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A 47-year-old man has been stabbed to death on the property of the Oyotunji African Village in Beaufort County, a county in the U.S. state of South Carolina, on Monday. The victim, identified as Adegbolu Abiogemo Adefunmi, was a prominent figure in the community, known as the King of Yoruba in North America. A 53-year-old…
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President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday extended his condolences to the family of the late Ms Onyeka Onwenu. “Onwenu was a singer, songwriter, actor, journalist, activist, and politician,” the President said in a statement by his spokesman, Chief Ajuri Ngelale. The President said her edifying and mellifluous rendition, ‘One Love,’ in the 1990s evoked a fervour…
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Few hours to the planned nationwide, #EndBadGovernanceinNigeria protest, the caretaker committee chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Tony Okocha, has called on youths in the state to shun the protest, warning that the protest may be hijacked by bad elements. Okocha said that while people have the constitutional right to protest, hoodlums may hijack the…
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The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has said it recorded N20.48 trillion as total pension fund assets in June. This is according to PenCom’s 2024 June monthly report. According to the report the figure represents an increase of N256.76 billion to the N20.22 trillion recorded in May. The unaudited report on the pension funds industry portfolio…
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The United States (US) embassy in Nigeria has said it is moving to a new visa services provider on August 26, 2024. A statement on its official website on Wednesday showed that the movement will affect both the US embassy in Abuja and the US Consulate General in Lagos. The US embassy, however, stated that…