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Abuja Court stops Multichoice from increasing subscription

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A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered Multichoice not to increase it’s tariff three weeks after doing so. Justice Nnamdi Dimgba on Monday asked the cable company, sued by the Federal Government, not to impose any hidden charges pending the determination of the plaintiff’s motion on notice for interlocutory injunction. The restraining order was issued in respect of Suit No FHC/ABJ/CS/894/18 brought before the court by the Consumer Protection Council in the light of the strong public interest raised in the application. The Attorney-General of the Federation and…

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Day-old twins sold for N1.8m in Imo

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The Imo State Police Command has arrested two women, Chizoba Eze and Amaka Eze, for allegedly buying newborn twins, Emmanuel and Emmanuela, for N1.8m in Umuahia, Abia State. The women, who were said to be from Enugu State, were paraded on Monday by the Imo State Police Public Relations Officer, Andrew Enwerem, who said the suspects were intercepted on Owerri-Aba Road. The suspects were paraded on Monday alongside six others, who also allegedly abducted and sold nine other children. The police spokesperson, who decried the rise in abduction of children,…

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Man arrested for smashing mother’s head with wood of nails for money ritual

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Taiwo Akinola, a 29-yr-old man has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command over alleged attempt to kill his mother for ritual purpose through an advanced cyber fraud known as Yahoo Plus. The victim, Mrs. Alice Akinola, had her skull smashed with a plank studded with nails and then a pressing iron during the alleged attack by her son, Taiwo Akinola, inside their flat located at 2, Raji Ajanaku Street, Alaja Road, Ayobo area of Lagos, at about 8.30p.m., Sunday. As at yesterday, doctors at an undisclosed hospital were…

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Ref ‘n’ Win’ Promo: Undergraduate wins Skye Bank’s N5 million star prize

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Damilola Rachel Ajayi, a 26-year old undergraduate, , has emerged the overall winner of N5million star prize in the just-concluded Skye Bank Ref ‘n’ Win Promo. The ‘Ref n Win’ promo was a youth-focused initiative designed to reward Skye Bank’s account holders, who were mainly undergraduates across the country. This is just as the Bank’s mCash Merchant, Sulaiman Gidado, also emerged one of the top performing agents in the country, as made known by the Nigeria Inter-bank Settlement System (NIBSS) at the mCash relaunch in Lagos, recently.As part of the renewed efforts…

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NECO Releases 2018 Examination Results

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National Examinations Council, NECO, has released the June/July 2018 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examinations, SSCE, with 71 percent of the candidates making five credits and above, inclu-ding English Language and Mathematics. Similarly, 90.5 percent scored five credits and above, irrespective of English language and Mathematics. A statement by NECO’s Acting Registrar/Chief Executive of the Council, Alhaji Abubakar Gana, also revealed a decrease in examination malpractices. Gana said about 9,000 of the candidates that registered for the examinations did not sit for the papers, noting that “1,041,536 registered for the examination,…

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Primate Ayodele releases book on 2018/2019 revelations

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*VP Osinbajo Will Be Used And Dumped *Bayo Adelabu Won’t Get APC Guber Ticket In Oyo *APC Will Use Technical Rigging In 2019 Elections *NURTW Will Be Scrapped *Northern States Will Form One Party After Buhari’s Tenure Primate Elijah Babatunde Ayodele, founder and spiritual leader at INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Lagos, has released the 2018/2019 edition of his annual prophecy book, ‘Warning to The Nations’. At a parley in his church on Saturday, August 4th, 2018, the popular prophet highlights the contents of the book before a select group of journalists…

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APC Will Takeover Akwa Ibom Like When Hitler Invaded Poland – Akpabio

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Godswill AKpabio, a former Senate Minority Leader, has said the All Progressives Congress, APC, will take over Akwa Ibom State in 2019 just like the late German dictator, Adolf Hitler took over Poland. He said just like Hitler invaded Poland in 1940, same way APC will overrun the state. He said this over the weekend at the funeral Mass of his grandmother-in-law, late Madam Mercy Uduoku Neife Igwenagu, at Christ the king Parish, Aguobu-Owa, Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State. According to Akpabio, “Recently, I had an occasion in…

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Japan send basketball players home for spending night with women

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Four players have been sent home by Japan from their Asian Games basketball team, for spending the night with women in a Jakarta hotel. The head of the delegation Yasuhiro Yamashita, said on Monday. The players left the athletes’ village, following their game against Qatar on Thursday to eat at a restaurant where they met a Japanese-speaking local. They were then told about a bar where they could meet women, Yamashita told a news conference. The quartet, who were wearing their team uniforms, spent a couple of hours at the…

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Woman gets married for the first time at age 60

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Teresiah Njoki, a 60-year-old woman,  on Sunday got married for the first time, to a 78-year-old widower, Ayub Mugo Waitara. Waitara, a grandfather, said he had been lonely for the past 10 years. He revealed how he met his bride, “In 2017 while on a private business in Thika town, I saw a woman who appeared very special to me, a strong feeling of love hit me and I decided to follow her. I stopped and asked her out for tea which she obliged. While at the restaurant, we exchanged phone numbers…

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Death toll hits 10 as multiple quakes rock Indonesia’s Lombok island

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At least 10 people have been reported dead as series of powerful earthquakes rock the Indonesian holiday island of Lombok, killing and setting off fresh waves of panic after nearly 500 died there following a huge tremor two weeks ago. The quakes hit throughout Sunday, with the first measuring 6.3 shortly before midday which triggered landslides and sent people fleeing for cover as parts of the island suffered blackouts. It was followed nearly 12 hours later by a quake measuring 6.9 magnitude and a string of powerful aftershocks. The picturesque…

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