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Leah Sharibu’s parents write President Buhari

Parents of Leah Sharibu have appealed to President Buhari to use the same negotiators and strategies used to secure the release of other schoolchildren to rescue her. Leah Sharibu was one of the 110 female students of the Government Girls’ ...

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Kwara Oba, Ashaolu Adeyemi is dead.. Governor mourns

Kwara Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has commiserated with the people of Ekan-meje in the Oke Ero Local Government Area of the state over the demise of their traditional ruler, Oba Michael Ashaolu Adeyemi. His condolence message was contained in a statement ...

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Nigeria records 394 new Covid-19 cases, total now 159,646

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 394 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 159,646. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Wednesday. “On the 10th of ...

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Govt officials always present whenever I meet bandits – Gumi

Popular Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has disclosed that his interactions with bandits were done in the presence of government officials. Gumi disclosed this while rebuking those calling for his arrest and prosecution over his interaction with bandits. The Islamic ...

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Ivorian Prime Minister dies 2 days after his 56th birthday

Ivory Coast’s Prime Minister, Hamed Bakayoko, who was seen as a possible successor to President Alassane Ouattara, has died in a hospital in southwest Germany, two days after his 56th birthday, the government said on Wednesday. A former media executive ...

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Fake soldier meets his waterloo in Cross River (Photo)

Twenty-eight year old Ogbonnia Paul Chukwudi met his waterloo as his was arrested by security operatives after successfully impersonating as a soldiers for four years in Cross River State. The fake soldier from Ebonyi State has been impersonating for the ...

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Anthony Joshua, medical practitioner, 12 others jailed for Cybercrime

Anthony Joshua, a medical practitioner,  Mbewu Chijioke Precious and 12 others have been sentenced to prison for cyber crime by justice Simon Amobeda of the Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State. The Uyo Zonal Office of the ...

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LASTMA urges Lagosians to use nose mask in public

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has advised residents to use a nose mask in public regularly to avoid been infected with the second wave of Covid-19. The Public Relations Officer of the authority, Mr Olumide Filade, made the ...

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Makinde suspends monthly sanitation exercise indefinitely

Oyo State Government has announced the suspension indefinitely of the last Saturday of the month environmental sanitation exercise and restriction of movement during the period in the state. The monthly environmental sanitation exercise between 7 am and 10 am, was ...

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Thai PM sprays reporters with hand sanitiser in a bid to dodge tough questions

Omooooooooooo lol. Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha left reporters stunned and amused on Tuesday when he interrupted his own news conference to spray them with hand sanitiser in a bid to dodge tough questions.  Prayuth became frustrated when asked about ...

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Beyonce backs Meghan Markle in powerful show of support

Beyonce has backed Meghan Markle in a powerful show of support for the Duchess of Sussex.   The megastar is the latest big name to publicly praise the former actress for her bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey. Beyonce, 39, says ...

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Photos from NLC and TUC nationwide strike protest

Recall members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) had promised to embark on a nationwide protest today? Well they kept to their promise.The protest is coming following plans to amend the national minimum wage ...

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Customs bribes bandits with rice in Katsina to escape attack

Officials of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have handed over at least seven bags of 50kg rice to bandits in Katsina State as a bribe to escape abduction or other forms of attack. The Sector 4 Command of the Joint ...

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Gunmen abduct three sisters in Kogi, demand N100m ransom

Gunmen men struck in the early hours of Tuesday in Eteh-Okofi, a silent agrarian community in Koton Karffe Local Government Area of Kogi State and abducted three sisters. They have demanded a huge sum of money if the girls must ...

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Man beats wife to death with pestle in Bayelsa (Photo)

Police in Bayelsa State have arrested and paraded a 56-year-old man, Christopher Chiabata, from Onuebum Community in Ogbia Local Government Area of the state for beating his wife to death with a pestle. He was apprehended after a failed attempt ...

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Woman kills her ex-boyfriend ‘because he refused to pay for her boob job’

A woman shot dead her ex-boyfriend because he refused to pay for her boob job, it’s claimed. Cristina D’Avila Teixeira Rodrigues, 24, was arrested in Brazil for allegedly executing the businessman with a shot to the back of the head. ...

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Reno Omokiri shades Tonto Dikeh amidst Meghan Markle/Royal Family saga

A former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has shaded Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh over claims she thought Olakunle CHurchill was ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s son when she married him. Reno who was wading into the Meghan Markle/Royal Family crisis said a similar ...

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Buhari’s daughter, Zahra Indimi demands retraction, apology from Sahara Reporters

President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughter, Zahra Buhari-Indimi, has given Sahara Reporters a seven-day ultimatum to retract what she describes as an injurious and defamatory publication against her. She gave the ultimatum in a letter to the newspaper and signed by her ...

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