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South Sudan authorities deports AP journalist
South Sudan on Wednesday deported a journalist working for the international Associated Press news agency, and the reporter said it…
NUC approves Usmanu Danfodiyo University engineering programmes
National Universities Commission (NUC), says it has given approval to the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto to commence four core engineering…
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Ghana votes in hotly contested presidential elections
Ghanaians started lining up at voting stations on Wednesday to elect a president and parliament, in polls dominated by a…
Quake in north Indonesia kills 52- official
Indonesian authorities on Wednesday said the death toll from a 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck the northern province of Aceh has…
Tanzania, Dangote Cement haggle over price of gas
Tanzania is in talks with Nigeria’s Dangote Cement on supply of natural gas to a manufacturing plant for building material,…
Teenager jailed 7 years for planning terror attack
An Australian teenager on Wednesday was sentenced to seven years jail for planning a terrorist attack in Melbourne on Mother’s…
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No mercy for Nigerian drug convict in Cambodia
A Nigerian drug convict in Cambodia, Precious Chineme Nwoko has had his hope for reprieve dashed. Nwoko, also known as…
Reps plan 3-day retreat on constitution amendment
The House of Representatives Special Ad hoc Committee on Constitution Review planned to host a three-day retreat on the amendment…
Bayern end Atletico Madrid’s unbeaten run
A Robert Lewandowski free-kick sealed Bayern Munich’s 1-0 win over Atletico Madrid on Tuesday in the Champions League with both…
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…