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Year: 2019

UI lecturer commits suicide by setting self ablaze

A Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, University of Ibadan, Mr A.O Subair has reportedly committed suicide. The university don reportedly set himself on fire on Monday afternoon in his senior staff quarters located at Phillipson road of the University. The lecturer who hailed from Kaduna State has been buried at Akinyele public cemetery. It…

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Ajimobi described wife as epitome of love at her 60th birthday

From Taiwo Oluwadare, Ibadan The Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi on Friday at Governor’s lodge, Government House, Agodi, Ibadan described his wife, Mrs. Florence Ajimobi as epitome of love to less privileged in the society especially women and children. The governor while extolling virtues of his wife during her 60th birthday, said Mrs. Ajimobi…

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‘My Mother Gave Birth To Me Out Of Rape’ – Helen Paul

Nigerian Comedienne, Helen Paul has revealed that her mother gave birth to her out of rape. She made this known while dedicating the Ph.D which she recently bagged at the University of Lagos to her. The Comedienne who now boasts of being the first of her colleagues to bag such a degree recounted how her…

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Florence Ajimobi @ 60: 15 Things You Should Know About Her by Sayo Aluko

Florence Ajimobi was born in Benin City on the 5th of April, 1959, to the Hajaig family of Lebanon, but she grew up in the ancient city of Ibadan. 2. She is a graduate of Secretarial Studies and Management from The Polytechnic Ibadan. 3. She got married to Abiola Ajimobi in 1980, and the marriage…

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Popular Hollywood comedian, Mr. Ibu down with stroke

Popular Nollywood comic actor, John Okafor, popularly known as Mr. Ibu is said to have been hit by stroke. Reports say the actor has been down for a while, and has asked Nigerians to pray for him at this period. The sickness was said to have started shortly after the 57-year old actor returned from…

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Court dismissed no- case submission by Maryam, asked her to enter defence over death of her husband

…discharges her mother, brother, housemaid An FCT High Court in Maitama has dismissed a no-case submission made by Maryam Sanda, who was accused of killing her husband, Bilyaminu Bello, and ordered her to enter her defence. Maryam is being tried before the court for allegedly killing Bello, her husband, who was a nephew of former…

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17 year-old girl recounts how Winner’s pastor gave her alcohol, slept with her

A 17-year old girl (names withheld) has narrated how the resident Pastor of the Amagba branch of the Living Faith Church a.k.a Winners Chapel, Pastor Kingsley Emeka Mokwunye, introduced her to alcohol and used the opportunity to have sex with her. The teenager who spoke to reporters in Benin City said Pastor Kingsley also slept…

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3 FUTO students died from use of tramadol after sex romp in Imo

It was tragedy at Sunshine Lodge, Ihiagwa, one of the satellite communities close to the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), Imo State on Tuesday night. Three students collapsed and died while taking turns to have sex with a co-student after allegedly taking a mixture of tramadol, codeine and vodka. Two of them, according to…

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Crime alert: kidnappers now using pre-registered Sim cards to commit crimes, says NCC boss

The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC), Professor Umar Garba Danbatta has disclosed that kidnappers use unregistered SIM cards to commit crimes. He however assured that the commission is tracking the criminals using such unregistered SIM cards. Speaking at the banks special day at the ongoing 40th Kaduna International Trade Fair, Danbatta…

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Ibadan Poly students protest for stabbing of school sports Director, others in a football match violence

Hundreds of students of the Polytechnic Ibadan Thursday morning barricaded the main entrance and other gates leading to the institution in protest against the stabbed of one of their colleagues and injured of another one. It was reported that the students in protest against the violence that erupted shortly after a football match on Wednesday…

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