Day: December 29, 2022

JUST IN: Football Icon Pele Is Dead

Ganiyu Amodu

How the Brazillian legend lost battle to colon cancer aged 82 Brazil legend Pele has passed away aged 82 following a battle with cancer. Lauded by many as the greatest player to ever play football, Pele had been battling health issues in recent years. He was pictured in a wheelchair at the 2018 World Cup and was taken into hospital after collapsing due to exhaustion a month after the tournament. He had been receiving regular treatment from doctors ever since undergoing surgery to have a tumour on his colon removed…

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Nigerian Singer Portable Arrives Concert In Casket, Stirs Reactions + VIDEO

Abibat Babalola

  The ‘Wahala musician’ had invited pallbearers to usher him in while in a coffin to perform for his fans   Popular street-pop artiste, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, got people talking on social media over his dramatic entrance to his concert at Fela’s Shrine in Lagos State. The Zazu crooner, on Wednesday, December 28, 2022, stormed the venue of his Portable Live In Concert show in a coffin. The ‘Wahala musician’ had invited pallbearers to usher him in while in a coffin to perform for his fans. READ…

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Police Unveil Face Of Officer Who Shot Lagos Lawyer

Abibat Babalola

Lagos Police Command has revealed the identity of the officer who fatally shot Bolanle Raheem, a Lagos-based lawyer. Police spokesman Benjamin Hundeyin said the name of the policeman that shot Bolanle is Drambi Vandi. Vandi, a policeman attached to the Ajah Police Station and his team reportedly tried to stop Raheem and her family members as they drove back home from a Christmas Day church service. The policeman shot the vehicle while trying to make a U-turn under the Ajah Bridge. Bolanle was hit by the gunshot and rushed to…

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Story of Hajj Refund in Nigeria: Meat of The Matter, By Ibrahim Muhammed

ADEOLA YUSUF

An editorial published on Wednesday by Tribune Newspaper online invokes an important topic in the hajj administration in Nigeria. As one of the most respectable print media in Nigeria, the medium chronicled the honest action aken by the Mutawiff for Pilgrims from Africa Non-Arabs in refunding the sum of 542,033 Saudi Riyals (about N107 million) to the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) – being a refund for services not rendered. The standpoint raised by the paper is a universal moral compass used to gauge the level of transparency practised…

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Sagamu Accident: Al-Muminat Cancels Training Event Over Members Death

Aliyu Aliyu

Due to the accident that claimed seven lives of the members of the organisers of a four-day training programme tagged Al-Mu’minaat Training Forum (ATF), the National Amirah (President) of Al-Mu’minaat, Alhaja Nimatallah AbdulQadri, has announced the cancellation of the ongoing training programme, Platforms Africa reports. This, Alhaja AbdulQadri said, became necessary to mourn their departed members. Platforms Africa has earlier reported that a pregnant woman, a nursing mother and children were among the seven people that died in the accident. READ ALSO: Pregnant Woman, Nursing Mum, Kids Burn To Death…

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Pregnant Woman, Nursing Mum, Kids Burn To Death On Sagamu-Benin Expressway

Gbenga Adeoti

Basirat, whose corpse clawed and hugged the remains of her two year-old daughter, is a sister in-law to Tajudeen Adebanjo, a journalist with The Nation Newspaper   Heavily pregnant woman, a nursing mother and two kids were among the seven persons that were burnt to death when a Mazda bus conveying them went up in flames. The deceased include 38-year-old nursing mother, Basirat Adebanjo and her two-year-old daughter, Abidat Adebanjo. Basirat, whose corpse reportedly clawed and hugged the remains of her two year-old daughter, is a sister in-law to a…

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