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Fashion lovers all over the world can once again look forward to an unparalleled fashion experience as the 2nd edition of the GTBank Fashion weekend is set to hold on the 11th and 12thof November, 2017. The two-day event will treat attendees to an enthralling journey across a wide variety of Africa’s finest styles and trends whilst offering small businesses in the Nigerian Fashion Industry a free and vibrant platform to connect with a wider segment of their consumers as well as experts in their industry. The GTBank Fashion weekend is a free business platform that was created by foremost…

Pityful a rethoric question ran over her cheek When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown Bookmarksgrove, the headline of Alphabet Village and the subline of her own road, the Line Lane. Throw myself down teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects and flies, then I feel the presence of the Almighty,…

British Prime Minister Theresa May has rebuked US President Donald Trump for claiming suspects in Friday’s London train blast were known to Scotland Yard in a series of terror tweets. “I never think it’s helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation,” she said. Mr Trump described the attackers in a tweet as “loser terrorists” and “sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard”. The bomb rocked a London Underground train on Friday, injuring 22 people. READ: Buhari heads to New York for UN General Assembly In Friday morning’s tweets, Mr Trump appeared…

Abia State Government has extended the curfew it imposed on Aba, the commercial nerve centre of the state following the face-off between the Indigenous People of Biafra, led by Nnamdi Kanu, and the Nigerian Army. The initial order was for the curfew to last till Thursday (yesterday) before it was extended till Friday (today). But the latest announcement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Enyinnaya Appolos, said the curfew has been extended till Sunday – 6pm to 6am. Meanwhile, resumption of schools has been moved from September 18 to September 25. The statement by Appolos, with the…

President Muhammadu Buhari departs Abuja on Sunday for New York, to join other world leaders at the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 72). The high point of the President’s visit will be his participation in the General Debate during which he will deliver the country’s National Statement. The theme for this year’s Debate is: “Focusing on People: Striving for Peace and a Decent Life for All on a Sustainable Planet.” President Buhari will join other world leaders at the welcoming reception to be hosted by the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, and also hold a bilateral…

A 37-Year-old HIV Positive man from Uganda was on Tuesday morning arrested for allegedly defiling his 11-year-old twin daughter. Salongo Christopher Kityo, a fisherman operating at Gerenge landing site, in Nalugala Parish, Katabi Town Council was allegedly caught in the act by his 26-year-old wife Lydia Namiiro, after she had just returned home from a vigil in the wee hours of Tuesday morning to find Kityo drunk and stark naked. According to New Vision UG, the victim narrated to her mother Namiiro, the ordeal she suffered from her father. Shocked by the findings, she immediately informed one of the security…

At least 20 people are injured in Tube terror attack as home-made bucket bomb sends ‘fireball flying down train carriage’ amid reports of ‘second device’ and attacker is on the run. An explosion on a Tube train at the height of rush hour today sent a ‘wall’ of fire through the carriage injuring at least 20 people in a suspected terror attack. Terrified commuters ‘ran for their lives’ and were seen covered in blood with scorched faces and hair after the incident at Parsons Green station in west London at 8.20am. Read Also 30 dead in Lagos-Ibadan highway auto crash…

Reacting to the threat by labor to go on an indefinite strike in Kogi State, the Director General on Media and Publicity to the Governor, Kingsley Fanwo said, “All measures will be put in place to ensure workers continue to carry out their legitimate duties to the people of the state. “We received a letter from some people, who claimed to be speaking for our workforce. None of the signatories to the letter was a civil servant. “This is a clear departure from the communications we have had with the organized labor. “Labour in the state has known leaders that…

National Publicity Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC), Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, said the party had not asked Women Affairs Minister, Senator Aisha Alhassan, to resign over her recent comments in the media. He also said that her appearance at the party’s National Secretariat, Abuja, on Thursday, was not on a summon. The minister, who had been in the eye-of-the-storm over her comment on her choice of presidential aspirant for the 2019 election, had a closed-door meeting with the party’s leadership at the secretariat. She had reportedly said that she would support former Vice President Atiku Abubakar if he showed interest…

At least 30 persons have been confirmed dead following an auto crash on the Lagos-Ibadan highway on Thursday night. Spokesman of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Bisi Kazeem, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday. Kazeem said the accident occurred at about 8:00 p.m. at Km 95 around the Elebolo Quary Area on the Ibadan axis of the road. According to him, 10 other persons were injured in the crash involving 40 persons and two Mazda buses. READ: Nigeria annual inflation drops to 16.01% “The crash occurred at a construction site,…