Month: April 2022

Will Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett, wishes hubby didn’t slap Chris Rock – Report

ADEOLA YUSUF

Actress Jada Pinkett, wife of embattled Hollywood star, Will Smith, has revealed that she wished her husband did not slap Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars on Sunday, 27 March, Us Weekly reports. Smith had slapped comedian and actor, Rock, during the Oscars, for making jokes about his wife, which was broadcast live around the world from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with about 2,500 attendees. According to a source who spoke to the magazine, Pinkett and Smith are in agreement that he overreacted by slapping the comedian. Shortly after…

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Law Student Dies After Consuming ‘Cannabis Sweet’ In UK

ADEOLA YUSUF

A 23-year-old Law student in the UK, Damilola Olakanmi, has died after consuming cannabis sweets she bought online. Olakanmi, who lives in Ilford, east London with her mother was reported to have bought the ‘gummies’ through a messaging app and they were delivered to her home where she fell ill last Tuesday. According to Mirror UK, Olakanmi consumed the ‘sweets’ with her friend, 21, and both immediately fell ill after each eating one of the ‘sweets’. While her friend survived, she died. Olakanmi is reported to be the only child…

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Train Attack: 33 Passengers’ Phone Numbers Still Ringing, 46 unreachable

ADEOLA YUSUF

About 46 phone numbers on the manifest of the attacked Abuja-Kaduna train are still either switched off or not reachable. The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) made this known almost a week after the terrible incident rocked the country. According to NRC, out of the 362 passengers validated passengers on board the train, 196 recorded in the manifest are confirmed safe and at their various homes. The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has said that since last Tuesday when an explosion occurred on the Abuja-Kaduna Passenger train at Rijana 46 phone numbers…

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JUST IN: Lagos Appoints MC Oluomo As Chairman Parks Mgt Committee

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Odumosu, ex-Police Chief is the Liaison Officer for the 25-man parks management committee The Lagos State Government has appointed the ex-Chairman of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Musiliu Akinsanya also known as MC Oluono as the Chairman of its 25-man Parks Management Committee. The government also appointed a former Assistant Inspector General of Police, Hakeem Odumosu as the liaison officer for the committee. The members’ appointment was confirmed in a statement released by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, on Thursday. Omotoso said that the committee…

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U.S. Consulate Signs Tripartite Agreement, Announces 2022 Academy for Women Entrepreneurs  

ADEOLA YUSUF

The U.S. government is committed to supporting women’s full and free participation in the Nigerian economy as they seek to thrive in the workforce, succeed as entrepreneurs, and create stability and prosperity in their communities.     A collaboration between the U.S. Consulate General Lagos, Venture Garden Foundation and Ascend Studios Foundation will support the implementation of the 2022 Academy for Women Entrepreneurs, a U.S. government program that advances women’s economic empowerment and entrepreneurship in Nigeria.      On Monday, U.S. Consulate Deputy Public Affairs Officer Jennifer Foltz, Group Head of Venture Garden Foundation Tesilimi Yusuf…

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Goodluck Jonathan Escapes Death, 2 Aides Die in Auto Crash

ADEOLA YUSUF

Former Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday evening, escaped death after he was involved in an auto crash in Abuja The accident claimed the lives of two of his aides, Leadership reports. One of his aides was quoted as saying that the former president was fine and back home. The accident reportedly happened while Jonathan was on his way from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport to his residence in Abuja.

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Shell, AFC, GTBank, 6 Other Banks Drag Aiteo to Court Over $2bn Debts

ADEOLA YUSUF

The bickering between a group involving Shell, Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), and seven Nigerian bank, and Aiteo Eastern E&P Company Limited over $2 billion loan accessed by Aiteo has degenerated. A high court in England has ruled that Shell Plc, Africa Finance Corporation, and seven Nigerian banks have established their right to block Aiteo Eastern E&P Company Limited from taking legal action when a suit initiated by them against the oil firm has not been resolved. The verdict approving the “final anti-suit injunction” was delivered on April 1, according to…

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Shell Pays $6bn As Tax To Nigeria In 5 Years

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Shell has been recognised as Lead Tax Compliant Firm in Nigeria With payment of $6 billion in direct taxes in the five years the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS has named Shell as a “leading tax compliant organisation in Nigeria for 2021.” Platforms Africa reports that the award ceremony in Abuja last week was a part of the second annual National Tax Dialogue, where Shell companies in Nigeria also won the award for ‘remarkable performance in the remittance of various taxes’ in the same year. The Shell Petroleum Development Company…

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Burkina Faso Ex-President Found Guilty of Sankara’s Murder, Jailed For Life

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“Mr. Compaore is guilty of the assassination and concealment of the corpse of Sankara, a reformer, who was his friend and predecessor, for him to take over and rule Burkina Faso for 27 years”   A military tribunal on Wednesday ruled that Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore be sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara in a coup. The charismatic Marxist revolutionary Sankara was gunned down in the West African nation’s capital Ouagadougou at the age of 37, four years after…

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Real Reason I was Fired – Imam Who Lost Job For Criticising Buhari

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Sheikh Nuru Speaks on his new appointment after being sacked for “speaking truth to power.” Former Chief Imam of the Apo legislative quarters mosque, Sheikh Nuru Khalid, has said that his sack by the Mosque’s committee was a necessary price he had to pay for identifying with the sufferings masses and speaking truth to power. Platforms Africa reports that hours after the announcement of his sack as Chief Imam of the Apo legislative quarters mosque, Sheikh Nuru Khalid has secured a new appointment. Breaking the new in an interview in…

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