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Football finance experts have estimated that any future deal involving Kylian Mbappé could require a staggering total financial commitment of around €400 million, underlining...

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“He abandoned us and hid in toilet during robbery attack” – Nigerian woman seeking divorce tells court

A businesswoman identified as Asiata Oladejo, has told a Mapo Grade A Customary Court, in Ibadan, Oyo state to dissolve her marriage on grounds that her estranged husband, Abidemi, was unreliable and abandoned her and their children during a robbery attack. Oladejo made the submission in her counter argument in the divorce suit filed by her husband. ”My Lord, I am yet to recover from the shock I experienced when a gang of thieves raided our house. He hid in the toilet, leaving me to pant in front of the armed robbers, who terrorised the entire residents of the house. My lord, when the thieves arrived at around 1am. on that night, my husband was nowhere to be found to defend the children and...

Google honors the Late Nigerian Musician, Oliver de Coque on 74th Posthumous Birthday

Late Nigerian music icon and highlife maestro, Oliver de Coque, has been honoured with a Google Doodle to celebrate his 74th posthumous birthday.  Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google’s homepages to mark important festivals, holidays, events, achievements, and notable historical figures.  King (Dr.) Chief Oliver De Coque whose real name was Oliver Sunday Akanite was crowned the "Highlife King of Africa."  Born on April 14, in 1947 in the small town of Ezinifite in Anambra State Nigeria, Oliver Sunday Akanite first took up the guitar at a young age, and as a teenager, studied the traditional Igbo music of the region and Congolese soukous. In 1970, at a performance by the popular Sunny...

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