Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress national vice chairman, Inuwa Abdulkadir, has been suspended by the National Working Committee of the party. APC’s spokesperson, Lanre Issa-Onilu, in a statement on Thursday said Abdulkadir was suspended “over anti-party activities” He said: “The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has upheld the disciplinary actions […]
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The Federal Government said 994 Nigerians have been deported from Ghana through the land borders in the last 18 months. The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, explained that 508 Nigerians were deported within the last six months, while 486 were repatriated in 2018. She disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday, while meeting […]
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President of Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Amaju Pinnick has been removed from his position as First Vice-President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). Pinnick, who served in the position since July 2018, has been replaced by South Africa’s Danny Jordaan. His removal by CAF President Ahmad came after Ahmad signed an agreement on behalf […]
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– Abductors demand N70m ransom A former Coach of the Super Eagles, Samson Siasia, has spoken to his mother, Beauty Ogere and two others abducted from his Odoni community, Sagbama Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, by unknown gunmen. The gunmen, who reportedly called Siasia with a foreign number, were said to have demanded N70 million […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed delight at the International Religious Freedom Award conferred on Imam Abubakar Abdullahi by the U.S. Department of State. On behalf of the Federal Government, President Buhari heartily congratulated Abubakar on the well-deserved honour by no less a credible and formidable government agency of the United States. The President, in a […]
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The Custodian of the Throne of Oduduwa, the ancestral father of the Yoruba speaking people worldwide and foremost Royal Father, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on Thursday said that his people do not want to experience any other war. Specifically, he told President Muhammadu Buhari that his people want peace. The monarch spoke with State House correspondents after meeting with the […]
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By Dare Babarinsa Next week, Mrs Funke Olakunrin, the beloved daughter of Chief Reuben Famuyide Fasoranti, would be buried in Akure, the Ondo State capital. Last week, Funke was alive and well. This week, she is in the mortuary. Next week, she is in the grave. She was a victim. We are all victims. Last […]
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Justice Darius Khobo of Kaduna State High Court, on Thursday, adjourned hearing in the application for permission to travel to India for medical attention filed by Ibrahim El-Zazaky and his wife, Zinat, to July 29. The Islamic Movement of Nigeria leader and his wife applied to the court seeking to travel on the grounds of […]
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United States has conferred Religious Freedom Award on Imam Abdullahi Abubakar, who saved over 200 Christians during an attack from suspected herdsmen in Plateau State. The first-ever International Religious Freedom Awards ceremony was hosted by Secretary Pompeo on Wednesday in the United States. The award honours extraordinary advocates of religious freedom from around the world. […]
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British-born Nigerian writer, Tade Thompson, Wednesday won the Arthur C Clarke award, the UK’s most prestigious prize for science fiction novels at a ceremony in Foyles bookshop in London. His novel, Rosewater, an alien invasion novel set in a future Africa, was submitted alongside 124 other novels, the highest number ever submitted for the prize, […]
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