As Kids Return For The New Academic Term, By Rasak Musbau

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Christmas and New Year celebrations are over and attention is now on children returning to school for the commencement of the second academic term on Monday, January 8 for day students and Sunday, January 7 2024 for boarders. As usual, this development, especially considering the closeness of the resumption date to the just concluded Yuletide season, is eliciting challenges and excitement among parents, guardians, teachers, and of course, pupils. For parents whose wards particularly attend private schools, the fear of school fees is always the beginning of wisdom. This…

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NewsDirect Organises Poetry Prize In Honour Of Late Publisher

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The Nigerian NewsDirect said it has organised a poetry prize in honour of its late Publisher, Dr. Samuel Ibiyemi. The move, the newspaper said, was due to Ibiyemi’s contribution to the Nigerian poetry community. Its Managing Director, Matthew Ibiyemi, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Friday that the move was part of promoting poetry in Nigeria. Zaynab Bobi and Emmanuel Mgbabor are the winners of the 2023 Folorunsho Editor’s Poetry Prize, while Prosper Ìféányí and Hassan Usman are named finalists. Ibiyemi said that N100,000 prize award was…

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DR Congo’s Felix Tshisekedi Re-elected As President, Tinubu Commends Process

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President Bola Tinubu congratulates President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo on his re-election. President Tinubu commends the government and the people of DR Congo for ensuring a successful conduct of the last elections. The President also congratulates the people of DR Congo for deepening democratic norms by exercising their rights without resorting to acts inimical to the sustenance of democracy. “It is welcoming that the last elections in DR Congo were well-concluded. Democracy is sustainable on the continent. I congratulate President Tshisekedi on his victory. The President…

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NNPCL Gifts N200K Petrol Voucher to Lady Slammed for Waking up at 4.50am to Cook for Hubby

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Infinix Nigeria offers its latest device, Infinix Hot 40, to the lady and her husband after she received over N2 million as gifts from netizens     The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has offered a free PMS voucher worth N200,000 to an X user, #_Debbie_OA, who was knocked for disclosing that she wakes up at 4.50a.m. daily to prepare food for her husband. Platforms Africa reports that the NNPCL disclosed this in a tweet shared on its official X handle on Saturday. The tweet read, “Hello #_Debbie_OA, we love…

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Over 240 People Missing After Japan Earthquake

ADEOLA YUSUF

The number of people missing after a massive earthquake struck the west coast of Japan on New Year’s Day is now  240. Reports said the government has doubled the number of soldiers deployed to the disaster area to 4,600 to support the emergency services. Four days after the quakes struck, the clock was ticking in the search of survivors. There were dozens of reports that people remained under collapsed houses. The mountains of rubble, damaged roads, landslides and aftershocks continue to hamper the efforts of rescue teams. READ ALSO: Netizens…

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Netizens Gift Over N2m To Lady Criticised For Waking Up At 4:50am To Cook For Husband

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Netizens have donated over N2 million to a Nigerian lady who was criticised for disclosing that she wakes up at 4.50am daily to prepare food for her husband. X user, #_Debbie_OA, went viral after she shared on X how she started waking up at 4:50 am to cook for her husband after her husband told her his colleague brought two spoons with her food so that they could eat together. She tweeted, “I’ve always been too lazy to wake up and get his lunch ready. But the day he told…

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Tinubu’s Minister Confirms Someone Got N585m Meant For Thousands Of Poor

ADEOLA YUSUF

. Word-for-word of all Beta Edu, humanitarian minister, said   A document that has widely circulated on social media shows that a whopping N585.198 million designated as grants for vulnerable Nigerians in four States of the federation, was paid to the account of an individual, Oniyelu Bridget Mojisola. Dr Betta Edu, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, confirmed through her spokesperson, Rasheed Zubair that she ordered the payment. According to the document, Edu made the request to the Accountant General of the Federation, Mrs Oluwatoyin Sakirat Madein to…

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BREAKING: Brazil Football Legend, Mario Zagallo, Is Dead

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Former Brazil striker and manager, Mario Zagallo, has passed away at the age of 92. His death was confirmed on Saturday, January 6, by Brazilian soccer confederation president, Ednaldo Rodrigues. Zagallo played in the World Cup final a record five times, winning four, as a player and then a coach with Brazil. A tough and talented left winger, he played on the team that won Brazil’s first World Cup in 1958 and he kept his place in the side that retained the title four years later. The former forward is…

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Intimate Affairs: Intimate Warnings For 2024, By Funke Egbemode

ADEOLA YUSUF

You are 33 and not doing badly. You are comfortable and beautiful but your love of easy money has blurred your childhood vision of a cozy happy home with children and a husband that loves you to bits. Your once vivid dream of falling in love and marrying early to raise four children while nurturing a career has since given way to the steady ready flow of cash and ‘baby of life’ lifestyle. You are now a chartered side chick, living on the side street of some other women’s lives.…

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Customs Releases Bullion Van Impounded With N24.4m Cash, Smuggled Rice

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The Ogun Area Command II of the Nigeria Customs Service on Friday said it has released the bullion van it impounded in April 2022, which was found loaded with rice. The Customs Area Controller, Olusola Alade, disclosed this to newsmen in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. Alade said the van was impounded after being found to contain 12 bags of 50kg smuggled foreign parboiled rice. He added that the van, which was discovered to belong to an Abeokuta branch of Access Bank was also loaded with the sum of N24.4…

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