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Port Harcourt City Cake Exhibition... Evelyn Asoluka Own Of Peace Land Cakes, Brought together a team of professional facilitators in cake making and catering business. For an exhibition and workshop in Port Harcourt to showcase and to teach her audience the right way of baking and cooking various type of dishes, snacks, cake and many more. At the exhibition ground we have numerous vendors who also came to showcase the businesses, such cake making and catering utensils. The students who came from various locations in Port Harcourt expresses their joy on how much they have learnt from the exhibition. The venue for the exhibition was filled up. 

At least 40 people have been killed in another attack in Niger, when a group of armed assailants ravaged several villages in the Tahoua region near the border with Mali, the government said on Monday. Government spokesperson Abdoulraman Zakaria said on Monday that soldiers were sent to the region and fought the attackers. It was not known who was behind the attack. Numerous armed groups are active in Niger and in neighbouring Sahel countries. Some have sworn allegiance to the Islamic State, while others are linked to al-Qaeda. The government has little control over the desert areas outside the cities, a situation which is exploited by jihadist groups and criminal networks such as people smugglers. In the Mali border region, there have been recurring attacks. On March 16, at least 58 people were killed in an attack on market traders in the region of Tillaberi, the government said. Niger has also seen demonstrations after the recent presidential election. At the end of Februa...

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The lawmaker representing Osun West Senatorial District, Adelere Oriolowo on Sunday escaped an assassination attempt by suspected political thugs during a constituency meeting in Osun State. The Nation  gathered that Senator Oriolowo was at the All Progressives Congress (APC) constituency meeting which was organised by Osun West party members at Ikire, the headquarters of Irewole Local Government Area, Osun State when some thugs with cutlasses and other weapons invaded the meeting to launch an attack. The scene caused uproar as the security details of the senator prevented the thugs from attacking Senator Oriolowo. It was learnt that he was whisked away for safety as the thugs attacked other party members at the meeting. The senator, in a Facebook post, confirmed the attack saying, “Just escaped an Assassination attempt on my life and that of my entourage. To God be the glory, we are safe and alive. God is my helper, my shelter and my fortress, I fear no evil. – AAO” Wh...

politics, Edo A middle-aged man in Edo state, identified as David, has reportedly abandoned his wife and three children at a Point of Sale (POS) shop, after collecting N43,000 from the operator. The incident occurred on Saturday at Oluku, near Benin City, the Edo state capital. It was gathered that the man went to the POS shop with his wife and three children, gave his ATM card to the female attendant and requested to withdraw the sum of N43,000. A witness related that following several attempts to effect the withdrawal failed, the man asked the POS attendant to give him the money, while his family and the attendant continue try the withdrawal. “The man pleaded with the POS attendant to give him the money first, as he had to sort out an urgent matter. “He left his wife and three children behind as an assurance that he would return soon. “After giving him the money, the attendant tried to withdraw the money from his account several times, but the transaction failed,” the sou...

SEARCH Published   on   January 10, 2021 By  Matthew Godpower Ido A former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Babangida Nguroje, has lost two of his sisters, Hajiya Hadiza and Zainab in road accident. Hadiza’s husband and four kids also perished in the ghastly road accident. And President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the ugly incident in statement signed by his Spokesman, Garba Shehu. The President, in a condolence message on Sunday, prayed to Allah comfort those they left behind. Buhari, said, “I am lost for words to describe such multiple deaths in a single car accident in which family members perished.” He said he got the news of the tragedy “with deep shock and grief, and wish to express my heartfelt sympathy and solidarity with you at this trying and painful moment.” Buhari further asked God to forgive the gentle souls of the deceased persons.

Malam Abba Kyari, the Chief of Staff to president Muhammadu Buhari, who returned to Nigeria from Germany on March 14, had participated in several state functions and unofficial engagements that attracted prominent personalities. He tested positive to coronavirus (COVID-19) yesterday. He had attended events involving President Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, many governors, ministers and other top government functionaries before the result of the test. It was gathered that yesterday’s confirmation that Kyari tested positive to COVID-19 necessitated the subsequent test on President Muhammadu Buhari, which turned out to be negative. Shortly on his arrival on March 14, Kyari attended the wedding of the son of the Inspector General of Police, Muhammad Adamu. Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari (3rd left) and Minister of Power, Engr. Sale Mamman (2nd right) with Siemens officials, during their visit to Munich in Germany on March 9. Other shots show Kyari consoling...

Prince Charles has tested positive for coronavirus. Clarence House confirmed that the 71-year-old royal had been diagnosed with the COVID-19 disease in a statement released this morning. The heir to the throne is said to have displayed "mild symptoms" but "otherwise remains in good health", and has been self-isolating in Scotland with the Duchess of Cornwall - who has tested negative for the coronavirus. "The Prince of Wales has tested positive for coronavirus," the statement said. "He has been displaying mild symptoms but otherwise remains in good health and has been working from home throughout the last few days as usual. "The Duchess of Cornwall has also been tested but does not have the virus. In accordance with government and medical advice, the Prince and the Duchess are now self-isolating at home in Scotland. "The tests were carried out by the NHS in Aberdeenshire where they met the criteria required for testing.

Reports making rounds online have it that a popular food vendor from Ughelli, Nigeria’s Delta State was burnt into ashes by an angry mob following accusations that she uses water from the mortuary to prepare her food. The woman nicknamed ‘Mama Aroma’ is reported to be notorious in the area for preparing delicious meals that are in high demand. Before her alleged death, the food vendor reportedly sold her Banga rice on a truck in the market where people form long queues to patronise her services. According to local media reports, a mortuary worker who had been seeing her come to the mortuary at night to fetch the water which has been used to bath dead bodies decided to monitor her to ascertain what she uses it for. ‘Mama Aroma’ got into trouble when the said mortuary man followed her to her joint in the market and raised an alarm, prompting the youth to subject her to instant injustice. It is further reported that some residents who had consumed her food pounced on her and beat her up...

Packaging food in polythene bags causes cancer – NAFDAC The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) has warned that polythene bags popularly known as nylon causes cancer. It appealed to Nigerians to stop using the materials for food packaging. Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, the Director-General of NAFDAC spoke in a chat with journalists on Monday in Abuja. “Packaging of pap in nylon is not encouraging; green leaves are all over the place, leaf is the best thing to use for packaging item and it must be clean”, she said. “Nylon is not good for packaging hot food because the heat will make the nylon leak chemicals, it must be discouraged.” The DG explained that plastic materials usually have Bisphenol A (BPA) which can cause cancer. “We are doing a study in our labs on different packaging of food, especially on nylon. The outcome will be out shortly,’’ Adeyeye assured. She further cautioned against the use of aspirin to purify water, saying this amounts ...

The despicable white supremacist event “Unite the Right” in Charlottesville, Virginia, has the nation in an uproar after things turned violent and one innocent person was left dead. Across the country, intense discussions about race have dominated the media landscape and flooded Twitter and Facebook as people try to heal and understand this weekend's violent events. Things were no different on CNN. Host Chris Cuomo welcomed contributor Symone Sanders and former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to discuss the white nationalist march and President Donald Trump's response. Things got off the rail almost instantly. Cuccinelli insisted that the statue of Robert E. Lee was an excuse to bring various racist groups together but kept getting interrupted by Sanders. He finally snapped: “Can I finish, Symone? Can you just shut up for a moment?” Screenshot/CNN Never one to back down, she shot back furiously: “You don’t get to tell me to shut up on national television. I’m s...

People who listened to President Donald Trump’s remarks after North Korea threatened to launch nuclear missiles at the US in the event of an American strike — in which Trump threatened that North Korean aggression would “be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen” — might be forgiven for thinking that the president’s language sounded a little biblical. A short time after Trump spoke Tuesday afternoon, one of his closest religious advisers made that link explicit. In a statement emailed to journalists Tuesday afternoon, pastor Robert Jeffress praised Trump’s aggressive statement as a function of divine will. "When it comes to how we should deal with evil doers, the Bible, in the book of Romans, is very clear: God has endowed rulers full power to use whatever means necessary — including war — to stop evil. In the case of North Korea, God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong-Un.” Jeffress has long been one of Trump’s political allies, one central to Trump an...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has condemned a song he said wished the people of Igbo ethnic group dead, warning that the country should not be allowed to slide into genocide like Rwanda. Mr. Atiku said the song currently circulating in some parts of Nigeria could trigger a major crisis as happened in Rwanda. Hundreds of thousands of Rwandans were killed in an inter-ethnic conflict between the Hutus and Tutsis, two major groups in the East African country in 1984, following the death of that country’s president in a plane crash. In a statement released by his media office, which he personally signed and titled, “Nigeria Does Not Need a Rwandan Deja vu”, Mr. Atiku urged all Nigerians to condemn what he said was “reminiscent of the beginning of the Rwandan Genocide.” The former president called on the security agencies to fish out and bring to trial those responsible for the song. He did not give further details of the song he was referring to. “It has come to my attention th...

A return visit to Akamili, Umudim in Nnewi, the home town of the dreaded kidnap kingpin, Mr. Chidumeme Onwuamadike, a.k.a Evans, has revealed that a magnificent property in the maiden home compound of his mother, Mrs. Chinwe Onwuamadike, was built by the mother. •The magnificent property Inset: Mrs. Chinwe Onwuamadike And following the large number of people trouping into a directive has been given by leaders of the community to their people not to answer further questions from visitors concerning Evans and his family. The village had become a Mecca of sort since the arrest of Evans at his Magodo residence in Lagos, as visitors have been going to the area for one inquiry or the other. Two days after the arrest of Evans, people in the area, who were asked for the direction of the home of the Onwuamadikes freely provided the needed information and some even volunteered to take the visitors to the compound. But on noticing the increasing number of people coming to the community a...

The Police in Borno on Wednesday confirmed the killing of three suspected female suicide bombers after a failed attack near Maiduguri. Mr Victor Isuku, the spokesman for the command made the confirmation in a statement in Maiduguri. “Today at about 17.55hours, three female suicide bombers, suspected to have been conveyed by motorcycle and dropped at a distance to Mamanti village in Molai area, were sighted and intercepted by vigilant security operatives. “In the process, they hurriedly detonated explosives strapped to their bodies, killing themselves only’’, Isuku said. He said that a team from the Police Explosive Ordinance Department was promptly drafted to the scene to sanitise the area and restore normalcy, adding there was no civilian casualty. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the police had confirmed the killing of three suspected suicide bombers after a foiled attack at the University of Maiduguri on May 19. NAN also reports that  police on May 20 co...

A  South Korean  military court has sentenced an army captain to a suspended prison term for  having sex with a fellow male soldier  in a ruling human rights groups criticised as regressive and intimidating.  A lawyer for the captain said her client was being punished for having consensual sex with his partner in a private space. She said the captain was briefly treated at a hospital for shock following his conviction.  “It's a ridiculous ruling,” said lawyer Kim In-sook. She said the military penal code, which makes homosexual activity punishable by up to two years in prison, was unconstitutional because it tramples on basic human rights and dignity. South Korea's military, which doesn't reveal how often it pursues cases against soldiers suspected of being gay, didn't immediately make a statement.  Kim said it's unclear whether her client would appeal his six month prison sentence that was suspended by a year because he felt tormented by...

US. Officials have reportedly drawn fire from their British counterparts for disclosing the identity of the Manchester suicide bomber before he was officially named by the U.K. police. Various news media—including U.K. outlets—named 22-year-old Salman Abedi as the suicide bomber who attacked the Manchester Arena citing "U.S. officials" as their source. But the British government and the Greater Manchester police both refused to confirm his identity until about two hours after his name was first published, the  Guardian   reports . More:   What to Know About Salman Abedi, Suspected Manchester Suicide Attacker The latest leaks come amid intense scrutiny of U.S. intelligence sharing following President Donald Trump's apparent disclosure of classified information—later revealed to have come from Israel—to visiting Russian officials. Interviewed on BBC Radio 4's current affairs show the  Today Program  on Wednesday morning, U.K. Home Secretary Amber Rudd...

Several countries around the Middle East,  most recently Iran , have held pivotal elections over the past few months. But, there is another important election in the next year to watch for: the Egyptian presidential election in the summer of 2018. Current President Abdelfattah El Sisi is nearing the end of his first term. Sisi first took power following the removal of President Mohammed Morsi in a July 2013 coup and rose to the presidency in a virtually uncontested election in May 2014. For many observers and critics, the election was a sham.  Sisi won with over 96% of the vote  against contender, Hamdeen Al Sabahi ( who openly praised El Sisi himself, even as he was campaigning ). The manipulation of election results is an old practice that has continued in Sisi’s Egypt. During the lead up to the referendum on a new constitution in January 2014, media supportive of the Egyptian state pushed  an overwhelming campaign in favor of a “yes” vote . Those ad...