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“I am now on antidepressants and being here alone, I have nobody to talk to. For over two months, I’ve barely eaten or slept and I don’t understand why this is being meted out to us; we didn’t do anything wrong,” the BBC quoted Nigerian student in the UK, Esther Obigwe, as saying. Obigwe is…

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Dr Shaibu Husseini, the Executive Director of the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), says the Federal Government has approved the prohibition of money rituals and glamourising of vices in Nigerian films. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Husseini disclosed this at a National Stakeholders Engagement on Smoke-Free Nollywood held in Enugu…

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The police said on Wednesday that divers were battling to recover the body of a 30-year-old man who allegedly drowned at Elegushi Beach, Lagos, where he had gone for prayers. The Lagos Police Command spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. He said that a report to the police…

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Alabi Oluwafemi has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for raping an eight-year-old girl in 1999 at Ikere Ekiti, Ekiti State. The victim, during her testimony, recounted how Oluwafemi, the defendant, who was also her teacher and neighbour at the time, sexually assaulted her. “The defendant was my teacher and our neighbour. He touched…

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The Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, has signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the National Talent Export Programme (NATEP) and UTEL Ltd, a Nigerian subsidiary of Unique Agency Kuwait to boost employment for Nigerians, especially in the diaspora. Speaking at the signing of the MoU, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment,…