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Caroline Rush has achieved remarkable success in promoting the British fashion industry, particularly through organizing the globally renowned London Fashion Week and the prestigious British Fashion Awards. In 2015, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by the Queen of England for services to the British fashion industry. Caroline Rush will be at the GTBank Fashion Weekend to offer insights on how to successfully position a fashion brand. Share on: WhatsApp

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Reports has it that EU leaders are getting tough on African migrants. This is encouraged by their success in halting a mass influx of refugees by closing Greek borders and cutting a controversial deal with Turkey. A Brussels summit on Thursday is expected to endorse pilot projects to pressure African governments, via aid budgets, to slow down the influx– an exodus of people across the Sahara and Mediterranean. It also wants swift results from an EU campaign to deport large numbers who reach Italy. “By the end of the year,…

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Mrs. Chika Orji, a 41-year-old woman, who was arrested by policemen attached to Area ‘J’ Command, Ajah, Lagos State, for allegedly hiring assassins to kill her husband of 14 years over a disagreement which led to their separation, has said she was a frustrated housewife but that she only sent the thugs to beat him. The woman was arrested following a confessional statement by one of the suspected assassins, Bright Ikechukwu, who was arrested while attempting to break into Mr. Orji’s apartment at Jakande Estate, Ajah. During preliminary investigation, it…

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Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s former president has said that he always get angry whenever people blamed Buhari for not making comments concerning the destruction done by herdsmen, and other national issue. Obasanjo who made this known in Abuja on Tuesday at an agriculture seminar in Abuja organised by Lift Above Poverty Organisation (LAPO), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) with “Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in Nigeria: Challenges and Opportunities’’ as theme said that herdsmen have the onus to look and take care their animals but it is ‘unacceptable’ for them to destroy…

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Yusuf Lasun, Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, on Tuesday said that he has continuously refused to fly local airlines in Nigeria because of the deficiencies in the operations and managements of the airlines. Lasun who stated this when he represented the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara in a public hearing organised by the House Committee on Aviation on the need to rescue airline industry from imminent collapse, said that he took the decision as a result of the crash of airlines in the country. Minister of state for Aviation, Hadi Sirika has…

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The death of two Nigerians has been confirmed by the Nigerian Union in Pretoria. The two Nigerians, residing in Pretoria South Africa were killed this month. The Secretary of the union, Mr Adetola Olubajo, told newsmen in Pretoria on Tuesday that the first victim, one Adeniyi Olumoko, a petty trader, was stabbed to death on Oct.7. Olubajo said that Olumoko, 37, an indigene of Ogun, was killed at Marabastard in Pretoria by a South African, who forcefully took the victim’s goods without paying. He cited witnesses as saying that Olumoko…

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In a statement made available, the management of Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company, IE, has pleaded with its customers over power outage, blaming it on faulty 100MVA transformer at Ejigbo Transmission Station as well as other multiple faults along the network in that area. The management of IE stated that, “it regrets the prolonged outage witnessed by our customers in and around Ejigbo, Oke Afa, Ikotun Egbe, Egan, Igando, Arepo, Warewa and Channels Television axis. “The outages are due to a faulty 100MVA transformer at Ejigbo Transmission Station as well as…

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A crackdown on foreign pilgrims overstaying their Hajj visas has started in Saudi Arabia on Monday, local newspaper Okaz reported. Offenders will have to pay an equivalent of 13,329 U.S. dollars in fine, face six months in jail and deportation, the paper said. Those who transport, recruit or shelter overstayed pilgrims will face up to 26,662 dollars in fine and six months in jail. The visa for pilgrims, or Hajj visa, cannot be renewed. Those with such visas cannot take up jobs or go outside Mecca. Saudi authorities said around…

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