Nigerian international artist and Grammy Award winner Burna Boy will take center stage at the 2022/23 UEFA Champions League (UCL) Final to be held in Istanbul, Turkey.UEFA announced the news on their social media page, posting a video of Burna Boy speaking ahead of his performance. In the video, Burna
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Afghanistan remains the country most impacted by terrorism for the fourth consecutive year, despite attacks and deaths falling by 75 per cent and 58 per cent, respectively, says Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2023.The report also said Sahel region in sub-Saharan Africa is now the epicentre of terrorism, with the Sahel
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Florence Otedola, alias DJ Cuppy, a Nigerian Disc jockey, has bagged a Masters’ degree from the University of Oxford, England, in the United Kingdom.She made this known in a post via her Instagram page Cuppy shared pictures she took with her parents, Femi and Nana Otedola; and fiancé, Ryan Taylor,
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Human rights lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) yesterday said that the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) should be held culpable for the train accident that happened in the Ikeja area of Lagos State last week Thursday and that the corporation must pay compensation to the victims of the tragic incident.Falana, who is
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Justice James Omotosho of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, fixed May 22 for hearing in a suit filed by a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Ugochukwu Uchenwa, seeking to stop the conduct of elections and examination on Saturdays.At the proceedings yesterday, the court granted an application by
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Ohanaeze Ndigbo has stressed that it is in support of the decision of the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to challenge the results of the February 25, 2023 presidential election in court.The Ohanaeze elders in a statement signed by the chairman and elder statesman, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, and made
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Nigerian Armed Forces has returned to the United Nations peacekeeping mission after years of absence, this is just as the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) marks one year of reconfiguration into a multinational peacekeeping force.The Nigerian Base Defence Company deployed into UNISFA to join the rest of
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National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has assured candidates seeking to participate in its ongoing recruitment exercise that concerted efforts are being made to resolve challenges they are facing on the application portal with a view to making the process seamless.The NDLEA attributed the challenges to heavy online traffic of
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Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has dismissed a Tweet suggesting that the Commission has removed all Igbo and South-South staff in Lagos State from sensitive election duties ahead of the March 18, election. The commission described the report as false and misleading.The chief press secretary to the INEC chairman, Rotimi
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Deputy chief whip of the House of Representatives, Hon Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, has congratulated the minister of women affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen, over her conferment with the “Woman of Distinction Award” by the United Nations Global Women Foundation.She said the recognition did not come to her and those who have followed
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