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A few hours after they were sacked as local government chairmen in Oyo State by Governor Seyi Makinde, the affected council bosses on Thursday vowed ...
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Monthly Archives: May 2019
Delta North: Appeal Court returns Nwaoboshi as senator-elect
The Court of Appeal, Abuja on Thursday reinstated Senator Peter Nwaoboshi as the senator-elect for Delta North Senatorial District. A three-member panel of the appellate ...
Read More »Some NGOs providing humanitarian support to Boko Haram – Army
The Nigerian Army said on Thursday that some Non-Governmental Organisations in the North-East were providing humanitarian support to the Boko Haram insurgents in the form ...
Read More »Gunmen kidnap Katsina Polytechnic lecturer
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted a lecturer with the Hassan Usman Polytechnic Katsina, Mr. Bello Abdullahi Birchi. This is coming as the operatives ...
Read More »Sanwo-Olu declares state of emergency on refuse, traffic matters
The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babjide Sanwo-Olu, has declared a state of emergency on environmental sanitation and traffic management matters in the state. Sanwo-Olu declared ...
Read More »Naira Marley granted N2m bail
Naira Marley, the artiste, who landed in hot waters following the lyrics of his controversial song, ‘Am I a Yahoo Boy’, has been granted N2 ...
Read More »Ebonyi, Enugu, Awka residents ignore IPOB’s sit-at-home order
Residents of Awka, the Anambra State capital, as well as Enugu and Ebonyi states, yesterday shunned the order by the Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB) for ...
Read More »Post-Inauguration: Ugwuanyi most popular governor in Nigeria, says Cleric
The Catholic Bishop of Nsukka Diocese, Most Rev. Prof. Godfrey Onah, has described Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State as the most popular governor in ...
Read More »FirstBank demystifies financial inclusion with XploreFirst
Worried by the increasing rate of the unbanked population, the Federal Government, through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), kicked off a campaign in 2012 ...
Read More »Pastor in police net for impregnating 20 church members
The Nigeria Police has arrested a pastor for allegedly impregnating 20 members of his church in Enugu. Timothy Ngwu who is the General Overseer of ...
Read More »U-20 World Cup: Flying Eagles squeeze into knockout stage
The Nigeria’s Flying Eagles on Thursday advanced to the knockout stage of the ongoing FIFA Under-20 World Cup in Poland, in a miraculous way in ...
Read More »Brexit: EU closes door on deal renegotiation with UK
The European Union’s top negotiator for Brexit Michel Barnier has warned that next government in London would not be allowed to renegotiate the terms of a ...
Read More »Women’s sagging fortunes in elections – Punch
Women’s political fortunes in the country dwindled further with the outcome of the 2019 general election. This is not good for the society, our democracy ...
Read More »Crux of the matter – The Nation
Getting value for public money now will secure the future President Muhammadu Buhari, on May 28, put his fingers on the obvious: that a squandered ...
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