Youths queuing to obtain their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi Acting on the strength of the current political tempo (or is it temperature) in the country, which encourages all to obtain their Permanent Voters Cards (PVC), I took a trip to one of the Government buildings in Lagos venue of the programme. […]
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By Kene Obiezu It has been eight years, but like a festering wound, the national slight that Chibok in Borno State Nigeria represents just refuses to go away, becoming in the process the symbol of the sinister scar that was first scratched into the soul of a country that has never remained the same. A […]
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At least 18 persons were feared dead in an accident involving two Mazda buses and Previa bus around Isara Bridge on Lagos-Ibadan express road. A statement by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO), Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM), Bisi Kazeem on Sunday in Abuja disclosed this. He said the accident which […]
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Seeks members total support to form govt The Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT) Chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin has said that Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State is a very important and resourceful member of the PDP who should not be allowed to leave the Party. He said Wike has committed so […]
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The hundreds of Nigerians convicted in foreign prisons were largely left with no legal assistance or no help from the Nigerian government to get a fair trial, the Legal Defence and Assistance Project has said. At a roundtable on ‘Moving Nigeria Towards the Abolition of the Death Penalty’ organized for the media and civil society […]
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Report that no fewer than 800 Nigerians are awaiting execution in South Asian countries over drug-related crimes is devastating. It merely underscores the degenerate state of a country whose image on the global arena is fast waning. Yet, Nigeria is a country with great potentials in human and material resources, begging only for responsible and […]
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has sealed 10 packaged water companies in Ondo State over alleged non-compliance with the regulation and standards. The Ondo State Coordinator of NAFDAC, Mr Benu Philip, disclosed this in an interview on Sunday in Akure. He said the affected companies which spread across the […]
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By Martins Oloja My brother, it is becoming increasingly disconcerting and very curiously so that it is safer to be a Christian in Afghanistan and Pakistan than in Nigeria. It is really concerning…How are you and family faring…? THAT is an excerpt from one of the many messages that I have been receiving from diplomats, […]
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The police have rescued 77 suspected abducted persons in Ondo City. A statement by the police spokeswoman of Ondo State Police Command, SP Funmilayo Odunlami, said that they included 26 children, eight teenagers and 43 adults. According to the statement, titled “Case of suspected abduction,”: Following Intelligence Report gathered by the Police at Fagun Division, […]
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A victim of kidnapping, Mrs. Folakemi Fadoju, who recently regained her freedom has described the kidnappers’ den as a hell in the four days spent in the captivity of the hoodlums. It was gathered that the 41-year-old Fadoju and her son were kidnapped by some gunmen at her sawmill in Oka Area of Ondo town, […]
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