Dakuku Peterside ON Sunday, August 15, 1971, the United States economy was literally facing a firing squad. The Dollar was in a mess. Price gougers were everywhere and foreign exchange was cruel to the Dollar. The newspaper headlines were of scorn and ridicule but President Richard Nixon did one thing. …
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MEDICAL personnel attached to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, are battling to save a four-year-old girl, Faridat Shittu, who is in critical condition after a cooking gas explosion ravaged their residence at 1, Odubanwo Street, off Olaniyi Street, Gbinrinmi in Ojokoro LCDA, Lagos. It was learned that Faridat’s …
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Prominent economist Bismarck Rewane FOREMOST economist and CEO of Financial Derivatives, Bismarck Rewane, has explained the reasons for the incessant fall of the naira. Recall that the Naira – Nigeria’s currency – has dropped sharply against the dollar and others, exchanging for over N1,400 to the dollar in the parallel …
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By Ben peters, Abuja NINE out of the ten aspirants of the People’s Democratic party in the Governorship race in Edo state on Sunday evening raised alarmed that the governor of Enugu state, Peter Mbah has been hijacked by the state Governor, Godwin Obaseki. Addressing journalists in Benin City, Barrister …
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SUPER Eagles striker Victor Osimhen could miss the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) semi-final against South Africa after failing to travel with the rest of the squad from Abidjan to Bouake. Nigeria face rivals South Africa in the first semi-final of the competition on Wednesday in Bouake for a place in …
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THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested the General Overseer of Faith on the Rock Ministry International, Apostle Theophilus Ebonyi, for allegedly defrauding church members and other Nigerians using fake grants from the Ford Foundation to the tune of N1. 3 billion. EFCC’s spokesman, Dele Oyewale, in a …
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THE family of Adesanya Sarah, 36, has been thrown into mourning after she was allegedly murdered by her ex-boyfriend in the Ojodu area of Lagos State on Sunday. Speaking on behalf of the family on Sunday in a post on her X handle, Sarah’s sister @Lahyorbronze alleged that the ex-boyfriend after …
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ALHAJI Atiku Abubakar has certainly found a new hobby to keep himself busy, having failed to achieve his lifelong ambition of becoming the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He is increasingly carving for himself the role of opposition-in-chief to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his government. However, we …
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ANOTHER horror story, yet another young victim of sexual violence at the hands of Islamic migrants. Catania is in shock over what happened to a 13-year-old girl who was raped by a pack of seven Egyptian boys in a bathroom at the communal gardens of Villa Bellini, one of the …
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A leading Edo State governorship aspirant and member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Barr. Asue Ighodalo has congratulated the National Working Committee (NWC), members of the PDP in Edo State; and 576 recently elected ad hoc delegates for the successful ward congresses conducted by the Party on Sunday. These ad hoc …
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