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4 EFCC officials receive FBI commendation certificate

The Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States Department of Justice has presented commendation certificates to four officials of the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The certificate is in recognition of their efforts ...

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Road safety boss orders clampdown on overloaded school buses

The Corps Marshal Federal Road Safety Corps, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, has ordered the corps’ field operatives to clampdown on overloaded private school buses plying Nigerian roads as part of organised efforts to reduce crashes involving school children. The spokesman of ...

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Two arrested for dumping murdered facebook lover in Anambra bush

The Police in Anambra have arrested two persons for allegedly killing a Facebook friend and dumping the corpse in a bush in Nanka, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State. The Commissioner of Police, John Abang, disclosed this on ...

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Edo govt. shuts down orphanage where child was sold for N1.7m

The Edo State Government says it has shut Famous Faithland Orphanage for allegedly selling a baby girl for over N1.7m. The government has also withdrawn the operational licence of the facility. The state’s Commissioner for Social Development and Gender Issues, ...

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Mother jailed for letting 4-year-old son shoot himself

A mother has been jailed for six months for letting her four year-old son shoot himself dead as she slept. Tiara Danielle Jefferson, 26, was sent to jail on thursday over the May 2018 death of her son Demetrius, who ...

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Katsina engages Muslim clerics in fight against coronavirus

The Katsina State Government on Friday engaged Muslim clerics and Ulamas (Muslim leaders) leaders in a one-day sensitization meeting on measures that have been put in place to checkmate the spread of Lassa fever and coronavirus otherwise referred to as ...

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Ronaldinho joins other inmates in Paraguayan prison football match

Ronaldinho took part in a behind-bars football match at his Paraguayan prison on Friday and wiped the floor with the other inmates, scoring five goals and assisting six in an 11-2 victory. The 39-year-old, who played for Barcelona, AC Milan ...

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Emiliano Sala plane crash: Pilot did not have required licence

  The pilot of the plane crash that killed footballer Emiliano Sala, David Ibbotson, did not have the required licences or permissions to fly commercially. Both men died when the Piper Malibu light aircraft went down on January 21, 2019, as Sala ...

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Coronavirus: Tunisia orders quarantine for all visitors

Tunisia’s ministry of health has ordered all incoming travellers, regardless of where they have travelled from, to immediately self-isolate upon arrival to the country. This latest preventative measure against the spread of Covid-19 is a step up from earlier in ...

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Coronavirus: Algeria and Morocco suspend flights

Algeria and Morocco have suspended flights between the two countries to prevent the spread of coronavirus. A statement from the Algerian president’s office said an agreement had been reached with the Moroccan government to suspend flights between the two countries ...

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Man nicknamed ‘stubborn’ beats wife to coma over divorce

A 33-year-old housewife, Salami Ruth, was beaten to coma by her husband, Salami Olajide (a.k.a Stubborn) at their home on Ijede Road, Ikorodu on Saturday, 7 March, 2020. The fight followed Ruth’s pronouncement of her resolve to quit the distressed ...

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Sudan reports first coronavirus case, death

Sudan’s Health Ministry on Friday reported the first coronavirus case and and his death. The ministry identified the case as a “50-year-old man who lived in the capital Khartoum, and died on Thursday.” He had visited the United Arab Emirates, ...

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Stop cheating if you want life – Prophet Oduro cautions youth (Video)

Founder and leader of the Alabaster International Ministry, Prophet Kofi Oduro has cautioned the youth on the need to remain faithful in relationships and marriage if they want to live for long. He says cheating can ruin and destroy valuable ...

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Lagos state begins mass fumigation of public places

Lagos State Government said it will on Friday begin an eight-week massive deratisation and fumigation of no fewer than 27 model colleges with hostel facilities, abattoirs and slaughter houses, agricultural produce markets as well as regular markets in the State. ...

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London tube driver tests positive for coronavirus

A London Underground driver has today tested positive for coronavirus. The Jubilee Line driver has self-isolated after becoming one of the 590 cases in Britain. Transport for London said in a statement: “The safety of our staff and customers is ...

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Arteta speaks out after testing positive to coronavirus

  Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, has given an update on his health status, after testing positive to conoravirus, which has been declared a pandemic by the WHO. The Spanish gaffer who joined Arsenal from Manchester City was announced to have tested ...

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Driver arrested after reversing into three people including police officer

A driver has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly reversing into a group of pedestrians, including a police officer. Three people were hurt when the suspect crashed into them at a Sainsbury’s car park in Exeter at ...

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More troubles for Oshiomhole as APC removes his pictures, banners at party secretariat in Abuja

Banners displaying the pictures of the embattled chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole at the party secretariat in Abuja, have been removed. The billboard with the picture of President Muhammadu Buhari and Oshiomhole, at the entrance ...

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Cultists kill 200L student on Benue varsity campus

Suspected cultists on Wednesday night killed a 200level student on the campus of the Benue State University (BSU) in Makurdi. Witnesses said the victim was pursued from outside of the first campus gate at about 7:00pm into the institution premises ...

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Nigeria’s second patient of the Coronavirus tests negative

Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has announced that Nigeria’s second patient of Coronavirus from Ogun State has tested negative. He made the announcement today saying the man would soon be discharged from hospital. What a good news!

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CAS postpones Siasia’s FIFA ban hearing over deadly virus

Court of Arbitration for Sports, CAS, has postponed the hearing of former Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia’s appeal until further notice. Hearing was scheduled for March 19 but due to the Coronavirus outbreak, it has been postponed. CAS wrote Siasia ...

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