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Court stops new Benue Assembly from sitting

  A Makurdi High Court has restrained the new Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly in North Central Nigeria, Honourable Titus Uba, from conducting sittings in the Hallow Chambers of the State Assembly complex pending the determination of ...

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Political parties reconcile ahead of Osun gubernatorial poll

  Major political parties in Osun State, South-West Nigeria are making frantic reconciliatory moves to ensure victory in the September 22 governorship election. Both the All Progressives Congress, APC candidate and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP are tidying up the ...

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DSS denies reports of finding N21bn in home of ex-DG Lawal Daura

The Department of State Services (DSS) has denied reports making the rounds that N21 billion was found in the home of the immediate past director general, Lawal Daura.   In a statement issued by its spokesperson, Tony Opuiyo, DSS said ...

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National Assembly release official statement saying no date for resumption has been picked

Read the official statement released this morning below. The Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki and Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, have directed that we inform all Senators, Honorable Members and the public that a date has ...

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Bricklayer jailed for breaking into Oyo Government House

A man identified as Sunday Ajayi, who is a bricklayer by profession, has been jailed for six months by an Ibadan Magistrates’ Court sitting in Iwo Road after being found guilty of breaking into the Oyo State Government House in the Agodi ...

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23,000 applicants apply for 1000 jobs in Bayelsa civil service

About 23,000 applicants have reportedly applied for just 1000 job vacancies declared by the Bayelsa Civil Service Commission. The state Governor, Seriake Dickson, lifted an embargo on employment and directed the commission to recruit 1000 workers following the outcome of the ongoing ...

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Lagos state demolishes illegal nine-storey building in Lekki (photo)

The exercise was being carried out to curb the incidents of incessant building collapse in the state…. The government would not fold its arms and allow loss of lives and destruction of property. A nine-storey building at Osapa London in Lekki area ...

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Ekiti people are in pain over APC’s victory – Fayose

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has claimed that the people of the State are in pain over the victory achieved by the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in the July 14 governorship election.   Fayose alleged that the APC stole ...

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Aisha Buhari bags Honorary Doctorate Degree award in South Korea

Mrs. Aisha Buhari, Wife of the President, Muhammadu Buhari, has been honoured with a Doctorate in Humanity by Sun Moon University, Asan, South Korea.   She was honoured for her humanitarian activities through her initiative, Future Assured Programme. Mrs Aisha shared ...

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Kano state Governor offers scholarship to ‘boko haram’ orphans

  Kano state governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has offered free education from primary to tertiary level to 100 Borno children orphaned by Boko Haram terrorists. It could be recalled that this is the second time the state government would support ...

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Photos- INEC shares photos of its Registration officers in Taraba state crossing a river just to complete the voters registration exercise

The elctoral body shared these photos of its registration officers on twitter and wrote ”The Registration Officers of Kurmi Local Government Area crossing a river to enable them get into the hinterland for the last lap of the Continuous Voters ...

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INEC to reposition polling booths to check vote buying

  Polling booths are to be positioned in a way to make it difficult for people to see how voters cast their votes during elections, a Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) announced in Awka on Monday. Dr Nkwachukwu Orji, the REC ...

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“Poor kidney care facilities in UMTH has killed more people than the kidney disease itself” – Nigerian documentary photographer

A Nigerian documentary photographer, Muhammad Bukar Umara, has alleged that many patients suffering from kidney disease, died at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, due to the poor care facilities. “Poor kidney care facilities in the UMTH has killed more ...

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INEC says there are 121,317 PVCs yet to be collected in Akwa Ibom state

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Akwa Ibom says that 121,317 Permanent Voters cards (PVC) are yet to be collected.   Mike Igini, Resident Electoral Commissioner(REC), disclosed this in an Interview with the News Agency of Nigeria today saying “no ...

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FG to give loans to two million traders without collateral

The Federal Government of Nigeria has inaugurated a new initiative to empower two million petty traders across the country between now and the end of the year.   The initiative called the Trader Moni is meant to further enlarge the ...

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Kenya- MP Kibunguchy’s driver killed in night attack

  Gangsters shot and killed the driver of Likuyani MP Enock Kibunguchy on Sunday night at a hotel in Soy market, Kakamega County. The attack took place shortly after the MP, who was on his way to his rural home, ...

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Uganda looks to Tanzania for gas

  Uganda is now formally engaging Tanzania to import natural gas that will be used as a reducing agent in the iron and steel industry. “We are discussing with Tanzania if we can make use of their gas,” Ms Irene ...

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Primate Ayodele reveals the year Nigeria will split

Primate Elijah Ayodele of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Lagos, has revealed the year Nigeria will split and according to him Nigeria as a united nation may not exist beyond 2035.   He made the claim during the recent launch in Lagos ...

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APC candidate who wants to make Buhari President for life wins, defeats ex-Gov. Yuguda

An APC Candidate Mr. Lawan Gumau, who contested in the Bauchi South Senatorial District bye-election held on Saturday, defeated a former Governor of the State, Isa Yuguda to clinch the senatorial seat.   Prof. Ahmed Sarkin-Pagam who announced the result on Sunday, said Gumau scored 119,489 votes to defeat ...

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Dr Orji Kalu advocates unicameral legislature for Nigeria

Former Abia governor, Dr Orji Kalu, has insisted that Nigeria should adopt unicameral legislature as the present arrangement is economically wasteful. Kalu who stated this on Sunday in  Abuja, said the two chambers of the National Assembly should be collapsed ...

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Tambuwal dumps PDP, defects to APC with 10,000 supporters

A former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chairman in Sokoto State, Abubakar Shehu Tambuwal, has defected from the party to the ruling All progressive Congress, APC. He also defected with about 10,000 supporters to the party at a rally that took place ...

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Ooni of Ife speaks on upcoming wedding to Temitope Adesegun

The Palace of Ooni of Ife, His Imperial Majesty Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi has denied reports that the monarch is set to take as wife the co-convener of Hope Alive, Miss Temitope Adesegun.   The news apparently sponsored by some unscrupulous ...

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