By Hardball Guess the latest Bishop in town? Sir Shina Peters, SSP! His Afro-juju genre took Nigerian music by storm from 1989, when he released the monster hit, Ace. Till the late 1990s, he was ace sex symbol and electrifying stage performer, who used his youth to push his catchy, seductive music. “Asiko awa youths […]
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says Nigerians must not allow criminal actions of insurgents and bandits to tear our country apart Kaduna State Governor Malam Nasir El-Rufai has called on the National Assembly to expedite actions on constitutional amendments for operation of state and community policing. He said only state and community policing will address worsening security challenges across the […]
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CBN assigns NARTO Dangote petroleum products The Federal Government has commenced discussions with representatives of the organised labour on how to raise the freight rate of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, or petrol from N7.51 per litre to N9.11 per litre. The plan will amount to 21.30 per cent hike in freight that is a Petroleum […]
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Sixteen persons, including nine children, sustained varying degrees of injury in a multiple auto crash in Umunya in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State. The incident, which occurred Wednesday evening, involved a Mack truck and Toyota Hiace bus with twenty passengers on board. It was gathered that the crash was as a result of […]
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Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has advised the Department of State Security (DSS), and the Inspector General of Police, to fish out armed herdsmen, especially those in the forest before it gets out of hand. It wonders why prominent Northerners like Katsina and Zamfara States governors and lately the Kaduna based Islamic cleric […]
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Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, said it has placed all its coordinators across the 19 Northern States on alert to mobilise street protests on Friday morning over the arrest and unknown whereabouts of its national leaders. BOT Chairman of CNG, Nastura Ashir Shariff and the National Coordinator, Balarabe Rufai, were picked by suspected operatives of […]
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Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has said that the alleged inability of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to tackle insurgency, banditry and corruption will compel Nigerians to vote out the party in 2023. He noted that with the current economic woes and escalating banditry, it is obvious that Nigerians have realised that they made […]
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Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai has warned against tagging all herdsmen as criminals and killers. He said doing so is dangerous and can ignite crisis in Nigeria. He declared that banditry has become an industry and Nigerians must work together to put an end to it. The Governor stated these while receiving leaders of the Anglican […]
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Foremost royal father in Yorubaland, the Arole Oduduwa and Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has accepted the apology tendered by popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho. The revered royal father said Igboho, who apologised on Wednesday in a viral video for declaring that the Ooni disappointed Yoruba nation for allegedly not […]
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The pioneer Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, on Wednesday, described the decision of the Mai Mala Buni-led National Caretaker Committee to embark on a fresh membership registration as an aberration. He also advised the committee to resist the temptation of falling for the sit-tight syndrome which he noted usually […]
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