We are monitoring Buhari with a lot of respects - PDP Chief

Alhaji Shehu Gabam, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said President Muhammadu Buhari has good intentions for the country and urged the opposition to support him. Gabam, Chief of staff to former Gov. Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State, made the call on Saturday in Tilde-Fulani, Toro Local Government Area, in an interview . According to him, President Buhari has a good intention for the...

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Three in court for loitering at Murtala Muhammed International Airport

Three persons, namely, Ikechukwu Nicholas (35), Timothy Jackson (26) and Charles Okafor (30) have been arraigned before a Magistrate Court sitting in Ogba, Lagos for allegedly loitering at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos. The trio were arrested by security operatives attached to the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). According to the prosecution,...

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Borno deputy governor buried

The Deputy Governor of Borno State, Zannah Umar Mustapha, who died on Saturday in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, has been buried according to Islamic rite. Zannah was said to have died in his hotel room in Yola. It was gathered that the deputy governor was in Yola to represent the state government at the convocation of the Modibbo Adama University of Science and Technology, Yola. A statement...

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Buhari mourns Borno deputy governor

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday said he received with shock and immense sadness, news of the death of the Deputy Governor of Borno State , Alhaji Zannah Mustapha. According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President extended condolences to the deceased's family and friends on behalf of himself and the Federal Government. Adesina said the...

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Power outage stalls INEC taskforce from sorting election materials in Rivers

The special taskforce set up by the acting chairman of the Independent National Election Commission, INEC, Mrs. Amina Zakari to supervise the inspection of materials by the Rivers All Progressive Congress was frustrated yesterday due to lack power supply at INEC office in Port Harcourt. It was learnt that the taskforce team members led by the Director of Legal Services, Ibrahim Bawa, were...

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NSA, Service Chiefs avow end to Boko Haram insurgency

The National Security Adviser (NSA), Maj-Gen (rtd) Babagana Monguno and four other Service Chiefs for Defence, Nigerian Army, Air Force and Police have declared to end Boko Haram insurgency that has claimed many lives and property in the North East sub-region of the country. Monguno made the “declarations and pledges” yesterday in Maiduguri, when five Service Chiefs paid an official courtesy...

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Jihadists kill Imam for refusing recruitment

Jihadists killed a village imam in central Mali who had refused their repeated attempts to recruit him, a local official told AFP Friday. Gunmen with suspected links to radical Islamic preacher Amadou Koufa killed the imam of Barkerou village, Aladji Sekou, on Thursday night, the official said on condition of anonymity. The two men arrived by motorbike, leaving it on the edge of the village...

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Cameroon pledges 2,500 troops for regional Boko Haram force

Cameroon will send nearly 2,500 soldiers to join a west African regional force to fight Boko Haram Islamists that will number 8,700 men, the defence minister said Friday. Nigeria’s neighbours Chad, Cameroon and Niger, which have all suffered attacks by Boko Haram, launched the force earlier this year to end a conflict that has claimed more than 15,000 lives since 2009. The group has now widened...

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Edo gives flood warning as Cameroon opens dam

Edo State Government has advised residents living in low lands, river banks and other flood-prone areas in the state to take proactive action and relocate to safer parts of the state to avoid being affected by flood which may arise following the opening of a dam in the Republic of Cameroon. The Government in a statement signed by Austin Akhuamhenkhun, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment...

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How I escaped death 12 times - Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has given insight into how he has so far escaped death by the whiskers at least a dozen times in his 78-year stay on earth. In his latest three-volume autobiography, “My Watch”, Mr. Obasanjo wrote about how he survived infant mortality that consumed all but one of his siblings, how local herbs and concoction helped kept him alive after a life-threatening scorpion...

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Lagos Helicopter Crash: Full investigation commences – AIB

The Commissioner, Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB), Dr Felix Abali yesterday said that full investigation to unravel the cause of the Bristow helicopter crash would now get underway with the recovery of its Black box. Abali spoke with aviation correspondents while displaying the device at the bureau’s headquarters in Lagos. The Sikosky 76 helicopter marked 5N-BGD, crashed into the Lagos Lagoon...

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Borno state confirms sudden death of deputy governor, Zannah Mustapha

The Borno State Government has confirmed that the state’s Deputy Governor, Zannah Mustapha, has passed on. A statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Usman Jidda Shuwa, said Mr. Mustapha died in his sleep Saturday morning while visiting Yola, the Adamawa State capital, to attend the convocation ceremony of Modibbo Adama University of Science and Technology, Yola. Mr. Shuwa said the...

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Why oil theft persists in N’Delta – Navy commander

Commander, Nigerian Navy Ship, Delta State, Commodore Aliyu Sule, has identified impunity and slow pace of adjudication as factors responsible for the persisting illegal bunkering in the Niger Delta region. Sule stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Warri. He said the process of trial of arrested suspects for oil theft was slow which encouraged the perpetrators...

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BREAKING: Borno State Deputy Governor, Zannah Umar Mustapha is dead

Fresh reports reaching NE revealed that the Borno State Deputy Governor, Zannah Umar Mustapha is dead. According to reports, Zannah was said to have died in his hotel room in Yola and his remains had been taken to the Federal Medical Hospital, Yola. More details late...

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Athletic Bilbao stun Barcelona 4-0 in Spanish Super Cup

Barcelona were seeking their fifth trophy but suffered a shock 0-4 defeat at the hands of Athletic Bilbao.  Aritz Aduriz’s second half hat-trick sent Barcelona spinning to a shock 4-0 defeat at Athletic Bilbao in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup on Friday. An under-strength Barca side were seeking their fifth trophy of the year but went behind after a stunning drive from the centre...

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Our refineries will now make profits — NNPC

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, stated that its ongoing restructuring was designed to reposition its operations and refineries to profit-making ventures. This was even as the NNPC denied claims that it was pursuing an ethnic agenda in the ongoing restructuring of the corporation. The NNPC, in a statement issued after an interactive session with the top management...

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Naija girls can be very annoying at concerts

I was watching entertainment news on TV with a couple of friends and it got to a part where Tuface was on stage performing and a girl who probably was as drunk as a skunk, dragged herself on the stage and started hugging him and even took off her shirt . What is actually wrong with Naija babes at concerts? How do you expect your boyfriend to feel watching his girlfriend on national TV jumping around...

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UI student slumps, dies during examinination

A distance learning student of the University of Ibadan slumped at the Adebayo Akande e-Centre, Ikeja, Lagos, after waiting for hours to write the examination. The 100 level student of political science, identified as Pelewura Bolaji, was said to have written the first paper for the day before the incident happened. The victim, according to an identification card found on him, is a worker with...

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PHOTOS/VIDEO: 65yr old man shocked to see his own obituary posters in Benin

65 year old Clifford Osawaru, said he got the shock of his life when friends alerted him to posters announcing his death and funeral arrangements, which were pasted on some streets in Okunmwun community, Ovia North East LGA of Edo State yesterday. The man who said he was hale and hearty wondered why anyone would print his obituary "When I am alive, they said I am dead. This is not wife at all"...

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'We don’t use human beings for rituals in Ile-Ife' - Ife chiefs deny reports that Abobakun escaped

Ile-Ife chiefs have denied that the Sarun, otherwise known as Abobakun, was on the run to evade been buried with the late Ooni, Oba Okunade Sijuwade. They also denied that five people were missing during the Oro festival performed as part of the burial rites for the late monarch. The chiefs, in separate interviews with journalists, said no one had ever been buried with a late king. The...

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PDP begs members that plan to defect to APC

About 570 key members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Bayelsa State are planning to dump the party for the All Progressives Congress on Saturday (today). But an association within the PDP in the state called the Unity Group begged the aggrieved members to reconsider the move. The group made the appeal at a news conference in Yenagoa on Friday against the backdrop of mass defections of prominent...

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Buratai seeks collaboration between army, DSS

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has called for collaboration between the army and the Department of State Service. Buratai also called for joint training exercises and intelligence sharing between the two security agencies for successful joint operations. The Army Chief’s comments were contained in an electronic mail on Friday signed by the Chief of Staff, Army Public Relations,...

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Nigerians blast Ogun governor for sacking six workers in the state over ‘offensive’ question

Some Nigerians have blasted the Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, for the sacking of six workers in the state Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, including a secondary school teacher, for allegedly setting an offensive examination question. The sacked workers include two Grade Level 17 officers, former Director, Education Support Services, Mrs. Folashade Oresegun; former...

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Another student reveals how UNILAG lecturer, Akin Baruwa sexually harassed her

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761 killed by fulani herdsmen this year

About 761 persons have lost their lives to cultism and clashes involving Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria between January and July this year. Findings which was based on reported cases of violence involving cultism and Fulani herdsmen in the media, revealed the information. The analysis showed that out of the figure, violence involving the Fulani nomads claimed 621 lives across the country within the...

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We won’t give up anti-corruption war – Osinbajo

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has said that the Federal Government will not relent in its anti-corruption battle. He said the anti-corruption crusade embarked upon by President Muhammadu Buhari was not meant to intimidate anybody in the country as being insinuated in some quarters. Osinbajo, who stated this in a chat with some journalists on Friday at a burial ceremony of a member of the Redeemed...

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The late Ooni of Ife died a born-again Christian - Cleric

The final burial rites of the late Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, Olubuse II, was performed on Friday, a cleric, Evangelist Toluwase Akeredolu, had disputed insinuations that Sijuwade, as a prominent monarch, was in the cult. Akeredolu had said that Oba Sijuwade died as a born-again Christian. Akeredolu said this on July 29 after the transition of the monarch was announced by the media. The...

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“Nobody can see the Ooni after his death, not even his wives and children or President Obama'

“Nobody can see the Ooni, not even the US President, Barrack Obama. We are with him. It’s only the initiates who can see him. His wives and children cannot see him.” The final burial rites of the late Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, Olubuse II, was performed on Friday, but his wives, children and family members were unable to pay their last respects as they were barred from the programme. Some...

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REVEALED: Nigerian women turn innocent girls to sex slaves in Dubai

Esther Nicole Otubo Sometime in 2014, a young beautiful girl, Ms Precious, completed her university education and the National Youth Service Corps programme in Edo State. Precious, as she identified herself while nude in a video, decided to seek better opportunity outside Nigeria. She chose a booming beautiful Arab city, Dubai, as her port of future success. Precious convinced her parents to finance...

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