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Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone was born on August 16, 1958 in Bay City, Michigan, USA. She is the third of six children in a Catholic family. Her father, Sylvio, also known as Tony, was a design engineer for Chrysler/General Dynamics. Madonna’s ...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the police to move from ‘media slanted’ crime fighting techniques, where suspects are paraded on television and on the front pages of n...
The aborted labour strike yesterday stalled the arraignment of the representative of Anambra North Senatorial District in the Senate, Senator Alphonsus Igbeke, who is being prosecuted for allegedly falsifying the results of the senatorial primary elect...
Following the present security situation in Borno State that led to the closure of the University of Maiduguri, the institution is now almost like a ghost town, putting many petty traders, cafeteria operators and other service providers out of business...
A prosecution witness and Chief Inspector(CI) of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Abduraheem Jimoh, has told the trial judge of a Lagos High Court, Justice Habeeb Abiru, how former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the bank, Dr. Erastus Akingb...
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Emeka Ihedioha has commended the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and other members of the organised labour for suspending the strike earlier planned to commence ye...
Controversy over the proposal by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the bankers’ committee to limit cumulative daily cash withdrawals and lodgements in the country from June next year continued to play out as yesterday, the House of Representa...
Former president Alhaji Shehu Shagari has charged leaders at all levels in Nigeria to intensify effort towards providing the people especially in the rural areas with the necessary amenities to ensure the overall development of the nation. The former p...
Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have once again reiterated the need for alternative entry routes into the city from Nasarawa State. The call follows a multiple accident that occurred along the Abuja-Keffi way on Monday, in which at lea...
Earl “DMX” Simmons was released from an Arizona prison after serving six months for a probation violation. “I’m gonna see my daughter, I just got off the phone with my wife. I’m going to see my daughter while the su...
The federal government yesterday in Abuja arraigned five police chiefs at the Federal High Court in Abuja for allegedly killing the leader of the Boko Haram sect, Malam Mohammed Yusuf and his followers. The police chiefs were arraigned on fresh charge ...
Residents of Lugbe community in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) were penultimate week left in awe as they witnessed one of the most vicious love battles ever in the area. This is as what started as a normal girl fight between two friends, Glory and...
Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi has said that the provisions of most laws in the country do not encourage development of several sectors of the nation’s economy. This was even as he gets set to avert workers’ strike over demands for...
Flowing from early last month’s declaration by an Abuja Federal High Court that Hon. Eseme Eyiboh is the rightful Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the primary for Eket/Ibeno/Esit/Onna Federal Constituency of Akwa Ibom State, and subseq...
Minister for Trade and Investment Promotion, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, has blamed the recent allegation by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) suggesting that President Goodluck Jonathan was unsympathetic to the plight of victims of the recent flooding in ...