Day: March 4, 2025

Dolly Parton loses husband

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Carl Dean, the husband of Dolly Parton, died Monday aged 82, the country music superstar said, after nearly 60 years of marriage kept out of the spotlight despite the singer’s chart-topping fame. “Carl and I spent many wonderful years together. Words can’t do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years,” Parton wrote in a post on X. The singer-songwriter and actor met Dean in 1964 outside the Wishy Washy Laundromat in Nashville, Tennessee on the day she moved to the country music capital. She was 18 and…

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Obasa reinstated as speaker of Lagos Assembly, Meranda becomes deputy

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Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday, re-elected its embattled former speaker, Mr. Mudashiru Obasa. This followed the resignation of Mrs. Mojisola Meranda. Obasa’s re-election by his colleagues followed a series of interventions by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, both at the national and state levels. Though there were speculations that the reinstated Speaker may resign, it was gathered that a strategic meeting that led to the resolution of the crisis in the Assembly reined in the anti-Obasa lawmakers. A source familiar with the crisis…

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Man arrested for killing mother with pestle

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20-year-old Safiyanu Dalhatu has been arrested by the Bauchi State Police Command for allegedly beating his mother to death. This was disclosed in a press release issued on Tuesday by the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakil. He explained that, “On February 24, 2025, Peace and Security Committee members in the Abujan Kwata area of Bauchi reported an incident to the ‘A’ Divisional Police Headquarters. “At about 3pm, Safiyanu Dalhatu, a 20-year-old male resident of Abujan Kwata, allegedly assaulted his biological mother, Salama Abdullahi, a 40-year-old female of the…

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