UNILAG protest: JAMB explains new admission policy

The Registrar/Chief Executive of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Dibu Ojerinde, has reacted to the protest at the University of Lagos by parents and candidates who could not access the university’s admission. According to him, the policy introduced by JAMB, for which he has been criticised, “is actually meant to help the candidates not only to get admission but to...

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Timaya denies allegations of rape

Popular Nigerian musician, Timaya has reacted to the sexual abuse allegation by a US-based woman, Shella, denying raping her. Below is Timaya’s statement I have been talking with this girl for about one year and its funny how someone you think you know can act very hungry and low. How can I leave Nigeria and go to America where the law works to rape anyone? Am I crazy? This girl who had been...

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Pastor Adeboye opens prayer mountain in Osun state

Some 30 years after an idea for a prayer mountain was birthed to the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye and his wife, Pastor (Mrs) Foluke Adeboye, in faraway South Korea, a magnificent prayer mountain has been unveiled in Ifewara, Osun State. Ifewara, some 10 minutes off Ile-Ife, is the hometown of Pastor Adeboye. Named Mount Carmel Prayer Mountain,...

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FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Qualifiers: Falconets trash Liberia 14-1

The Nigerian under-20 women football team on Saturday in Abuja beat their Liberian counterparts 7-0 to progress to the next round of the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Qualifiers. Thee Falconets qualified on a 14-1 aggregate after winning the first leg game a fortnight ago in Monrovia 7-1. Uchendu Chinaza opened scores in the 23rd minute, before Ojinma Amarachi added the second goal in the...

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Beware of disgruntled politicians – Sultan

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar has urged Nigerians not to allow some disgruntled politicians to instigate them to cause a breach of the peace. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Abubakar spoke in Sokoto on Saturday at a Sallah lunch he organized for members of the resident communities in the state. “Those who have lost out in politics can instigate others to cause problems...

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Soldiers disrupt meeting of ex-militants in Bayelsa

Following the proposed  meeting of Niger Delta ex-militants in Bayelsa, a combined team of soldiers and policemen have been drafted to venue to seal it up and prevent it from holding. NE gathered that the security operatives were deployed on the orders of Governor Seriake Dickson on Friday. Civil servants in Bayelsa Ministry if Culture and Ijaw National Affairs and other government agencies...

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Senator Patrick Leahy: With friends like this by Femi Fani-Kayode

The United States government helped Boko Haram immensly by refusing to classify them as a terrorist organisation until 2014 and by refusing to sell us arms to fight them. Worst still, they imposed an international arms embargo on us so that we could not buy arms from anyone else in the international community. When asked why they are doing this to us they tell us that it is because of the Leahy...

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2018 World Cup qualifiers: Nigeria to play Djibouti or Swaziland

Nigeria will play Djibouti or Swaziland in a two-leg knockout tie in the 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign following the African zone draw made in St Petersburg, Russia on Saturday. Neighbours, Cameroon will have to negotiate a tricky two-leg knockout tie against Somalia or Niger. Somalia and Niger will meet in the first round and the winners play the Indomitable Lions over two legs in the...

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Man rushed to the hospital after sex performance enhancer enlarges his pennis beyond expectation

The men of the Lagos State Fire Service said on Saturday that they rescued a 40-year-old man from death after he used a sex perfomnce enhancer that enlarged his pennis beyond expectation. The Director, Mr rasak Fadipe, who made the disclosure in Lagos, said the man wore a metal ring on his penis. The ring, according to him, was to enhance erection and ultimately enhance sexual satisfaction but...

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Okocha's nephew, Alex Iwobi helps Arsenal trash Lyon 6-0

Alex Iwobi. nephew of former Nigeria star Jay-Jay Okocha scored his first goal for Arsenal as they continued their preparations for the new season with a 6-0 friendly win over Lyon. Olivier Giroud opened the scoring, diverting a Mesut Ozil cross beyond Lyon goalkeeper Anthony Lopes before the Frenchman turned provider for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. Youngster Alex Iwobi added a third, completing...

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Iheanacho unsure of Manchester City status

Nigeria starlet, Kelechi Iheanacho, is still unsure of his status with the Manchester City first team in the 2015/16 season despite his blistering start in the club’s pre-season campaign. Iheanacho was City’s most impressive performer in the Citizens’ opening day International Champions Cup victory over AS Roma in Melbourne, Australia, supersport.com reports. The 18-year-old scored a superb goal...

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Obasanjo predicts progress of Africa’s economy, while Europe, China, North America stagnate

Thirty-five years in the life of any human institution should not normally be considered too distant to predict its course of progress. After all, it is only a little over a generation away. What is more, those who will shape and influence what Africa will be by the middle of the 21st century are almost all already born. Let me start with an extremely optimistic, some might say utopian, scenario...

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No Nigerian child will be infected with polio again - Buhari vows

President Muhammadu Buhari declared Saturday in Abuja that his administration will do all within its powers to ensure that no Nigerian child is ever infected with polio again. Speaking at a brief event in the Presidential Villa to mark Nigeria’s successful completion of one year without any reported case of the wild polio virus, President Buhari pledged that the Federal Government will mobilize...

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Igbo group warns Buhari - 'Your probe must not humiliate Goodluck Jonathan'

Igbo Leaders of Thought, a body of eminent Igbo personalities, has warned that the plan to probe the immediate past federal government should not be a ploy to humiliate political opponents of President Muhammadu Buhari, including former President Goodluck Jonathan. The group, led by constitutional lawyer, Professor Ben Nwabueze, also urged Buhari to immediately restructure Nigeria without delay. In...

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Terrorism: Osinbajo calls for vigilance

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Saturday advised Nigerians to be more vigilant in order not to fall prey to terror attacks. He gave the advice in an interview with newsmen shortly after attending the 90th Birthday and Thanksgiving service of Madam Dorcas Adedayo at the Cathedral of St James the Great, Oke-Bola, Ibadan. The vice president said that the recent alert on plan by the...

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Africans should accept gay rights - Obama

US President Barack Obama on Saturday called for gay rights in Africa, comparing homophobia to racial discrimination he had encountered in the United States. In a joint press conference after talks with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, Obama also pushed a tough message on Kenyan corruption, the civil war in South Sudan, controversial elections in Burundi and the fight against Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-affiliated...

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'I’m ready for probe' - Kuku charges EFCC

Following his invitation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the immediate past special adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Kingsley Kuku has assured that he was ready to assist the commission in its bid to probe the accounts of the agency under his leadership. The former presidential aide, was reacting to an invitation by the EFCC, directing him to report...

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EFCC set to probe Jonathan’s adviser on amnesty, Kingsley Kuku

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has summoned Kingsley Kuku, a former special adviser on Niger Delta Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, for questioning. A reliable source in the commission revealed that Mr. Kuku and two others are wanted by the EFCC over allegation of embezzlement and fraudulent diversion of funds running into hundreds of millions of Naira. Details of the...

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Metuh Urges Buhari To Probe Corrupt Politicians

Mr Olisa Metuh, National Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Thursday urged the Federal Government to probe every corrupt politician and not be selective in the exercise. “We expect the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government not to embark on selective probing of public office holders found wanting before or during his government’’, he said. Metuh made the call during the...

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Kaduna provides 77 patrol vehicles , 50 motorcycles to Police

Kaduna State Government has procured 77 Hilux vehicles to assist the police in maintaining law and order in the state. Governor Nasiru El-Rufa’i, who disclosed this during a working visit to the Police Command Headquarters in Kaduna, also pledged to provide 50 motorcycles to the command. The governor said the gesture was in appreciation of the tremendous work of the police in securing lives and...

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LG boss seeks assistance for IDPs in Taraba

The Caretaker Chairman of Kurmi Local Government Area of Taraba, Mr Stephen Agya, has appealed to the Federal and State Governments to provide assistance to Internally Displaced Persons in the area. Agya, who made the appeal in an interview with journalists on Saturday in Jalingo, noted that thousands of people have been displaced by communal clashes and rainstorm in the area. “I want to appeal...

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OSUN: Why I can’t pay workers’ salaries – Governor Aregbesola

Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun has once again blamed the failure of his administration to pay workers salaries as at when on the drop in allocations to the state from the Federation Account. Aregbesola said this Friday night during a chat with newsmen on the sidelines of an award to him for service to humanity by Voice of African Women for Human Dignity, an NGO. The award was presented to Aregbesola...

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Reasons why I allowed Abacha arrest me - Obasanjo

Abacha was the most senior military officer in the illegal contraption called Interim National Government led by Chief Ernest Shonekan after the military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, was forced to resign over the historic annulment of the June 12 June, 1993 election won by Moshood Abiola, who later died in the military gulag. In his newest controversial memoir, ‘My Watch’, he narrated...

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Nigeria Has Largest WAEC Malpractices In West Africa

Reports have showed that Nigeria has the largest number of examination anomalies out of the five member countries of the West African Examinations Council. The Head, National Office of the Council, Charles Eguridu has said. He spoke at a Road Show on Examination Malpractices Sensitisation that took place in Abuja, stating that WAEC has not introduced stricter measures and the utilisation of advanced...

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US blasts Burundi elections as ‘deeply flawed’

US Secretary of State, John Kerry, on Friday called Burundi’s election “deeply flawed” and urged President Pierre Nkurunziza to hold a “meaningful, serious” dialogue with the African country’s opposition, the State Department said in a statement. Nkurunziza won a third term in office on Friday after the opposition boycotted the vote, accusing him of violating the constitution by running for...

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Abdulwaheed Odusile emerges NUJ president

The Nigeria Union of Journalist has elected Mr. Abdulwaheed Odusile of the Nation Newspapers as its new president. He succeeds Malam Garba Mohammed. Osusile was declared winner of the keenly contested election by the returning officer and Director, African Affairs, International Federation of Journalists, Mr. Gabriel Baglow. He, at the National Delegates Conference of NUJ held in Abuja on Saturday,...

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We will adopt offensive disposition to Boko Haram - Nigerian Army

The Chief of Army Staff, Major General Tukur Buratai, on Friday said that the Nigerian Military would adopt offensive disposition to eradicate the menace of insurgents in the country. The Army Chief made the remarks at the combined graduation of 105 personnel under the Basic Air bone Course 37 and Basic Rigger Course 23 at Jaji, Kaduna State. “The era of waiting in defensive position for...

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BREAKING: Five killed, 50 injured in Jos explosion

Five people have been killed while 50 others injured in a chemical explosion at Laminga water treatment plant in Jos, Police Command Spokesman in Plateau State, Emmanuel Abu, says. Details later. ....

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Nigerian soldiers are “murderers and rapists.” - US lawmaker

A United States lawmaker, Mr. Patrick Leahy, has described Nigerian soldiers as “murderers and rapists.” Leahy stated this while reacting to comments credited to President Muhammadu Buhari during his state visit that certain American laws slowed down the fight against insurgency. The senator, who is the sponsor of the Leahy Law which prohibits the US Department of State and Department of Defence...

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Buhari vows not to short-change any zone

The Presidency on Friday said that President Muhammadu Buhari would not short-change any part of the country on account of the voting pattern in the March 28 presidential election. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, said this in an interview yesterday. He stated that contrary to the news making the rounds on a statement made by the President in the...

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MEND not meeting to resume hostilities -Tompolo

Against fears that some former militants in the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria could begin hostilities using the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, a leader of the group, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, better known as Tompolo, has said the meeting he is conveying on Saturday 25 July is meant to sustain the peace existing in the region. There had been fears of possible resumption...

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Buhari to divide NNPC into two

President Muhammadu Buhari has finally revealed what will be the fate of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, saying the national oil company will be divided into two successor entities under his administration. The President, who stated this in an interview with journalists in Washington DC during a four-day visit to the United States, an extract explained that the decision would...

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