NBS stated this in its Diesel Price Watch for January 2024 released in Abuja on Wednesday. The report said that the January 2024 price of ₦1153.01 per litre amounted to a 39.11% increase over the ₦828.82 paid in January 2023. “On a month-on-month basis, the price increased by 2.34% from the ₦1126.69 per litre recorded in December 2023,” it added. On state profile analysis, the report said the highest average price of diesel in January 2024 was recorded in Kebbi at ₦1433. Read More...
Highs: For all the talk of showbiz having no interest in actresses over the age of 40, Betty White showed how an octogenarian can amp up her star power and become a pop culture phenomenon. From Snickers commercials to the MTV Movie Awards, it seemed White was everywhere this year. At 88-years-young, the sprightly White started 2010 by accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Screen Actors Guild awards on January 23 with a hilarious and endearing speech. Read More...
July 25, 2015 1:19 PM EDT
Spelman College has discontinued its Bill Cosby endowed professorship, the historically black women’s college announced Friday.
The Cosby family donated $20 million to the school in 1988 to endow the position, but Spelman indefinitely suspended the professorship last year, as news piled up about sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby. More recently, an old deposition emerged in which Cosby admitted to getting sedatives to give women before sex. Read More...