• Critics overheating polity, says minister The Federal Government yesterday faulted former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s assessment of President Muhammadu Buhari’s score card in the last six years. It disagreed with the former leader’s remark that the President has nothing to offer in office, particularly on the worsening insecurity that has upset the country. The government […]
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Men carry goods from a depot after a tanker truck exploded in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, December 14, 2021. At least 75 people were killed when a gas tanker truck exploded in the Haitian city of Cap-Haitien on December 14, 2021 morning, a local official said, with overwhelmed medics saying the toll was set to rise. Richard […]
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Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP) • Boko Haram would have declared Islamic State in Nigeria, FG flays critics • Bandits kill Kaduna lawmaker, gunmen kidnap Imo monarch • Buhari should show empathy to Nigerians, says Obasanjo’s committee • Govt insensitive to people’s plight – Rafsanjani • Police […]
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By Abdu Rafiu The trumpet is blaring, but life goes on. Scary headlines roared in many parts of the world in the last one week or so to which a great many would appear not to have given heed. Many dismiss them as the usual daily and periodic occurrences. Not even with the frequency and […]
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Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has declared that only the Peoples Democratic Party can rescue Nigeria and place it on the path of economic prosperity and sustainable development. He stated this when he received members of Atiku Support Group, led by Chief Raymond Dokpesi, who were on a courtesy visit at the Government House, […]
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Operatives of the Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team have arrested four suspects in connection with the abduction and gruesome killing of one Mrs Nneka Kalu, earlier reported missing. She was found dead in a cassava farm on August 29, 2021, in Ngugworo community in Nguzu Edda in Afikpo South, Ebonyi State. Those arrested included the […]
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As part of the ongoing investigations of the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former Managing Director of Fidelity Bank Plc, Nnamdi Okonkwo, allegedly over an additional $72.87m still in the coffers of the bank. Okonkwo and Charles Onyedibe were currently being quizzed by operatives […]
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President Buhari and Tinubu Meets northern alliance, says consultations ongoing All Progressives Congress stalwart, Bola Tinubu, says he will not reject calls to contest for the Presidency in 2023. Tinubu stated this in Abuja on Tuesday after a meeting with members of the Northern Alliance Committee. While refusing to officially declare his ambition, he said […]
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A 37-year-old man, Azeez Ilias, identified as the son of a traditional ruler in the Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State, and a woman, identified only as Deborah, have been found dead in a car parked in front of a building in Ago Egun, Idiroko. While they were found naked, their clothes were not […]
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Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lead counsel to the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has tackled the Department of State Services over claims that the IPOB leader is living a luxurious life in detention and not maltreated. In a press statement on Wednesday, Ejiofor said his client is tortured mentally and psychologically on a […]
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