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2 months ago | 
platformsafrica.com | Abibat Babalola
Afrobeats singer Tems has scored her second golden gramophone at the Grammys with a win in the Best African Music Performance category. Tems accepts award for Best African Music Performance for “Love Me JeJe” onstage during the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony at Peacock Theater on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
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2 months ago | 
platformsafrica.com | Adeola Yusuf |Abibat Babalola
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2 months ago | 
platformsafrica.com | Ganiyu Amodu |Abibat Babalola
Popular actor, Lateef Adedimeji, has built a reputation for his versatility, seamlessly transitioning between intense emotional roles, comedic characters, and action-packed performances. However, his journey to stardom was anything but accidental. In an interview with Saturday Beats, the actor stated that his initial strategy involved being known for crying in movies. He said, “When I set out to carve a niche for myself, I started with crying—I would cry like an idiot.
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2 months ago | 
platformsafrica.com | Ganiyu Amodu |Abibat Babalola
A former President of Germany, Horst Koehler, who served as head of state from 2004 to 2010, is dead. Koehler died on Saturday at the age of 81 after a brief illness, officials in the presidency announced. “Koehler passed away early this morning in Berlin after a short, serious illness surrounded by his family”, the German presidency noted in a statement.
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2 months ago | 
platformsafrica.com | Abibat Babalola |Ganiyu Amodu
Former governor of Osun State, Bisi Akande, has revealed that former President Muhammadu Buhari wasn’t comfortable having his Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, go head-to-head with President Bola Tinubu for the sole presidential ticket at the 2022 primaries of the All Progressives Congress. The pioneer national chairman of the APC disclosed this on a podcast anchored by a popular broadcaster, Edmund Obilo.
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2 months ago | 
platformsafrica.com | Abibat Babalola |Ganiyu Amodu
A district head in the Zazzau emirate council of Kaduna State slumped at an occasion, on Thursday, and later died at the Gambo Sawaba General Hospital, Kofar gayan Zaria. The Sarkin Yakin Zazzau, Alhaji Rilwan Yahaya Pate, slumped attending an occasion along with the Emir of Zazzau, Mallam Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli. Confirming the incident in a statement, Abdullahi Aliyu Kwarbai, the Media and Publicity officer of the Zazzau.
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2 months ago | 
platformsafrica.com | Abibat Babalola |Ganiyu Amodu
A witness identified as prosecution witness D has testified in the ongoing trial of Tukur Mamu, the publisher of Desert Herald newspaper, at the federal high court in Abuja. The masked witness was led in evidence on Thursday by David Kaswe, a lawyer to the attorney-general of the federation (AGF). Mamu is facing trial on a 10-count charge bordering on alleged terrorism after he was accused of aiding and negotiating with the terrorists who attacked the Abuja-Kaduna train in March 2022.
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2 months ago | 
platformsafrica.com | Ganiyu Amodu |Abibat Babalola
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced the postponement of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination registration until Monday, February 3. The registration, initially scheduled to commence on Friday, January 31, was postponed to “allow the Board to implement essential adjustments to its registration templates.”The Board’s Public Communication Advisor, Fabian Benjamin, announced this via its official X handle on Friday.
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2 months ago | 
platformsafrica.com | Abibat Babalola |Ganiyu Amodu
‘There’s blood everywhere.’ Witness gives details of havoc caused by the car driven by a suspected drunken Yahoo boyMany soldiers attached to the Myoung Barracks in Lagos may have died after a suspected drunken driver rammed into a unit of them doing morning physical training.
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2 months ago | 
platformsafrica.com | Abibat Babalola |Ganiyu Amodu
Diesel, others to sell slightly higher, COPEC gives detail forecast for Petroleum products pricesPrices of petroleum products at the pumps are set for a marginal adjustment in the next pricing window, which begins on Saturday, February 1, 2025. The price of diesel and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) will see an uptick, while petrol prices are expected to decrease slightly.
