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16-year-old secondary school student commits suicide

A 16-year-old final year student of Miracle Senior High School at Barkoniaba in the Sunyani municipality of the Bono Region, Ghana has allegedly committed suicide. Leticia Kyere Pinaman is alleged to have been found hanging at the school’s dining hall ...

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El-Rufai sacks nurses, warns KASU lecturers over strike

Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai has sacked all nurses below Level 14, who abandoned their duty posts to participate in the strike spearheaded by the Nigeria Labour Congress. He also threatened to sack lecturers of the Kaduna State University (KASU), who ...

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Okowa sacks CoS, SSG, commissioners, political aides

  Delta Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has dissolved the State Executive Council and sacked all the commissioners and political appointees. Former Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu made this known today. Aniagwu said the decision was taken after Tuesday’s state executive ...

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Nigeria suspends issuance of new passports till June 1

  The Comptroller-General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mr Muhammad Babandede, has announced the suspension of receiving and processing of all fresh passport applications nationwide until June 1. Babandede, while briefing newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, said that a new passport ...

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Emir of Kano, passengers escape death as Kano-Abuja Max Air engine fails

  The Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado-Bayero, and scores of other passengers escaped death after the engine of a Max Air aircraft flying the Kano-Abuja route failed. Daily Nigerian reports that the fault was noticed 10 minutes after take-off from ...

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Gunmen invade sharia court in Katsina, kidnap Judge

Gunmen have reportedly invaded a Sharia Court in Bauren Zakat village in Safana Local Government Area of Katsina State and kidnapped a judge identified as Alhaji Husaini Sama’ila. It was gathered that the incident occurred at about 3pm on Tuesday. ...

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Many Nigerians hypertensive but unaware – Expert

The president of the Nigeria Hypertension Society (NHS) Professor Ayodele Omotoso says one in every three Nigerian is hypertensive. The professor, who made the claim in a press statement issued to mark World Hypertension Day (WHD), explained that studies conducted ...

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Gunmen kidnap UNIJOS professor, husband in Plateau

A professor with the Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Jos, Grace Ayanbimpe, has been kidnapped by gunmen. The Punch learnt that the professor was abducted in the early hours of Monday alongside her husband by the gunmen who stormed ...

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Dangote’s son-in-law Jamil advises those intending to marry

Dangote’s son-in-law, Jamil Abubakar has given a word of advice to those intending to marry asking them not to be a liability to themselves and others. Jamil in a tweet pleaded with his friends and family intending to get married ...

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Two policemen killed in fresh attack on Ubakala police station (Photos)

Gunmen in the early hours of Monday set ablaze the Ubakala Divisional Police Station in Umuahia South Local Government Area of Abia and killed two policemen. The attackers also set ablaze all the vehicles in the premises.     The ...

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12-year-old girl raped & stabbed to death by paedo

The depraved beast who allegedly raped and stabbed a 12-year-old girl to death has been arrested. Sergey Matyushin, 49, is said to have followed Anastasia Guzhvina for several days before attacking her in the village of Bolshoe Kozino in Russia’s ...

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EFCC arrests ex-Kwara governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed

The immediate past Governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed, is presently in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Sources stated that the former governor has been under interrogation for the past seven hours at the EFCC headquarters ...

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40 cattle die after eating poisonous grass in Taraba

Confusion has set in among pastoralists in Taraba state as 40 cattle died after allegedly eating a type of poisonous grass called ‘killer grass’. According to Daily Trust, all the cattle belong to a pastoralist in Gamgam village in the ...

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Markets, hospitals, schools shut as strike begins in Kaduna

The five-day warning strike directed by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over the irregular sacking of civil servants began today in Kaduna State. What’s more to it is that, schools, banks and other business premises are closed. Also, while some ...

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Yoruba Nation rally: Trouble averted as Igboho’s supporters tackle DSS

A major crisis was narrowly averted when operatives of the Department of State Services and some men that accompanied a Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, had an encounter on the premises of the palace of the Ataoja ...

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“Come to Yoruba Nation. Igboho will not allow any police to arrest you”- Yoruba Nation agitator tells Yahoo boys (video)

  A young woman agitating for Youruba Nation has gone viral after she urged Internet fraudsters popularly known as the Yahoo boys to come and settle in South West. In a video shared online, the Yoruba agitators advised Yahoo boys ...

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Two die, 100 injured as Jerusalem synagogue grandstand seating collapses

An Orthodox synagogue in the West Bank settlement of Giv’at Ze’ev northwest of Jerusalem has collapsed, killing two persons and injuring more than 100, Israeli emergency services confirmed. CNN reports that at least two people have been confirmed dead in ...

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Woman caught with Indian hemp, injures Ekiti NSCDC officer

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Ekiti State Command, has arrested a 20-year-old woman, Muibat Ahmed, for alleged possession of an illegal substance suspected to be cannabis sativa. The state Commandant, NSCDC, Mr Solomon Iyamu, said the suspect, in ...

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Fire guts INEC headquarters in Enugu

The headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Enugu State, was on Sunday night gutted by fire, most likely set by arsonists. The incident happened barely one week after the agency’s office in Obollo-Afor, Udenu was razed The ...

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Kidnapped Deeper Life pastor regains freedom in Ondo

Kidnapped Deeper Life Bible Church pastor in Ondo, Otamayomi Ogedengbe has been released by his abductors. Ogedengbe was abducted by gunmen last Monday inside the church after the Bible Study and whisked away to an unknown destination. The abductors later ...

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YED4GEJ begs Nigerians to convince Jonathan to join 2023 presidency race

2023: YED4GEJ launches #BringbackGEJ project A group under the aegis of Youths Earnestly Demand For Goodluck E.Jonathan, YED4GEJ 2023, has asked all Nigerians to join in the efforts to convince former President Goodluck Jonathan to join the 2023 presidency race ...

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There won’t be election again in Yorubaland until we have Yoruba nation – Sunday Igboho blows hot

Self-styled Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, on Saturday, threatened to disrupt the 2023 general elections in Southwest states of Nigeria. Mr Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, spoke in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, during a Yoruba Nation rally, where participants ...

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Osinbajo offers scholarship to Ekiti artist Abosede Okeowo

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has offered a gifted physically challenged artist, Ms Abosede Okeowo, a US online scholarship to enhance her skills. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said the presentation was made recently at ...

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“Ned Nwoko, please release my daddy” : Teenage girl cries for help (Video)

A teenage girl from billionaire Ned Nwoko’s Idume Ugboko community in Delta state has dragged him to social media, accusing him of arresting her dad and several others over land matters. Nwoko had previously been accused of land grabbing to ...

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70-year-old man arrested for stealing human hair in barbershop

A 70-year-old man, Michael Omolayo, suspected to be a ritualist has been arrested in Akure, the Ondo State capital, for packing human hair in large quantities at a barbershop. It was gathered that Omolayo was almost lynched by some irate ...

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