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Kano State Fire Service Director dead

Alhaji Sagir Madaki, Director, Kano State Fire Service, is dead. Madaki, aged 56, died at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano today. Alhaji Saidu Muhammed, spokesman of the fire fighting outfit, while confirming Madaki’s demise in a telephone interview, said ...

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Rivers ranks second in money laundering – EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has rated Rivers as the state with the second highest number of laundering cases in the country. Lagos beats Rivers to the top spot as the state with the highest number of money ...

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Malaga suspend coach Victor Sanchez over explicit video

Spanish side Malaga have suspended head coach Victor Sanchez after an explicit video of the 43-year-old was posted on social media. The second-tier side said an investigation had been launched. Writing on Twitter, Sanchez said he had been blackmailed over ...

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Government ordered suspension of LASU undergraduate’s burial – Family

The family of the late Favour Daley-Oladele said that an order from the Lagos State Ministry of Health stopped it from burying her remains at the Atan Cemetery in the Yaba Local Government Area of the state on Tuesday. Speaking ...

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World’s worst measles outbreak kills 6,000 in DRC

The number of people killed by a measles epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed 6,000, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The WHO says the epidemic is the world’s largest and fastest moving. Around 310,000 suspected ...

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Ukrainian passenger plane carrying 180 people crashes in Iran shortly after takeoff

A Ukrainian Boeing-737 with 180 people onboard has crashed in Iran, according to local media. Iran’s Red Crescent said there is no chance of finding survivors. The aircraft belonging to Ukraine International Airlines crashed just after take-off from Iran’s Imam ...

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Iran targets US troops with missile strikes

Two airbases housing US troops in Iraq have been hit by more than a dozen ballistic missiles, according to the US Department of Defence. Iranian state TV says the attack is a retaliation after the country’s top commander Qasem Soleimani ...

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Fire guts CAC Church, residential buildings in Osun

Some parts of Christ Apostolic Church district headquarters, Dada Estate in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, have been gutted by fire. Properties worth millions were destroyed. The cause of the fire, which lasted for an hour, is unknown. It took ...

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26-year-o[d man with ‘a third testicle’ had it surgically removed

A 26-year-old man with a “third testicle” dangling between his legs has finally had the bizarre growth removed. Ravon, from Clarksville, Tennessee, went to see Dr Pimple Popper – real name Sandra Lee – at her clinic, on the latest ...

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Seven missing as gunmen block highway, hijack vehicles in Katsina state

The police in Katsina State, on Monday, confirmed that its Operation Puff Adder team rescued occupants of two J5 buses abducted by suspected bandits at Ruma Village. The village is along Jibia/Batsari Road. The police, however, clarified that they were ...

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Mum blames Snapchat and Facebook for death of daughter

A devastated mum has blamed social media after her beautiful 19-year-old daughter took her own life five days before Christmas. Chloe Davison, who wanted to be a carer, was found dead at her family home in County Durham on December ...

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UAE unveils 5-year multi-entry tourist visas for all nationalities

The United Arab Emirates on Monday introduced a multiple-entry visa scheme valid for five years for all nationalities, with the aim of turning the Gulf state into a tourism hub.   “#UAE Cabinet chaired by @HHShkMohd, approves new amendment for ...

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Siasia Resorts to GoFundMe to Raise Money for His Appeal At CAS

Former Super Eagles forward and coach, Samson Siasia, has started a GoFundMe appeal to raise money to fund his case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in order to overturn the life ban slammed on him by world ...

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FIRE guts London’s iconic KOKO nightclub (photos)

A fire started  last night at London’s KOKO club, a landmark of the city’s nightlife, but has been  controlled by the London Fire Brigade. The fire started shortly before 9PM GMT at the Camden venue, the London Fire Brigade said. ...

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New Year: Tinubu heads to State House to greet President Buhari (photos)

President Muhammadu Buhari today met behind closed doors with the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, at the State House. Although the subject of the discussion of the meeting was not disclosed, Asiwaju Tinubu told ...

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Police officers arrested for brutalizing a civilian in Enugu state

Enugu State Police Command has paraded three of its officers who were caught brutalising a civilian identified as Mr Justice Obasi in a viral social media video. It was learnt that the incident which took place on January 4 along ...

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Lagos ‘forcefully’ takes ailing 14-day-old baby from Jehovah Witness parents after they refused her Blood transfusion

Way forward! The Lagos State Government, through the Office of the Public Defender (OPD), has recovered a severely jaundiced 14-day-old baby whose parents denied her life-saving blood transfusion on religious grounds. The baby girl (name withheld) was delivered prematurely at ...

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Saraki secures injunction stopping further demolition

The Saraki family says that it has secured an ex parte injunction restraining the Kwara State Government, the state House of Assembly and their agencies from further demolition of Ile Arugbo. One of the family’s lawyer, Abdulazeez Ibrahim, disclosed this ...

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