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Pastor, 5 others charged with $19m fraud

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SINGAPORE (AFP) – A multimillion-dollar scandal involving a Christian pastor, his singer wife and a glamorous financial executive has gripped…

Family of 6, 12 others die in boat mishap on River Niger

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Nigeria’s Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA) says 18 persons, including a family of six, died in a boat mishap…

Riot at Kaduna rally for Jonathan

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There was pandemonium in Kaduna, northwest Nigeria today as a rally organized to boost support for President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election…

Plane carrying Pilgrims crashlands in Sokoto

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Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Nigerian aviation authorities on Saturday confirmed that a plane with 512 souls on board crash-landed in the…

Tinubu returns, visits plane crash victims

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Simon Ateba/Lagos Nigeria’s opposition leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, arrived Nigeria on Saturday after a successful knee surgery in the…

Kenya CCTV shows Westgate gunmen

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With chilling nonchalance, gunmen who massacred at least 67 people wander through Kenya’s Westgate mall, seen for the first time…

2 million web cops monitor internet in China

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China is employing two million people to keep tabs on people’s Internet use, according to state media, in a rare…

Total paralysis: ASUP joins ASUU, shuts polytechnics

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Nigeria’s tertiary educational sector has now been almost totally shut down with the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, making…

Tennis: Nadal retakes crown as world number one

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Rafael Nadal will return to number one in the world rankings after his semi-final opponent, Czech star, Tomas Berdych retired…

Tinubu returns, cancels rally in honour of plane crash victims

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EROMOSELE EBHOMELE National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will return to Nigeria tomorrow after…

Mimiko absent as ex-governor Agagu buried amid tears

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GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Amidst tears and wailings, and despite the tragedy that befell the family as a result of a plane…

PDP candidate, monarch held hostage; vehicles burnt

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JETHRO IBILEKE/Warri Nigeria’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s candidate in the Delta Central Senatorial by-election, Chief Emmanuel Agwariavwodo, party leaders, the…

CJN, Adoke, NBA Extol Justice Alagoa At 70

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The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Aloma Mukhtar, on Friday described retired Justice Stanley Alagoa, as a “distinguished judicial…

UN Chief Bemaons Death Of 82 Africans In Boat Mishap

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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Antonio Guterres, has expressed shock at the capsizing of a boat off the…

Extortion: Court Remands Ex-Cop

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An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Friday ordered a former policeman to be remanded in prison custody for allegedly extorting money…

Lagos doctors stabilise Feyi Agagu, moved to new ward

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Doctors at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, are battling to save the life of Feyi Agagu, the son…

Ex-Rivers Speaker, Tonye Harry, Dies

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Rt. Hon Tonye Harry, the immediate past Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly, has passed on. P.M.NEWS learnt that…

First Class Graduate Shot Dead By Cop

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A 30-year old first class graduate of Economics from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Moses Murtala Aminu, has been shot dead…

Boko Haram Kills 70 Teachers, Destroys 50 Schools —Amnesty International

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Between January and now, the Boko Haram insurgency has claimed the lives of at least 70 teachers and scores of…

Lagos Begins Biometric Verification Of Pensioners

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The Lagos State Government has begun the biometric verification of 9,234 pensioners who retired from the civil service and judicial…

Robbery Suspect Dies In Custody

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An armed robbery suspect, Emmanuel Oyibo, has died in prison custody. He was facing trial at the FCT High Court…

Thousands abandon schools in Boko Haram states, says AI

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In its latest report on the insurgency in north east Nigeria, Amnesty International the frequent deadly attacks on schools by…

Kwankwaso: National conference will divide Nigerians

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MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso of Kano state, northwest Nigeria, has condemned the call for a national conference, saying…

3 names missing in manifest of crashed plane

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Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent The Brazil-made Embraer 120 plane which crashed on Thursday in Lagos, southwestern Nigeria, killing at least 13…

Agagu for burial tomorrow

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FOLARIN ADEMOSU Barring any last minute hitch, the remains of Chief Olusegun Agagu, former Governor of the western Nigerian state…

Nigerian military bombs Boko Haram camp

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Nigeria’s military said it has launched air strikes on a Boko Haram camp, killing several Islamists, near a northeastern college…

Sons of Agagu, Falae on ill-fated flight, Obasanjo’s son not there

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It has been confirmed that Feyi, the son of late former Governor Olusegun Agagu, and Deji Falae son of former…

Lagos Mourns Plane Crash Victims

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Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has mourned victims of the Associated Airline plane crash in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria this…

Lagos Plane Crash Update:14 Dead, Six Survivors

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Simon Ateba/aviation correspondent Fourteen people died and six others survived from Thursday’s plane crash in Lagos, southwestern Nigeria, the country’s…

N77m Fraud: Ex-Oyo Commissioner, Others, Remanded In Prison

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A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday ordered the remand of Kazeem Adedeji, a former Oyo State Commissioner for…

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