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Boko Haram recaptures Nigerian town from troops

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Boko Haram insurgents have forced hundreds of soldiers to flee Marte, a border town along the shores of the Lake…

Kidnapped Rivers LGA Chairman whereabout still unknown

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Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt About a week after Chief Cassidy Ikegbudu, the Caretaker Committee Chairman of Ahoada East local Government council…

Oronto Douglas to be buried in Bayelsa May 2

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Funeral rites for the late Oronto Natei Douglas, former Senior Special Adviser to the President on Research, Documentation, and Strategy,…

Reps kick back, says only N145bn provision was made for subsidy

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Contrary to the speculation that fuel subsidy has been removed from the 2015 Appropriation Bill, the House of Representatives has…

Lagos Deputy Speaker Bemoans Electoral Defeat

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Eromosele Ebhomele Deputy Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Kolawole Taiwo, has said his major ambition was to…

Sunny Ade Loses MD

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Kayode Aponmade King Sunny Ade’s Managing Director and Juju Musician, Sunday Abayomi, popularly called Sunny Wonder, is dead. He died…

Fake Lawyer Arrested In Court

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Cyriacus Izuekwe The police at Ojokoro Division have arrested a 34-year-old man who has been parading himself as a legal…

Halima Abubakar Condemns Xenophobic Attacks

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Kayode Aponmade Nollywood star actress, Halima Abubakar has condemned the recent xenophobic attacks on foreigners in South Africa. The actress…

Reps. pass N4.4trn 2015 budget, approves N953.62bn as debts service

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The House of Representatives on Thursday passed the 2015 budget of N4.4 trillion with an appeal to the incoming administration…

APC will end poverty, not manage it – Tinubu

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Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress has assured Nigerians that the party will not manage the…

Don’t recycle old, overused politicians, Onovo tells APC

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Chief Martin Onovo, Presidential Candidate of the National Conscience Party (NCP) in the March 28 election, on Thursday urged the…

Reps want Presidential Scholarship Scheme suspended

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Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Education, Rep. Aminu Suleiman, has called for the Presidential Scholarship Scheme to…

Boko Haram chase Nigerian troops from Sambisa

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Nigerian troops were forced to retreat from Boko Haram’s Sambisa Forest stronghold in the restive northeast after a landmine blast…

Murder: Lagos court frees APC chieftain, 2 others

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An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday in Lagos discharged and acquitted an APC chieftain, Dr Tola Kasali, 63,…

3.2 m Nigerians live with HIV

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The Society for Family Health says more than 3.2 million Nigerians are still living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).…

Notorious OLX nanny releases another kidnap victim

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The Lagos State Police Command on Thursday reunited Miss Henrietta Otobo, a 17-year-old kidnap victim with her family, Mr and…

Edo NLC run parallel congress, elect 2 chairmen

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Jethro Ibileke/Benin The crisis rocking Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, deepened on Thursday, following the emergence of two factional chairmen at…

Mark visits Buhari, talk strategizes

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Nigeria Senate President, David Mark has paid a courtesy visit to president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja. The meeting which…

Fuel subsidy protest killing: Court adjourns to June 25

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A Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere on Thursday adjourned to June 25, the hearing in the case involving a…

Peace returns to Durban, South Africa – Consul-General

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Mokgethi Monaisa, Consul-General, South African High Commission in Nigeria, says the violence in Durban has come to an end and…

Jonathan orders removal of his campaign posters

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Ahead of the May 29 Presidential inauguration, President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday ordered the removal of the campaign billboards, banners…

Traditional ruler in possession of police rifle detained in Benin

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Jethro Ibileke/Benin The police in Benin have arrested and detained the traditional ruler of Sasaro, a community in Akoko-Edo local…

Boko Haram regroups en masse in Sambisa

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Boko Haram fighters have amassed in the group’s Sambisa Forest stronghold in northeast Nigeria, as a military offensive tries to…

Synagogue: Coroner to give verdict on building collapse next month

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A verdict on the causes of a deadly church building collapse that killed 116 people in Nigeria’s financial hub Lagos…

APC To Acting IG: Shun Partisanship, Embrace Professionalism

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the newly-appointed Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, to approach his new task with…

447 Houses In Danger Of Collapse In Lagos

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Kazeem Ugbodaga At least 447 defective buildings may collapse in Lagos as the state government has marked 191 other distressed buildings…

Corps Members Arrested For Selling Ballot Paper

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Jethro Ibileke/Benin Three members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, who served as adhoc staff during the 11 April…

Court throws out lawsuits challenging Buhari’s eligibility

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A Nigerian court Wednesday struck out two suits that disputed the eligibility of president-elect Muhammadu Buhari to stand for election,…

Bank’s Intern Steals Customers’ N53.6m

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Paul Iyoghojie The police at Lion Building Division, Campbell Street, Lagos Island, western Nigeria, have arrested a 31-year old graduate,…

Kenya kicks out top anti-corruption officials

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Kenya’s top anti-corruption officials were suspended Thursday following a bitter standoff with parliament and after they alleged widespread graft in…

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