Friends, families and celebrities converged on the highbrow Dover Hotel, Aromire Street, off Adeniyi Jones, Ikeja, Lagos on Saturday March 25, 2017 to honour the first female Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Police Command, Ngozi Braide. It was an evening of good music, fun and plenty to eat and drink as the delectable Cop treated her guests to a memorable birthday shindig. Share on: WhatsApp
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Since suffering a heart attack in January, Spanish film star Antonio Banderas says he has quit smoking and will work at a slower pace from now on. “If there is something good that came from all of this, it is that I suddenly stopped smoking, without needing pills or anything like that. It’s over!” the 56-year-old said in an interview at his home in the southern city of Malaga. “I’m going to keep working but I’m going to do it at another rhythm. I am going to give myself space,…
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A local dog saved dozens of people at a wedding party in Maiduguri, yesterday, as a teenage suicide bomber, who attempted to detonate a bomb at the ceremony was attacked by the dog. Both the dog and suicide bomber died in the explosion that resulted from detonation of the bomb, following the dog attack. The incident occurred barely hours after the police in Borno confirmed that three suspected male suicide bombers were killed in separate foiled attacks at Muna and Dusuman village on the outskirt of Maiduguri. The dog which,…
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Petroleum Tankers Drivers (PTD) section of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), has insisted that there is no going back on their planned strike despite assurance from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that it has intervened to avert the strike action. NUPENG’s national President, Igwe Achese, who released the communiqué in Lagos at the end of its Central Working Committee meeting held at the union’s secretariat in Yaba, said the strike would draw the attention of the Federal Government and other stakeholders to some unresolved…
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Lt. General Ishaya Bamaiyi, Nigeria’s former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), has described the infamous Abacha’s loot has a creation of the Nigerian media, stating that the former Nigerian head of state, General Sani Abacha, never looted the country’s treasury. Bamaiyi spoke at the launching of a tell-all memoir which covers his extensive military career in Abuja. He insisted that, to the best of his knowledge, Abacha decided that funds should be kept in places where they could be easily accessed. “I am not defending Abacha, I am not saying…
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For unlawfully invading TVC television, a Special Offences Mobile Court in Oshodi, Lagos, has ordered the remand of 13 students of the University of Lagos, who were arraigned before it by the police, Saturday . The accused Femi Adeyeye, Toni Aina, Kodri Yaya, Asimi Oladime, Ismahim Olalekan, Segun Okesola, Abdulazeez Soneye, Idris Abogunloko, Muyiwa Olaniyi, Toheed Oladimeji, Joseph Akanni, Lukumon Olusegun, and Abiodun Agbeniyi, were ordered remanded at Kirikiri prisons, Lagos. They were arraigned before Chief Magistrate P.E Nwaka, on two counts charge of unlawful invasion and disruption of activities.…
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Mr Rabiu Yusuf, the Commissioner of Police in Kano State, has warned officers and men against demanding for money or any form of favour before granting bail to the suspects. Yusuf also cautioned them against illegal investigation of cases, unlawful detention of suspects and prolonged detention, saying that they should respect human rights in the course of all investigations. The police chief spoke at a lecture/ parade with officers and men working at State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Divisional Crime Officers and Investigation Police Officers (IPOs) in the…
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Pulka village residents in Borno have revealed that Boko Haram Islamists have abducted 22 girls and women in two separate raids on Friday. In the first attack on Thursday, the jihadists raided the village of Pulka near border with Cameroon where they kidnapped 18 girls. “Boko Haram fighters from Mamman Nur camp arrived in pickup vans around 6:00 am and seized 14 young girls aged 17 and below while residents fled into the bush,” a Pulka community leader revealed. “They picked four other girls who were fleeing the raid they…
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Park Geun-Hye, ousted South Korean president is now just prisoner 503, incarcerated in a spartan cell while prosecutors decide whether to indict her over a corruption scandal that precipitated her fall from grace. The former head of state spent her first night in solitary confinement at Seoul Detention Centre after a court Friday ordered her to be held pending charges. Reports has it that she had her mugshot taken and was given a prison kit including toiletries, a meal tray and a quilt. After being processed like any other prisoner,…
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Woman Rising, the annual celebration of women through Music, Arts and Networking returns on April 8 and 9, 2017 in a two-day extravaganza in its usual extension of the annual celebration of International Women’s Day. Now in its seventh year, WOMAN RISING has evolved from a small 50-person gathering which debuted in 2011 to a comprehensive, far-reaching and impactful annual 2-day meeting of women across the creative and business spectrums alike – attracting over 500 women cumulatively. Our 2017 ensemble will feature Adunni Nefertiti (all-female acapella folk group), Kaline, amazing…
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