Uber Technologies Inc has launched a bus-booking service in Cairo, Egypt the company’s Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshali said on his first visit to the country as the company aims to tap a sprawling low-income market. The company also announced a new Uber Lite app that, from early next year, will allow users with basic Android […]
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The Federal High Court sitting in Birnin-Kebbi, Kebbi State, on Thursday, remanded the immediate past Governor of the state, Alhaji Usman Dakingari, and two others in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s custody pending the ruling on their bail application on December 10, 2018. The two others are Sunday Dogoyaro and Garba Kamba. The defendants
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David Oyedepo, founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, says he is “dangerously wealthy” and government booty is not part of the source of his wealth. According to New Telegraph, the preacher said this during the opening session of Shiloh 2018, the annual gathering of his church at Otta, Ogun state, Oyedepo said God has blessed
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The 2018 ranking on terrorism is out and Nigeria, for the fourth consecutive year, occupies the third position among the countries worst hit by terrorism, globally, because of the activities of Boko Haram and herdsmen. Apart from 2014 when it was ranked fourth, Nigeria has remained in the unenviable third position in the Global Terrorism
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At least two people were killed and no fewer than 10 injured in an explosion at a petrol station northeast of Rome on Wednesday, firefighters and police said. The blast occurred when a tanker truck carrying flammable liquid was refuelling at the petrol station on the Salaria highway 30 kilometres (18 miles) outside the capital,
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The National Minimum Wage will determine the voting pattern by Nigerian workers in the 2019 general elections, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said. Its General Secretary, Dr Peter Ozo-Eson, spoke in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja. Ozo-Eson said that this was due to the delay by
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The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has alleged that the All Progressives Congress is engaging in vote-buying for as low as N10. The former Vice President tweeted this on Wednesday via his verified Twitter handle, @atiku. In terms of corruption, Nigeria is worse of today than we were in 2014.
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An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday convicted two labourers, Abubakar Abdullahi, 28, and Abdullahi Ibrahim, 22, for stealing cow bones and horns valued at N1.2 million. The police charged Abdullahi and Ibrahim with two counts of conspiracy and stealing. The accused persons pleaded guilty to conspiracy but pleaded not guilty to stealing. ICYMI: Hoodlums abduct lecturers,
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No fewer than five people were abducted by some hoodlums the on Akure/Owo Expressway at Amurin village in Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State. The incident which occured on Tuesday evening was said to have caused panic for the travellers and motorists who plied the expressway. It was gathered that the hoodlums operated for
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US comedian and actor Kevin Hart announced on Tuesday that he would be hosting the 91st Academy Awards in February. “For years I have been asked if I would ever Host the Oscars and my answer was always the same…,” Hart wrote in an Instagram post. “I said that it would be the opportunity of
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