Popular reggaeton singer, El Taiger is dead. The 37-year-old died on Thursday October 10 2024, a week after being shot in the head. His family confirmed the incident in an official statement shared on the singer’s Instagram stories. “On October 3, shortly after 7 a.m., officers responded to NW 17th …
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A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a fresh bail application filed by the detained Binance Holdings Limited’s executive, Tigran Gambaryan. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, dismissed the application on the ground that it constituted an abuse of court process. Justice Nwite held that Gambaryan’s request …
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Aviation giant Boeing has announced plans to cut 10 percent of its workforce as it projected a large third-quarter loss amid a machinist strike in the Seattle region. Boeing must “reset our workforce levels to align with our financial reality,” Chief Executive Kelly Ortberg said on Friday, October 11, 2024. …
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THE Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) says full passenger operations on the Lagos Rail Mass Transit Red Line will commence on October 15, 2024. The LAMATA Managing Director, Abimbola Akinajo, made this known in a statement on Thursday, October 10. Akinajo said Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu would lead …
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A GoFundMe account has been set up in the United Kingdom by the relative of a Nigerian student who slumped and died while waiting to resume work. Chinonso Ezeonwumere, a student of University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, England, who came into the UK in September 2023, was reported to have slumped …
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THE Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to pay Kasmal International Services N579,130,698,440 with 10% interest per annum on the judgment sum for the period from January 1, 2015, to January 31, 2020, for its role in stamp duty collection. The judgement …
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says it will make Nigeria a logistics hub it’s the beginning of a new era of economic growth and job creation – Abiodun THE Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Alhaji Adegboyega Oyetola, on Friday performed the groundbreaking ceremony of the Gateway Inland Dry Port with a promise to make …
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THE All Progressives Congress has suspended the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, and the party’s 2019 governorship candidate in Bayelsa State, David Lyon, for alleged anti-party activities. The suspension was extended to the state Commissioner for Power, Kharim Kumoko, Commissioner for Lands and Survey, Peres Biewari, …
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THE United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says 75 percent of the new HIV infections among adolescents globally occur in girls. Celine Lafoucriere, Chief of the UNICEF Field Office for South-West Nigeria, stated this in a statement on Friday to commemorate the International Day of the girl-child. The News Agency of …
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THE Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, has lost his 25-year-old daughter, Fatima Kyari. Fatima’s death was disclosed in a condolence message posted by a former aide of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, Bashir Ahmad, on X on Friday, October 11, 2024. Ahmad disclosed that …
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