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Rupert Murdoch is engaged to marry again

Lagos, March 8, 2024 – Within a year of calling off his last wedding, nonagenarian billionaire Rupert Murdoch has popped the question to another partner, months after they started dating. The former News Corp chairman’s media representative confirmed the news to CNN on Friday, just days before the billionaire’s 93rd birthday next Monday. It’s the second time Murdoch has been engaged in a year. Last March, the media titan announced plans to marry Ann Lesley Smith, a former dental hygienist and conservative radio host. But the wedding was called off weeks later. This …

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Most Americans feel they pay too much in taxes, AP-NORC poll finds

New York, Jan. 28, 2024 – A majority of American taxpayers feel they pay too much in taxes, with many saying that they receive a poor value in return, according to a new poll from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Two-thirds of U.S. taxpayers say they spend “too much” on federal income taxes, as tax season begins. About 7 in 10 say the same about local property taxes, while roughly 6 in 10 feel that way about state …

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Ecobank sets to host second edition of “Adire Lagos Experience”

Lagos, May 30, 2023 – All is now set for the second edition of Adire Lagos Experience being hosted annually by Ecobank Nigeria. The bank said it was impressed and motivated by the phenomenal success of the maiden edition held last year. The three-day exhibition with the theme “Adire Lagos Experience”, will take place at the ultra-modern Ecobank Pan African Centre (EPAC) complex on the highbrow, Victoria Island, Lagos from Friday, June 9 till Sunday, June 11, 2023, from 1200 noon daily. Announcing the second edition in Lagos, Korede Demola-Adeniyi, Head, Consumer Banking …

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Headmistress guilty of sexually abusing sisters in Australian school

Melbourne (Australia), April 4, 2023 – A former headmistress was found guilty on Monday of sexually assaulting two sisters at an ultra-orthodox Jewish school in Australia, 15 years after she escaped arrest by fleeing to Israel. Malka Leifer was guilty on 18 charges, the jury said, including raping a student during a sleep-over and sexually assaulting another teenage pupil during a school camp. She was cleared of a further nine charges. Leifer was the principal of the Adass Israel School in Melbourne when she was first accused of sexual assault …

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Goodluck Jonathan receives African Democracy award

Kigali (Rwanda), April 4, 2023 – Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, has received the African Democracy and Peace Icon Award in Rwanda. Jonathan and some other African leaders were honoured at the maiden edition of the African Heritage Concert and Awards held in Kigali, Rwanda on Saturday, April 1. The Nigerian High Commissioner to Rwanda, Ambassador Suleiman San, was present at the event. A press release on Monday by the organisers, Heritage Times, said the event was held to celebrate and honour African greats who had distinguished themselves in their …

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Six dead in US shooting

Lagos, Feb. 18, 2023 – Six people were killed on Friday in a shooting rampage in a rural area of the southern US state of Mississippi, local media reported. Police said a man who is now in custody shot a person at a store in the small town of Arkabutla, and then went to a nearby house and killed a woman, according to media in nearby Memphis, Tennessee. The man then drove his car to another home, believed to be his residence where he killed two more, according to local …

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90-year-old wins 2022 Gani Fawehinmi Impact, Integrity Awards

Award By Peter EjioforLagos, Dec.12, 2022 – A nonagenarian, Pa Muibi Shonubi, has emerged the winner of the 2022 Gani Fawehinmi Outstanding Integrity Award (OIA) from among the three persons nominated in that category of the awards staged annually by Lagos-based Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) Resource Centre.. The other nominees in the Integrity category are Ibadan-based Victoria A. Samson and Ebun-Olu Adegoruwa, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), who were also honoured with certificates at the event in Lagos on Saturday. The awards are organised in collaboration with …

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I sacrificed everything for Meghan Markle – Harry

Prince Harry has said he “sacrificed everything” to be a part of his wife, Meghan Markle’s world. The prince said this in his newly released explosive Netflix docuseries ‘Harry and Meghan’ aired on Thursday. Harry said Meghan gave up her freedom and everything she ever knew to join him in his world of royalty, adding that when the time came he did the same to join her in her world. The prince said, “She (Meghan) sacrificed everything she ever knew, the freedom that she had, to join me in my …