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N350bn Loan: Osun debt profile worries UPN gov aspirant
A governorship aspirant on the platform of the Unity Party of Nigeria in Osun State, Mr. Segun Akinwusi, has raised the alarm over the rising debt profile of the state. Akinwusi, a former Head of...
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Suspected gay docked for abusing 7-yr-old twin
BY EGUFE YAFUGBORHI PORT HARCOURT — POLICE in Rivers State have arraigned a 30-year-old Godface Ibama before a Port-Harcourt Magistrate Court for defiling a seven-year-old twin brothers. The suspect...
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Gov Chime donates vehicles to DSS
By TONY EDIKE ENUGU — As part of providing essential support to security agencies in Enugu State, Governor Sullivan Chime, yesterday, handed over three brand new KIA saloon cars and three Hilux...
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Archbishop Kattey’s abduction: Amaechi laments poor security in Rivers
THE Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has lamented worsening security situation in the state. Amaechi described the kidnap of the Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of the Niger Delta,...
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FG worries over insecurity
By PETER DURU MAKURDI — President Goodluck Jonathan has decried the level of insecurity in the country describing it as a major source of worry for his administration and Nigeria’s allies. He...
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Obasanjo deceitful; behind PDP crisis – Kashamu alleges
A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State, Prince Buruji Kashamu, has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of master-minding the ongoing crisis in the ruling party at the national...
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Kidnapped Bishop Kattey: Clergy Council vows not to pay ransom
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Three days after the abduction of ArchBishop of the Niger Delta Province, and Bishop of Niger Delta North diocese, Most Reverend Ignatius Kattey, the councils of clergy and...
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Ozekhome: Kidnappers release Ugbome, may free human rights lawyer today
By SIMON EBEGBULEM & GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE BENIN — THERE are indications that human rights lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, who has been in kidnappers’ den these past two weeks may regain his freedom...
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‘Rotary club not a secret cult’
The immediate past president of the Rotary Club of Gbagada, Dr.Bayo Windapo, has said that the club is an humanitarian organisation, and not a secret cult. Windapo said this at the investiture of the...
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APC condemns closure of New PDP secretariat
By OLASUNKANMI AKONI ALL PROGRESSIVES Congress, APC, has condemned the seal-up of the secretariat of new Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, in Abuja, saying those behind the action must be “identified and...
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Crisis: PDP states paralysed as govs relocate to Abuja
Indications emerged that government activities have been paralysed in the Peoples Democratic Party-controlled states as governors have abandoned their duty posts in the wake of the crisis rocking the...
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Bring It On: Femi Fani-Kayode Taunts Bianca Ojukwu Over Legal Threats
Controversial former Nigerian minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kanyode, has threatened to reveal details of his past private relationship with Nigeria’s ambassador to Spain, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu after...
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Worsening unemployment and bad politics
By Dele Sobowale “In Nigeria today, there are millions of young people who are economically dislocated, either through unemployment or a lack of engagement with any meaningful economic activities. In...
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Electronic Voting is Possible
NIGERIANS can vote electronically today if the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, wants it to work. The other side to the use of electronic voting is the National Assembly, and myriad of...
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It’s wrong to make stowaway boy hero – NAAPE
By LAWANI MIKAIRU National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers, NAAPE, has criticised the award of scholarship to stowaway teenager, Daniel Oikhena, by the Governor Rauf Aregbesola Foundation....
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Woman jailed 14 years for stealing N3.15m
Abuja — An Abuja Magistrate Court, yesterday, sentenced a 22-year-old cashier, Mariam Salifu, to 14 years in prison for stealing N3.15 million belonging to her employers. The convict, residing at...
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Jonathan declares zero tolerance for substandard lab practices
By CHIOMA OBINNA, KOSISO UDEMBA & MODINAT AMUSAT President Goodluck Jonathan has declared zero tolerance for substandard laboratory practices, equipment, diagnostic reagents and chemicals in the...
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Pay our allowances, amnesty leaders tell FG
Some ex-militants who are part of the third phase of amnesty programme in the Niger Delta have commended the Federal Government for the successful implementation of the phase. They, however, they...
View Article55-yr-old allegedly defiles 11-yr old girl
Osogbo — An Osogbo Senior Magistrate Court, Osun State has remanded a 55-year-old man,Titiloye Tella, for allegedly defiling and raping an 11-year-olg girl simply identified as ‘Tapepa’ (not real name)...
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Road traffic law has rendered 75 % of Okada riders jobless — Union leader
By Monsur Olowoopejo Barely a year after the Lagos State Government introduced the Road Traffic Law, the Motorcycle and Tricycle Operators Association of Nigeria MOTOAN, has lamented that over 75...
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