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Hairdresser to die by hanging for armed robbery
High Court For being found guilty of stealing a laptop and mobile phone at gunpoint, a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja yesterday sentenced a 25-year-old male hairdresser, Izunna Ajaere, to death. The...
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AAU alumni celebrate Keyamo’s SAN elevation
Keyamo The alumni association of Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, has felicitated with popular Lagos lawyer and social activist, Mr. Festus Keyamo, on his recent elevation as a Senior Advocate of...
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JED to achieve one million new customers by mid-2018
PHOTO :Iwin.org.ng Managing Director of Jos Electricity Distribution Plc (JED), Mallam Mohammed Gidado Modibbo, has disclosed that JED’s target is to achieve over one million new customers by the...
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Security operatives bust petrol vandals, foil kidnap
The location in Abule Egba where petrol is siphoned illegally. PHOTO: SUNDAY AKINLOLU Operatives of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) surveillance team yesterday foiled a kidnap attempt...
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We are dying slowly, residents lament Ajah-Badore congestion
The closed NEPA Road taken over by traders. The backbreaking and nightmarish logjam is back on the Lekki-Ajah roundabout, four months after the Lagos State government commissioned the Ajah Jubilee...
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Rotarian honoured with Paul Harris Fellow
Assistant Governor Kayode Aderinokun, Past District Governor Adeniji Raji, club president Chijioke Omile and Atrib The Rotary Club of Lekki Phase 1, District 9110 Nigeria, has celebrated the decoration...
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Tales of horror, deaths at Ogwashi-Uku Prison
PHOTO: HuffingtonPost The sight of the Ogwashi-Uku medium security prison is a depressing one to behold for a correctional centre. Sited in the headquarters of Aniocha South Local Government Area of...
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NDLEA destroys 16 hectares of hemp farm in Osun
The heaps of Indian hemp recovered from hoodlums in Mushin Police recover 38 bags if Indian hemp worth over N20m The Osun State command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Wednesday...
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Task force nabs suspect for allegedly assaulting safety corps personnel
The injured officials Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit yesterday arrested and arraigned one Chigozie Okoro for allegedly assaulting a personnel of the...
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Daughter of plane crash victim pens tribute to father 25 years after
Ms. Stephanie Mngu Wase Adaa, daughter of one of the military officers who died in the C130 Airforce plane crash of September 1992, remembers that black letter day. September 26, 1992, marked exactly...
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Gunmen abduct Magistrate in Kogi, demand N100m
An eyewitness said the magistrate was returning from Onyedega, his station, in the company of a friend, when the hoodlums struck kidnapping him at Jimgbe near Salem University, Lokoja about 7pm. PHOTO:...
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Two years after jumping bail, armed robbery suspect nabbed in Asaba
The suspect, sporting a T-shirt and black trousers, was sighted by one of the residents he allegedly robbed while he was eating roasted plantain and beans around Anwai road in Asaba, who shouted for...
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‘One-Chance’ robbers bag 14 years imprisonment
The prosecution, led by Mrs. O. Akinsete, a Senior State Counsel, asked for a sentence that would serve as a deterrent to other perpetrators of ‘one chance’ crimes. Two men, Samuel Oyeniyi, 30, and...
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Oko-Baba: Traders groan as market remains shut two months after
This week makes it six weeks since the market was shut down by the state government for a variety of infractions ranging from dirtiness to loading their wares on the bridge despite warnings to desist...
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Kebbi, UNICEF set up scheme for pregnant women, children
Pregnant woman PHOTO: Courtesy of www.globalhealth.duke.edu Kebbi State government, in partnership with UNICEF, yesterday, flagged off the malarial scheme, while also setting up an emergency transport...
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Commendation galore as Fr. Mbamalu bows out of St Charles College
Fr. Hilary Nwajagu, manager, Loretto Special Science School (left); Fr Francis Ojukwu, manager, Waterside Hospital Onitsha; Fr Peter Nwanso, deputy manager, St Charles College; Rev Fr. Vitus Mbamalu,...
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Police recover illicit drugs in Mushin, arrest 50 suspected peddlers
A Joint enforcement operation by operatives of the Lagos State police command and the task force at the weekend, led to the arrest of 50 suspected criminals and the recovery of 48 bags of illicit...
View ArticleCourt orders insurance company to pay ex-staff N1.2m
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria sitting in Abuja, on Monday, ordered Northlink Insurance Brokers Plc, to pay its former employee, Mr Raphael Ajayi, N1. 2 million, as accrued terminal benefits...
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Gunmen stormed a market in the Nigerian city of Port Harcourt on Monday, with claims that at least 10 people were killed, in the latest violence to hit the southern oil hub. The incident happened at...
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Three years after graduation, visually impaired scholar seeks employment
Nneji, from Umuezeowo, Umunomo, Ehime Mbano Local Council of Imo State, was born on September 23, 1988. He was not born blind. He became physical-challenged at the age of eight, when he was playing a...
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