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Singers Simi, Adekunle Gold Welcome First Child

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Singers Simi and Adekunle Gold have welcomed their first child, a baby girl named Adejare. The “Duduke” crooner made the announcement via her Instagram page on Sunday evening. According to the announcement, the couple welcomed their baby on the 30th of May, 2020. She posted a picture of her husband holding the baby’s hand and captioned it: “Adejare. “It’s like free-falling – this unending, soul snatching, infinite, mind-boggling love. “Deja, my baby girl, I got you. I promise. Now and forever. So help me God. 5.30.2020.”

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Nigeria’s Kwara Gov mourns New Telegraph Editor, Waheed Bakare

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    Governor of Kwara State, North Central Nigeria, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has commiserated with the family of Mr Waheed Bakare, Saturday Editor of the New Telegraph newspaper. Bakere aged 50 years old died recently after a brief illness. The governor said this in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye. “On behalf of the people and government of Kwara State, the Governor mourns with the family of Alhaji Waheed Bakare, the New Telegraph family, the entire newspaper industry, and the people of Ajasse Ipo over the death of…

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Total suffers $12bn revenues deficit, mulls jobs’ cut

ADEOLA YUSUF

  French oil and gas supermajor, Total has suffered a whooping $12 billion deficit in its revenues forecast. The company, which also announced planned to ensuŕe cost cutting to meet the deficit, maintained that it anticipated a $12bn revenue shortfall due to a fall in oil prices triggered by the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak. Job losses or what the International Oil Companies (IOCs) prefer to refer to as downsizing is one of the potent measures of cost cutting. Chevron, with a similar case of revenues shortfall, had already announced the…

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President threatens to withdraw Brazil from WHO

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  President Jair Bolsonaro has threatened to withdraw his country, Brazil, from the World Health Organisation (WHO). Bolsonaro said Brazil would consider leaving the WHO unless it stops being a “partisan political organisation.” Earlier, the WHO showed an opposite view against Bolsonaro’s efforts to lift lockdowns, as the COVID-19 epidemic was still plaguing the country. Replying to loosen the social distancing order, WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said a key criteria for lifting lockdowns should be slowing transmission. With a new record of daily COVID-19 fatalities, Brazil outnumbered Italy to become…

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Concerns as contaminated, off-spec diesel floods Nigeria’s market

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    The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has raised the alarm over prevalent low grade and contaminated AGO, otherwise called, diesel offered at discounted prices in parts of the Country. The warning was contained in a report by NNPC Retail Limited Managing Director, Sir Billy Okoye, admonishing motorists to be wary of the off-spec products, a release by NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr. Kennie Obateru, has said. Sir Okoye stated that the warning became necessary because the low grade, contaminated diesel is harmful to machines…

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PEGIS Global Services, DC ink technical partnership deals

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    PEGIS Global Services Limited has signed a technical partnership with Delta Corporation (DC). Delta Corporation, a leading manufacturer of Wellhead and its related accessories, valves, actuator and flow control products with headquarters in Houston, Texas in United States of America, announced this in a statement by Pringles Egbe, its MD/CE. “DC is the only state of the art innovative, smart manufacturing facility in the world with over 40 years of successful track record,” the statement read. Delta Corporation products, the statement read further, are duly certified in all…

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Oando’s Chief Legal Officer, Mrs. Okonkwo, dies, Tinubu mourns

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  The Chief Legal Officer, Oando Plc, Mrs. Ngozi Janice Okonkwo, is dead. She was in her late 40s before she breathed her last after a brief illness. The death of Oando Plc top executive was confirmed Thursday evening by Mr. Adewale Tinubu, Oando Group Chief Executive, in a tweet. In a special tribute posted on his Twitter handle @AdewaleTinubu, the oil mogul described the late Ngozi — in her late-40s — as a wonderful soul who was ready for every goal oriented endeavour. “She was knowledge, efficiency, competence, diligence…

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How fire gutted Aso Rock, Nigeria’s Presidential seat of Power – Presidency

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  The fire that gutted a part of Aso Rock, Nigeria’s seat of power, was caused by an electric spark. Providing details of the incident which occured at a store at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, described the incident as minor. Shehu attributed the fire incident to an electrical spark. The incident, Shehu said, was recorded Thursday afternoon at a store near the State House Chapel in the Presidential Villa. He said: “The incident, linked to an electrical…

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Why AfDB board cleared Adesina for second term as president

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  The Board of Governors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has cleared the bank’s president, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, for a second term. The board, which also declared that it had not asked Adesina, to step aside, stated that there was no basis for that. Its chairman and Cote d’Ivoire’s Minister of Finance, Mrs. Niale Kaba, made the clarification in a statement. Adesina, who is seeking a fresh term of five years, has been facing ethical charges from a whistleblower. Kaba, however, said the fraud allegations had been investigated by…

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What attracted 70 year-old great grandmother to me for sex – 25-year old rapist opened up

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  A 25 year-old man, Wasiu Bankole, arrested for raping a 70 year-old great grandmother in Nigeria’s Ogun state, has opened up on what attracted the septugenraian to him. Bankole forcefully had a carnal knowledge of the 70 year-old woman when she was sleeping in her Abule Lamode’s home, Ijoko area of the state. On interrogation by the Police, the accused confessed committing the crime, according to the police public relations officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, The great grandmother looked so attractive to him anytime he is drunk. On the fateful…

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