Day: November 18, 2023

Police Intensify Search For Rivers DPO Killer 2Baba, Arrest Second-in-command

Ganiyu Amodu

The Bayelsa State Police Command has said that its operatives have arrested one of the suspected killers of the former Divisional Police Officer, Ahoada Division, Rivers State, late Bako Angbashim, a Superintendent of Police. This was contained in a statement signed by the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Asinim Butswat. It identified the suspect as Onyekachi Okowa, who is the second in command to TuBaba of the Iceland cult group. The command said Ikowa was arrested in a hideout in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, on Saturday following credible…

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Naira Appreciates To N791/$1 In Official Market

Ganiyu Amodu

The Nigerian naira appreciated against the United States American dollar, closing at N791.75/$1 at the official market. According to data from the FMDQ Securities Exchange, the naira rose by 5.87 per cent or N49.39 compared to the previous day’s rate of N841.14/$ at the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market. The naira’s gain was, however, expected due to the recent move of the Central Bank of Nigeria to clear some of its FX backlog. Investors’ highest bid for the dollar was N1120/$1, while the intraday low was N701/$1, representing a wide…

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Nothing Lasts Forever, Reactions As 1st Miss Nigeria Clocks 93 + PHOTOS

Abibat Babalola

What Miss Nigeria pageant organisers said about chief Grace Oyelude, who won the contest 66 years ago     Grace Oyelude, who won the first edition of Miss Nigeria beauty pageant in 1957, has clocked 93 years. Organisers of Miss Nigeria beauty pageant and other well-meaning Nigerians have taken to the social media to celebrate Grace Oyelude, who won the first edition 66 years ago. “We are immensely delighted to celebrate the evergreen beauty and brave leader, Chief Grace Atinuke Oyelude, on her 93rd birthday. READ ALSO: CAF Player Of…

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CAF Player Of The Year 2023: Osimhen Makes Final 10-Man Shortlist

Ganiyu Amodu

Super Eagles forward, Victor Osimhen has been included in the final 10-man shortlist for the 2023 CAF Men’s Player of the Year. Osimhen is looking to become the first Nigerian to win the award since Nwankwo Kanu claimed the prize in 1996. CAF announced the final shortlist on its official X handle on Friday. READ ALSO Lt. Col. Imam Emerges First Professor Of Nigerian Army Bayelsa Poll: I Would Have Relocated My Mother To Abuja If Diri Had Lost – Jonathan As DNA Lamentations Get Louder! By Chukwuneta Oby Senegal’s…

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Lt. Col. Imam Emerges First Professor Of Nigerian Army

Ganiyu Amodu

The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) Kaduna has announced the promotion of Lt. Col. Abubakar-Surajo Imam to the rank of Professor of Mechatronics Engineering. Imam is said to be the first professor from among serving personnel in the history of the Nigerian Army. The Registrar of the Academy, Brig.-Gen. AM Tukur announced the promotion in a statement on Friday in Kaduna. He said that the promotion was ratified during the NDA Council Meeting in September, and took effect from Oct. 1, 2022. The registrar said that the council’s decision was a…

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Bayelsa Poll: I Would Have Relocated My Mother To Abuja If Diri Had Lost – Jonathan

Ganiyu Amodu

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has hailed Governor Douye Diri’s efforts at tackling insecurity, saying the Bayelsa leader’s re-election means the state would be a lot safer. Jonathan, who is a former governor of the oil-rich state, spoke on Friday when he visited Diri in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, almost one week after the governor stormed to victory in a keenly contested poll. While congratulating Diri for winning the exercise, the former president said if Douye had lost, the gains made in curbing insecurity would have been lost. READ ALSO…

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As DNA Lamentations Get Louder! By Chukwuneta Oby

ADEOLA YUSUF

A story that trended last weekend showed a man weeping profusely after DNA test results revealed that none of his four children was his biological child. When asked ‘why’ he carried out the DNA tests, he claimed that he had been suspecting the wife of “impure ways” and decided to carry out a DNA test on his first child. When the result came back negative, he then decided to do same on the rest of his children and all came out negative. When the wife was approached for her response,…

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Beauty & Brain, Meet Egboja Adiya, UI Law Faculty’s 2023 Overall Best Graduate

Abibat Babalola

Stunning pictures of a first class beauty that clinched 15 prizes, bagged a First Class degree in law at the prestigious University of Ibadan   Here is Egboja Adiya, a lady who bagged First Class in Law at the prestigious University of Ibadan READ ALSO Maida Applauds Project Train 3M On ICT Skills Nigeria Bankruptcy Alarm Contradicts Bogus, Non-essential Expenditures – Peter Obi 177 Deported Nigerians Violated S’Arabia Visa Rules – Embassy She clinched 15 prizes for distinction Adiya is the overall best graduating student in the faculty of law

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