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Now that APC has asked for evidence…

By Abba Adakole Now that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for evidence that it is involved in the persistent terrorist activities in the North-Eastern...

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Habiba Abubakar Slams Government For Snubbing Masses

Famous philanthropist, Habiba Abubakar has observed that the government is not doing well enough in catering for the underprivileged in the society. The Abuja-based society lady made this revelation in...

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BREAKING: Court acquits Chidi Lloyd of attempted murder

was on Thursday discharged and acquitted by a High Court in Port Harcourt over a charge of attempted murder. Justice Ledan Nyordee, who delivered the judgment, said there was nothing the court could do...

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Turkey bans YouTube, Twitter

ANKARA (AFP) – Turkey on Thursday banned video-sharing website YouTube, a week after blocking access to Twitter, after both were used to spread audio recordings implicating the prime minister in...

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Search for Malaysian plane suspended

Canberra – The search in the southern Indian Ocean for signs of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was suspended on Thursday due to bad weather. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said...

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National Confab list: Ndigbo youths flay elders on exclusion

By NKIRUKA NNOROM Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC, has condemned exclusion of Igbo youths from the list of delegates to the National Conference, blaming it on unwillingness of spent Igbo elders to allow...

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2015: PDP group urges Jonathan to sack Wike for imposing his candidature

A group within the Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has advised President Goodluck Jonathan to sack the Supervising Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike. It said it was...

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Former footballer Imogene turns beggar in Akure, begs for accommodation

He was a man full of life in his early days but the world has turned against him due to a strange sickness that he battles since the past two years. The sickness has equally turned him to a beggar on...

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Update: Gas explosion rocks Abuja

A huge explosion Thursday evening rocked the ever busy Area 1 Shopping Centre in Abuja, shattering windows. The explosion, according to the FCT Minister, Bala Mohammed, in a statement signed by his...

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Prince Moqren named heir to the throne of Saudi Arabia

Prince Moqren Bin Abdulaziz is the heir to the throne in Saudi Arabia. The 69 year old second deputy prime minister was announced the heir by the kingdom’s 90-year-old King Abdullah on Thursday. Moqren...

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Cameroon arrests three for trafficking arms to Boko Haram

YAOUNDÉ (AFP) – Cameroon said on Thursday it had arrested three suspected arms dealers believed to be linked to Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram. Also some other suspected terrorists were...

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‘I take responsibility for NIS recruitment tragedy’ – Moro

Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro Thursday claimed responsibility of the tragic death of about 16 applicants including four pregnant women that died in the recent recruitment exercise by the Nigeria...

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Fashola Takes Jonathan To Supreme Court

Kazeem Ugbodaga The government of Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has dragged the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan to the Supreme Court over illegal one percent deduction from...

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FENCE SCANDAL: I didn’t scale the fence, I only jumped over the gate –...

The Nasarawa state House of Assembly on Wednesday directed the police to arrest the state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Innocent Lagi, for allegedly scaling the fence of the Assembly...

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Jonathan mourns Misau, departed confab’s delegate

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has commiserated with members of the Association of Retired Police Officers on the passing away yesterday in Abuja of Alhaji Hassan Misau, one of their representatives...

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Ibadan ‘forest of horror’: Eight in police net, says AIG

The Assistant Inspector-General (AIG) of Police in charge of Zone 11, Femi Omolaja, has assured Nigerians that the people behind the Soka “forest of horror” in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, will be...

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UPDATE: Boko Haram releases video of attack on Giwa Barracks

Members of the Jama’atu Ahlus Sunnati Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram has released yet another video footage of their March 14 attack on Giwa Barracks in Maiduguri, the Borno State...

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Sanusi snubs FRC invitation, accuses it of bias

Suspended Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Lamido Sanusi, yesterday declined invitation by the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, FRCN, to appear before it to answer questions bordering on his...

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CAN opposes establishment of grazing reserves

BY SAM EYOBOKA UMBRELLA body of Christians in the country, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has rejected the proposal to establish grazing reserves across the country as a means of resolving the...

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MUST READ: People Living in Lagos Could be Fined N50,000 & be Imprisoned for...

Where there is Law, they should be strictly adhered to, On February 17th, 2014, Lagos State Governor,Babatunde Raji Fasholasigned the “No Smoking in Public Places” bill into law to regulate smoking in...

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