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Adesewa Adeshina unveils Beewa Beauty products in Lagos

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Beewa Beauty products, a new brand of beauty kits was officially launched by young, industrious Adesewa Adeshina on Friday, January 22, 2021amidst pomp and colours. The event which held at the Adeshinas family house in Lekki, Lagos, was graced by her close friends including friends and business associates of her father, a top socialite, Otunba Adewale Adeshina. According to beautiful Adesewa, she developed the idea of making beauty products from her teenage because she loved the idea that beauty products have found ways to serve people who are unable to…

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Boko Haram strikes same day new service chiefs visit Maiduguri

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Members of the Boko Haram sect invaded Chabal and some communities in Magumeri Local Government Area of Borno State, killing two policemen and abducted two others on a day the newly-appointed service chiefs paid their first official visit to the state to assess the security situation. Reports say the terrorists, also seized two operational patrol vehicles and set ablaze another one on the Maiduguri-Chabal Magumeri Road on Sunday. It was gathered that, the service chiefs are currently in Maiduguri for their first operational visit to Theatre Command of Operation Lafiya…

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N28bn worth of cocaine seized from hairstylist, others at Lagos airport

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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have recovered substances which tested positive for cocaine worth N21bn from a hairstylist, Jennifer Onyejegbu, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. It was learnt that the officials discovered another drug later confirmed to be cocaine worth N7bn in luggage abandoned at the E-arrival hall of the airport after the inward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian airline. “Based on information on the luggage tag, the luggage arrived in Nigeria from Sao Paulo, Brazil, a destination classified as high-risk country going by…

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Birthday Message: BethNews Publisher, Oluwaseun Fabiyi celebrates ace broadcaster, Kingsley Uranta

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Mr. Oluwaseun Fabiyi, publisher of BethNews celebrity magazine, has crafted an emotional message to celebrate the ace broadcaster, Mr. Kingsley Uranta, a top management staff of Channels Television on his birthday. In his congratulatory message made available to this magazine, Oluwaseun wrote: “Our dear father, uncle, brother, friend and proactive media Comrade, the very brilliant veteran media guru, ace broadcaster and a resourceful media trainer to the core, Chief Kingsley Uranta of Channels Television, I say a very big congratulations to you today on the occasion of your auspicious birthday…

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FIRSTBANK SUPPORTS SCHOOLS WITH ARRAY OF EXCITING EDUCATIONAL SOLUTIONS

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First Bank of Nigeria Limited is supporting schools with an array of educational based products and solutions targeted at enabling the acquisition of various facilities to boost the continuous expansion and improvement of the educational sector. Parents are not left out, as the Bank has bespoke products which empowers parents and guardians to meet the educational needs of their children. The Bank’s educational products and solutions include the FirstEdu Loan, Operational Vehicle Loan, Term Loans for constructing new sites and extension of existing sites, Personal Loan Against Salary (PLAS) and…

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Transparency International says Nigeria is second most corrupt country in West Africa

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The Global Corruption Index (CPI) 2020 released on Thursday by Transparency International, reveals that Nigeria fell three places to 149 out of 183 countries. The index reveals that Nigeria scored 25 out of 100 points in the 2020 CPI, falling back by one point compared to last year. The index has rubbished President Buhari’s much touted anti-corruption campaign as Nigeria dropped to 149 on the rating to become the second most corrupt country in West Africa, an indication that the country has worsened, with the new ranking being the worst…

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Bandits raid Niger State, kidnap 56 people

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The appointment of new military Service Chiefs, refused to deter bandits from their nefarious activities, as they killed at least two people while 56 others were kidnapped when they (suspected bandits) raided communities in two local government areas of Niger State. The communities raided were Avu in Lapai Local Government Area and Bassa in Shiroro LGA in the state. The invasion of Avu community yesterday morning was the first of such incident in the area. It was learnt that the bandits in their large numbers stormed the community around 1a.m.…

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Civil servant strangles mother to death over money

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A 42-year-old man, Clement Tumba has been arraigned before a Yola High Court for allegedly strangling his mother to death. Tumba, a father of five and resident of Dilchim community, in the Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State, ended the life of his aged mother, Regina Daniel with a rope. Tumba told the court, presided over by Justice Helen Tumba, that he acted under provocation. He said he was angry when his mother advised him to reconcile with his sister, Rebecca, over the sale of the land. The accused…

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Ned Nwoko’s false assassination claims against Gabriel Ogbechie exposed

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Businessman-cum-politician, Prince Ned Nwoko of Idumuje-Ugboko community in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State, who reliable sources say has continued to pull the strings of false stories, has alleged that another prominent son of the community who is the chairman of Rainoil, Chief Gabriel Ogbechie, is sponsoring a plot to assassinate him. This, however, was found not to be true. According to a petition he wrote to the office of the Commissioner of Police, Abuja, Ogbechie was mentioned as sponsor of the plan to kill him by two…

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$13bn Paris Club refunds: How Linas, Nwoko were threatened – Lawyers

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By Emma Amaize LINAS International Limited and former Member, House of Representatives, Hon Ned Nwoko, have disclosed how they were threatened in their bid to untangle the excess charges and over deductions in Paris Club advances for which the Federal Government had refunded $13 billion to States and Local Governments Areas. An Interim Management Committee, IMC, of Association of Local Government of Nigeria, ALGON, recently distanced the association from the current plan by the Federal Government to pay Linas and Ned Nwoko their overdue consultancy fees, but ALGON national president,…

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