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Apologize to Gov Okorocha within 72hrs or else…Imo Youths dare Charly Boy

Youths under the aegis of Imo Youth Parliament has lashed out at Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charlyboy for the recent embarrassment meted out to the Imo State governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha....

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Adamawa Impeachment: I Have No Plans To Resign – Nyako

Bayo Oladeji, George Agba, Mohammed Ismail Adamawa State Governor Murtala Nyako has said that he has no plans to resign from office, saying that he may seek help from President Goodluck Jonathan...

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Security probes politicians ‘with link to sect’

Security probes politicians ‘with link to sect’ The Federal Government is close to a deal with Boko Haram on the 219 abducted girls,  sources told The Nation yesterday. A likely swap of the girls with...

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Reckless driver kills 7-year-old school child in Enugu

Residents of the ever busy Agbani Road, Enugu were on Thursday treated to a horror as a reckless driver lost control of his vehicle and crushed a school girl to death. The incident, which took place in...

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Ekiti Governorship election was manipulated – Fayemi’s wife

Wife of Ekiti State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, has said that events unfolding after the June 21 governorship election in the state suggest that the election was manipulated from ‘source.’ In due...

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EFCC closes case in trial of Fani-Kayode over alleged money laundering

Lagos – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday closed its case in the trial of Femi Fani-Kayode, charged with money laundering, while serving as Minister of Aviation ....

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FG investigating politicians linked with Boko Haram

THE Federal Government has said the Nigerian security forces, during their raid in terrorists’ forest in Bauchi, discovered some materials that linked some politicians and a prominent political party...

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Shocker!!! How Top Politicians’ ID Cards And Party Materials Were Discovered...

The federal government yesterday revealed that identity cards belonging to some top politicians as well as party materials were found in the Boko Haram terrorists’ base in Balmo Forest in the Darazo...

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Germany asks top US intelligence official to leave country over spy row

Diplomatic relations between Germany and the US plunged to a new low after Angela Merkel’s government asked the top representative of America’s secret services in Germany to leave the country. While...

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Kidnap of Jonathan’s uncle: DSS arrests undergraduate, herbalist, four others

BY LEVINUS NWABUGHIOGU ABUJA— The Department of State Services, DSS, yesterday in Abuja, paraded suspected kidnappers of Chief Nitabai Inengite, an uncle to President Goodluck Jonathan. Those nabbed...

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Kutigi meets 50 wise men today over derivation formula

AGAIN, proceedings at the national conference, on Thursday, were in disarray over the logjam between the northern and southern delegates, over the contentious issues of derivation formula and five per...

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Jonathan’s Efforts at Tackling Boko Haram, Finding Schoolgirls, by Abati

Sect takes over major highway into Maiduguri  • Troops kill scores of insurgents in ambush, three soldiers slaughtered Senator Iroegbu   and Michael Olugbode   

 The Special Adviser to the...

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Gov Aregbesola hands over N1.3bn equipment to police

OSOGBO—GOVERNOR Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State, yesterday launched and handed over of 20 armoured personnel carriers, APCs at the cost of N1.3 billion Naira to the Osun Police command in Osogbo. He...

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NUT decries loss of 173 teachers to Boko Haram

Uyo – The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has decried the loss of 173 teachers to Boko Haram insurgents in North-East. The National President of NUT, Mr Michael Olukoya, decried the death of the...

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Jonathan administration is most corrupt ever; PDP behind Nyako impeachment...

Kano State governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has said that the All Progressives Congress, APC, governors are solidly behind their Adamawa counterpart, Murtala Nyako, over his travails. According to the...

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More weapons and security clothes recovered from Balmo Forest — Military

The Nigerian military said on Friday that it recovered a cache of weapons in a terrorist cell in Balmo Forest, Borno State. The military had on Monday announced the capture of the large forest from...

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RIGGING 2014: FG WILL SWARM OSUN WITH HAUSA SOLDIERS A WEEK TO ELECTION –...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Iyiola Omisore, has revealed that the federal government plans to flood Osun with Hausa soldiers one week before the August 9th election in a...

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Adamawa Impeachment: Nyako, Deputy shun probe panel

Governor Murtala Nyako and his Deputy, Bala Ngilari, Friday, failed to appear before the seven-member panel investigating allegations of gross mis-conduct levelled against them by the state House of...

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Ejigbo structure collapse is not ordinary – Speaker

Speaker, Osun House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Najeem Salaam, has decried the outrageous insinuation that greeted the collapse of a school hall within the premises of the state of art facility of Ejigbo...

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Please, forgive me, Ohakim begs Imo people

The immediate past Governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, spoke to our correspondent, CHIDI NKWOPARA, on a number of issues, including his days in office, the scores of allegations leveled against...

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