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2 months ago | 
platformsafrica.com | Ganiyu Amodu |Funke Egbemode |Adesola Ayo-Aderele
Arsenal’s Premier League title challenge suffered a huge blow as West Ham inflicted Mikel Arteta’s side their first home defeat of the season with a shock 1-0 victory at the Emirates. Jarrod Bowen’s dividing header on the stroke of half-time secured West Ham a second consecutive away victory over the Gunners, with Arsenal struggling to create any meaningful chances in the absence of injured forwards Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli.
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2 months ago | 
platformsafrica.com | Funke Egbemode |Adesola Ayo-Aderele |Ganiyu Amodu
After 15 years in the US, Bolaji returned to Nigeria, alone with only what can fit into his suitcases. He returned without a wife, his two children. He was not deported. His marriage failed. His wife got custody of the children and their home. Bolaji decided to return to Nigeria to start all over.
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2 months ago | 
platformsafrica.com | Adesola Ayo-Aderele |Funke Egbemode |Ganiyu Amodu
They don’t call Nigeria a football nation for nothing. If anything, our running round in circles makes the appellation apt, even if that wasn’t the real reason for the nomenclature. After all, IBB was called Maradona at some point. I watched with ho.rror as Nigerian politicians jostled over themselves to launch ‘A journey In Service,’ written by one of Nigeria’s most controversial rulers, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida [IBB], who held the nation spellbound from 1985 to 1993.
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2 months ago | 
platformsafrica.com | Funke Egbemode |Adeola Yusuf |Ganiyu Amodu |Owei Lakemfa
President Trump said he will be revoking former President Biden’s security clearance and stopping the former commander-in-chief’s daily intelligence briefings. “There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information. Therefore, we are immediately revoking Joe Biden’s Security Clearances, and stopping his daily Intelligence Briefings,” Trump announced in a Friday Truth Social post.
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2 months ago | 
platformsafrica.com | Funke Egbemode |Adeola Yusuf |Owei Lakemfa |Ganiyu Amodu
‘Feb. 5 To March 2,’ what to know about third major maintenance on 150m scuf lines that serve gas to over 650 plants, supports 1,000 MW generation in Ghana, othersThe West African Gas Pipeline (WAPCo) on Friday flagged off the second phase of its pipeline maintenance, allaying fear that the exercise would plunge Ghana, Togo, and Benin Republic into power Outage.
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2 months ago | 
platformsafrica.com | Funke Egbemode |Owei Lakemfa |Ganiyu Amodu
The first thing I noticed was her hair. She had gone almost completely gray. Her skirt suit hung on her, shapeless. She wore no make-up. She had no colour. But I recognised her all the same. Nike, my younger friend, once lovely, shapely and lively, made her way into the airport lounge. I called her name, tentatively and she brightened momentarily and then we hugged and hugged. “What’s happened to you? You are not ill?
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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.
