Each year the BBC awards an outstanding African journalist with the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award and this year's winner is Nigerian journalist Amina Yuguda. The award celebrates the best in African journalism and was created in memory of the BBC’s late colleague Komla Dumor. Yuguda will spend three months
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The wife of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Queen of Ife, Olori Wuraola, has spoken on the reported breakup of their marriage, admitting that she is no longer with her Oba Adeyeye. The ‘Queen’ had remained quiet ever since the news of the crash of the marriage hit
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By JAMES EZEMA Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, was on Thursday honoured as Delta Man of the Year 2017 at the 15th Delta Role Model Awards in recognition of his outstanding performances in office. The Award, an initiative of the Don2dammy Productions in conjunction with the African Child Foundation
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By Amara Okoroafor The federal government is set to organise an audience measurement conference to provide broadcast industry stakeholders the opportunity to contribute to efforts to establish a scientific audience measurement system for the broadcast industry in the country. The minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who disclosed this in Lagos yesterday, at the
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Hope Hicks, 28, may be named President Donald Trump’s White House communications director shortly. But before joining Trump’s campaign, she had no political experience. Hicks was born in Greenwich, a town of 60,000 on the southwest tip of Connecticut that’s a favorite spot for hedge-fund headquarters. She was a model, actress, and
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By NAN Entertainer Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, was on Tuesday rescued by the police at the Wuse market in Abuja but his BMW car was damaged by irate youths. Charly Boy who has been leading a group to demand for the return of President Muhammadu Buhari from London or
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ANIETIE UDOBIT Pratt made his first public appearance since announcing his separation from Anna Faris earlier this month at the ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday ― with his usual wit and charm intact. He skipped the red carpet, but took the stage later in the night to accept the Choice
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-ANIETIE UDOBIT In the September issue of Vogue magazine, the 63-year-old star recalls the one time she and Stedman- her boyfriend of 31 years discussed tying the knot. "Nobody believes it, but it's true. The only time I brought it up was when I said to Stedman, 'What would have happened
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A letter by Queen Elizabeth six days after Princess Diana's death has come to light. The letter from Queen Elizabeth to one of her closest aides, Lady Henriette Abel Smith, a lady in waiting, gives a rare glimpse into the depth of emotion that enveloped the royal family in the wake
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Broadway star Barbara Cook, known for her roles in musicals “The Music Man” and “She Loves Me,” has died. She was 89. The performer died of respiratory failure at her home in Manhattan, New York, on Tuesday morning, her publicist Amanda Kaus confirmed to The Associated Press. Cook’s son, Adam LeGrant,
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