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American tennis legend and 23-time Major champion Serena Williams has been baptized as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses Serena who announced her transition from the tennis court last year September had earlier expressed her desire to focus on her family. The 41-year-old is reputed for her outstanding achievement in her career that spanned over two decades, winning 23 grand slam titles. The legend has undergone Jehovah’s Witness baptism, which is a significant milestone for the 41-year-old tennis legend who recently announced her retirement from the sport. The 23-time Grand Slam winner was baptized on Sunday, January 8, at the Jehovah’s Witness…

The price of household Kerosene, also known as cooking kerosene skyrocketed by over 100 per cent in one year. The latest data from the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics for November showed the average retail price of kerosene per litre rose by about 146 per cent from N441 in November 2021 to N1,083/litre in the corresponding period last year. The report indicated that the average retail price per litre was 4 per cent higher on a month-on-month basis in November 2022 compared to N1,041 recorded in October. On state profile analysis, the highest average price per litre in November 2022 was…

The former Director-General of the Labour Party(LP) Presidential Campaign Council, Doyin Okupe, has been released. He was arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) on Thursday morning at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. Spokesman of the DSS, Dr. Peter Afunanya, who confirmed the arrest, said the former DG was arrested at the instance of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and handed over to them. BREAKING: DSS arrests Obi’s ex-DG Okupe at Lagos airport But Okupe in a tweet a few minutes ago confirmed his release from EFCC custody. He tweeted: “I was arrested & detained @ the…

The former Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Doyin Okupe, has been reportedly arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) at the Muritala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. One of Okupe’s lawyers, Tolu Babaleye, stated this on Facebook on Thursday. Babaleye said Okupe was on his way to London when he was arrested. 2023: DSS DG flips wife’s assault, says politicians after him He claimed that the DSS asked him to provide court processes where he paid the fine option following his money laundering conviction by the Federal High Court, Abuja. “The reason according to the source is…

My PVC was not printed, Actress Angela lamentsActress Angela Eguaveon is saddened over the inability to secure her Permanent Voter’s Card (PVC). The film star literally wailed after subjecting herself to intense stress only to be told at the collection center it couldn’t be printed. Narrating her ordeal, from point of registration and inability to secure her Permanent Voters Card the fatigued Eguaveon said: “I am literally just getting home now. 1.6m PVCs unclaimed in Lagos – INEC “I am extremely exhausted, heartbroken, and pissed because I went through so much stress to get my card registration done and the…

The Government of Ukraine has expressed its readiness to establish grain hubs in Nigeria and other African countries as it donated about 25,000 tonnes of grains to Nigeria to boost bilateral ties. Ukrainian Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, Mr. Mykola Solskyi, made this known on Tuesday in Abuja when he led a delegation that met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama. Solskyi said that the grain from Ukraine would arrive in Nigeria in February under the initiative called ‘Grains from Ukraine’. He said that despite the war with Russia, the Ukrainian food industry wanted to have…

Uganda has declared an end to an Ebola virus outbreak that emerged almost four months ago and claimed the lives of 55 people. “We have successfully controlled the Ebola outbreak in Uganda,” Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng said at a ceremony in the central district of Mubende where the disease was first detected in September. The move was confirmed in a statement issued by the World Health Organization. Aceng said January 11 marked 113 days since the start of the outbreak of the often fatal hemorrhagic fever in the East African country. According to WHO, an outbreak of the disease…

For failing to submit its annual accounts, authorities in the United Kingdom, have struck off Next International (UK) Limited, a company largely owned by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi. It has been reported that the company was removed from the record in September 2021, following a first and second gazette notice of a “compulsory” strike off of the entity. In the UK, a compulsory strike-off is imposed on a company by creditors or by the Companies House for non-submission of annual accounts or failure to notify the Companies House about a change of official registered office…

South African state power utility Eskom said on Tuesday it will implement “Stage 6” rotational power cuts every night from 1600 to 0500 local time (1400 to 0300 GMT) until further notice due to the breakdown of several of its power generating units. Cyril Ramaphosa wins another term – uncertainty beckons for South Africans The “Stage 6” power cuts, the worst outage level on record, require up to 6,000 megawatts to be shed from the national grid and mean at least six hours a day without power for most South Africans.

U.S. flights were slowly beginning to resume departures and a ground stop was lifted after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled to fix a system outage overnight that had forced a halt to all U.S. departing flights. The cause of the problem with a pilot-alerting system, which delayed thousands of flights in the United States, was unclear, but U.S. officials said they had so far found no evidence of a cyberattack. The outage occurred at a historically slow time for U.S. travel after the December holiday travel season, but airlines have said demand remains strong as travel continues to recover…