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Iranian who inspired The Terminal film dies at Paris airport
An Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport and whose saga loosely inspired the Steven Spielberg film The Terminal has died in the airport that he long called home. Mehran Karimi Nasseri, 76, died on Saturday after a heart attack in the airport’s Terminal 2F around midday, according to an official with the Paris…
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Nollywood actor, Ninalowo explains how he lost wife due to infidelity
Nollywood actor, Bolanle Ninalowo said he lost his wife when he cheated on her. The movie star made this known when he opened up on his past marital struggles #With Chide, by Chude Jideonwo, the media personality. The actor said though he later overcame it, but regret that at the early stage of their marriage, he did not provide the…
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Buhari, Obi, Oshiomhole to commission Wike’s projects in Rivers
President Muhammadu Buhari, Presidential Candidate of Labour Party Peter Obi and former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress Adams Oshiomhole have all been invited by Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike to commission some projects completed by his administration in the state. Wike also invited the Emir of Kano Ado Bayero, Chief Justice of the Federation Justice Olukayode Ariwoola and…
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Two WW 2 planes collide in mid-air at Dallas air show
Two vintage World War 2-era planes have collided and crashed at an air show in the US state of Texas, killing six people. Footage shows the aircraft striking each other at a low altitude, breaking one of the aircraft in half. A fireball can be seen as it hits the ground. The planes – one of them a Boeing B-17…
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Zulum re-opens Gamboru cattle market 7 years after closure
Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State on Saturday reopened Gamboru International cattle market which was closed for about seven years as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency. The market is located in Gamboru, a commercial border town in Ngala Local Government Area in Borno Central. Gamboru shares border with Cameroon and has land routes to N’Djamena, the capital…
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COP27 and the Osinbajo debt-for-climate swap deal, By Simbo Olorunfemi
In the last few years, the world has begun a more definitive transition from the place of cynicism and misunderstanding about the issue of climate change to that of warmer realisation, if not wholesome acceptance, of the reality of the phenomenon as a significant threat. But then, even in the face of a whittling down of opposition against the science…
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Credible journalism can influence credible elections – Danbatta
As the campaigns and build-up to the 2023 general elections thicken, the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, has said that the media holds the ace in making a difference in promoting credible elections in Nigeria. Danbatta told the gathering of the cream of Nigerian editors at the 18th All-Nigeria Editors Conference, organised by…
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Waiting for NLNG to act responsibly, By Yemi Adebowale
It is almost six weeks since the Senate directed the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited to pay N18.4 billion compensation to 73 host communities and 200 families in Bonny, Rivers State, within two months, for acquiring their land and for the loss of the affected land to their pipelines’ Right of Way. It is so sad that nothing concrete…
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Governor Okowa’s nauseating lies on Arise TV, By Emmanuel Olugua
On an Arise TV video that’s gone viral, Delta State governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, dorns a fashionable suit whose top buttons the average pensioner, the pensions of whom he ignored until the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, called him out, definitely cannot afford. On the video, he makes spurious, unfounded and unverifiable claims that he has restored the peace…
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Democrats keep control of U.S. Senate, crush Republican ‘red wave’ hopes
Democrats held onto control of the U.S. Senate, handing a major victory to President Joe Biden and extinguishing hopes of the “red wave” that Republicans had expected leading into the midterm elections. Biden – who struggled with low approval ratings ahead of Tuesday’s elections, partly due to public frustration over inflation – said the late Saturday outcome made him look…
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