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Nigeria receives 12,000 refugees deported from Cameroon

Government officials on Saturday visited camps in Mubi, Adamawa, where over 12,000 Nigerian refuges repatriated by the Cameroonian authorities are…
Pirates abduct eight people in Rivers

Pirates kill soldiers, policeman in Bayelsa

The Bayelsa Police Command said on Saturday that four soldiers and a policeman were killed in an attack on Nembe…

PDP hails clean-up of Ogoniland by Buhari

…Urges Him To Match Words With Action Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Rivers State Chapter has joined…

Nigerians should go back to farming, Buhari says

President Muhammadu Buhari has said Nigerians must stop paying mere lip service to agriculture, as crude oil and gas exports…

15 persons die in Delta auto crash – FRSC

No fewer than 15 persons died in Thursday auto crashed, that occurred at Ubulu Okiti junction in Aniocha South Local…

Brig-Gen. Yahaya appointed Commander of 4 Brigade

Jethro Ibileke/Benin Following a general redeployment of officers to fill gaps created by the exit of. Some senior military officers…

Bayelsa cracks down on kidnappers, registers 200-horsepower engine boats

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt As part of efforts geared towards tackling kidnapping, sea piracy and other criminal activities in Bayelsa, the…

Economic downturn hits RCCG’s new 12million seater auditorium

Femi Anjorin/Faith Correspondent Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, the General Overseer said he has turned a beggar to persuade members to…

$2.1m seized cash: Ex-NHIS boss appears before EFCC

Former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Dr. Olufemi Thomas has voluntarily submitted himself to the Economic…

New Auditorium: Adeboye begs members to donate to RCCG

Olufemi Anjorin oye Paster E.A. Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has urged members of…

Olonisakin, Nigeria’s CDS, says “My level has changed”

Olufemi Anjorin Nigeria’s new chief of defence staff, Major General Gabriel Olonisakin has given some testimony at the convention of…

Outrage over Fashola’s N78.3million website

News report that former governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola shelled N78.3million of Lagos tax-payers money on his personal…

Ogoni Clean-Up: Buhari a better son of Niger Delta than Jonathan, Wike – APC

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers state has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for fast-tracking the clean-up…

Prostitute slumps, dies after drinking local gin

Paul Iyoghojie Tragedy occurred at Obalende road, Ikoyi, Lagos, western Nigeria, on Thursday evening when a suspected prostitute simply identified…

Pregnant woman, 14 others injured as policemen, soldiers clash in Edo

Jethro Ibileke/Benin No fewer than 15 persons, including a pregnant woman, sustained various degree of injuries on Friday evening during…

Wike signs bill renaming state Polytechnic after Ken Saro-Wiwa

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Governor Nyesom Wike today signed three amended bills into law. The assent was done today in the…

Blackout looms in Edo Police Command over N151mn unpaid electricity bill

Jethro Ibileke/Benin The Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, has lamented the huge debt owed it by the Zone 5 and…

Lagos goes tough on street trading

Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Government has vowed to combat the menace of illegal street trading and hawking in the the…

Ambode sacks new taskforce chairman

Kazeem Ugbodaga Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has sacked Akeem Adedeji as chairman of the state’s taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences…

Ekiti Chief Judge Frees 34 Prison Inmates

Chief Judge Ayodeji Daramola of Ekiti State on Thursday released 34 awaiting-trial inmates in Ado- Ekiti Federal Prisons. Daramola ordered…

Killer Hippopotamus Shot Dead In Gombe

Head of Forestry unit of Yamaltu/Deba Local Governmen Council in Gombe on Thursday confirmed the killing of a notorious Hippopotamus…

Stop shielding Amaechi, let him face corruption allegations, PDP tells Buhari

…Urges President Buhari, EFCC to Investigate, prosecute Amaechi Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Rivers state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,…

Ogoni hails Buhari on implementation of UNEP on Ogoniland

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has welcomed and congratulated the President Muhammadu…

Britain to assist Nigeria in the fight against terror – Gen. Messenger

Lieutenant General Gordon Messenger, British Deputy Chief of Defence Staff on Military Strategy and Operations has re-affirmed the resolve of…

Senate tasks NAFDAC, others over EU food ban

The Senate on Thursday, called on the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to tighten its…

1,000 PDP members defect to APGA in Anambra

At least 1,000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Thursday defected to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)…

PDP Workers, NWC members agree to sheathe sword

The brickbats between members of staff and the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seemed to…

Another woeful result for lawyers: 1805 fail, 4 make First class

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Nigeria Council of Legal Education said on Thursday that a total of 1805 resit and regular students of…

Panic grips defaulters of Ekiti Govt’s housing estate

Ekiti State Government has said the sealing off of the houses of defaulting occupants of Irewolede Estate, Ado-Ekiti has no…

Ambode tasks mothers, employers on exclusive breastfeeding

The wife of the Lagos state governor, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode on Thursday tasked working class nursing mothers on diligent and…