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One person was on Tuesday confirmed dead and at least seven injured after fire gutted two plazas at the Balogun Market in Lagos State. The National Emergency Management Agency confirmed this on its website. According to NEMA, the deceased and injured persons were evacuated by the medical team, while four persons who were alleged to have been looting wares were arrested by the police. NEMA said, “No. 32 Gbajumo Street, Lagos Island, Lagos State fire has been brought… Read the full article here

The Federal Government has assured that transition of power to the new administration would be smooth and peaceful. The government also said the refurbishment of offices for the president and vice-president elect had been completed. Addressing journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, the chairman of the transition committee, Boss Mustapha, noted that litigation would not stop the handing-over ceremony from taking place. He said, “The committee has been active and the… Read the full article here

A commodities export and trading company, Neveah Limited, has redeemed its series 3 and 4 commercial papers at maturity, totalling N5.7bn. According to a statement released by the company on Tuesday, obtained by The PUNCH, the series 3 commercial paper repayment, valued at approximately N3.6 billion, was issued on May 26, 2022 and was redeemed on February 20,2023, while its N2.1 billion series 4 commercial paper issued on June 1, 2022, continued to meet its… Read the full article here

  Anthony Joshua has said that he will retire from boxing if American boxer Jermaine Franklin defeat him. The upcoming heavyweight boxing match between the duo is scheduled to hold on Saturday, April 1, at the O2 Arena in Greenwich, London. Joshua, a two-time former unified world heavyweight champion, was earlier scheduled to fight Tyson Fury in a bout but it was not held due to sponsorship issues. Joshua sees Saturday’s bout as an… Read the full article here

Taylor Fritz stormed past Holger Rune 6-3 6-4 to reach the quarter-finals of the Miami Open.In what was expected to be a tight contest, Fritz won most of the crucial points while Rune made costly mistakes.The American will play Carlos Alcaraz or Tommy Paul in the last eight on Wednesday.ATP MiamiHighlights: Sinner eases past Dimitrov in Miami to set up Rublev clashYESTERDAY AT 08:08“It was nice today to feel like I had a bit more time,” said Fritz. “The last two rounds it was impossible to… Read the full article here

If you’ve received a cryptic notification from the Starbucks app, you’re not alone — dozens of people say they got a message reading “Hello test1 from seank” from the coffee app on Tuesday. It’s unclear how many people the notification went out to. Twitter is flooded with screenshots of it, with posts often tagging the official Starbucks account asking what’s going on. However, every single one I saw showed an iOS notification, so it’s possible Android users were spared Sean… Read the full article here

Apple debuted its long-anticipated buy now, pay later programme in the US on Tuesday, as the $2.5tn tech giant expands further into finance in a challenge to incumbent firms including Klarna and Affirm. The iPhone maker unveiled plans for Apple Pay Later at its developers conference in June. After several months of delays, “select” US consumers will be invited to use the finance tool on Tuesday, the company announced.Apple Pay Later is built into the Wallet function of the iPhone… Read the full article here

With the rise of Ordinals on Bitcoin (BTC) sparking debate over how users should store their NFTs and blockchain gaming projects searching for cheaper, secure ways to store data, it’s time to revisit the discussion surrounding decentralized storage coins.Decentralized storage protocols Filecoin (FIL) and Arweave (AR) show similar price action, leaving investors with a decision between the underdog showing signs of increased adoption by NFT users and blockchain gaming projects and the clear… Read the full article here

Alexa, play “Dear Ben” from Jennifer Lopez’s 2002 album, This Is Me … Then. Lopez and Ben Affleck were first linked in the early 2000s, with the Grammy nominee confirming their engagement to Diane Sawyer in November 2002. “It’s just a blanket, a quilt of rose petals, all over the whole entire house,” she recalled about the proposal at the time. “So many candles, and vases, bouquets. And my song ‘Glad’ was playing … I walk in and I was just… Read the full article here

In a suspected resurgence of cult killings, three persons have been brutally killed within one week in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The incidents coincided with the first annivesary of the death of a notorious area boy known as Tommy, suspected to be a leader of the Eiye cult group. He was hacked to death on 24 March, at the popular Panseke Market in Abeokuta. Panic as suspected cultists kill popular Ogun ‘area boy’ In attacks susected to be reprisals for his killing,… Read the full article here