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INEC to deploy 10,294 staff for Saturday Rivers rerun election
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it would deploy 10,294 staff to conclude the re-run National and State Assembly…
Barcelona demolish Borussia Monchengladbach 4-0
Barcelona squeezed Gladbach for the full ninety minutes and didn’t allow the German side a shot on target as they…
Iheanacho rescues City from defeat at Etihad
Celtic forward Patrick Roberts’ early goal stopped parent club Manchester City winning all three Champions League home group games for…
Champions League: Arsenal demolish Basel 4-1 to go top
Arsenal finished top of Champions League Group A, thanks to a Lucas Perez hat-trick and Paris St-Germain’s draw with Ludogorets…
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Oyo sacks 662 workers for certificate forgery
The Oyo State Government has sacked 662 workers for certificate forgery and removed 2,021 fictitious names from its payroll. Soji…
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Trump to cancel order of new planes for American president
US President-elect Donald Trump has said he wants to cut government costs by cancelling the order for new planes to…
Redefining tourism through ‘gaming’
Tourism in Lagos is one of the diversification channels the state aims to woo investments in the non-oil sector. Varying…
3 Bolivians jailed 36 years over drug related offences
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos southwest Nigeria Tuesday sentenced three Bolivians to 36 years imprisonment for unlawful production…
Wike importing arms into Rivers, says APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) alerts security agencies on reports of a massive arms build-up by the Rivers State Governor…
NDLEA arrests 85 drug suspects
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Gombe State Command, had arrested 85 drug suspects, seized 130.922 kilograms of cannabis…
Police arrest 10 suspects for abusing female IDPs
The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Ibrahim Idris, said two policemen, three Soldiers, one prison official, one Air Force personnel,…
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Breaking: Nigeria Police releases names of new recruits
Names of successful applicants into the Nigeria Police Force in the just concluded recruitment exercise have been released by the…
Buhari presents 2017 budget to National Assembly nextweek
President Muhammadu Buhari will present the 2017 budget proposal to the National Assembly on Dec. 14. This is contained in…
Man admits dealing on illicit drugs
A 35-year-old man, Abinbila Etuk, on Tuesday admitted before a Federal High Court in Lagos that he deals on illicit…
PDP candidate accepts defeat, hails INEC
Mr Babatope Akinyele, Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Saturday’s Ifako/Ijaiye Federal Constituency by-election in Lagos, has accepted…
2 men in court over alleged wandering
An Okitipupa Magistrates’ Court in Ondo State on Tuesday granted bail in the sum of N30,000 each to two men,…
66 nurses bow out from Ogun State service
No fewer than 66 nurses on Tuesday retired from the Ogun State service, with a big gap created in the…
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Police arrest kidnappers who murdered Dangote employee
The Nigerian police said they have arrested three of the kidnappers who murdered one of the employees of Dangote Group…
Labourer remanded for stealing handbags worth N100,000
A Tinubu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Tuesday remanded a 20-year-old labourer, Umoru Idrisa, in prison for stealing a sack…
2 missing, 6 rescued in Iran helicopter crash
The head of Rescue Organisation of Iran’s Red Crescent Society on Tuesday said two people on board a rescue helicopter…
Corps member plants 6,000 economic trees
A National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member serving in Ebonyi, Goldshield Kanjal has started planting of over 6,000 economic trees…
Police rescue kidnap victim, arrest 4 suspects
Mr Emmanuel Ojukwu, Enugu State Police Commissioner,[/caption The Enugu state Police Command, has rescued Miss Chinenye Nwobodo, 18, a kidnapped…
Kidnapped radio journalist regains freedom
The Benue Police Command on Tuesday confirmed the release of a Radio Journalist, Mrs Iyuadoo Tor-Agbidye, who was kidnapped four…
Saudi court sentences 15 to death for spying
A Saudi Court on Tuesday sentenced 15 people to death for spying for the kingdom’s arch-enemy, Iran, Saudi-owned media reported,…
Female professor caught in exam malpractice suspended
The University of Jos (UNIJOS) has suspended one of its academic staff who was allegedly caught cheating while writing an…
Security man kills co-worker, cuts his body into pieces
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 28-year-old man, Haruna Abubakar who allegedly killed his colleague, cut him into…
Group warns Sanusi over attack on presidency
A Kano-based pro-democracy group, Coalition for Democratic Norms (CODEM), has cautioned the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, to desist…
Abuja Carnival: President Buhari to support creative industry
President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated Federal Government’s support for the creative industry as part of measures to grow the economy.…
Motorist hits 6 security personnel in Zamfara –FRSC
Six security personnel have been reportedly hit by a motorist, resulting in the death of four of them in Talata-Mafara,…
Lagos charges miners against degrading the environment
The Lagos State Government has charged miners in the state to desist from degrading its environment through their mining activities.…