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Dbanj conferred Chieftaincy title [DETAILS]
Nigerian musician and Kokomaster, Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo aka Dbanj, has been conferred with a chieftaincy title in Imo State. The veteran artist who famously sang about being conferred with a chieftaincy title everywhere he visits was conferred with...
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Drug traffickers kill NDLEA OFFICER [DETAILS]
The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency ( NDLEA ), retired Col. Mustapha Abdullah, says one of its officers in Kano command has been killed by some suspected drug traffickers. The chairman said that two other...
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See woman sexually assaulted on Flight
US authorities have arrested an Indian man after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her as she slept in the seat next to him on a US flight. Prabhu Ramamoorthy, 34, was sitting between his own wife and the alleged victim, officials say. The woman...
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Saudi Arabia hands in Ballistic Missile
Saudi Arabia says it has intercepted a ballistic missile fired towards the country by Yemen's Houthi rebels. The Saudi statement came just hours after the Yemeni group claimed to have launched the attack. State-owned TV channel Al Ekhbariya reported on...
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See North Korea trap for US
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un could be laying a trap for the US and the South with his apparent olive branches towards Seoul, analysts say, warning that Pyongyang’s ultimate goal is to divide their 70-year alliance. In his New Year speech, Kim said...
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North Korea attacks itself
A North Korean Hwasong-12 missile test that failed in flight crashed and caused considerable damage to a complex in the city of Tokchon in April of last year. An online magazine The Diplomat said though the failure of the launch was reported at the time,...
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FG to hike petrol price
The Federal Government may increase the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly called petrol to a minimum price of N180 and above anytime soon. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who dropped the hint in Abuja on Thursday,...
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Reckoning with Peace, CFN Bauchi outreach by Salaam Rasak O.
Poised with the overall significance and resultant effects of peace in humanity society as also upheld in goal 16 of Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, the humanitarian cum communitarian organization Conflict Free Nation, CFN, write to convey to the...
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Hospital staff went dramatic
Management of the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Uselu in Egor local government area on Wednesday refused 10 reinstated staff of the hospital to resume duties. The 10 staff who stormed the hospital at about 9:20am and armed with the letter reinstating...
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See state that doles scholarship to 23,000 students
The Kano State Government on Wednesday commenced payment of N300 million scholarship allowance to 23,987 students in various Nigerian universities and other institutions of higher learning in the country. Prof Fatima Umar, the Executive Secretary of the...
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Trump says Aide 'has lost his mind'
US President Donald Trump unleashed a spectacular denunciation of one of his closest political allies Wednesday, describing his former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon as insane and irrelevant. “Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency....
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16 Suspected Armed Robbers, Kidnappers under arrest
The Nigeria Police has arrested and paraded 16 suspected armed robbers and kidnappers terrorizing Abuja-Kaduna and Abuja-Suleja-Minna Highways. A statement from the Force Public Relations Officers, CSP Jimoh Moshood on Tuesday said the gang members were...
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Trump taunts Kim
US President Donald Trump has boasted that his nuclear button is "much bigger" and "more powerful" than North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's. Mr Trump's tweet is the latest contribution to an increasingly personalised feud between the nuclear-armed leaders....
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Marketers speak on petrol price
Fuel marketers on Tuesday asserted that they could no longer import Premium Motor Spirit at a control price of N145 per litre. They also said they were not responsible for the recent scarcity of the product witnessed across the country. The Chairman of...
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Again! Museveni extends rule
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has signed into law the controversial age limit Bill that removed presidential age caps, paving the way for him to serve a sixth term in office. The new law also extends the life of the current Parliament by two years...
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Mbaka admonishes Buhari on administrative effectiveness
Catholic priest and Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministries, Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has admonished President Muhammadu Buhari that Nigerians will ‘change’ him in 2019 if he does not change his style of leadership. The priest advised Buhari...
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We will win Lagos in 2019, PDP says
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said on Tuesday it would capture Lagos in the 2019 governorship election. The PDP Publicity Secretary in the state, Mr Taofeek Gani made the assertion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos. “We will...
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Abuja records low turnout of workers
Only a few workers resumed duty on Tuesday at the various ministries of the Federal Secretariat, Abuja after the New Year holiday. It was glaring that official activities were still at a low ebb due to the poor turnout of workers at their duty posts....
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Mourinho fiercely reacts to Scholes criticism
Jose Mourinho has lambasted Manchester United legend Paul Scholes for his criticism of Paul Pogba and the Red Devils. Having joined the ranks of former professionals in the punditry game, ex-England international Scholes has refused to let his strong...
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Give us our own January 1st public holiday- Muslim Group
PRESS RELEASE The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) observes that today’s holiday fully consolidated the two-day Christmas holiday and enabled Nigerian Christians to kick off the 2018 Christo-Western Gregorian calendar However, conscious Nigerian Muslims,...
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Faleke blasts Governor for donating cars, cash to masquerades
Deputy Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in Kogi State and former Campaign Coordinator to President Muhammadu Buhari in Lagos State, James Faleke has described as the height of absurdity the donation of 6 Toyota Venza Cars and...
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Governor Wike emerges silver bird's Governor of the year 2017
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike , has emerged the Silverbird Man of the Year, Twenty Seventeen. Governor Wike emerged winner from a keenly contested vote by members of the public. The winner of the prestigious Silverbird Man of the Year was...
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Nigeria to ban rice importation this year, Buhari vows
President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged that his administration will ban rice import in 2018. The president said this in his New Year broadcast on Monday. He said, “We have got to get used to discipline and direction in economic management. The days of...
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NIMC Identity Card out now. See how to check if yours is out
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) announced to the public that the permanent NIMC ID cards are out and citizens that registered earlier can now check the website to know if theirs are ready. How To Check If Your Card Is Ready 1. Visit...
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Fuel crisis blackmailers will be punished- President Buhari
The government will fish out the blackmailers behind the crippling fuel scarcity, President Muhammadu Buhari promised this morning. In his New Year address to the nation, the President regretted the untold hardship the fuel crisis caused Nigerians during...