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May

2024

Musawa Advocates Benefits Of Arts For Health And Well-Being

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🚨BOOM Musawa Advocates Benefits of Arts for Health and Well-being The Minister of Art, Culture, and the Creative Economy, Barr Hannatu Musa Musawa ( Hannatu Musa Musawa ) has highlighted the numerous benefits of arts for health and well-being. In a virtual presentation to flag-off the National Arts in Health Week 2024 holding in Lagos, Musawa emphasized the transformative power of arts in promoting physical, emotional, and mental well-being, and called for greater recognition and support for arts in health initiatives. “The National Arts in Health Week Nigeria 2024 stands as a testament to our unwavering commitment to fostering community…

May

2024

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Gov. Fubara Declares Hon. Amaewhule Led Rivers State House Of Assembly As Non-Existent

Columns/Opinions/Letters, House Of Assembly, News Flash, Politics, South South

Gov. Fubara Declares Hon. Amaewhule Led Rivers State House Of Assembly As Non-Existent Rivers State Governor, Sim Fubara has declared the Martin Amaewhule-led House of Assembly as floating & non existent and as such has no valid potency to take binding legislative decisions on the state following their defection. The Governor disclosed this while addressing a delegation of Traditional Rulers & opinion leaders from Bayelsa state, led by Serial Dickson, former governor of the state, who paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House, Port Harcourt on Monday. His Excellency pointed out that he accepted the presidential peace accord…

May

2024

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Gunmen Kill One, Kidnap Seven Travellers On Sagamu-Ijebu-Ode Expressway

Crime, News Flash, Security

Gunmen Kill One, Kidnap Seven Travellers On Sagamu-Ijebu-Ode Expressway Gunmen numbering up to seven have reportedly killed one person and abducted seven other travellers along the Sagamu-Ijebu-Ode expressway. The gunmen armed with A.K 47 rifles were said to have waylaid and attacked the travellers in between the Ilisan, Ceplast industry and Iperu junction axis of the expressway on Friday. A viral audio from one of the victims of the tragic incident, who was apparently a driver heading to Lagos, detailed how the gunmen stopped their vehicles with sporadic shooting and later marched them into the bush. He said, “This incident…

May

2024

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4 Month Old Baby Abducted At Gunpoint In Awka Ibom

Crime, News Flash, Security, South South

Four-Month-Old Baby Abducted At Gunpoint In Akwa Ibom A young couple, Udeme Eyo and the wife of Enen-Atai village in Itu Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, have sent a Save Our Soul (SOS) to the security agencies to do all within their powers to recover their four-month-old baby that was abducted at gunpoint in their house. Our correspondent gathered that the incident occurred at about 3:00 am on Saturday morning in their family house near the PCN Primary School in East Itam. The father of the ill-fated child, who spoke with this reporter, said his family was startled by…

May

2024

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My Advice To Tinubu And The Yoruba Race After Capturing Presidential Power Thru Back Door In 2023 – By Dr. Engr. Odo Ijere

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MY ADVICE TO TINUBU AND THE YORUBA RACE AFTER CAPTURING PRESIDENTIAL POWER THROUGH THE BACK DOOR IN 2023. Now that Tinubu, Buhari and few other unpatriotic tribal irridentists forcibly succeeded in determining the 2023 presidency in their favour by imposing their will on Nigerians, the Yoruba race must make sure to liberate themselves from the Fulani tribal tyranny or they will cry later. The Fulani had through guile, subterfuge and ryness kept the Yoruba race from growing through fake religion which they don't even believe in. With this democratic power delivered to the Yoruba alacarte, it is left for the…

May

2024

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2024 UTME: Pure Water Seller Who Dropped Out 2 Years Ago Scores 309

Business, Education, News Flash, South East

2024 UTME: Pure Water Seller Who Dropped Out Two Years Ago Scores 309 A pure water seller, Ugwu Augustus, has reportedly secured a full scholarship into the university after scoring 309 in the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. According to Alex Onyia, the founder of Educare, an organisation that prepares candidates for UTME, Augustus left school two years ago. However, he was challenged to join the preparatory class and score above 300 to get a full scholarship. “This youngster from my village, Ugwu Chibuzo Augustus, scored 309 in JAMB. “He left school two years ago and has been selling pure…

May

2024

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Police Arrest Man For Defiling One-Year-Old Step-Daughter

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Police Arrest Man For Defiling One-Year-Old Step-Daughter The operatives of the Adamawa State Police Command have arrested one man, Idi Adamu, 30, for allegedly defiling his one-year-old girl step-daughter. The police noted that Adamu, a barber, committed the crime on April 30, 2024, at his residence in Wuro-Ardo, Mubi North Local Government Area. The spokesperson for the Adamawa State Police Command, SP Suleiman Nguroje, confirmed the incident to SaharaReporters on Saturday He said, “The mother left the kid in the care of the father to pick up some items at a shopping mall. She returned, and found the kid bleeding;…

May

2024

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Adeleke Got N10 Billion Foreign Loans In 2023 – Reports

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Adeleke Got N10 Billion Foreign Loans In 2023 – Reports – We have never borrowed a kobo, says Adeleke Osun state governor, Ademola Adeleke reportedly secured the sum of N10,022,382,348.40 billion loans from foreign bodies and organizations in 2023 for projects across the state. The report of 2023 budget performance obtained by The Nation on the website of the Osun government revealed that the state recorded 99 percent performance on loans received from foreign bodies. A separate document titled 2023 Citizens Budget tagged ‘Budget of Consolidation’ prepared by the state Ministry Econimic Planning, Budget and Development, which was equally uploaded…

May

2024

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Canadian Mayor Praises Lagos Under Tinubu At Peter Obi’s Event

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Canadian Mayor Praises Lagos Under Tinubu At Peter Obi’s Event The Mayor of Brampton, Patrick Brown, has stated his admiration for Lagos State when he visited in the year 2007. Brown said this at a townhall meeting hosted by the Coalition of Nigerian Canadian Interest Groups based in Canada to honour the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi. As seen in a video posted late Saturday by a tweep, Wale Adedayo, tweeting as @Mario9jaa, Obi was seen standing beside Brown as he addressed the cheering audience. Brown said, “I went to Nigeria in 2007. I went to Lagos and…

May

2024

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Five Kidnappers Slept Off After Abducting Pastor’s Wife; Land In Police Net

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Five Kidnappers Slept Off After Abducting Pastor’s Wife; Land In Police Net Five kidnappers who slept off after abducting the wife of a pastor and two other persons in Ofosu area of Ondo State have been arrested. The kidnappers allegedly slept off after taking hard drugs. The kidnappers identified as Garuba Mumuni, 27; Yusuf Tale, 21; Kabiru Muhammed, 16, Shaibu Umar and Adamu Mohammed, were subsequently arrested by operatives of the Ofosu Division of Ondo Police Command. They were arrested after the victims identified one of them. According to the police, “A case of kidnapping was reported at Ofosu Division,…