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Davido goes bankrupt in US, takes Uber taxi home

April 28, 2019 6:50 am

Nigerian journalist Kemi Olunloyo, popularly known as KOO has revealed what happened to Nigerian music icon Davido, during one of his trips to the United States (U.S.).

Olunloyo said in her tweets that the Osun State born singer had eventually gone broke after paying $15m for radio airplay in the U.S.

Her tweets reads: “Davido paid $15m to many U.S. urban radio stations to play his songs on a 60 day media tour.

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Sudan military warns opposition over planned protest rally

Sudan protesters, military rulers agree on joint council

April 27, 2019 6:00 pm

Sudan’s protest leaders and army rulers agreed Saturday to establish a joint civilian-military ruling council, a major breakthrough in talks between the two sides over demonstrators’ demands for a handover to civilian rule.

The agreement on the highly disputed issue came as thousands of protesters remain encamped outside the military headquarters since the army ousted longtime leader Omar al-Bashir on April 11, demanding that the army rulers step down.

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Former Ethiopian president Negasso Gidada passed away at 75

April 27, 2019 11:41 am

Former Ethiopian president Negasso Gidada has died in Germany where he was undergoing medical treatment for an unspecified illness, state broadcaster EBC reported on Saturday.

Negasso, who was 75, was president between 1995 and 2001 and was the first head of state after Ethiopia adopted a new constitution transforming the country into a federal state, with increased autonomy given to the different regions.

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Rand slips over Ramaphosa campaign donation probe

South Africa: 25 years after apartheid, still not free

April 27, 2019 11:23 am

A quarter of a century after the end of the apartheid in South Africa, large swathes of population still aren’t free given abject poverty and high unemployment and the scourge of corruption affecting the country, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Saturday.

Speaking at a ceremony in Makhanda, formerly Grahamstown, in the south of the country, Ramaphosa said that South Africans were “gathered here to celebrate the day we won our freedom.”

The first democratic elections were held in South Africa on April 27, 1994, with blacks — who make up three quarters of the population — voting for the first …

North Korea demanded $2 million before releasing US student

April 26, 2019 9:02 pm

North Korea billed the Trump administration $2 million for the medical care of Otto F. Warmbier, an imprisoned American student who had fallen into a coma, before agreeing to release him in 2017.

A senior American diplomat negotiating for Mr. Warmbier’s freedom accepted the bill, and Mr. Warmbier was released. He died six days later in the United States, after his parents decided to end the life support that was sustaining his vegetative state.

The bill was passed from the State Department to the Treasury Department, but on Friday morning, President Trump said that no money had been paid.

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Human parts thieves caught inside church’s cemetery in Ogun

April 26, 2019 8:34 pm

A bricklayer, Kunle Adewunmi, an alleged specialist in breaking into cemeteries to steal human body parts, and his two accomplices have been arrested  in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

They were arrested penultimate Saturday after allegedly Istealing human body parts from no fewer than 35 tombs in recent times.

It was said that nemesis caught up with the trio while they were digging up graves at a cemetery belonging to a parish of the Methodist Church at  Ogbe,Abeokuta.

They were said to have been sighted by a female member of the Odua People’s Congress (OPC), who was attracted to the scene by …

Nine Nigerians nabbed in US for multi-million dollar fraud

April 26, 2019 8:25 pm

Nine Nigerians have been arrested in the United States of America for defrauding businesses and individuals of more than $3.5 million.

The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey S. Berman, and Homeland Security Investigations (HIS) Special Agent-in-Charge of the Tampa, Florida, Field Office of U.S., James C. Spero, announced on Thursday that the suspects committed the fraud through business email compromises, a Russian oil scam, and a romance scam.

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Kogi civil servants begging to feed, says NLC

April 26, 2019 4:12 am

Civil servants in Kogi State now beg to feed their families, due to non-payment of their monthly emoluments, according to the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) lamented yesterday.

The state chairman of NLC, Onuh Edoka, at the seventh quadrennial delegates’ conference in Lokoja, appealed to the state government to do something urgently to reverse the trend.

Edoka maintained that the civil servants were owed between seven and 30 months in salaries, a situation he said made it impossible for them to pay their bills.

He also regretted that workers were being owed their leave bonuses, while promotion exercise carried out by …

Sri Lanka Easter Sunday attack leader died in hotel bombing

April 26, 2019 4:02 am

Facts have emerged how the suspected leader of the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, Mohamed Zahran died.

Authorities said Zahran died in the Shangri-La hotel, one of six hotels bombed in an attack which ISIS had claimed responsibility.

Three churches were targeted in the attacks that killed over 300 people.

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Nigeria’ll divide when South-South joins Biafra – Okowa

April 26, 2019 3:50 am

The Delta State Governor, Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa, Thursday said Nigeria as a country will divide the very day the South-South region decided to join struggle for the actualisation of Biafra Republic.

“Nigeria will divide the very day the South-South agrees to join Biafra,” Governor Okowa declared at the Niger Delta Peace and Security Summit held in Koko, Warri North Local Government Area.

Governor Okowa, who was represented by his Executive Assistant/Directorate of Orientation, Barr. Eugene. A. Uzum, said some parts of Nigeria were being oppressed just as he cautioned that peace may continue to elude us as a people.

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Innoson sues GT Bank’s directors for contempt

April 25, 2019 8:13 pm
Innoson Nigeria Limited has filed a contempt action at the Federal High Court (FHC), Awka, Anambra State, against the managing director of Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB), Segun Agbaje, and two others, asking them to show why they should not be committed to prison.

The other two are chairman of the bank, Mrs. Osaretin Demuren, and the secretary, Erhi Obededuo.

In the contempt application filed on its behalf by Prof. McCarthy Mbadugha, Innoson urged the court to order the alleged contemnors to come and show cause why they should not be committed for contempt and sent to prison for their wilful

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Nigerian Senate to spend ₦5.5b on official cars for members

Senate still kicks against sale of National Theatre, TBS

April 25, 2019 7:45 pm

The Senate has reaffirmed its commitment to the non sale of the National Theatre, Tafawa Balewa Square and other national monuments.

This is sequel to the adoption of the report of its Committee on Culture and Tourism at plenary on Thursday.

Presenting the report, the chairman of the committee, Sen. Fatimat Raji-Rasaki said the committee was instructed to examine monuments across the country and report back.

According to her, the committee traveled to Lagos and other parts of the country to assess the monuments and recommends that, given their historic and monetary value, they should not be disposed of.

The …

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