Kellyrae becomes BBNaija S9 winner

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Kingsley ‘Kellyrae’ Sule has been crowned the winner of the ninth season of Big Brother Naija, after ten weeks of intense drama, strategies, and games. Kelly won against Wanni Danbaki, who came close second with 3.47% vote difference and Onyeka emerging as the second runner up at the BBNaija season 9 finale on Sunday, October 6, 2024. The professional singer who hails from Delta State will be going home with N100M worth of prizes consisting of N60 million cash prize and a brand new SUV. He won the season after…

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Increase in interest rate painful for borrowers, necessary to control inflation – CBN

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Olayemi Cardoso, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has described the decision to raise the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) to 27.25 percent as a bold move. According to him, higher interest rates, “while painful for borrowers, are necessary to curb excess money in circulation and control inflation.” He noted that leadership is about making hard choices to secure long-term stability over short-term comfort “in moments like these.” Cardoso spoke in Lagos at the weekend while addressing members of the Harvard Club of Nigeria on the topic ‘Leadership…

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Rivers LG elections: Fubara swears in LG chairmen as Wike camp heads for court

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The Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress factions in Rivers State on Sunday rejected the conduct and outcome of the local government election held in the state on Saturday. The Rivers PDP loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, described the poll as an exercise in futility, vowing to challenge it in court. The Wike camp said this as the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, swore in the newly elected council chairmen of the 23 local government areas of the state. The exercise was…

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‘OOU CLASS 2008’ Law Alumni celebrate as Ademola Abimbola emerges 2nd SAN of the class

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Law Alumni Association of Olabisi Onabanjo University (2008/2009 ) affectionately tagged, Brave 600+ is felicitating again with one of their own, Ademola Abimbola, SAN MCIarb. The felicitation is at the instance of his conferment and award as the second SAN of the class of Olabisi Onabanjo University Law Alumni 2008/2009. He has again beamed the torch of the set and by this great achievement, thereby placing the set at the forefront as a theatrical spectacle to the legal profession and indeed the world at large. In a statement released by…

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Tinubu confers GCON on Speaker after Rep’s protest

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In response to the protest of members of the house of Representatives, President Bola Tinubu has conferred the nation’s second highest national honour, the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger, on the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas. In his 64th Independence Anniversary Speech on 1 October, President Tinubu conferred the Commander of the Federal Republic( CFR) on the speaker and the deputy senate president. This development led to a debate in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, calling on the President to confer a higher…

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Former Nigeria goalkeeper, Dosu escapes death again in ghastly accident

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Dosu Joseph, former Nigeria goalkeeper, has again survived another life-threatening automobile accident on Wednesday at Kara, along the Lagos-Ibadan Express Way, where a heavy-duty truck ran into his SUV. Narrating his ordeal, the 51-year-old, who guided Nigeria to gold in the Men’s Football Tournament of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, broke the news in a statement on his social media handles on Friday. “To God be the glory, another death escaped by Grace and Mercy of God. Me and my friend SM were at Enyo Filling Station after Ojodu Berger…

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Internet fraud: Siblings, 33 others sentenced to jail over internet fraud

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The Economic and Financial Crime Commission, Oyo zone, has secured the convictions of two siblings, Adedeji Adeboye and Adedamola Adeboye, and 33 others for involvement in internet-related fraud at the Oyo State High Court, Ibadan. This was disclosed in a statement and pictures shared on the X.com page of the anti-graft agency on Friday. According to the statement, the convicts were tried before Justices Ladiran Akintola, Bayo Taiwo, and O.S. Adeyemi of the Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan. The statement reads, ” The Ibadan Zonal Directorate of the…

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Police arrest suspected serial killer in Ogun

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A 29-year-old man, Ogunnaike Philip, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command on suspicion of killing at least three young girls, including an 18-year-old, in separate incidents across the state. The command stated that the suspect’s method was to lure his victims into the forest, where he would tie them up, strangle them, and then abandon their bodies after stealing their phones. According to the command, investigations revealed that the suspect is a suspected serial killer who escaped from the Ibara Correctional Centre about two years ago while…

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Another Hamas commander, wife, two daughters killed by Israel’s strike

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Hamas, Palestinian militant group, has said an Israeli strike has killed one of its commanders in a refugee camp in north Lebanon Saturday, the first time the area had been hit since the start of the Gaza war. “Commander” Saeed Attallah Ali, his wife and two daughters were killed in “Zionist bombardment of his house in the Beddawi camp” near the northern city of Tripoli, it said. Israel has repeatedly targeted Hamas officials in Lebanon since the Gaza war erupted almost a year ago. Hamas has announced the deaths of…

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Explosion rocks Rivers APC secretariat as LG poll holds

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Explosives suspected to be dynamite shattered the secretariat of the All Progressives Congress along Aba Road in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, in the early hours of Saturday. The explosion brought down the gate of the secretariat while doors, windows and other property were destroyed. This is the second time the Chief Tony Okocha-led APC would be experiencing such an attack at its secretariat this year. This came as the local government elections is holding in the state today as the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission said on Friday that…

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