Month: August 2024

Cleric Kills Five For Money Ritual, Throws Remains Inside Well

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Oyo State Police Command has arrested eight suspected serial ritual killers and 15 others over alleged murder, robbery and rape. The Command’s Commissioner, CP Ayodele Sonubi, made this known while parading the suspects in Ibadan on Friday. Sonubi said the command got information about the act of one of the suspected serial ritual killers on August 10 when it was reported by one Ayede and immediately swung into action. He said that residents of the community had noticed an offensive odour oozing out of a building belonging to the…

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NNPC Releases Fresh Message For Job Seekers

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. ‘Slots not for sale, and others,’ details of the latest from the oil giant’s spokesman, Olufemi Soneye       The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. (NNPC Ltd.) has refuted reports claiming that it is selling employment slots to the public. In a statement issued on Saturday, Olufemi Soneye, the company’s Chief Corporate Communications Officer, urged job seekers and the general public to disregard these false rumors. Soneye emphasized that there is no truth to the allegations that NNPC Ltd. is offering employment slots for sale. READ ALSO: BBNaija:…

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‘I Can’t Find My Period,’ BBNaija Chinwe Speaks After Bathroom S3x

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One of Big Brother Naija Season 9 housemates, Chinwe, has a feeling she is pregnant for her house partner and lover, Zion. The housemate said this while speaking with Rhuthee on Friday, days after making out with him in the bathroom. READ ALSO: 15-Year-Old Wins Top Honour For Skin Cancer Breakthrough Intimate Affairs: The Wedding Is Off!, By Funke Egbemode Nigeria’s Inflation Rate Drops To 33.4% In July — NBS Prof. Dele Odunlami Delivers Olabisi Onabanjo Varsity’s 119th Inaugural Lecture Chinwe told Rhuthee: “I am feeling nauseous and my period…

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15-Year-Old Wins Top Honour For Skin Cancer Breakthrough

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In October 2023, Heman Bekele, a rising 10th-grader from Woodson High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, made history. He was crowned the winner of the 3M Young Scientist Challenge, a prestigious title that came with a $25,000 prize. He competed against nine other finalists, and his groundbreaking invention was a soap with the potential to treat and prevent multiple forms of skin cancer. The 15-year-old scientist has now been recognised as the 2024 Kid of the Year by Time magazine and Time for Kids. The teenager, born of Ethiopian parents…

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The Wedding Is Off!, By Funke Egbemode

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  11 o’ clock! The groom is yet to surface. Throwing convention to the winds, the bride lifts her veil and starts pacing up and down, her lips moving in prayer. God, where could he be?   It’s been going on for years, maybe three, maybe more or less. Everybody expects the journey to culminate at the usual final bus stop. And true to people’s expectations, it looks like the normal thing will definitely happen. The invitation cards are out, the wedding trousseau complete. She has made trips and trips…

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Chinese Firm Releases One Presidential Jet

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Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Limited, a Chinese firm has released one of the seized Nigeria’s presidential jets. Recall that Zhongshan, the Chinese firm had secured a court order to confiscate three Nigerian presidential jets pending when Zhongshan receives $74.5 million awarded to it against Nigeria. The spokesperson of the company who made this known to newsmen on Friday said, the company released the aircraft because President Bola Ahmed Tinubu would need it to travel to a scheduled meeting with President Macron of France early next week. His words according…

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‘It Just Makes Me Laugh,’ Obasanjo Reacts To Claim His Father Is Igbo

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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo for the first time reacted to the claim of his Igbo paternity, declaring that such insinuation makes him laugh. This is just as the former President said he doesn’t believe anybody in Nigeria should be driven away from any part of the country declaring that, “we own this country together.” Obasanjo, according to a statement on Friday issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, said this when he received on Thursday the leadership of Ndigbo Amaka Progressive Market Association, an umbrella body of major…

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N90bn Hajj Subsidy: NAHCON Boss Paid Self N21. 2m, Officials N16.9m

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▪️BBC gives details of fraud, payment inflation in Hajj commission   More details have emerged in the ongoing probe of how the N90 billion subsidy released by the Nigerian government for the 2024 Hajj operation was spent by the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON). A report by BBC showed that the NAHCON chairman, Mr. Jalal Arabi, paid himself N21.2 million, instead of N6.7m; and paid commissioners N16.9 million instead of N6, 7 million. Quiting a source within the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the report revealed that a…

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“900k To 1.53m bopd,” Mele Kyari’s Magic That Rebooted Nigeria’s Output

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“Not just gloom and doom and missed deadlines for delivering on refinery overhauls and construction of grid length gas pipelines,” Full report on First E&P narration of how NNPC saved company, provided visionary leadership for industry   Despite the harsh criticisms of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), the national oil company under Mele Kyari as Group CEO, has in recent times worked very hard to improve Nigeria’s daily crude production by as much as 60,000 barrels per day, it was learnt yesterday. Slowly and steadily, the Group Chief…

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Gunmen Kidnap Over 20 Medical Students In Benue

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Over 20 medical and dental students, along with a House Officer, have been kidnapped by gunmen in Benue State. The students, from the University of Maiduguri and the University of Jos, were on their way to attend the annual convention of the Federation of Catholic Medical and Dental Students, FECAMDS, in Enugu. The kidnapping occurred around 5:30 p.m. in the Otukpo area of Benue State, where the students were ambushed by the gunmen while travelling together. READ ALSO How Nigerian Govt Turned Citizens To Beggars – Afe Babalola Nigeria’s Inflation…

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