Stan Nze
3 Dec
Ahead of the much-anticipated premiere of Everybody Loves Jenifa in cinemas on December 13, Funke Akindele has treated fans to a festive surprise with the release of a Christmas song, Everybody Loves Christmas. The song, performed by D'banj, Falz, Waje, and the cast of the upcoming film, is produced by music maestro Cobhams Asuquo. READ…
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Manchester United forward Amad Diallo could be sidelined for the rest of the season after suffering ankle ligament damage, according to reports on Saturday. Diallo is believed to have sustained the problem in training, with United yet to confirm the extent of the damage as the 22-year-old awaits further tests. The Ivory Coast international had…
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Their voices monotone and their faces staring mostly ahead, three Israeli hostages spoke in Hebrew on a Gaza stage before walking to freedom on Saturday, after more than 16 months of captivity in the Palestinian territory. The carefully choreographed handover to the Red Cross in Gaza came as part of an ongoing ceasefire deal with…
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A ninth mayor from Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM party, the third largest in parliament, has been removed from office because of alleged links to a "terrorist organisation", the interior ministry said on Saturday. The suspension of the mayor of Van, a majority Kurdish city in the east of the country, came with negotiations underway between the…
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The Adamawa Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, has trained 1,780 educators on Social Emotional Learning (SEL). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the programme was carried out under the auspices of Global Partnership for Education-Transforming Education System at State Level (GPE-TESS). The three-day capacity-building training for State-Level Master Trainers of the…
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The Plateau Government says it has rehabilitated and completed 49 abandoned road projects in the last 18 months. Mr Ubandoma Laven, the Commissioner for Works in the state, said this during a news conference on Saturday in Jos. Laven was reacting to the allegations raised by Rep. Yusuf Gagdi (APC-Plateau) that 80 per cent of…
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Iran said Saturday that it had received messages from the new government in Damascus following the ouster of its longtime Syrian ally, former president Bashar al-Assad. "The Islamic Republic of Iran is indirectly in contact with Damascus," Tehran's special envoy for Syrian affairs Mohammad Reza Raouf Sheibani was quoted as saying by the state-run IRNA…
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The American rapper, Rakim Mayers, popularly known as A$AP Rocky, has reached the closing stages of his felony assault trial in a Los Angeles courtroom on Friday night, February, 2025. The case centred on a November 2021 incident where Mayers allegedly fired a semiautomatic firearm at his former friend and A$AP Mob member, Terell Ephron,…
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The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, says many FCT projects would be inaugurated in May to celebrate President Bola Tinubu’s second year in office. Wike stated this in Abuja on Saturday after inspecting the construction of a 30.4-kilometre road from Abuja-Lokoja Expressway to Gomani in Kwali Area Council of the…
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Amid angry European reactions to US Vice President JD Vance's combative speech in Munich, Switzerland's president said on Saturday she shared many of the "liberal values" he expressed, seeing the speech as a "plea for direct democracy". Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference Thursday focussed on key themes of Trump's election campaign and was…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) have disagreed over the admissibility of an appeals court judgement in the ongoing petition before the Ondo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal. The contention followed the APC and its candidate, Gov. Lucky Aiyedatiwa’s, attempt to tender in evidence the judgement of the Appeal Court, Akure…