efforts to control rising dengue cases. The campaign, “May Piso sa Mosquito” (“There’s Peso in Mosquito”), launched on Wednesday, has drawn crowds to the village hall. Village chief Carlito Cernal defended the initiative,…
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Justice Yelim Bogoro of the Federal High Court, Lagos, has ordered the final forfeiture of $4.7 million, N830 million, and multiple properties linked to the former embattled Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele. The judge, while delivering judgment yesterday, held that all the properties and funds were proceeds of unlawful activities and,…
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Regardless of the position of the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi, on the illegality of tomorrow's council poll in Osun, the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday said that residents should troop out and cast their votes. Recall that Fagbemi had, in a statement issued on…
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St. Anthony Secondary School, Ilorin Old Students Association (SASSIOSA), on Tuesday elected new executive officers to pilot the affairs of the group for another two-year term. The President, Maj Gen Anthony Atolagbe (retd), was also replaced by Sir Ben Duntoye while Mr. Aina Ekundayo replaced Mrs. Abimbola Rita as the General Secretary of the association.…
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A High Court sitting in Ilesa, Osun State on Friday ordered the leadership of the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSSIEC) to conduct the state local government elections in the state on Saturday, February 22, 2025. An enrollment order delivered by Justice A. Aderibigbe, mandated and compelled "all the Security agents comprising of the Nigeria…
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Members of the Doka Community in Kaduna have petitioned the state governor, Senator Uba Sani, to probe the circumstances leading to the death of a Senior Secondary Two (SS2) student of Government Technical College, Ahmed Musa, who was found with signs of brutalisation and strangulation. Furthermore, the father of the deceased, Comrade Musa Muhammed, a…