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Nigeria to deploy 800 soldiers to Darfur for Peacekeeping
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Tukur Buratai, on Tuesday said Nigeria would deploy 800 soldiers to the United Nations…
Paul Ryan sworn-in as U.S. House Speaker
Republican Rep. Paul Ryan was on Tuesday sworn-in as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives after winning his re-election…
Civil war officers demand payment of pension for 38 years
Civil War Officers who voluntarily retired or were discharged from service under the 1976 – 1979 military administration want their…
Ibadan traders deny report of removal of Iyaloja
The apex body of traders in Ibadanland known as Ibadan Joint Traders Association, IJTA, on Tuesday refuted the removal of…
Swansea record 2-1 away win at Palace
Newly appointed Swansea boss Paul Clement watched his new side gain a dramatic win against Crystal Palace to move off…
Arsenal came came back to draw 3-3 at Bournemouth
Arsenal came back from three goals down to draw at Bournemouth. The visitors were heading for a shock defeat when…
Ford Motors cancels $1.6bn Mexico plant
Ford has said it will cancel a $1.6bn (£1.3bn) plant it planned to build in Mexico and instead extend operations…
Ivory Coast get €6 million euros ahead AFCON
Defending champions Ivory Coast have been given extra financial support for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations finals. The Ivorian…
Zimbabwe in chaos ahead of AFCON tournament
Zimbabwe’s preparations ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon have been thrown into chaos by a row over…
Leicester City to sign Nigeria’s Wilfred Ndidi for £15m
Leicester City are set to sign Genk midfielder Wilfred Ndidi for a reported £15m, subject to a work permit. The…
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Customs redeploys 246 top officers
The Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (Rtd) has approved the redeployment of eight Assistant Comptrollers-General and 238 Deputy Comptrollers…
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Breaking: Lagos Assembly passes Ambode’s N812.998bn 2017 budget
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed the State’s 2017 Budget proposal of N812. 998 billion presented by…
FG to overhaul 50 bridges
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola has said that the Federal Government is planning to overhaul…
Zambia cuts fuel prices
Zambian energy regulator says retail fuel prices will fall from midnight on Tuesday due to subdued oil prices and a…
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Fire guts part of Sterling bank in Ogun
A section of Sterling Bank, Oke Ilewo branch, located at the OPIC Roundabout, Abeokuta, was on Tuesday gutted by a…
Ambode has positively changed the face of Lagos-Ex-LG boss
Former Chairman, Conference of Executive Secretaries of Local Government and Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in Lagos State, otherwise known…
Former NAN MD, 23 others bag community award
The Omu-Aran community in Kwara, has bestowed awards on 24 people in the area who had supported the socio-economic development…
Mrs Buhari donates foodstuffs to 300 IDPs children
Aisha Buhari The wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has donated foodstuffs to Paraxis Catholic e-School for the feeding…
Gold slips as dollar keeps pressure on prices
Gold fell on Tuesday as the dollar’s buoyant start to the new year kept the pressure on prices after the…
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Brexit: UK’s ambassador to EU resigns
The UK’s top ambassador to EU in Brussels, Sir Ivan Rogers, has resigned. Sir Ivan, who was appointed to the…
Israel begins move to censor Facebook
A bill allowing Israeli courts to force social media companies to remove content defined as incitement passed its first reading…
Lagos begins evacuation of Yuletide waste
The government of Lagos State has begun the evacuation of all refuse generated across the State during the Christmas and…
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N2.5b Fraud: Buhari sacks Babachir Lawal as chairman of presidential boards committee
President Muhammadu Buhari has removed the Secretary to the Government of the Federation Babachir David Lawal as chairman of the…
Oil price hits 18-month highs of $58.37
Oil prices hit 18-month highs on Tuesday, the first trading day of 2017, buoyed by hopes that a deal between…
Historian dupes girlfriend of car, land
A 47-year-old historian, Nicholas Ajayi, who allegedly defrauded his girlfriend of a car and landed property valued at N1.3 million,…
NCS implements vehicle importation ban
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has kicked off the implementation of the policy banning importation of vehicles through the land…
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Several vehicles trapped at borders as ban on imports takes off
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has kicked off the implementation of the policy banning importation of vehicles through the land…
Malnutrition kills 2,300 Nigerian children daily- NGO
Mr Ubah Nnaemeka, the Project Officer, Civil Society Scaling-up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN), on Tuesday said malnutrition accounts for the…
FG to implement economic policies with human face
Some experts in the oil and gas sector on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to pursue economic policies with human…
Archbishop implores FG to grant amnesty to Nnamdi Kanu
The Archbishop of Anglican Diocese of Enugu, Most Rev. Emmanuel Chukwuma, has implored the Federal Government to release the detained…