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Photos: BBNaija's Nina looks cool in ankara print

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Just concluded Big Brother Naija housemate, Nina looks beautiful in ankara print. Check her out...

Read advice made from a Nollywood actress to BBNaija recent housemates

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Nollywood actress, Charity Nnaji, in an interview with Vanguard advised the latest housemates from the just concluded  #BBNaija  contest to go around sleeping with politicians so they can make more money.  ''Welcome back to Nigeria. Please tell the housemates of Big Brother Naija, especially the girls to utilise this opportunity and platform to make more money by sleeping with politicians instead of taking selfies and uploading on Instagram''Charity is quoted to have said The actress said, past contestants of the reality show have made money sleeping with politicians ''They can confirm from the first set that left the house. Some charge one million a night. One such incident happened right in my presence. One former housemate was telling a Senator on phone that if he could not pay one million naira for a night, he should forget about it”she said

See Dino Melaye reaction to failure of his recall process in Kogi State

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Senator Dino Melaye has reacted to the failure of the recall exercise carried out in his constituency in Kogi West Senatorial district on Saturday 28, April. Most of the constituency members that reportedly signed his letter of recall, failed to show up for verification of their signatures by INEC.  Reacting to the failure of the exercise, Dino Melaye who is currently at the National Hospital receiving treatment for the injury he sustained after jumping off a police vehicle, wrote these...

Lagos Police apologise for temporary closing of 3rd Mainland

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Lagos State Commissioner of Police,  Imohimi Edgal  The Lagos State Police Command has explained the reasons for the temporary closure of the Third Mainland Bridge on Sunday. In a statement released by the Lagos Police’s Public Relations Officer, Choke Oti, it was disclosed that the bridge, a busy route for Lagosians was closed as a result of a “simulation exercise” by NEMA, LASTMA, the Police and FRSC. The statement read; “The Third Mainland Bridge was temporary shut to traffic this morning 29/04/2018 due to “Simulation Exercise” carried out by NEMA, LASTMA, the Police, the FRSC and other agencies of government. The aim of the exercise is to gain a coordinated response among these agencies who are usually the first to respond in emergency situations. The Lagos State commission of Police, Imohimi Edgal hereby apologises for the inconveniences suffered while the exercise lasted. The CP added that the exercise was for common good. T he exercise is however, over an...

North Korea agrees to invite US experts to shut down Nuclear test site in May

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US President, Donald Trump and North Korea President, Kim Jong Un  North Korea promised to close its atomic test site in May and invite US weapons experts to the country as Donald Trump expressed optimism about securing a nuclear deal in his summit with the secretive regime.   The reported pledge from the North’s leader Kim Jong Un follows weeks of whirlwind diplomacy that saw Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in agree to pursue the complete denuclearisation of the peninsula during a historic summit on Friday. “Kim said, during the summit with President Moon, that he would carry out the closing of the nuclear test site in May,” Seoul’s presidential spokesman Yoon Young-chan said.  Kim said he “would soon invite experts of South Korea and the US as well as journalists to disclose the process to the international community with transparency”, Young-chan added. Tension has been high on the flashpoint peninsula since 2017 when the North carried its six...

Dino Melaye survives recall attempt

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The effort to recall the Senator Dino Melaye of Kogi West failed on Saturday following a low turn-out for the v erification of signatures. The results announced by INEC at the end of the exercise showed that only 18,742 signatories to the recall petition were verified out of the 189,870 signatories on the petition. The verified signatories came out well below the requirement of the law that 50 per cent and one of the signatories must be verified before the recall process can continue. Accordingly, the indented Senator Melaye who is in the hospital owing to the drama that followed his arrest has survived the recall attempt. Here is how the verification exercise turned out in the seven local government areas in the senatorial district, which has 351,146 registered voters. KOTON KARFE LGA TOTAL NUMBERS OF REGISTERED VOTERS – 46,727. TOTAL NUMBERS OF SIGNATURES ON THE PETITIONS – 24,459. TOTAL NUMBERS OF SIGNATURES AT VERIFICATION – 2,566. TOTAL NUMBERS OF SIGNATURES VERIFI...