Category: News
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Full List: Winners Of Golden Globe Award Emerge
The Golden Globes award took place Sunday, Jan. 9 despite being pulled by NBC following a controversy surrounding the voting body, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).Last year, the organization’s voting membership faced a Hollywood boycott after it was revealed there were no Black members. Many studios and celebrities openly criticised the HFPA, with Tom Cruise returning his three…
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Reporter’s diary: Inside ‘Mummy GO’s’ church in Lagos
Punch Newspaper At exactly 08:14 a.m., I walked into the Rapture Proclaimer Evangelical Church of God, RAPEC, founded by popular evangelist, Funmilayo Adebayo nicknamed Mummy GO (General Overseer) on social media. For weeks, Mummy GO has become social media sensation with many online users turning her hell-threatening sermons into memes circulated online. On getting to…
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Zamfara Lecturer, Wife, Two Children Released by Bandits After Alleged Payment of N10 Million Ransom
A lecturer with the Federal College of Education Technical Gusau in Zamfara State,Dr. Abdurrazak Muazu, his wife and two children abducted by heavily armed bandits have been released after allegedly paying N10 million ransom. A family member, Mohammed Bello said the victims were released on the early hours of Monday when the bandits who earlier…
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I Removed My Second Testicle To Kill Sexual Urge – UI 500-level Medicine Dropout
Punch Newspaper Forty-four-year-old Terhemen Anongo, who dropped out of the University of Ibadan as a 500-level medical student, says he has castrated his second testicle. The PUNCH had in March 2021 reported the story of Anongo, who became a cart pusher after dropping out of school and removed one of his testicles. Several people, including…
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Adedoyin’s Lawyer Reacts To Purported CCTV Footage Showing Involvement of Client In Death of OAU Student
A legal counsel for the embattled owner of Hilton Hotel and Resort, Ile-Ife in Osun State, Mr. Abiodun Williams, has urged the public to discard the unfounded story making the rounds on social media that a closed-circuit television, CCTV, footage showing the involvement of his client, Chief Ramon Adedoyin in the death of OAU MBA…
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Complete AFCON Daily Match Schedules
Complete daily match schedule for the Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, in Cameroon from January 9 to February 6 (all times GMT): First roundSunday, Jan 9 Gp A: Cameroon v Burkina Faso, 1600; Cape Verde v Ethiopia, 1900; both Olembe Stadium, Yaounde Monday, Jan 10 Gp B: Senegal v Zimbabwe, 1300; Guinea v Malawi, 1600;…
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UNILORIN Promotes 685 Academic, Non-Academic Staff
Authorities of the University of Ilorin, UNILORIN, have approved the promotion of 685 senior staff members of the University cutting across the academic and non-teaching cadres. This was sequel to approval by the University’s Appointment and Promotions Committee (A&PC), which considered the various recommendations from the various faculties and Umunits at its last meeting in…
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Again, Armed Robbers Storm UI Students’ Hostel, Kill One
Barely five days after some suspected armed robbers invaded off campus hostels of the Students of the University of Ibadan,UI , the hoodlums again in the wee hours of Saturday stormed the areas adjoining the university as they shot dead a commercial motorcyclist in the area. Recall that, the armed armed robbers in their numbers…
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Like Dowen College Pupil, Family Demands Justice Over Death of Only Son Who Died Nine Days After Returning From Boarding School
While Oromoni’s family and other concerned Nigerians continue to demand justice for Dowen college student, Sylvester Oromoni, who died from injuries he sustained while in the school’s boarding facility, the Onyekwuluje family of Umuakwa, Ihiala in Anambra State, are also demanding justice for their only son, Bright Chidalu Onyekwuluje, who they claim died nine days after…
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Two Vehicles Conveying 32 Children From Benue To Osun Intercepted (Photos)
Operatives of Benue State Police Command’s anti-crime squad code-named Operation Zenda, have intercepted two commercial buses allegedly conveying 32 children to Ede in Osun state . The two vehicles were intercepted at Ameladu in Gboko Local Government Area of Benue state on Saturday, January 8. The conveyor of the children, Mrs. Linda Akaasema who claimed to own…