Troops of Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) have arrested eight suspects in connection with the death of two women out of three shot on a farm close to Rafin Bauna axis in Bassa LGA of Plateau State. The troops had responded to a distress call that three women were shot on their farm close to Rafin […]
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By Abiodun Adeniyi That said, how did Dare perform at the Olympics? Having only been in office for about two years, should be take the blame for failures of some past leaders like Dalung? Records in the public space show that Nigeria got a bronze medal in long jump, 25 years after Chioma Ajunwa won […]
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Convention holds October NWC members barred from seeking second term Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors stayed a middle course yesterday in a bid to save the party from disintegration. The main opposition party has been engulfed in a leadership crisis. The governors saved embattled National Chairman Uche Secondus from humiliation and a disgrace out of […]
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The trial of popular actor, Olanrewaju Omiyinka, aka Baba Ijesha, at the Lagos Special Offences Court in Ikeja, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, has been stalled. It was gathered the trial was stalled due to the long vacation of the judges. In a notice, the judges will be on vacation till third week of September. […]
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Group threatens to file lawsuit, insists FG sacks internet service provider over incompetence Customs yet to ascertain cause of server disruptions, restore normalcy Port operators have bemoaned the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) for the recurring server failure in its operations at the ports, which has caused importers and freight forwarders to pay over N200 billion […]
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The youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of violating the laws guiding the Federal Character Commission (FCC) with appointment of northerners into key positions in the country. It was gathered that the FCC is the agency saddled with the responsibility of enforcing Section 4 of the […]
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APGA hails Appeal Court for upholding justice Urges INEC to publish Soludo’s name now Okeke heads for Supreme Court The Court of Appeal, Kano Division, has dismissed the judgment of Jigawa High Court, which declared Chukwuma Umeoji and Jude Okeke as candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for the November 6 governorship poll, […]
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Nigeria, undeniably, is at war with itself and delicately mangled between brutal terrorists in forests and inept leadership at the peak. Nowhere perhaps is the war more evident than in the Nigerian Middle Belt, particularly in the Benue, Kaduna, Plateau, Nasarawa, Niger and Zamfara states axis. The persistent and methodical killings of natives in that […]
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Nigeria has recalled its ambassador to Indonesia over the maltreatment of an unnamed diplomat in Jakarta by that country’s immigration officers. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, who disclosed this yesterday in Abuja, confirmed the video of the abuse that had gone viral on social media at the weekend. He said: “When we saw the […]
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The Chairman, House Committee on Health, Tanko Sununu, yesterday, expressed hope that the ongoing strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) would be called off before the week runs out. He also urged the Ministry of Health to initiate payment of outstanding salary arrears of doctors as well as residency training funds for […]
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