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Namibia Finds Oil For First Time
The Namibian government and a Brazilian energy firm on Tuesday announced the first discovery of oil off the coast of…
Police Raid Lagos Island, Arrest 164
At least 164 suspects have been arrested at various black spots on Lagos Island during a massive raid carried out…
Driver Bolts With Employer’s Car
A driver, Edem Bassey Effiong, a native of Calabar, Cross River State, south-south Nigeria, has disappeared with his employer’s Toyota…
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Tributes pour for the man who built Man U
British Prime Minister David Cameron and world football chief Sepp Blatter led the tributes on Wednesday after Manchester United manager…
Lagos Assembly: Stop Witch-hunting Fashola
The Lagos State House of Assembly has warned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against making inciting statements that could best…
Redeem Our Glory, Police IG Tells Newly Decorated Officers
Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, IGP, MD Abubakar, has counselled the nine officers recently promoted by the force to help redeem…
Bank Manager Detains Woman Over N17k Loan
A housewife, Mrs Rose Abbey from Edo State, south south Nigeria, was locked up in a micro finance bank called…
Okada Rider To Die By Hanging
A 25-year old commercial motorcyclist, known in local parlance as okada rider, Etenuwoma Oghenero, has been sentenced to death by…
Fake Currency Exchange Syndicate Smashed
The police at Area ‘A’ Command, Lion Building, Campbell Street, Lagos Island, southwest Nigeria, have arrested seven bureau de change…
Taskforce Arrests 183 Suspects
Officials of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit have arrested 183 suspected hoodlums in Oshodi…
Forgery: Journalists Plead Not Guilty, Get Bail
The trial of two journalists with Leadership Newspapers kicked off before a federal high court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday.…
Suspended Rivers Lawmakers Seek Court’s Shield
The 26 members of the Rivers House of Assembly, including the Speaker Otelemaba Amachree, who were yesterday suspended by the…
20 Years After, World’s First Web Page To Be Reborn
The world’s first web page will be dragged out of cyberspace and restored for today’s Internet browsers as part of…
Food Poisoning Again Hits Egypt’s Top University
At least 161 students have been hit by food poisoning at Cairo’s prestigious Al-Azhar University, in the second such incident…
2 Jailed Over N33m Fraud
Justice M. L. Shuaibu of the Federal High Court, Kaduna has sentenced two persons, Ifeanyi Echebiri and Sylvester Okoli to…