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Two Nigerians, 155 others die in plane crash

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The air crash involving Ethiopian Airlines’ Boeing737MAX plane that had barely taken off from the Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa yesterday, has left 157 people dead. Two Nigerians, Ambassador Abiodun Bashua, and Prof. Pius Adesanmi, were among the157 persons who died in the crash. Bashua was United Nations and African Union Deputy Joint Special Representative in Darfur, Sudan. Adesanmi, a writer, graduate of University of Ilorin as well as a literary critic and professor with Carlton University in Canada, was believed to be heading for the African Union Economic,…

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116-year-old Japanese Woman Confirmed As World’s Oldest Person

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Kane Tanaka, 116-year-old Japanese woman, who still enjoys studying math and playing board games has been recognised as the world’s oldest person, the Guinness World Records said Saturday. Tanaka was born on 2 January 1903, the year when the Wright brothers launched humanity’s first powered flight, according to Guinness. Tanaka’s recognition was celebrated at the nursing home where she lives in western Japan’s Fukuoka by city mayor Soichiro Takashima and other well-wishers. Asked what moment she was the happiest in life, she replied: “Now.” She married Hideo Tanaka in 1922, giving…

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Agbaje attributes defeat to voters intimidation

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Mr Jimi Agbaje, the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in Lagos State, has attributed his defeat at the poll to the suppression of votes in areas where he was strong. The PDP candidate lamented the low voter turnout in Lagos State which was less than 20 per cent of the total number of persons that collected Permanent Voter Cards. He said the threats, coupled with the manner in which the presidential election was conducted, led to the voter apathy witnessed in the nation’s commercial nerve centre. The PDP candidate said,…

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Gubernatorial election: APC wins Lagos, Ogun, Kwara, PDP takes Oyo, Akwa Ibom, Ebonyi

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Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday, started the announcement of the results of governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections held in the country on Saturday. The ruling All Progressives Congress in Oyo State lost the governorship poll to the Peoples Democratic Party. The APC candidate, Adebayo Adelabu, backed by the incumbent Governor Abiola Ajimobi, lost scandalously to his PDP’s counterpart, Seyi Makinde, with a margin of 157, 635 votes. While Makinde polled 515,621 votes, Adelabu came second with 357,982 votes. Also, as it was during the February 23 presidential…

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Policeman, NSCDC officer killed, three INEC staff abducted in Katsina

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The governorship and state assembly election in Katsina State was marred by violence as a Police officer was killed and three INEC adhoc staff abducted. The police announced the killing of a civil defence officer in separate attack on election duty. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Gambo Isa, in two separate statements made available to newsmen on Saturday in Katsina, said the policeman, Cpl Mannir Usman, was killed while on election patrol at Gobirawa Falale, Danmusa Local Government area of the state. The PPRO said that the gunmen ambushed…

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Union Bank Unveils ‘Alpher’ on International Women’s Day

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Union Bank marked International Women’s Day with the launch of its women’s proposition, Alpher. Alpher was unveiled as part of the Bank’s annual celebrations to mark the global movement to accelerate gender parity across the world. Alpher is a platform to ‘enable success’ and empower women across all segments of the Nigerian society through capacity building opportunities, networking platforms, scholarships and tailored financial services for women. The Bank also awarded 40 scholarships to women entrepreneurs to build their capacity through the Enterprise & Leadership Program (ELP) organised by China Europe…

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Court sentence Lekan Shonde to death for killing wife

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A depot worker in the Apapa area of Lagos State, Lekan Shonde, who was being prosecuted over the death of his wife, Ronke, has been found guilty and sentenced to death by the Lagos State High Court on Friday. 51-year-old Shonde was reported to have beaten his wife to death at their home in the Egbeda-Idimu area of Lagos State. He was alleged to have locked the corpse and their two children, aged four and six, in the house before Ronke was discovered by a housekeeper, before the matter was…

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Robbers arrested, narrates why they cut off victims’ fingers, wrists during operation

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Operatives of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have arrested a notorious armed robber, Kunle Akerele, a.k.a. Poly, who gave chilling details of how his gang usually cuts off victims’ fingers and wrists to force them into submitting their valuables. Akerele and other members of his syndicate: Toyin Adewale, Nurudeen Akorede (Sypon), Oluwaseyu Makinde, Tunde Yusuf (To Door) and Bankole Mohammed, alias Hunter were arrested at Ikotun. Akerele’s arrest was led by Abba Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police. The suspects, who were paraded on Wednesday…

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Buhari’s government lacks direction –Financial Times

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President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has been described as a government without direction by the Financial Times of London. The newspaper therefore called on the President to see his re-election as an opportunity to do the right thing. The Financial Times said this in its editorial which has been read and shared thousands of times around the world. It said there was no clear economic policy like that of Rwanda and Ethiopia. It read in part, “With his renewed mandate, it is now Mr Buhari’s task to rebuild faith by running a dynamic and…

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Candidates declared winner under duress will not get certificate of return– INEC

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For those who were declared winners under duress in the governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections to be conducted on Saturday (tomorrow), the Independent National Electoral Commission has said it will not issue Certificates of Return to the candidates. The commission also threatened to record zero vote and cancel the results of polling units where its personnel deliberately failed to deploy the Smart Card Readers. The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this on Thursday during the meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security held at…

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