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Yinka Ayefele’s building demolition: Read this before you get emotional & conclude wrongly

A user @obembet, on a popular Nigerian forum, Nairaland, has given her opinion concerning the popular singer, Yinka Ayefele’s building demolition, last weekend. On Sunday 19th August, 2018, the Oyo State government had taken an action to demolish Yinka Ayelefele’s Music House after serving ...

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‘Ban unemployed Nigerians from travelling to Saudi Arabia’ – Ambassador Muhammad Modibbo

Ambassador Muhammad Modibbo, Nigeria’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia who expressed concern over increasing cases of women working as maids that are being abused, and some unscrupulous Nigerians involved in drug trafficking, has urged the federal government to ban unemployed Nigerians from traveling to the ...

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Fashola should stop lying against Jonathan & give Nigerians power – Omokri

Popular critic, Reno Omokri has advised The Minister of Power, Babatunde Raji Fashola, to stop lying against Jonathan and instead give Nigerians power supply in adequate form.   He made the statement while reacting to a comment by Fashola where he said ...

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I have what it takes to compete with President Buhari – Tambuwal

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, on Monday said, he is able and capable to compete with President Buhari in the coming 2019 Presidential election.   He made this known while reacting to the statement of the APC National Leader, Ahmed Tinubu, ...

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FG recognizes Amaju Pinnick as NFF chairman

The Presidency on Monday said it recognised Amaju Pinnick as NFF Chairman alongside his executives as the authentic Nigerian Football Federation executives. The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, disclosed this in a message ...

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APC will takeover Akwa Ibom like when Hitler invaded Poland – Akpabio

Godswill Akpabio, a former Senate Minority Leader, has said the All Progressives Congress, APC will take over Akwa Ibom State in 2019 and it will be just like when the late German dictator, Adolf Hitler took over Poland.   He ...

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Federal Capital Territory commences investigation into collapsed building

  The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA says it will soon commence investigation into the recently collapsed Jabi building in the nation’s capital, Abuja. The Co-ordinator, Abuja Metropolitan Management Council, AMMC, Mr Umar Shuaibu said this while briefing journalists at the site ...

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Motorists, commuters stranded as N470million Niger bridge collapses in Niger State

A Niger bridge collapse in Dangana in the Lapai Local Government Area of Niger State, left many motorists and residents stranded for more than four hours on Friday. The people condemned the government for abandoning the structure which had reportedly gulped millions ...

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Police boss deploys more security for Eid celebration

  The Inspector-General of Police ( I-G), Mr Ibrahim Idris has directed the implementation of robust security arrangements throughout the country during the Eid-el-Kabir celebration. A statement by the Force Spokesman, acting DCP Jimoh Moshood on Sunday in Abuja, said ...

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Borno governor dispels rumour on bombing of dam by insurgents

  Governor Kashim Shettima has dispelled speculations that a dam in Alau town, a distance of about five km from Maiduguri in Borno state, had been bombed by boko haram insurgents.   Following the over-flow of water from the dam, ...

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”It is wicked, horrifying and insensitive” – PDP condemns the demolition of Yinka Aiyefele’s N800m studio

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the demolition of the studio belonging to musical maestro, Yinka Aiyefele, in Ibadan, by the Oyo state government.   In a statement signed by its publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP described the demolishing ...

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Benue first lady gives automatic employment to woman who voluntarily teaches the physically challenged in church

Wife of the Governor of Benue state, Eunice Ortom on Sunday, offered automatic employment to Ms Priscilla Hembadoon Anemba. Miss Anemba has been offering voluntary services to the  church, teaching the physically challenged and giving interpretation to the Deaf and Dumb during ...

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PDP welcomes President Buhari’s declaration to jail looters, challenges him to start with Oshiomhole, Lawal, others

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it welcomes President Buhari’s renewed declaration to jail treasury looters but however, challenge him to show integrity by starting with immediate investigation and prosecution of the factional National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams ...

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Okorocha says he will defeat Atiku in any election, even in Adamawa

  Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state has boasted that he will defeat former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, in any election, even in Adamawa state. Okorocha made the statement on Sunday, August 19, in reaction to Atiku’s comment that he ...

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Sergeant killed as police, DSS, Army rescue INEC official, eight other kidnap victims in Akwa Ibom

    The Akwa Ibom State Command in conjunction with the Military and the Department of State Service (DSS), has rescued an official of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and eight other victims who were held captive by suspected ...

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‘It is only in Nigeria that government will pay dancers to welcome a President who left his country to enjoy himself abroad’ – Ayo Fayose

Reacting to the ‘Sango’ and traditional dancers who welcomed President Buhari back to Nigeria after his 10-days working holiday to London, the governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose has described it as a waste of public funds.   In his ...

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Flashback: When Ajimobi said Yinka Ayefele’s music house is the best in Oyo State

Here is an epic throwback to 2016, when Governor Ajimobi revealed that people wanted Ayefele’s music house to be demolished, but he said ‘its the best radio studio in Oyo State.’   This morning, Nigerians woke up to the news and pictures of Yinka ...

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Anambra train task force officers in martial arts to tackle revenue defaulters

The Anambra State Government has trained members of the ‘Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra Brigade’, also known as Obiano police, in the martial arts, especially taekwondo, to tackle revenue defaulters and related offenders in the state.   Obiano who stated ...

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I feel good; ready to work harder to jail more looters – Buhari vows after vacation

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday, August 18, reportedly restated his commitment to work harder to ensure that all who looted the nation’s treasury are jailed. Buhari stated this while answering questions from journalists after disembarking from the presidential jet ...

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PDP wins Taraba Assembly bye-election

  The PDP candidate polled 10,725 to defeat his closest opponent and the candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Hon. Atem Ansho who polled 3,268 votes. Returning officer for the election and senior lecturer with the Federal University Wukari, ...

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Photos of IPOB Women packed in police cell after being arrested in Imo

Yesterday, we reported that IPOB women who participated in a protest against the Nigerian government, demanding the whereabouts of the missing IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kalu and equally demanding a referendum, were arrested by the police.   The IPOB women who wore black attires as ...

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