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Jigawa LG targets 85,000 children for immunisation

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At least 85,000 children have been targeted for immunisation in ongoing exercise against polio and other child-killer diseases in Kafin-Hausa…

Elephant kills journalist

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A journalist was trampled to death after a herd of wild elephants invaded a village in North-Central Sri Lanka, police…

APC lashes out at Tinubu’s traducers

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The All Progressives Congress in Lagos State, has decried the attack on the National Learder of the party, Asiwaju Bola…

2 brothers batter pregnant woman, husband over electricity bill

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Cyriacus Izuekwe Two brothers of the same parents have been arrested and charged before Isolo Magistrates’ Court for allegedly battering…

Flood sweeps 10 Onitsha traders away

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Cyriacus Izuekwe At least 10 traders in Onitsha, Anambra State in eastern Nigeria, have died and many injured after they…

Over 50 Turkish jets bomb PKK targets in northern Iraq

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Ankara (AFP) – Turkish warplanes launched a massive air operation early Tuesday against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in…

Lagos highway sweepers protest non payment of salary

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11 years ago

Following protests by Lagos midwives over the non payment of salaries, scores of highway sweepers under the Lagos State Waste…

Ex-aide of Jonathan, submits APC guber form, promises more involvement

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Chief Diekivie Ikiogha, a retired director and one-time adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan when he (Jonathan) was governor of Bayelsa,…

APC has not endorsed candidate in Bayelsa polls – Female Aspirant

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A female gubernatorial aspirant, Mrs Tonye Apraela, said on Monday that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has not anointed any…

Dickson abandoning projects I initiated, says Sylva

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Former Bayelsa state governor, Timipre Sylva, has accused incumbent, Governor Seriake Dickson of abandoning all the projects he initiated when…

Gov Emmanuel closes case at tribunal amidst allegations of impersonation, false report

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Akwa Ibom State Governor Udom Emmanuel on Monday closed his defence before the tribunal amidst allegation of impersonation and false…

PDP will win Bayelsa guber election – Jonathan

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Former Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, failed to secure a second term in office but he is optimistic that Governor Seriake…

Bayelsa Poll: Jonathan, Anenih, Alamieyeseigha, others endorse Dickson

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Ahead of the December 5 governorship elections in Bayelsa State, political heavyweights in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) including ex-President…

NIS asks ex-governors, lawmakers, others to return diplomatic passport

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Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS has directed former public office holders like governors, lawmakers at the national and state level, ministers,…

Naval Chief unveils new strategy to tackle maritime crime

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The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, in one of his first major policy and administrative decision,…

Nigerian gets life sentence in UK for murder

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A Nigerian fugitive, Abdul Adewale Kekere-Ekun, was on Monday sentenced to life imprisonment in the UK for murdering 18-yearold Marcus…

Obasanjo laments growing rate of African immigrants

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Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Nigeria’s former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has expressed sadness over the growing rate of Africans illegally travelling to…

Oranyan festival commences in Oyo with free medical treatment

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GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN As part of effort to commemorate this year’s Oranyan festival organized by the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi…

Fernandez never joked with Yoruba tradition, says group

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Eromosele Ebhomele The Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, on Monday described the late Ambassador Deinde Fernandez as a man who never…

I will name my cabinet this month, Buhari assures

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President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Aburi, Ghana reassured Nigerians and the international community that he will name his cabinet before…

Nigeria sends Togo asylum seekers back home – UNHCR

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AP — Nigerian authorities have deported at least 100 Togolese asylum seekers, many of them the children who have been…

Lagos midwives protest 20 months salary arrears

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Kazeem Ugbodaga Scores of midwives in Lagos State on Monday stormed the Lagos State Governor’s office and the Lagos State…

Italian navy recovers 60 bodies from migrant boat wreck

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The Italian navy on Monday recovered another 60 bodies from a boat that sank on the way from Libya to…

Pakistan to support Nigeria’s military

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The Pakistani Government has pledged to support Nigeria in strengthening its military apparatus to enable it to join in promoting…

Prostitution: Lagos court jails 30 women for 6 weeks

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An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday sentenced 30 women to six weeks imprisonment for prostitution. Those sentenced are…

France to prepare air strikes against IS in Syria – Hollande

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AFP – France will launch surveillance flights over Syria from Tuesday with a view to conducting airstrikes on Islamic State…

Probe role of World Bank in Abacha loot, SERAP tells Buhari

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Kazeem Ugbodaga A new report by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has recommended to the government of President…

China’s Sinoma signs $600m Nigerian cement expansion with BUA

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Reuters – Nigerian conglomerate BUA Group has signed $600 million worth of contracts with China’s Sinoma International Engineering Co. to…

Senegal medical plane collides with Boeing 737

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The Senegalese National Civil Aviation Agency confirmed on Monday in Dakar that a small medical evacuation plane carrying seven people,…

Herdsmen need to embrace education – Association

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The Chairman of Hausa/Fulani socio-cultural group, Alhaji Muhammad Koli, on Sunday in Abuja called on Fulani herdsmen to embrace education…

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