For those looking to lose a bit of timber, this may just be the best news you hear this week. It turns out pizza can help you actually lose weight; even the deep pan, cheese stuffed crust, double pepperoni variety. Before we all make this our daily diet plan, the bad news
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Traditional rulers from oil rich Delta on Thursday gave six conditions for the Federal Government to achieve and sustain the peace in the region. Williston Okirika, Bolowei of Gbaramatu Kingdom, read out the conditions on behalf of the chiefs when they visited the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe kachikwu,
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A 10-year-old girl has been rescued from the rubble of the Italian earthquake - after being trapped upside down for 17 hours. A firefighter clutched her tightly to his chest after she was freed from the ruins of a building in the town of Pescara del Tronto. Crowds had gathered round after
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Kenya's Olympic committee has said it's not going anywhere despite a government order disbanding it, BBC reports. The Sports Minister Hassan Wario wanted to break up the committee over accommodation, travel and equipment problems at the Rio Olympics. But the secretary general of the Olympic committee, Francis Paul, has responded saying that
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The Kano State House of Assembly on Wednesday ordered the immediate removal of all Kwankwasiyya inscriptions from public buildings in Kano metropolis and other local government areas of the state. The directive followed a motion by Baffa Babba-Dan-Agundi, member representing Kano Municipal Constituency and Chairman, House Committee on Education. The motion was
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-Anietie UdobitAn employee at the bank, a cashier, is a key suspect in the stealing of $530,000; involvement of collaborators possible: sources A journalist for Voice of America, Harun Maruf, has been tweeting updates from the capital, Mogadishu, about the theft of the $530,000 (£401,000): Somali Central Bank Governor confirmed that $530,000
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-Anietie UdobitThe party of Gabon's President Ali Bongo is feeling generous, two days ahead of the country's presidential elections. The Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG) has been giving out mobile phones, freezers, washing machines and other domestic appliances to people in the capital, Librevelle, according to the BBC Afrique reporter on
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A Chinese firm, Wuhan Longfecund Agricultural Development Company Ltd., is set to establish a feed mill and maize farm in Cross River State. Chairman of the Company Yongsheng Cao stated this during a visit to Governor Ben Ayade at the Government House in Calabar. Cao said: “I am happy to be
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Four World Bank officials have drowned at Egbe Dam in Egbe Ekiti, Gbonyin Local Government Area of Ekiti State, South-West Nigeria, NAN reports. Egbe Dam is the biggest of the six dams in the state. Folasade Akinrinmola, the chairman of the council and the state police command confirmed the incident to journalists
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The 30-year-old trader, Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, who was on Monday, remanded at the Ibara Prison following his arraignment at the Ota Magistrates’ Court 2, Ogun State for naming his pet dog “Buhari”, has received the backing of a group of legal practitioners. Since his arrest in his No 10, Omikunle Street,
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