Day: May 20, 2022

IRONIC: ‘How To Murder Your Husband’ Author on Trial for Husband’s Murder

ADESUPO OSOSANYA

A writer who penned a piece titled “How To Murder Your Husband” is on trial in the United States for killing her husband. The accused with the victim It is a case that has all the hallmarks of classic detective fiction — a huge insurance payout, an impecunious suspect who claims to have amnesia, a missing weapon, and surveillance footage that seems to have caught the culprit red-handed. But for novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy, it’s not the plot of her latest book; it’s real life in an Oregon court room.…

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You’ll Soon Exit WhatApp Groups Without People Noticing

Abibat Babalola

Meta-owned WhatsApp is working on a new feature that will allow users to silently exit groups.In a screenshot   In a screenshot, it is shown that when users want to exit a WhatsApp group, other people will not be notified in the chat. Only group admins will be able to see who exits the group, but others do not, according to WABetaInfo. In a bid to make the messaging platform more user friendly, Meta-owned WhatsApp is likely working on a new feature that will allow users to silently exit groups.In…

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Lagos Int’l Airport Shut, Flights Diverted Over Mangled Corpse on Runway

Ganiyu Amodu

The international wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, was temporarily shut in the early hours of Thursday after the mangled body of a dead man was found on Runway 18R of the nation’s flagship airport. The identity of the corpse could not be ascertained as of press time. Also, it could not be established whether the dead man was knocked down by an aircraft taking off or landing on the runway. READ ALSO: Why, How Blackout Rocked Lagos Airport – FAAN Tragedy as Nigeria suffers 12th Military Plane…

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Afreximbank, APPO Mull African Energy Bank Establishment

Efe Wellington

The African Export Bank (Afreximbank) and the African Petroleum Producers Organisation (APPO) have committed to the establishment of an African energy bank. The two African institutions have resolved to work together to find an Africa-led solution to the challenge posed to the African oil and gas industry and an orderly energy transition in Africa by the withdrawal of funding by its traditional financiers. READ ALSO: EXCLUSIVE: Buhari Declines Ministerial Consent For ExxonMobil $1.6bn Assets’ Sale To Seplat Oil Theft: Fact And Figures Of A National Emergency, By Adeola Yusuf Corporate…

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CAN Reacts As IPOB Warns Pastor Kumuyi Over S’East Crusade

Abibat Babalola

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has reacted to riot act read to General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, William Kumuyi, over his planned crusade in the southeastern part of Nigeria. Platforms Africa reports that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has asked Kumuyi to cancel the crusade in southeast due to the activities of ‘Unknown Gunmen’. READ ALSO: African Church Model Grammar School Wins N1m Caleb Varsity Debate Contest Spokesperson for CAN, Adebayo Oladeji, however appealed to IPOB, saying the planned crusade is “a blessing” to the…

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Corporate Takeovers: Contextualising the Savannah Move on Lekoil, By Tope Ajayi

Tope Ajayi

Business is war! That is the thrust of what people learn in business school, and from the preponderance of available literature on business and strategy. Business owners, boardroom tacticians, and corporate raiders pursue business interests just like battle-tested generals at the war front, who must deploy all the arsenal at their disposal to win. The stories of hostile business takeovers around the world are too numerous to list. There are a number of very famous case studies on hostile takeovers, including those involving Kraft Foods Inc. and Cadbury Plc, InBev…

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Give Us Grandchild Within 12 Months Or Pay N364m Fine, Couple Sue Pilot Son

Precious Ibekwe

It’s Payback Time For our Son’s education, Wedding, Couple tells Court An Indian couple are taking their son to court demanding that he and his wife produce either a grandchild within a year or pay $650,000. Sanjeev and Sadhana Prasad said that they exhausted their savings raising and educating their pilot son and paying for a lavish wedding. Now they want payback. READ ALSO: Mother and Daughter Graduate from University, Receive their Masters Degrees in Nursing same day Redeemers School 5 Year-Old Pupil drown during Swimming Lesson EXCLUSIVE: Buhari Declines…

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