Over 700 'ghost' students discovered in Sokoto
A committee set up by the Sokoto State Government to verify the actual number of students entitled to its scholarship says it has uncovered 706 “ghost” students. Its Chairman, Mr Shehu Wurno, announced...
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Ebonyi to launch `massive war’ against cultism
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State The Ebonyi Government says it will launch a massive war against cultism in August in order to rid the state entirely of cultists. Governor David Umahi said this on...
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Lagos Assembly loses member, Alimi
Alimi A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Kazeem Ademola Alimi is dead. The lawmaker, who represented Eti Osa Constituency 1 in the Assembly died yesterday two weeks after his 50th birthday...
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Total sponsors SOS Children’s Village house in Jos
Corporate Affairs Manager, Mr. Albert Mabuyaku (left) and the CSR Manager, Mrs. Chinwe Ifechigha, presenting the SOS Jos sponsorship cheque to Ms. Ashionye Enumah. Total Nigeria Plc has taken on...
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Three feared dead in renewed cult clash in Edo
About four persons are feared dead in several parts of Benin City, Edo State capital since Friday in a renewed cult clash. It was gathered yesterday that suspected cultists set a man, simply...
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Relief as Lagos awards Ikorodu-Arepo link road
The road After several years of failed government promises to construct the Konu-Ishawo-Lagos Ibadan Expressway road in Ikorodu West Local Council of Lagos State, residents yesterday heaved a sigh of...
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Lawyer accuses EFCC of unlawful arrest, detention
EFCC • Court orders anti-graft body to take over Lagos hotel Ndubisi Chuks Nwasike, lawyer to retired employee of Shell Petroleum, Obi Timothy Nwasike, an engineer, has accused the Economic and...
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Lagos task force arrests suspected child abductor in Oshodi
Operatives of the Lagos State task force during an over-night patrol arrested a man alleged to have abducted a six-month old baby girl, Darasimi Akinyemi, at No. 55, Oshodi Road, Oshodi. Chairman of...
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Police repel militants’ invasion of marine post in Ajah, kill dozens
File photo of a police gun boat • Three cops arrested for chaining man to generating set Policemen yesterday gunned down dozens of militants during an attempt to invade Elemoro Marine police post in...
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Lagos lawmaker, Kazeem Alimi, dies at 50
Kazeem Ademola Alimi A member of the Lagos House of Assembly, Mr Kazeem Alimi, representing Eti-Osa Constituency I, is dead. The Chairman, House Committee on Information and Strategy, Mr Tunde Braimoh,...
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Court remands in prison suspected killer of Hamburger
Late Rasaki Bello, a.k.a Hamburger An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday in Lagos remanded a 42-year-old, Samson Agbetoye, in prison over alleged killing of 49-year-old Rasaki Bello,...
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Man, father-in-law battle over child’s custody in Lagos
Njoku and the baby. It is a war of words between a man and his father-in-law over custody of a toddler whose mother died during childbirth in 2015. Who should an infant child be with after the death of...
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Rampage as tanker drivers protest against police killing
Burn banks, soldiers, others restore peace Pandemonium broke out yesterday at Creek Road in Apapa, Lagos when dozens of tanker drivers went on rampage over the killing of one of their colleagues by a...
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Navy arrests two vessels with suspected stolen diesel
The suspects A merchant vessel, MV SHIRLEY and Motor Tanker (MT) Vine allegedly laden with 745 metric tons of stolen AGO, popularly known as diesel, have been arrested by the Nigerian Navy. The...
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Two sisters choked to death in a locked room
Sympathisers at the scene of the incident Tragedy struck yesterday at North Bank, close to Agro Millers in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, when two sisters, aged 10 and seven lost their lives in a...
View ArticleOne killed as soldiers, youths clash over pipeline surveillance contract
A 20-year-old man in Ondewari Community in Bayelsa has died following a clash between soldiers and youths suspected to be pipeline vandals. Chief Peresho Erefawari, Acting Paramount Ruler of Ondewari...
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Darah speaks on restructuring, the Urhobo nation
Gordini Gabriel Darah Prominent essayist and university teacher, Prof. Gordini G. Darah is the keynote speaker at the 2017 annual lecture series of the Urhobo Foundation holding on Thursday, July 27 at...
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Suspected ritualist mobbed in Asaba
Around 4:30p.m. when civil servants were retiring from office, the suspect, Mr. Luke Emmanuel, a young man in his early 30s, was suspected of being a ritual killer and beaten to a pulp along Nnebisi...
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Rotary Club of Lagos Palmgrove Estate emerges best club
Immediate past District Governor, Patrick Ikheloa, (right); Assistant Governor, Ikoyi and E-Club of District 9110 Coastal, Ramesh Biswal; President, Rotary Club of Lagos Palmgrove Estate, Atul Keshetry...
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Toddler needs N5 million for corrective heart surgery
Arthur Moffat Twenty-month-old Arthur Moffat was recently diagnosed with an acyanotic congenital heart defect, otherwise known as a hole in the heart. Authur, who is being managed with an anti-failure...
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