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Dangerous spices: How melted nylon additive keeps plantain chips crunchy

Dangerous spices: How melted nylon additive keeps plantain chips crunchy

By Elizabet Adegbesan For some years, plantain chip has been one of Nigeria’s ultimate snacks which is affordable, accessible, and portable.But as inflation hovers at historic highs, a sinister economic survival tactic has crept into the informal food sector. Economy&Lifestyle discovered that to cut costs and keep chips crispy for days, some street entrepreneurs are […]
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Supreme Court Justice, Sylvester Ngwuta, is dead

Supreme Court Justice, Sylvester Ngwuta, is dead

Supreme Court Justice, Sylvester Ngwuta is dead. Sources at the apex court confirmed that Ngwuta died in the early morning of Sunday in his sleep at his official residence in Abuja at almost the age of seventy. Ngwuta was said to be getting set for his retirement from the Supreme Court on March 30, 2021 […]

We’ll go after hoodlums, cultists in Ajah, Lekki, CP assures

We’ll go after hoodlums, cultists in Ajah, Lekki, CP assures

As police arrest 3 suspected cultists The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu has again vowed to take the anti crime fight of the command to the dens of hoodlums and criminals in Lekki and Ajah areas of the state. He made the assertion today Saturday, 6th March, 2021 during a meeting with […]

Roadside sellers hawking petrol in Abuja

Roadside sellers hawking petrol in Abuja

Roadside sellers of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, are still in business hawking products in some part of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The long queue at filling stations was gradually disappearing after eight days of panic buying occasioned by rumour of petrol price increase. The roadside sellers were seen hawking the […]

Police rescue 7 kidnapped people in Osun

Police rescue 7 kidnapped people in Osun

The Osun Police Command has rescued seven people kidnapped on the Ibokun-Osogbo Road on Tuesday. A statement made available to newsmen on Saturday in Osogbo by the police spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, stated that the effort of the state Commissioner of Police and other security agencies led to the release of the kidnapped people. “The […]

Bandits kill 16, injure 9 in Sokoto village

Bandits kill 16, injure 9 in Sokoto village

Gunmen have killed 16 people and injured nine others at a village in Sokoto near the border with Niger, a local official and a resident said Friday. The pre-dawn attack on Tara village, in Sokoto state, is the latest in a series of attacks by criminal gangs known locally as “bandits” who for years have […]