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Miss USA wins Miss Universe Competition
R’Bonney Gabriel, a fashion designer, model and sewing instructor from Texas who competition officials said is the first Filipino American to win Miss USA, was crowned Miss Universe on Saturday night. Gabriel closed her eyes and clasped hands with runner-up Miss Venezuela, Amanda Dudamel, at the moment of the dramatic reveal of
68 confirmed dead after plane crashes in Nepal
Authorities in Nepal said 68 people have been confirmed dead after a regional passenger plane with 72 aboard crashed into a gorge while landing at a newly opened airport in the resort town of Pokhara. It’s the country’s deadliest airplane accident in three decades. The country’s Civil Aviation Authority posted the announcement
SERAP To Lawan, Gbajabiamila: Cut outrageous N228bn NASS budget or face legal action
Francis Iwuchukwu A Lagos-based rights group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and Speaker of House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, to “promptly cut the outrageous National Assembly budget of N228.1bn, including the N30.17bn severance payments and inauguration costs for members
Armed Forces Day: Obi urges Nigerians to unite against agitations, divisions
Anayo Ezugwu As Nigerians mark the 2023 Armed Forces Remembrance Day, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has called on Nigerians to unite against agitations a d divisions threatening to disintegrate the nation. Speaking at a press conference in Lagos, Obi said Nigerians should continue to
JUST IN: Bandits kill Catholic priest, set parish ablaze in Niger
…CAN condemns attack, asks govt, security agencies to investigate attack Daniel Atori, Minna Bandits in the early hours of Sunday attacked the Catholic Parish house in Kaffin Koro in Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State, killing the Parish Priest and leaving his assistant injured. New Telegraph learnt that the bandits,
Russia Ukraine War: Nigeria now highest exporter of urea/fertilizers
*Earned $4.8bn from 214 products in 2022 Abdulwahab Isa, Abuja Nigeria has appropriated the advantage offered by the Russia-Ukraine war to emerge the highest exporter of urea/fertilisers in 2022, netting over $4.820 billion from about 214 non-oil products it exported last year. Of the 214 non-oil products Nigeria exported, urea/fertilizers topped the
Sen Kalu: I won’t criticise Abia governor in public
Senator Oji Uzor Kalu is the Senator Chief Whip and represents Abia North in the National Assembly. In this interview on Channels Television, he reminisces on his tenure as Governor of Abia State and other political issues ahead of the 2023 elections Between 1999 and 2007, you were the Governor of Abia State, a
EPL: Ex English refs chief, Keith Hackett, slams Rashford decision
*Insists United star was ‘interfering with an opponent’ *City’s Akanji backs Hackett’s position Former English referees chief Keith Hackett said there was “no doubt” Marcus Rashford was interfering with an opponent. “To allow Bruno Fernandes’s goal to stand is a total nonsense. If we do not call that offside, then the offside law
Gunmen kidnap wife of NNPC staff in Osun
Ayobami Agboola, Osogbo Some unknown armed men have reportedly kidnapped a 51-year-old woman, Mrs Oluwatoyin Gbemisola Ojo in Osogbo, the Osun State capital. It was learnt that the woman was abducted on Friday, at her residence located in Landero Street Technical College Area Osogbo around 10:30 pm and taken
Russia fires new waves of missiles at Ukraine
*Hits energy infrastructure Russia launched fresh waves of missile attacks across Ukraine on Saturday, killing at least 12 people in a strike on an apartment block in the eastern city of Dnipro. A number of other cities, including Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa, were also hit, reports the BBC. Much of Ukraine is now
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