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LONDON — King Charles III has expressed his thanks for the messages of support he has received since he revealed last week that he had been diagnosed with cancer. In a statement issued late Saturday, the monarch said that such thoughts are “the greatest comfort and encouragement.” “It is equally heartening to hear how sharing my own diagnosis has helped …

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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has provided further details on the fatal helicopter crash that led to the death of the Group Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings Plc, Herbert Wigwe, his wife, son and other crew members onboard. The details were provided by a board member with the NTSB, Michael Graham, alongside the investigator in charge of the …

Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory Police Command on Saturday said it arrested a pastor and two others for child trafficking. The suspects, identified as Simon Kado; his relative, Jesse Simon-Kado, and their driver, Muhammad Isah, were arrested on Friday by the policemen from the FCT police command attached to the Rapid Response Squad 74. They were said to have been apprehended …

Access Holdings Plc has on Saturday revealed that it lacks specific information regarding the crash of a helicopter, believed to be carrying, Herbert Wigwe, Access Bank CEO, his wife, son and three other passengers, in a Southern California desert. Wigwe, his wife, Chizoba, his son, and Ogunbanjo all died in a helicopter crash on Friday night close to a border …

A socialite and a businessman in Ondo State, Sesan Adelabu, has reportedly committed suicide after killing his wife, Bolu, in Akure, the state capital. According to the Vanguard, unconfirmed sources alleged that the socialite caught his wife in bed with one of his security guards. The victim reportedly killed his wife with a machete and thereafter committed suicide by drinking …

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Saturday confirmed the crash of a helicopter carrying six passengers in a Southern California desert near Las Vegas. All the passengers on board reportedly died in the crash. Information available to Alltimepost.com at FAA website said: Eurocopter EC 130 helicopter crashed near Nipton, California, around 10 p.m. local time on Friday, Feb. 9. Six …

Donald Trump had his best day of 2024 so far… ► The former president was handed a political gift. An independent special counsel poured kerosene on concerns about Joe Biden’s age with pointed language about the president’s poor memory after concluding Biden had willfully mishandled classified documents – and that his failing memory makes him impossible to convict. Biden was on defense at a hastily called White House news conference. …

Classified documents were found in a damaged cardboard box in President Joe Biden’s cluttered Delaware garage, near where golf clubs hung on the wall. A photo in former President Donald Trump’s indictment, meanwhile, shows stacks of boxes filled with documents under a chandelier in an ornate Mar-a-Lago bathroom. In Biden’s case, special counsel Robert Hur, a former U.S. attorney for Maryland …

The economic crunch in the country that has hit all sectors is not sparing the education sector, as it has created more indigent students who are finding it difficult to cope with the situation. An investigation by Vanguard showed that many students are dropping out of school; attending classes hungry; unable to meet obligations such as paying fees and living …