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Joy, Excitement as Prado winner, others receive Glo Festival of Joy prizes

Joy, Excitement as Prado winner, others receive Glo Festival of Joy prizes

    L-R: Chief Marketing Officer, Globacom, Ashok Israni; Toyota Prado winner in Globacom’s Festival of Joy promotion, Ayobami Adejumobi; his wife, Veronica Adejumobi; Deputy Governor of Lagos Sate, Dr Obafemi Hamzat; Divisional Head, West, Globacom, Lawrence Odediran; and Lagos State Commission for Energy and Mineral Resources, Mr. Biodun Ogunleye, at the presentation of prizes to winners of the promo …

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Movie director, Niyi Akinmolayan advises film makers amid Netflix’s exit from Nigeria

Movie director, Niyi Akinmolayan advises film makers amid Netflix

Nigerian movie director and filmmaker, Niyi Akinmolayan has shared some words of advice for other filmmakers distraught over Netflix’s exit from Nigeria.  Filmmakers recently revealed that Netflix ended all collaborations with Nigerian filmmakers and left the country in November 2024.  Reacting, Niyi urged filmmakers to ignore the noise and keep making movies so that when another movie streaming giant comes …

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Mixed reactions trail fixed bride price of N5000 and four basins of cooked butter beans for Eggon women in Nasarawa state

Mixed reactions trail fixed bride price of N5000 and four basins of cooked butter beans for Eggon women in Nasarawa state

Mixed reactions have continued to trail the harmonised bride price of the people of Eggon ethnic group in Nasarawa State.    The Aren Eggon, HRH Justice Ahmed Ubangari Alaku (Rtd) pegged N5,000 as the bride price with four basins of traditional butter beans known as Ebyekpyen as the maximum requirements to be met by the groom in order to marry an …

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?May we not all pray in vain? – Pastor Leke Adeboye tells women who attend prayer programs but have refused to speak with their husbands

?May we not all pray in vain? - Pastor Leke Adeboye tells women who attend prayer programs but have refused to speak with their husbands

Pastor Leke Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, has shared his thoughts about women who attend serveral prayer programs but have refused to speak with their husbands, fathers and ‘sisters.’   Leke who is the son of RCCG general overseer, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, said he hopes such women don’t pray and worship in vain.   See his post …

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‘Hitwoman’ known as ‘The Doll’ is arrested over multiple gang-related murd3rs including recent k!lling of her ex-boyfriend

'Hitwoman' known as 'The Doll' is arrested over multiple gang-related murd3rs including recent k!lling of her ex-boyfriend

 A glamorous Colombian ‘hitwoman’ known as ‘The Doll’ has been arrested in connection to several murd3rs including the recent k!lling of her ex-boyfriend.  Karen Julieth Ojeda Rodriguez, 23, known to police by the alias ‘La Mueca’, which translates to ‘The Doll’, and is considered a ‘dangerous hitwoman’ who is suspected of being the most feared assassin in Santander.  She is involved in …

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Nigerian national extradited from Malaysia sentenced to eight years imprisonment in US for $6.3 million fraud

Nigerian national extradited from Malaysia sentenced to eight years imprisonment in US for $6.3 million fraud

A 39-year-old Nigerian national, Okechuckwu Valentine Osuji, was sentenced in New Haven, Connecticut, to eight years in prison for operating a business email compromise scheme out of multiple countries, including the United States.   Osuji was sentenced on Wednesday, December 4, 2024,  two years after he was arrested in Malaysia and extradited to the United States in 2022.   The …

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