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Military reveals number of troops killed by terrorists in Niger, debunks viral video
Nigeria’s military has disclosed that three officers and 22 soldiers were killed on August 14 in an ambush laid by armed bandits in ...
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CSOs hail Audi as NSCDC graduates 208
The Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ahmed Abubakar Audi, has been commended for displaying “outstanding leadership”. No ...
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NDLEA crowns Naira Marley ambassador
Popular Nigerian artiste, Azeez Fashola who is professionally known as Naira Marley, has been crowned ambassador of fight against drug abuse in Nigeria.
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Palliative: 36 States, FCT Gets N5bn Each As FG Shares N185bn
The Federal Government has approved a whopping N185 billion support to be given to each of the 36 states of the federation and ...
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Senator, Media Chiefs, Extol Virtues of late Doyin Mahmoud at Annual lecture
Media Chiefs and a Senator yesterday extolled the virtues of the late icon of Journalism, Doyin Mahmoud. Mahmoud, a former Senior journalist at ...
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Afolabi Babawale resumes as NSCDC Director of Public Relations
Newly appointed Director of Public Relations, DPR, for Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Chief Superintendent of Corps, CSC, Afolabi Zaid Babawale, ...
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People’s expectations Encourages Corruption – ICPC Boss
The Chairman of ICPC, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, has declared that the rising level of corruption in public offices and the country as a ...
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Delta, Ondo, Sokoto, Kwara 15 others to experience flooding — NEMA
The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, said yesterday that Delta, Ondo, Sokoto and 16 other states, as well as 56 communities
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Subsidy removal: More refineries won’t reduce fuel pump price – Tinubu aide
The Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Public Affairs, Aguri Ngelale said more refineries in Nigeria will not reduce fuel pump ...
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Why We’re Rising Against Staging of Isese Festival In Ilorin – Council of Ulamah
The Council of Ulama( Islamic clerics) in Kwara State on Tuesday warned those planning to celebrate Ifa festival in Ilorin, the state capital ...
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Unilorin don, others make Kwara commissioner-nominees list
A senior lecturer in the Department of Microbiology, University of Ilorin, Amina El-Imam, was among the list of Kwara State commissioner-nominees unveiled by the ...
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Police Warn Against Isese Festival Celebration In Kwara
The Kwara State Police Command, on Monday, warned the leadership of traditioner worshipers in the state not to carry out their planned festival ...
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Police clamp down on protesters demanding Kano Emir’s removal
The Kano State Police Command, on Monday, said it had declared a manhunt for some persons who chanted provocative slogans against the Emir ...
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Niger Delta Youths Must Rise Above Entitlement Mentality – PAP
The Office of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), has charged youths in the Niger Delta region to “rise above the entitlement mentality”, to ...
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NLC threatens to picket police stations nationwide over arrest of labour leaders
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened to mobilise workers to picket the headquarters of the Nigeria police in Abuja as well as ...
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Nigerian Air Force helicopter crashes in Niger State
A Nigerian Air Force, NAF, Helicopter has reportedly crashed in Niger State, North Western Nigeria. This was confirmed on Monday evening in a ...
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2 Nigerian siblings extradited to US for sexual extortion
U.S. Attorney Mark Totten for the Western District of Michigan, on Monday, announced that Samuel Ogoshi, 22, and Samson Ogoshi, 20, both of ...
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Youth organisation demands law for establishment of NYDC
Youth group known as Nigeria Youth Organization (NYO) weekend called on the federal government to make a law for the establishment of National ...
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Military never received any Coup d’etat request – DHQ
Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters, DHQ, has dismissed claims that it has received request from certain quarters to forcefully effect a change of leadership in ...
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Coup: We sacked Bazoum to save Niger, Nigeria, says Tchiani, meets Islamic clerics, submits to dialogue
The Nigerien military leader, General Abdourahmane Tchiani, has said the military sacked the President Mohamed Bazoum-led government to save both Republic of Niger ...
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Pastor Tunde Bakare hits Tinubu’s ‘Emilokan’ political ideology, warns on implications of hardship
The Founder and General Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has again berated the ‘Emilokan’ politics of President Bola ...
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Army pledges to deploy troops for population and housing census exercise
The Nigerian Army has assured the National Population Commission that it will deploy troops during the 2023 census. This, it said, is to ...
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Man drags wife to court for changing children’s surname to lover’s
A middle-aged man, Theophilius Obayan, has dragged his wife, Chibuzor Lillian Obayan, before a Customary Court sitting in Oke-Eda, Akure, seeking the dissolution ...
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Call on God to kill me if … Pastor Adeboye
Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, the general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, has said call on God to kill me if ...
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230 miners operating without valid licences, Kwara govt tells EFCC
Kwara state government on Friday decried the illegal activities of miners operating in different parts of the state disclosing that 230 of them ...
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Police confirms arrest of officers caught by Osun speaker extorting commuters
The police officers caught by the speaker of the Osun state House of Assembly, Adewale Egbedun, for extorting members of the public have ...
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Nigerians in Belgium Set for Arts and Culture Festival to Boost Tourism Industry
In its bid to promote Nigeria’s culture and boost the tourism industry, the Embassy of Nigeria in Belgium in collaboration with Nigerian community/associations ...
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Nigeria got more revenue from remittances than in oil sector – Ag CBN Gov
Acting Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Folashodun Shonubi has said that no country can develop economically without remittances saying that the ...
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Job Racketeering Probe: Reps Order Arrest of Ex-Federal Character Commission Desk Officer
The House of Representatives has issued an order for the apprehension of Haruna Kolo, a former desk officer overseeing the Integrated Payroll and ...
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Catholic priest puts 300 elderly people on N5,000 lifetime salary
In his bid to better the welfare of the aged persons in his Nkwelle-Ezunaka community, Oyi Local Government Area, Anambra State, a Catholic Priest, ...
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5 reasons Naira is depreciating
The question in the minds of Nigerians today is why is the Naira depreciating or why is the exchange rate of the dollar ...
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Niger: ECOWAS deploys standby force; junta warns they’d kill deposed president
Despite opposition from eminent Nigerians and groups to the use of force against the coupists in Niger Republic, the Economic Community of West ...
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Man who jumped into lagoon on hard drugs – Police
The man who jumped into the lagoon at the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge area of Lagos on Tuesday has been identified as Buka Abana. ...
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Project Sunshine trains 45 Kwara pupils on Radio-Controlled Planes’ operation
About 45 pupils of secondary schools in Kwara State have been trained on Radio-Controlled Aircrafts operation in a bid to prepare them for ...
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Niger coup: Details of Sanusi, Tinubu meeting emerge
The leader of the Tijjaniya Movement in Africa and the 14th Emir of Kano Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi on Wednesday met with President Bola ...
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Why I butchered my ex-lover — Suspect
A 45-year-old suspect, Bankole Oginni, arrested by police detectives in Ondo State for the murder of his ex-lover, has given reasons for his ...
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Mob sets robbery suspects, tricycle on fire
Two suspected thieves were on Wednesday lynched by a mob in the Udo Obio area of Iboko in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital. ...
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FG may stop Customs, NPA, 61 agencies from collecting trillions in revenues
A proposal by the Presidential Committee on Tax Policy and Fiscal Reforms may stop the Nigeria Customs Service, Nigeria Ports Authority, Nigerian Postal ...
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Cooking gas price to rise next week, say marketers
Tougher times are ahead of gas consumers, as marketers have hinted that prices will go up next week. The President of the Nigerian ...
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Police launches standard operating procedure on safe schools initiative
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) on Wednesday launched the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) manual for Schools Protection Squad (SPS).
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Coup: ECOWAS imposes more sanctions on Niger
Following the expiration of the seven-day deadline issued by Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for Niger junta to
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Recruitment: Board releases list of successful applicants into Immigration, NSCDC
The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) has released the list of successful candidates who
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More revelation as witnesses confirm payment of millions for jobs at Federal Character Commission
It was another day of more revelations on Tuesday before the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee investigating alleged Job
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Police arrest woman for allegedly using 10-year-old niece as drug courier
Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 44-year-old woman, Taiye Abass, for allegedly using her 10-year-old niece as a drug courier
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NBA Reconciles with EFCC, Pledges Support for Anti-Graft War
The Ilorin Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, led by its Chairman, Barrister Kamaldeen Gambari on Monday, August 7,
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Protest: FG withdraws contempt suit against NLC
The Federal Government on Monday withdrew its contempt suit filed against Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress
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NAF airstrikes destroy boats loaded with stolen crude in Niger Delta
The Nigerian Air force Monday said multiple airstrikes by Air Component of Operation Delta Safe (OPDS) has hit oil thieves and their accomplices ...
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Gov. Eno vows to hold community leaders accountable for asset vandalism
The Akwa Ibom state governor, Pastor Umo Eno, has warned that henceforth government will hold the leaders accountable for the vandalisation of public ...
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Extortion: Task Force nabs policemen, LASTMA, FRSC personnel
The Lagos State Police Command, weekend, arrested 20 members of the Special Task Force on the Apapa/Oshodi expressway gridlock, over extortion of truck ...
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FG Paid N36bn For Electricity Subsidy In Three Months – NERC
The Nigerian Electricity Regulation Commission (NERC) has said the federal government paid the sum of N36bn to subsidise electricity consumption in the first ...
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Coup: Niger junta defiant, reject ECOWAS ultimatum
Niger on Monday awaits a response from the West African regional bloc after coup leaders ignored a deadline to reinstate the ousted president ...
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Kwara Gov presents 32 patrol vehicles, 160 motorcycles to security personnel
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Monday presented 32 brand new patrol vehicles and 160 motorcycles to support the movement of security personnel ...
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Subsidy removal: Kwara govt opens portal for students’ palliative, see link
The Governor of Kwara State Mallam AbdulRahaman AbdulRazaq has approved payment of fuel subsidy removal palliative to undergraduate students of Kwara State origin ...
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NNPC partners NIPCO to use natural gas as alternative fuel for motorists
As part of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited’s commitment to reducing carbon footprint and providing cheaper alternative fuel to motorists, the ...
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Niger coup: Tinubu makes fresh moves, meets five governors
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Sunday met with the five governors of states that share a boundary with the Niger Republic. The meeting was ...
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ECOWAS INTERVENTION IN NIGER AND THE PRIMACY OF DIPLOMACY
By Aliyu Alhassan, Esq “War does not determine who is right, only who is left” – Bertrand ...
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NBA, EFCC in tango over alleged intimidation
Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ilorin branch has called on all members of the association to boycott the Ilorin zonal command of the Economic ...
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Emir of Ilorin Backs Historians Move To Celebrate 200 years Anniversary of Emirate
The Chairman, Council of Traditional rulers of Kwara State, His Royal Highness, Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji (Dr) Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari has given an approval ...
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Residents of Mubo Community Appeal To Kwara Government Over State of Road
By Abayomi Oderemi The residents of Mubo Community in Ilorin East Local Government Area of Kwara State have appealed to the Kwara state ...
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Outrage greets Adamawa gov’s appointment of 47 media aides
Criticisms have greeted the appointment of 47 media aides by Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State. Fintiri had on Thurday night, announced the ...