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Actress Eucharia Anunobi recounts how her father refused to send her to school just because she was a girl child

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Actress Eucharia Anunobi, via her Instagram page, took a trip down memory lane as she recounted how her rich father refused to send her to school just because she was a girl child. According to the actress, her father at the time said there wasn't any need to spend so much money on a girl child and insisted that only his male children will get educated. Eucharia says today she has become that child who has engraved her father's name all over the world. Read her post below ''If you are still in doubt about God's grace , read the caption below Am still in awe of God . He changes destinies in a twinkling of an eye He is the rule breaker  He doesn't need any one's permission to bless someone Just look at the girl, whose rich father refused to train after high school, that he had no need for a girl child . That the female gender is useless to him and can't carry his name any where. That he rather concentrate and train the male children to any l...

Super Eagles striker, Emmanuel Dennis joins Premier League club Watford from Club Brugge

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Watford have reached an agreement with Club Brugge over the transfer of Super Eagles striker, Emmanuel Dennis. The Premier League side say they are finalising personal terms with the 23-year-old. A Watford statement read: "An agreement with Club Brugge has been reached for the transfer of exciting young forward Emmanuel Dennis, Watford FC is delighted to confirm. "A scorer of 27 goals in just over 90 club appearances for Brugge, he has featured in both the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. "The Hornets are currently finalising personal terms with the pacey striker - capped twice by Nigeria so far - who began his professional career with some experience as a teenager in the Ukrainian Premier League with Zorya Luhansk."     Dennis joined the Belgian club in 2017 and spent the latter part of the 2020-21 season on loan at Cologne. Dennis is poised to become Watford's second attacking signing of the summer after Ashley Fletcher, who will join ...

Police neutralize bandit and foil attempted kidnap of Indian expatriate

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Men of the Kaduna State police command have neutralized one bandit and foiled attempted kidnap of an Indian expatriate at Dankande area of Igabi council. Disclosing this to newsmen, the spokesperson of the state police command, ASP Mohammed Jalige, said its men also recovered four fully loaded AK47 magazines.   ''On the 21st June 2021 at about 2133hrs, while escorting an expatriate to Plan Farm Phase at Dankande area of Igabi council, our men ran into an ambush laid by suspected armed bandits who in their desperate attempt to Kidnap the expatriate, shot berserkly at the Officers which however was met with stiffer resistance from the operatives.”   According to PPRO of the command, the gun duel lasted for some time but the Operatives were able to repel the bandits and secure the Indian expatriate unhurt. Jalige added that a joint team of the Police and Military personnel who subsequently searched the area where the incident occurred recovered ...

ECOWAS Court stops FG from prosecuting people using Twitter

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  The federal government has been restrained by the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja from prosecuting Twitter users. Recall that Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami had threatened to prosecute those violating FG's ban on Twitter's operation in Nigeria through the use of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) had also ordered all radio and television stations to deactivate their Twitter accounts.  Following the ban and subsequent threat of prosecution, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 176 concerned Nigerians challenged the decision before the ECOWAS Court.  Ruling on the case after hearing arguments from Solicitor to SERAP, Femi Falana SAN, and lawyer to the government, Maimuna Shiru, the court restrained the Federal government from unlawfully imposing sanctions or harass, intimidate, arrest or prosecute Twitter and/or any other social media service...

Bear kills and eats 16-year-old boy after attacking tourist group in Russian national park

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A brown bear has eaten and killed a 16-year-old boy at a Russian national park . The bear attacked the boy at the Ergaki National Park in the Sayan Mountains before it was stabbed in the neck with a penknife by a tourist who was also attacked by the predator.   The beast half ate the teenager, floored the tourist and lunged at another when they went in search of the missing boy.     The bear acted as if it was dead after being stabbed before it was later shot and killed.     When the tourist stabbed the bear with the pocket knife, his companion then fled back to camp where they raised an alarm.     Inspectors at the Park then rushed to the scene where they found the bear lying on the devoured remains of the teenager over 500 yards. After shooting and wounding the wild bear, the animal then fled. Early the next morning they tracked and killed the animal. 'After hours of tracking, the man-eating bear was killed by the p...

Chris Brown under investigation over alleged assault on woman

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Chris Brown is reportedly being investigated by police over an allegation of battery following a woman's claimed  that he hit her. The American singer and father of two was named the suspect in the battery case after police officers responded to his home in the San Fernando Valley, California over the weekend. Law enforcement sources told TMZ.com the woman claimed Brown smacked her on the back of the head so hard that it made part of her weave come out. Police took a battery report following the alleged incident, which may see Brown, 32, hit with a misdemeanour charge. According to the report, this is the second time police have been called to Brown's house. The first was in May when the Los Angeles Police Department responded to reports of a huge birthday bash and broke up the party in the early hours of the morning.

You’re too small to decide for Ndigbo - IPOB tells South-East Governors and political leaders

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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has fired back at South East Governors and other political leaders in the region for disavowing them and its security outfit, Eastern Security Network, ESN. Accusing the political leaders of being quick to disown and betray their own in their quest to appease their slave masters, the group also alleged that it was political leaders from the region that proscribed them before the federal government tagged them terrorists. IPOB which insisted that South-East political leaders "are too infinitesimal to speak for the millions of Biafrans who are tired of being held hostage in this contraption called Nigeria", added that they know they have since lost grip and control of the masses.  The statement released by the group's spokesperson Emma Powerful, read;    “The attention of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by our great leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has been drawn to the purported ...