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Dr. Ify Aniebo, a well-respected academic and wife of Labour Party’s 2023 Lagos State governorship candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has taken to social media to debunk a long-standing belief about breakfast.    In a tweet, she revealed that the popular saying, “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day,” was actually a marketing slogan created by Kellogg’s in 1917 to …

Some yet-to-be-identified persons have reportedly kidnapped a journalist and human rights activist, Oluwatosin Oshibanjo, in Ogun State.    It was gathered that Oshibanjo was abducted in his Ijebu-Ode home on Tuesday, October 15, 2024.    The journalist’s mother, Tokunbo Bakre, said that the abduction came after Tosin had intervened in a human rights violation case involving a lady and a …

An aide to the governor of Delta State, Ossai Ovie Success, has told fellow men that seeing girls through school does not mean that they must get married to the ladies when they graduate.    Ossai shared this opinion on his Facebook page today October 15.     

Bandits have shot the Director General of Zamfara State Community Guards (CPG), General Lawal Muhammed (rtd)   It was gathered that General Muhammad was shot by the bandits during an attack on motorists at Kucheri village in Tsafe local government area of Zamfara state.    According to the Daily Trust, the bandits blocked the busy Funtua-Tsafe road late evening and …

Former Kaduna state first lady, Hadiza El-Rufai, caused a stir on X last night when she came out to correct a post written by Senator Shehu Sani.    The Senator had made a post about how President Tinubu traveling out of the country has a way of affecting the economy. He wrote; ‘’New law of economics;When the President travels out,Taxes …

The Enugu State Government has imposed a daily Mortuary Tax to discourage people from leaving their de@d ones in the mortuary.  The Mortuary Tax circular addressed to all the mortuary attendants in the state is trending online.  Reacting, the Executive Chairman, Enugu State Internal Revenue Service (ESIRS), Mr Emmanuel Nnamani, said the Enugu Mortuary Tax is not meant to generate …

A councilorship candidate, Adeyinka Adeleke, was on Saturday afternoon October 12, shot de@d by yet to be identified men in the Jide Jones area of Abeokuta South Local Government Area of Ogun State.   The victim was said to be the All Progressives Congress Councillorship candidate for Abeokuta South Local Government Ward 15 in the forthcoming November 16 Local Government …

Habibu Abubakar Wushishi, the Director, Media and Strategy, Niger State Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, has said that the only solution to fuel price hike is for Nigerians to return to old means of transportation like donkeys, horses, and bicycles.       

A father, Aliu Ibrahim, 41, has been accused of having carnal knowledge of his 12-year-old daughter, Rodiat Ibrahim, for two years.  Ibrahim was arrested on October 10 after his estranged wife, Egbebi Temitope, who resides in the Papa Olosun area on Oja-Odan reported him at Oja-Odan Division of the Ogun State Police Command.  Temitope said Aliu Ibrahim defiles their daughter …

A father, Aliu Ibrahim, 41, has been accused of having c@rnal knowledge of his 12-year-old daughter, Rodiat Ibrahim, for two years.  Ibrahim was arrested on October 10 after his estranged wife, Egbebi Temitope, who resides in the Papa Olosun area on Oja-Odan reported him at Oja-Odan Division of the Ogun State Police Command.  Temitope said Aliu Ibrahim allegedly defiled their …