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Lai Muhammed berates Nigeria, says Senegal makes the best Jollof rice.

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At CNN ‘Richard Quest Means Business’ anchored in Lagos on Friday, Nigeria’s minister of Information and Culture, Lai Muhammed has said that the best Jollof rice is made in Senegal. Reports has it that Nigerians were disappointed at the minister, thus expected him to cease the opportunity to promote Nigeria made products. Responding to a question on the country that  makes best Jollof rice, the minister said: “I want to say probably Senegal”. Quest earlier expressed surprise at the minister’s response, thus doused the tension by saying that the minister misunderstood…

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Buhari healthy enough to run for second term -Amaechi

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Rotimi Amaechi, Nigeria’s transport minister, has said Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari “is fit enough” to stand for reelection, notwithstanding Ill-health and his limited activities. Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers State, one of the oil-rich states in the Niger Delta and currently of the two so-called super ministers in Buhari’s cabinet, believed the president’s infirmity was not serious enough to preclude him from putting in one more term. “If you look at the president since he came to the country, you will see there is a huge improvement,” Amaechi, who…

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Fans condemn Mercy Aigbe’s battered face on social media

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Social media has been wild with tales flying around right now and the trending word is Mercy Aigbe. Ever since news poured in on Friday that popular actress, Mercy Aigbe, was beaten silly by her husband, Lanre Gentry and she, in response, returned to allegedly break down his gate and carted away all her belongings, with reckless abandon on what truly happened between the couple. This latest development comes after persistent rumours of rampant domestic abuse in the marriage of the Gentrys over the years. Pictures of Mercy’s battered face…

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Joshua Olufemi knocks out Wladimir Klitschko

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Anthony Olufemi Joshua has defeated veteran Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko in a world heavyweight title fight epic in front of 90,000 people at Wembley on Saturday, taking victory on an 11th round stoppage. Joshua added the WBA title to his IBF belt but only after being knocked to the canvas by the 41-year-old Klitschko in the sixth round. The Ukrainian was also sent crashing to the floor in the fifth round and twice more in the pivotal 11th as the 27-year-old British fighter took his record to 19 wins in 19…

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Self-acclaimed whistle-blower, blogger remanded for cyber stalking

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Dennis Ukpabi, self-acclaimed whistleblower, and a blogger, Fejiro Oliver have been arraigned by the Nigeria Police Force for cyber stalking. It was learnt that Ukpabi, who is a former employee of Sterling Bank Plc, was arrested for publishing a book titled, ‘The Whistleblower’, in which he accused some employees of the bank – Adekanla Desalu, Eguru Nyenke, Janet Akpan and Kojusola Ajao – of fraud. Ukpabi also alleged that after exposing the fraud in the bank, one of his colleagues involved in the fraud was promoted because she was dating…

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WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT: Olufemi Joshua fights Klitschko tonight

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England-born Anthony Olufemi Joshua, whose parents are from Nigeria, will be fighting against Klitschko in the most significant heavyweight fight ever to be held in Britain, which will reportedly earn the pair upwards of $13 million each. Joshua, 27, has shown no signs of strain in dealing with the scale of Saturday’s bout. A crowd of over 90,000, Britain’s largest attendance for a boxing event since 1939 — is expected at London’s Wembley Stadium, with millions more watching on television in over 140 countries “It’s a military mindset,” said Joshua,…

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Nnamdi Kanu finally meets bail conditions

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Self-acclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has finally been released from Kuje prisons in Abuja, after perfecting his bail conditions. He was reported to have met the bail conditions imposed on him by Justice Binta Nyako on April 25, with Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe standing as surety. Others who stood as surety with Kanu include Immanuu El-Shalom, an Igbo Jewish Rabbi from Port Harcourt, Rivers State, and Tochukwu Uchendu. Kanu, who was brought to the Federal High Court in Abuja, accompanied by family members, lawyers and…

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Sterling Bank refutes sack reports

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Contrary to report making the round, Sterling Bank Plc, has said that it did not sack 650 staff but only returned them to service providers that had earlier assigned them to work with the bank. The company made the clarifications in a statement made available to www.topnews magazines.com yesterday. According to the bank, “In the course of its operations, our bank engages the services of third party service providers, who assign their staff to Sterling Bank to carry out specific tasks” on the behalf of the service providers. “These 650…

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Fidelity Bank posts double digit growth in earnings and profit in first quarter

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  Fidelity Bank Plc has reported a solid financial performance in the first quarter of 2017 despite the challenging and fiercely competitive environment, posting an appreciable growth in its profit and gross earnings for the period ended March 31, 2017. A statement by the lender showed that in its unaudited result released at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) the bank’s gross earnings rose by 18.8 per cent from N34.4 billion in March 2016 to N40.8 billion for the corresponding period in March 2017. Similarly, Fidelity Bank’s profit before tax in…

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Former Chadian president to serve life sentence for war crimes

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The Life sentence against Chad’s former president Hissene Habre for war crimes has been upheld by a special court in Dakar on Thursday, but the Court acquitted him of rape. The Extraordinary African Chambers, a body created by Senegal and the African Union (AU), sentenced Habre last May to life behind bars, an unprecedented ruling seen as a blow to the impunity long enjoyed by repressive rulers on the continent. The president of Thursday’s appeal court Wafi Ougadeye said he confirmed the life sentence but quashed the rape ruling. The…

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