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Traders at Uwelu International Spare parts market occupying the Benin-Lagos expressway, over deplorable condition of the road to the market

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Spare part dealers shut down Benin/Lagos expressway

The traders who also shut their shops in the market, barricaded the ever-busy highway in protest of the Uwelu Road,…

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Jitters over continuous rainfall in Lokoja

Some of the people who live in houses built on the flood plains of the Rivers in Lokoja have started…

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Tanker explosion: 7 dead, many battling for survival in Rivers

According eyewitnesses, an Anti- Bunkering Team of the Police in Rivers had intercepted the trucks loaded with illegally refined products…
Adamawa

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Police kill 5 kidnappers in Edo, rescue victim

Items recovered at the scene include two locally-made pistols, charms and cartridges
Why oppositions cannot stop Oyetola's re-election - Oyintiloye

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Debts: Osun govt exposes Aregbesola’s commissioner

The government while insisting that Osun under the Oyetola administration is not a spendrift, further challenged the ex-Commissioner to be…
Abia APC governorship candidate, Ikechi Emenike,

Politics

2023: Ikechi Emenike says APC will record landslide victory

By Leonard Okachie Chief Ikechi Emenike, the All Progressives Congress’ (APC) Governorship Candidate in Abia, has said that the party…
Ann Agom-Eze, Gov. Dave Umahi

Politics

APC senatorial ticket: Why Umahi’s opponent Agom-Eze was expelled

Agom-Eze was Gov. David Umahi’s main challenger for the Ebonyi South senatorial ticket of the APC ahead of the 2023…
Governorship candidate of the APC in Enugu for 2023 election, Chief Uche Nnaji, unveils Chief George Ogara as his running mate.

Politics

Enugu 2023: APC’s Nnaji unveils Ogara as running mate

By Ifeoma Aka Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State in 2023, Chief Uche Nnaji, on…
Kogi people at the event to declare support for the APC presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his running mate in Okene on Saturday

Politics

Kogi: Groups drum support for Tinubu

National Secretary, SWAGA Hon. Bosun Oladele also asked Nigerians to join the Asiwaju train, to take their country to an…
Ilebaye and Khalid: evicted from the BBNaija house.

Entertainment

BBNaija: Why Ilebaye, Khalid were evicted

Ilebaye's and Khalid's eviction from BBNaijassssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss did not come as a surprise, though both were evicted for different reasons.I
sekibo

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Rivers APC spokesperson Finebone tenders resignation letter

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Chris Finebone, the spokesperson of All Progressives Congress, APC, Rivers State Publicity Secretary,s finally tendered a letter…
Prof. Ifagbemi Awamaridi and Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour

Politics

Lagos 2023: Awamaridi fights Rhodes-Vivour for Labour Party ticket

By Adekunle Williams There is now confusion over who is the governorship candidate of Labour Party in Lagos State for…
Pat Utomi

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Labour Party cautions Pat Utomi on appointments, rejects Odigbo

Labour Party said this while reacting to announcement of Charles Okadigbo as the as the leader of the communication team…
7,000 people dump PDP for APC in Sokoto

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Over 600 PDP members defect to APC in Gombe

Alhaji Bappah Maru, a former member of the Gombe PDP Elders’ Forum said the efforts of the present administration in…
Edo police command reacts to claim that CP Abutu Yaro, illegally released suspected oil thieves after collecting ₦7 million bribe.

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Kidnapping: Respite on Benin-Ekpoma road in the last 90 days

The only kidnapping activity witnessed in the state in the last 120 days was carried out along the Benin-Lagos express,…
Gov. Dave Umai appoints Rev. Fr. Abraham Nwali South East CAN Chairman head of the governing councils of Ebonyi and David Umahi Universities

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Umahi gives S-East CAN Chairman Abraham Nwali 2 appointments

Nwali, who has been Special Adviser on Religious and Welfare Matters to Umahi since 2015 is also the chairman of…
Kogi Police Commissioner, Edward Egbuka

Metro

Kogi: Polytechnic staff arrested over murder of daughter

Sherrifah, the daughter of the Polytechnic staff was kidnapped on Aug. 4, at the family residence in Okenya along Itayi…
Rushdie

Art, Books

Salman Rushdie: The writer who hardly sleeps with two eyes closed

Rushdie is a multiple award-winning novelist, whose fame goes beyond borders and break boundaries, even though his freedom has been…
Chief Mbayin Ndoma, the traditional ruler of Orimekpang in Boki LG of Cross Rivers State: allegedly killed by cultists

Metro

Daughter narrates how C/River Chief Ndoma was murdered by cultists

Assailants murdered Chief Ndoma on Aug. 3 at his hometown, Orimekpang, in Boki Local Government Area of Cross River.
President Muhammadu Buhari, President, Federal Republic of Nigeria (2nd Right) having a handshake with Abdul Samad Rabiu, Founder & Executive Chairman, BUA Group (2nd Left) while Kabiru Rabiu, Group Executive Director, BUA Group (Left) and Niyi Adebayo, Nigerian Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment (Right) looks on during the visit of Abdul Samad Rabiu and BUA Group Management Team, to the State House in Abuja, today.

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BUA Group Chairman announces N10bn security initiative

He noted that under President Buhari's administration, the BUA Group has built over 10 factories with two of the Group’s…
Ogun governor and beneficiaries of his 'oko owo dapo' empowerment scheme

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50,000 women benefit from Ogun ‘Oko’wo Dapo’ scheme

Abiodun, who made this known at the validation exercise of ward facilitators of the scheme, held at the Oba's Complex,…
FILE PHOTO: A forest reserve

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Ogun refutes rumours on sale of forest reserves

The Ogun State Government has refuted rumours making the rounds that it has sold parts of forest reserves in the…
Saddiq Dzukogi’s collection of poems, Your Crib, My Qibla

Art, Books

The unbearable memory of loss in Saddiq Dzukogi’s Your Crib, My Qibla

Dzukogi’s collection of poems, Your Crib, My Qibla is indeed a journey not just into lyrical sound but one laced…
Investigators discover the bodies of 28 migrants next to a detention facility in the desert in southern Libya

World News

20 dead migrants found at Sudanese-Libyan border

The authorities assume that the 28 people were migrants trying to cross the border into Libya in two vehicles.
Tension brews in health sector over appointment of two acting medical directors by the FG for each of its 3 new National Orthopedic Hospitals.

Metro

Group seeks stakeholders’ collaboration to strengthen healthcare system

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt A group of non-governmental organisation, the Civil Society in Malaria Control, Immunization and Nutrition (ACOMIN) has called…
Chris Finebone far (right),Governor Nyesom Wike, Siminalayi Fubara,PDP, Governorship Candidate and Dr Davies Ikanya

Politics

Defection rumours trail Rivers APC spokesperson meeting with Wike

But as expected, the rumoured defection of Finebone has elicited jubilation in PDP.
UNIBEN student, Jeffrey Omoregie: Crushed to death 20 days before his scheduled departure to Canada for post graduate studies

Metro

Canada-bound UNIBEN graduate crushed to death in Benin

The incident occurred on Tuesday, 9 August, 2022, when Jeffrey Omoregie, a petroleum engineering graduate attempted to cross the Benin/Lagos…
Dr. Dawari Ibietela George

Politics

2023: AA affirms George as Rivers governorship candidate

Earlier, Mr. Beke Anyalemechi, who is the Spokesman for Dr Dawari Ibietela George, he affirmed that George remains the party's…
Governor Nyesom Wike has come under attack by groups and opposition in Rivers over his appointment of 14,000 advisers, 319 ward Liaison Officers and 40 local government area liaison Officers on Tuesday.

Metro

Youth group asks Wike to fulfill 5,000 jobs promise

On the 2023 general elections, the group asked youths to go about the electioneering processes peacefully, shun violence and thuggery.
St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, where the massacre occurred in June

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Owo church attack: Ebira youths open up on arrest of kinsmen

Obiyo Ateiza Aliyu, EYC President-General said the group is miffed by the action of the suspects, emphasizing that Ebira people…
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