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Lagos seals Shina Peller’s Quillox club..

Lagos has sealed Quillox club. The club owned by a member of the House of Representatives Shina Abiola Peller was sealed over noise pollution and traffic congestion. “The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (@LasepaInfo) has sealed popular Club Quilox, Victoria ...

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Boeing fires boss Muilenburg amid 737 troubles

Boeing has fired its chief executive, Dennis Muilenburg, a move the board of directors said “was necessary to restore confidence” in the firm. David Calhoun, Boeing’s current chairman, will take over as chief executive and president from 13 January. Mr ...

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House of Reps member, Shina Peller detained in Lagos as police speak on arrest

A member of the House of Representatives representing Iseyin/Itesiwaju/Kajola/Iwajowa federal constituency, Shina Peller, has been detained at Moroko Police Station, Lagos. A statement by Peller’s Press Secretary, Kola Popoola, said the federal lawmaker was at the police station to bail ...

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Biodun Fatoyinbo celebrates wife on her birthday

The Senior Pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA),Biodun Fatoyinbo’s wife, Modele is a year older today. And her proud husband took to his Instagram page to celebrate her special day.   Fatoyinbo who was accused of rape by ...

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Yuletide: NSCDC deploys 1,200 personnel to Kano

  The Kano State Command, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has deployed 1,200 operatives to ensure security during the festive period in the state. Mr Ibrahim Idris, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, said this in a statement on ...

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Man gets catcalling charges dropped due to ‘free speech’

Frisky fellas in one city in the Netherlands are just one cat-call away from a jail cell. A 36-year-old man from Rotterdam was the first man convicted under the city’s new street harassment laws, the Guardian reported, which prohibits people ...

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Gunmen allegedly abduct Bayelsa commissioner’s 6-year-old son

The six year old son of Nengi Talbot, the Bayelsa Commissioner for Water Resources, has been kidnapped by four gunmen who stormed his home on Sunday night December 22nd. Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of the state police command, Ainim ...

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Orji Uzor Kalu to spend Christmas in prison as court rejects bail application

  Convicted Former Abia state governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, will be celebrating the yuletide in prison as his bail application was dismissed for lack in merit by a Federal high court sitting in Lagos today Monday December 23rd.   Recall ...

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DSS arraigns pastor of Akure church over missing baby

  Pastor Alfa Babatunde who is the founder of Sotitobire Miracle Centre have been arraigned by the Department of State Services before a magistrate’s court on two counts of felony and kidnap on Monday, December 23rd.   Babatunde was arraigned ...

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Algeria’s powerful military chief Ahmed Gaid Salah dies

Algerian strongman military chief Ahmed Gaid Salah, known for telling veteran leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign, has died aged 79, official media say. One of the last veterans of the 1954-62 independence war against France still in power, Gen Salah ...

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Saudi Arabia sentences 5 people to death over Khashoggi’s murder

Saudi Arabia has sentenced to death five persons accused of the brutal killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the country’s Istanbul consulate last year October. Five people will be executed and another three will be imprisoned for 24 years, according ...

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US watchlist: CAN supports America, disagrees with Buhari government

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) believes that the US government was rightly justified to have included Nigeria on a special watchlist for having “engaged in or tolerated severe violations of religious freedom”. CAN in a statement by Adebayo Oladeji, ...

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Cross River NLC Chairman regains freedom after N5m ransom

The Nigeria Labour Congress Chairman in Cross River, Ben Ukpebi, has regained freedom from his abductors. Ukpebi, who was kidnapped six days ago, was released after a ransom of 5million naira was paid to his captors, Vanguard reports. He was ...

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Abiodun appoints eight permanent secretaries

Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun has announced the appointment of eight permanent secretaries to reposition the state public service for greater efficiency and effectiveness. But sixteen old permanent secretaries retained their portfolios and 12 others swapped ministries, agencies and parastatals ...

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Man butchers his own children in Ebonyi

An Anambra State based vulcanizer Chinasa Ogbaga has reportedly butchered his two children Chikamso and Chizaram to death in Ebonyi State. A third child, Emmanuel is lying critical at the hospital from injuries sustained from the attack. The incident happened ...

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China to cut import tariffs on pork and tech parts

  China will cut tariffs on hundreds of products ranging from frozen pork to high-tech parts next year, lowering trade barriers to support the economy. In a statement, Chinese authorities said import tariffs on 859 items would be reduced from ...

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Nine dead, 100 hospitalised after consuming locally-brewed alcohol

Nine people died and more than 100 were hospitalised after drinking local liquor made from coconut sap in two separate incidents in the Philippines, police said Monday. Eight people died after drinking a local brand of the traditional liquor, known ...

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Isis in Iraq: Militants ‘getting stronger again’

There are growing indications that the Islamic State (IS) group is re-organising in Iraq, two years after losing the last of its territory in the country. Kurdish and Western intelligence officials have told the BBC that the IS presence in ...

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Fuel scarcity looms as petroleum tanker drivers threaten strike

Nigerians may be in for another round of scarcity of petroleum products in the New Year as members of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) branch of National Union of Petroleum and Engineering Gas Workers (NUPENG) have threatened to withdraw their ...

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UNIABUJA expels 100 students for malpractices

The university of Abuja have expelled 100 students for involving in examination malpractices. The university also approved the rustication of eleven students. It disclosed this in a statement by its Head, Information and University Relations, Dr. Habib Yakoob, on Sunday ...

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