A man once voted the most handsome in Italy has quit his modelling job to join the priesthood Edoardo Santini, 21, was voted Italy’s most beautiful man in 2019, when he was 17, in a pageant organised by ABE, a ...
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UK announces limits on regular migration Britain’s embattled Conservative government unveiled a raft of measures Monday aimed at cracking down on record levels of migration — a key battleground in a general election expected next year. The UK announced it ...
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COP28: Peter Obi lied, FG sponsored 422 delegates, not 1,411 – Information Minister The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, said the Federal Government sponsored 422 delegates to the ongoing COP28 in Dubai, not 1,411. Peter Obi ...
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A Federal High Court sitting in Dawaki, Abuja, on Monday, convicted four Boko Haram financiers. The convicts are Modu Aisami, Zana Zarama, Umar Mohammed and Bunu Kame. A statement by the Special Assistant on Communication and Publicity to the Attorney-General ...
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Prince Harry challenges decision to strip him of security in Britain Prince Harry through his lawyer on Tuesday challenged the U.K. government’s decision to strip him of his security detail after he gave up his status as a working member of ...
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Mauritania’s former president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, has been sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering and “illicit enrichment” Abdel Aziz led the country for a decade after coming to power in a 2008 coup and was an ...
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North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un cried as he called on women to have more children, saying that it was their duty to halt the country’s declining birth rate in order to strengthen national power In his seemingly highly choreographed ...
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Ogun State Police Command said its officers on December 2 arrested a driver for running over a two-year-old girl around Warewa, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway The police also said that a truck driver, one Emmanuel Alfred, was arrested on December ...
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Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has described the bombing of Tudun Biri Villagers in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State by the Nigerian Army as ”one too many”. Obi said this in a statement ...
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FirstBank UK Adopts Bloomberg TOMS to Optimize Fixed Income Workflow London, 28 November 2023 — Bloomberg announced today that FirstBank UK Limited (FirstBank UK), the UK subsidiary of First Bank Nigeria Limited, the premier West African bank, ...
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The Lagos State Government has announced that traffic will be diverted at Iyana- Isolo overhead bridge between 7:00am and 9:00am on Sunday 10th December, 2023 The closure of the bridge for two hours is to enable the Federal Ministry of ...
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A 13-year old girl, Miracle Adereti Kolawole, has been kidnapped on her way back from school in Lagos. The very disturbing incident happened last Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. Miracle was abducted by an unknown gang while returning home from school in ...
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The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum and Regulatory Commission has said the Federal Government is planning to revoke unused oil exploration leases that companies were granted but have not been able to carry out any exploration activities on them. The Chief Executive ...
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The death toll in Kaduna civilians’ bombing is now 85! Recall on Sunday night the Nigerian Army dropped a bomb at Tudun Biri village in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, immediately killing dozens of people with many wounded. The incident ...
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Cash shortage hits banks, customers rush for BVN/NIN revalidation Huge crowd besieged banking halls on Monday, as customers moved to link their Bank Verification Numbers and National Identity Numbers to their bank accounts. This followed the new directive of the ...
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Prophetess, her two daughters beat up church member who says she’s tired of joining them to deceive people A self acclaimed prophetess, Ruramai Nhapata, and her daughters have been accused of assaulting a former church member for daring to say ...
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The Rivers State Police Command has arrested two notorious kidnappers who allegedly abducted and buried alive a former Community Development Committee Chairman in Kereken-Boue, Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, Praise Daakian The police disclosed that the suspects collected ...
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Many villagers are feared de.ad following a bomb allegedly dropped by a jet during a Maulud celebration at Tudun Biri, a community within Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Preliminary reports indicate that about 30 people died during the ...
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A court in Nouakchott, the capital city of Mauritania, on Monday sentenced former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to five years in prison for having abused his position to amass an ill-gotten fortune Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz had been on trial ...
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NDLEA uncovers meth, opioid consignments in jeans hems, dolls The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, says its operatives have thwarted crooked attempts by drug syndicates at some courier firms in Lagos to export illicit substances including various quantities of ...
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Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo has dissolved the country’s parliament, a government spokesperson told reporters on Monday, after what Embalo said was an attempted coup in the tiny West African country last week Clashes between two army factions broke out ...
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The Rivers State Police Command has arrested two notorious kidnappers who allegedly abducted and buried alive a former Community Development Committee Chairman in Kereken-Boue, Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, Praise Daakian The police disclosed that the suspects collected ...
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A tanker explosion rocked the Ojota area of Lagos State on Monday, causing panic among commuters as captured in online videos The explosion, which happened along the Ketu route, has yet to have its cause determined. Confirmation of the incident ...
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South African authorities have intercepted dozens of buses transporting 443 children, all under the age of eight, into the country from neighbouring Zimbabwe. This follows a sting operation conducted by the South African Border Management Authority (BMA) and the police at ...
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Zambian officials have said they have been unable to locate dozens of illegal miners believed to be trapped after a mudslide at an open cast copper mine on Friday. The accident in Zambia’s northern Copperbelt province occurred after heavy rains. ...
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