Day: April 11, 2021

Maradona’s Daughters, Lawyer fight dirty over football Legend’s £60m Estate

Lukman Olasunkanmi

  Lawyer accuses Maradona’s daughters of stealing, abandonment A former lawyer to the late Argentine football , Martias Morla, has accused two daughters of Diego Maradona of abandoning the legend. Dalma and Gianinna Maradona have been involved in a bitter inheritance dispute with Morla over Maradona’s image rights and estate amounting to £ 60million. The Argentine lawyer speaking in an interview with America TV during the week hit back at the heiresses insisting they profited from the star’s demise. “He was fighting to the death with Dalma and Gianinna —…

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Ramadan: Sultan Orders Nigerian Muslims’ Search for new Moon on Monday

Aliyu Aliyu

  I’tikaf should still be put on hold while strict observance of all COVID-19 protocols including avoiding lengthy or crowded sessions should be observed, Sultan says in a statement   The President-General, Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), and Sultan of Sokoto, Alh. Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has enjoined Nigerian Muslim Ummah to search for the crescent of Ramadan 1442 AH immediately after sunset on Monday, April 12, 2021. Sultan, in a statement signed by the Director of Administration, NSCIA, Arc. Zubairu Haruna Usman-Ugwu, sent to Platforms Africa, felicitated with the…

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How flavoured drinks killed 3 in Nigeria’s Kano – NAFDAC

Dawood Rabiu

  Nigeria’s food administration agency declares additives or chemicals used to enhance the taste of foods and drinks could lead to preventable illnesses or death The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has warned Nigerians to desist from adding additives or chemicals to enhance the taste of foods and drinks, as they could lead to preventable illnesses or death. Director General of the Agency, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, gave the warning on Sunday in Abuja, while confirming the three deaths recorded in Kano State in March was due to…

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Nigeria prints N60bn notes, ups debts to N16trn as financial crisis worsens

Aliyu Aliyu

  “In another year or so, where will we find this money that we go to Abuja to share every month?” Governor of Edo state, Godwin Obaseki, laments as financial crunch takes toll on states   The Nigerian Government has printed about N60 billion notes to augment allocation shared to states in March by the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee. The Governor of Edo State, Southsouth part of the country, Godwin Obaseki, who raised the alarm over Nigeria’s financial trouble, particularly gave the continued shrinking oil revenue as the reason. Besides,…

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