Police Inspector General, Mr Usman Baba said that 33 victims of Saturday attack on travellers through Rukuba community in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State have been rescued while 20 suspects are arrested. He disclosed this on Sunday in a statement in Abuja through police spokesman at the Force Headquarters, Mr Frank Mba, […]
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The worrisome security threats in the Plateau State capital, the University of Jos on Sunday suspended the ongoing second-semester examinations for the 2019/2020 academic session with immediate effect. This was announced in a statement by the Deputy Registrar, Information and Publications, Abdullahi Abdullahi, that: “Following the unfortunate security breach that occurred in some parts of […]
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A victim of the clash identified as Nurudeem Ajetunmobi (Photo Credit: Olasunkanmi Akinlotan) Supporters of Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola and the Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola, on Saturday engaged themselves in a bloody clash over the last party’s ward congress at its secretariat in Osogbo, leaving several persons with varying degrees of injuries. Both now […]
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Popular Nigerian rapper, Ukeje Okechukwu Edward, a.k.a Mr Raw, formerly known as ‘Nigga Raw’ has been hospitalised after he surviving a car crash in Abuja. He broke the news in the early hours of Sunday, August 15, 2021 to his fans via his Instagram page and shared photographs of his badly damaged car, and scars […]
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Nigerian economy has not made any meaningful progress in the last 40 years according to a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido. In fact, he said that the country made zero progress since 1981. He spoke on Saturday in Kaduna at a colloquium to mark his 60th birthday, where he […]
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Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano has declared that Prof. Chukwuma Soludo is the best person to succeed him as the next governor of the state. He spoke at the 2021 New Yam Festival of Isuofia Community in Aguata Local Government Area held at Isuofia Civic Center on Saturday. Soludo is the governorship standard bearer […]
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Shiite cleric Ibrahim El-Zakzaky is seen in Kano on July 28, 2021 upon his release. – A Nigerian court on Wednesday acquitted and released Shiite cleric Ibrahim Zakzaky, who had been detained for murder with his wife since 2015, one of his lawyers said. (Photo by – / AFP) The handling by the Nigerian State […]
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Few hours after Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong announced a dusk-to-dawn curfew in three Local Government Areas of Jos North, Jos South and Bassa over Saturday’s Rukuba killings, he has imposed a 24-hour curfew in the entire Jos North council. The measure, intended to contain further security threats in the state where no fewer than […]
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Hughes Van Ellis (R) his sister Viola Ford Fletcher (L), and family members who arrived from the US are received by the Deputy Director of Diaspora Office at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, on August 14, 2021. Viola Ford Fletcher, aged 107, and her brother Hughes Van Ellis, aged 100, the last known living […]
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Nigeria’s COVID-19 response is the fourth-best in the world according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). This was disclosed by its Country Representative, Dr Walter Mulombo, spoke in Abuja at an event on the arrival of the first consignment of 177,600 doses of the Johnson and Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine yesterday in Abuja. The country […]
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