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Police declare 10 bankers wanted over N125m fraud

The Zone 2 Police Command in Lagos State on Sunday declared 10 suspected bankers wanted over alleged N125.1 million scam. Investigation conducted by the News Agency of Nigeria revealed that the names...

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Kano Police repel gunmen attack, two killed, two arrested

The Police in Kano State on Sunday confirmed the killing of two gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members in Kibiya Local Government area of the state. The command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP...

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Nigeria under insurgency not only north east – IBB

Former military President Ibrahim Babangida says he is optimistic that Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will conduct elections as rescheduled. He spoke in Minna when he received the...

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Bayelsa SSG’s wife, 19 others die in crash after visit to Dame Jonathan

The wife of the Secretary to the Bayelsa State Government, Elizabeth Oguru, was among the 20 persons who died on Saturday night after a visit to the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan. The accident...

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Stop over-heating polity – Group tells Obasanjo

The Nigeria Prosperity Project (NPP) has urged former President Olusegun Obasanjo to stop over-heating the already-charged political atmosphere and offer useful services as a patriot and statesman that...

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Stop over-heating polity – Group tells Obasanjo

The Nigeria Prosperity Project (NPP) has urged former President Olusegun Obasanjo to stop over-heating the already-charged political atmosphere and offer useful services as a patriot and statesman that...

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Kano Police repel gunmen attack, two killed, two arrested

The Police in Kano State on Sunday confirmed the killing of two gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members in Kibiya Local Government area of the state. The command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP...

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Nigeria under insurgency not only north east – IBB

Former military President Ibrahim Babangida says he is optimistic that Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will conduct elections as rescheduled. He spoke in Minna when he received the...

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Borno declares Monday public holiday to receive General Buhari

Borno Government has declared today, Monday, February 16, as a work-free-day to enable the people of the state accord the Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu...

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Cleaner returns N12m found at Lagos airport

A cleaner, Josephine Agwu, working with a concessionaire, cleaning Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, has returned to the security unit of the airport, N12 million (twelve million naira)...

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Egypt bombs ISIL targets in Libya after mass beheadings

Egypt’s military has said it carried out air strikes against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targets in Libya, a day after the group released a video appearing to show the beheading of 21...

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Nigeria still investment destination despite challenges – Dangote …urges...

President of Dangote Group and Chairman of Dangote Cement Plc, Aliko Dangote has urged Nigerians to see the current economic challenges being faced by the country as a wake up call for all Nigerians to...

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Only Mu’azu can react to Obasanjo’s exit -PDP

The national leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party refused to officially react to the action of its former Chairman of Board of Trustees, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who left the party on...

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NDLEA nab pastor with hard drugs at Lagos Airport

Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have apprehended the resident pastor of the Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim at Agodo-Egbe, Ikotun Lagos, over unlawful...

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Jonathan remains best option for presidency – Obi tells Nigerians in diaspora 

The former Governor of Anambra State and the Deputy Director-General of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) National Campaign Council, Mr. Peter Obi, has told Nigerians in the Diaspora that President...

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Hope rises as military flushes out terrorists, reclaims Borno towns

IT was a major clamp down on Boko Haram terrorists yesterday as troops of 7 Division of Nigerian Army flushed out the insurgents from Monguno and other communities in Borno State ...

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Poll shift: PDP plans fresh campaigns

Following the shift in polls dates, the Peoples Democratic Party Campaign Council has resolved to begin another round of state-wide campaigns,   Our correspondent learnt that this was one of the...

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ECOWAS urges Nigerian politicians to avoid hate speechs

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has implored Nigerian  politicians to avoid hate speeches and campaigns ahead of the forthcoming general elections. Addressing state House...

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Jonathan postponed elections to frustrate Buhari – NY Times

The United States-based New York Times says the postponement of the elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission was orchestrated by President Goodluck Jonathan to frustrate Maj. Gen...

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Obasanjo, a shame to the military —DHQ

The Defence Headquarters has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as an embarrassment to the military institution. The Defence Headquarters made the comment in a statement posted on its...

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