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Court Nullifies Adamawa APC Primary Which Produced Aishatu Binani As Governorship Candidate

  A Federal High Court sitting in Yola has nullified the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election which produced Senator Aishatu Binani as the party’s governorship candidate for Adamawa State. Ruling on suit FHC/YL/CS/12/2022 filed by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the ...

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65-Year Old Man Docked For N27. 2 Million Forex Fraud

  A 65-year-old man, Felix Adeyemi, was on Friday docked in an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan, for alleged N27. 2 million Forex fraud. Adeyemi, whose residential address was not provided, is charged with obtaining money under false pretence and theft. ...

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Soludo Imposes N100,000 Levy For Pasting Of Burial Posters, Banners

  Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has announced payments by families burying their loved ones, before they can paste posters of the deceased. A letter by the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Anambra State Signage and Advertisement Agency, ...

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Chimamanda Adichie Rejects National Honour From President Buhari

Award-winning Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, rejected he national honour offered to her by President Muhammadu Buhari. The writer’s communications manager, Omawumi Ogbe, confirmed the development to Guardian on Thursday. Ogbe said Chimamanda conveyed her non-acceptance of the award privately ...

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Bamise: PDP’s Jandor Pays N500k Mortuary Bill

  Lagos PDP governorship candidate, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran aka Jandor has paid the over N500, 000 accumulated mortuary bill of late fashion designer, Miss Oluwabamise Ayanwola, allegedly murdered by a BRT driver. The 22-year old Ayanwola was allegedly r3ped and ...

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Osinachi Thought Her Abusive Husband Would Change – Neighbour

A neighbour of the late gospel singer, Osinachi, Grace Nnaji, on Thursday told a Federal Capital Territory Court in Abuja, that the singer, on many occasions begged her not to report her husband, Peter Nwachukwu’s abuse. Nnaji, a tailor, told ...

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Lagos Probes Nurses For Filming Rico Swavey’s Last Moments

A 30-second video clip showing the final moments of a former reality TV star, Patrick Fakoya, aka Rico Swavey, at a hospital in Lagos State, has attracted condemnation from members of the public. In the clip recorded by one of ...

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Wike Increases Appointment Of Special Assistants From 28,000 To 50,000

  Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has upgraded the appointment of Special Assistants on Political Units from 28,000 to 50,000. This was disclosed in a statement on Thursday by the governor’s spokesman, Kelvin Ebiri. “Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo ...

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Nnamdi Kanu Discharged, But Not Acquitted – AGF Malami Says

  The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has reacted to the judgement of the Court of Appeal in Abuja on Thursday quashing the charges against the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi ...

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Mechanic Bags 12-month Imprisonment For Cybercrime In Kwara

  Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of Kwara State High Court, Ilorin, on Thursday, sentenced a 27-year-old mechanic, Adebayo Bolaji, to 12-month imprisonment, having found him guilty of offences bordering on cybercrime and possession of fraudulent funds. Adebayo was arraigned on a ...

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ASUU Finally Suspends 8-Month-Strike Conditionally

  House rent, wasted full academic year; issues as Students of UNILAG, University of Ibadan, Obafemi Awolowo University, UNN others return to school after eight months   The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) has suspended its eight-month-old industrial action ...

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“The Bible needs to be edited. I’m struggling to forgive and understand God” – BBNaija’s Alex writes as she mourns colleague, Rico Swavey

  Touching tributes have continued to pour in for Big Brother Naija star, Rico Swavey, who passed away this morning, Thursday, October 13. The 29-year-old reality TV star succumbed to the cold hands of death following his involvement in a ghastly ...

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Osun Speaker, Aides In Hospital After Convoy’s Accident

Osun Speaker Timothy Owoeye and some of his aides are receiving treatment in a hospital after his convoy was involved in an accident on Thursday. The Nation gathered that the accident occurred around 2pm along Ilesha/Osogbo when the Speaker was ...

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51-Year-Old Man Beats Wife To Death In Ogun

A 51-year-old man, Oluranti Badejo has been arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command, for allegedly beating his 40-year-old wife, Folasade Badejo, to death. The incident occured on Wednesday, at Orimerunmu, Mowe in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the ...

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Appeal Court Acquits Nnamdi Kanu, Strikes Out FG’s Charge

The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Thursday, quashed the terrorism charge the Federal Government preferred against the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. It discharged and acquitted him of the seven-count charge pending against ...

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IPOB Knocks FG Over Boko Haram Terrorists’ Release

The Indigenous People of Biafra has condemned the recent release of 101 members of Boko Haram terrorists from Ikoyi Prison by the Federal Government. IPOB said while the government released known terrorists, it was illegally detaining IPOB’s leader, Nnamdi Kanu, ...

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Jamaica Bans Music And TV Broadcasts Which Glorify Criminal Activity, Violence, Drug Use Or Guns

  Jamaica’s broadcasting regulator has banned music and TV broadcasts deemed to glorify or promote criminal activity, violence, drug use, scamming and weapons. The government said the ban is meant to cut back on material that ‘could give the wrong ...

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I’ll Go To Jail For Chioma – Davido

  Davido has vowed to go to jail for his fiancee and baby mama, Chioma if need be. The “Assurance” singer revealed this during an interview with Miyabel on Hot 97. He stated he would go to jail for Chioma aka ...

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I can’t Believe You Are 20 Already -Stella Damasus Celebrates Look-Alike Daughter As She Turns A Year Older

Nollywood actress and filmmaker, Stella damasus is today, October 13 celebrating the 20ty birthday of her look-alike daughter, Angelica Aboderin. Stella Damasus who couldn’t contain her excitement watching her second daughter attain the age of 20 penned touching note to ...

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May Edochie Speaks Hours After Second Wife, Judy Takes Up Husband’s Surname

  May Edochie Speaks Hours After Second Wife, Judy Takes Up Husband’s Surname The first wife of the actor Yul Edochie, May has spoken out hours after her husband’s second wife, Judy Austin fully embraced his surname May who stated ...

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Ex-banker Jailed For Stealing Customer’s N2.5m

A former banker with First City Monument Bank, FCMB, Emeka Okafor, has been sentenced to one year imprisonment for forgery and altering of documents to steal N2.5m in a fixed deposit of one Donatus Ogbonna, a customer of the bank. Okafor, according ...

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Hisbah Arrests 31 For Prostitution, Drunkenness

  Operatives of Hisbah have arrested 31 people, including 25 women, in Kazaure Local Government Area, Jigawa, over alleged “immoral acts”. Malam Ibrahim Dahiru, the Hisbah commander in the state, disclosed this on Wednesday in Dutse. He explained that the ...

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