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August, 2023

  • 29 August

    Man catches toddler falling from 5th floor balcony

    A 37-year-old banker from Turin is being hailed a hero after miraculously catching an Italian toddler who fell from her family’s fifth floor balcony on Saturday. Mattia Aguzzi said he and his girlfriend were walking to a bread shop in central Turin, Italy just before 11 a.m. local time, when he heard a man yelling for help from an upper ...

  • 29 August

    Osun beefs up security around Subsidy Palliatives

    Osun State Government said security has been beefed up around its warehouses to prevent looting of palliatives that were received from the Federal Government to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal. This was disclosed on Monday by the state Commissioner for Information and Public Engagement, Mr. Kolapo Alimi during an interview with journalists. Alimi, who said an update on ...

  • 29 August

    4 police rank mates who refuse to retire as Egbetokun emerges axed !

    The Police Service Commission has ordered four senior Deputy Inspectors-General of Police, Dan-Mallam Mohammed, Moses Jitiboh, Hafiz Inuwa and Adeleke Bode to immediately proceed on compulsory retirement for failing to retire following the appointment of their colleague, Olukayode Egbetokun, as the acting Inspector-General of Police. The PSC, however, approved the appointment of four Assistant Inspectors-General of Police, Ibrahim Ka’oje, Daniel ...

  • 29 August

    Obaseki Disband Shaibu’s Media Crew, reduces his power

    The Edo State Government has disbanded the media crew attached to the Office of the Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu. Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Chris Nehikhare, announced this in a statement on Monday. He directed the deputy governor to henceforth request the Ministry of Communication and Orientation for media coverage of activities of his office. “Edo State Government has disbanded ...

  • 29 August

    Steve Harvey denies wife’s infidelity with body guard

    Steve Harvey personally set the record straight while speaking at Invest Fest 2023 in Atlanta on Sunday about recent rumours regarding his personal life. The television host, 66, whose daughter Lori Harvey joined Kendall Jenner and friends during a trip to Cabo, addressed rumours that his wife, Marjorie Bridges, 58, allegedly cheated on him with the couple’s bodyguard and personal ...

  • 29 August

    LG Chairman writes Osoba: Stop Abiodun frim Hijacking Ogun LGs Fund’

    The Chairman of Ijebu East Local Government Area of Ogun State, Wale Adedayo, has accused Governor Dapo Abiodun of withholding the statutory Federal Allocation due to the state’s Local Governments in the last two years. “Since we (Ogun State Local Government Chairmen) got on board in 2021, it has been ZERO Federal Allocation to each local government,” Adedayo alleged in ...

  • 29 August

    Pastor Igboke Didn’t Commit Suicide over being jilted..What really happened !

    The relatives of Mr Prosper Igboke, the Anambra clergyman, who was reported to have died by suicide because he was jilted by his girlfriend who he had trained in the university, have come out to debunk the news making the rounds. Recall that it was reported that Igboke died by suicide after he jumped down from a two-story building in ...

  • 28 August

    Citizen loot Expired Food Items, Palliatives in Govt Warehouse

    It was more of repetition of what happened in many states, during the Covid era, when wharehouses were looted enmasse. It started at that time with a chance discovery of a large warehouse in Mazamaza Lagos, where COVID-19 palliatives, were stored. The looters descended on the supplies and emptied the warehouse within hours. Even those who were not criminals felt ...

  • 28 August

    21-yrs-old racist opens gun bullets, shoots 3 blacks dead in Florida

    Gunman killed three black people in an alleged racially motivated attack then killed himself in Jacksonville, Florida, the city’s sheriff said. Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at prayer vigils and in church, in frustration and exhaustion, to mourn yet another racist attack in America: this one the killing of three Black people in Florida at the hands of a white, ...

  • 28 August

    Fear of flooding in 9 States as Cameroon Opens Dam !

    Cameroonian officials have resolved to open the flood gates of the Lagdo Dam on the Benue River in days ahead due to the heavy rainfall around the dam catchment area in Northern Cameroon. Those residing within the environs of the River Benue valley would be verily affected. Residents have been advised to leave the areas to avoid impacts on human ...