From this Saturday, May 6, 2017, extremely thin models will no longer be allowed to display their stuff on the runway to model clothes and other items. The French say models must have a minimum body mass index in consonance with the stipulation of the World Health Organization. The move is coming on the heels…
Power: Ogun State To Hosts $200m Transmission Project
As Indonesia Eyes Investment in Ogun [ctt template=”1″ link=”ah0aa” via=”no” ]The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, on Wednesday, announced plans to construct a $200m power transmission project in Ogun State. [/ctt] Managing Director of the TCN, Mr. Usman Gur Mohammed, disclosed this during a courtesy visit on the Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun.…
Army Kill Ossy Ibori A Notorious Militant Leader
The suspect was killed in the early hours of Monday morning during a shootout at a military checkpoint in Ajapa Creek, according to reports. According to a source, he was gunned down along with some members of his gang, while his body was identified by some of the locals in the area in Ese-Odo Local Government Area. Ossy’s…
Coup Plot Foiled In South Africa
[ctt template=”7″ link=”TE6Qb” via=”no” ]The Police in South Africa have arrested a suspected Coup Plotter for planning to assassinate almost 19 people[/ctt], including government ministers, officials of state-owned firms and prominent citizens. The twenty three years old was arrested on Wednesday following undercover operations in the capital, Pretorial, and Johannesburg. He was a founding…
Queen’s College To Resume Academic Activities
The government Lagos state has recommended the resumption of academic activities in Queen’s College, Yaba. The recommendation is a sequel to the analyses of water samples from all water delivery points in the school. Recently, diarrhoea outbreak in the school had led to the deaths of three students and hospitalisation of many. A release signed…
Ex-Governor Babangida Aliyu To Be Remanded In Prison Custody
The immediate past governor of Niger State, [ctt template=”7″ link=”l9UeH” via=”no” ]Babangida Aliyu, is to be remanded in prison custody until May 4, a court has ruled.[/ctt] Justice Mohammed Mayaki of the Niger State High Court also ordered that the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2015 election, Umar Nasko, be…
44 IPOB Members Get Freedom In Bayelsa Court
Nearly forty-four members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) were set free, on Tuesday, by a Yenagoa Magistrate Court. The IPOB members were arrested in October 2016 by men of the Joint Military Task Force code named Operation Delta Safe during their meeting at Okaka Area of the state capital and handed to the…
WHO To Conduct World’s First Malaria Vaccine Trial In Africa
[ctt template=”5″ link=”q1G7k” via=”no” ]The WHO Regional Office for Africa said in a statement on Monday that Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi will take part in the pilot programme which will take off in 2018.[/ctt] The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it will make the world’s first malaria vaccine available in selected areas in three…
Amosun Rescues Aregbesola’s Aide From Angry Youths At Adeleke’s Burial
Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, on Monday, literally saved the day when he intervened and prevented a restive crowd of sympathisers at the Ede, Osun State country home of late Senator Isiaka Adeleke, from lynching Ms Idia Babalola, a former Special Adviser to Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and now a Commissioner nominee.…
Nollywood Actor Olumide Bakare Is Dead
The actor died in the early hours of Saturday after a “successful surgery”. Bakare had been battling heart and lung related illnesses and was admitted at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Oyo state. Mufu Onifade, former president of the National Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners (NANTAP), has confirmed his death in a…
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