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With Puzzles for INEC, APC insists on fresh poll in Anambra
Nigeria’s All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected the announcement by Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC that it will hold a supplementary election after declaring last Saturday’s...
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Lekki-Epe Expressway blockade: Police say one pupil dies
The killer water truck on Lekki-Epe Expressway The killer truck and the Prado jeep Residents take over the truck The Nigerian police has clarified the tragedy that led to the unprecedented five-hour...
View ArticleEstate agent bags 15 year sentence for fraud
A Nigerian High Court in Ikeja, capital of Lagos state on Monday sentenced an estate agent, Michael Olabameji, to 15 years imprisonment for defrauding 100 accommodation seekers of N29.8 million....
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Rights commission probes demolitions in Western Nigeria
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Monday in Lagos began a four-day public inquiry into cases of demolitions and evictions in the Western Zone of the country. The inquiry is holding at the...
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Anambra election: PDP attacks APC, opposes cancellation of poll
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday opposed the call by the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the cancellation of the last Saturday`s Anambra Gubernatorial election. The PDP National...
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Fashola receives report on collapsed buildings
The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Monday received the report of the Tribunal of Enquiry on incidence of Collapsed buildings in the State, stating that the Tribunal was set up to...
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Lagos House backs 5 walk bridges on Lekki-Epe Expressway
EROMOSELE EBHOMELE The Lagos State House of Assembly, western Nigeria has said it would use its powers to ensure that five pedestrian bridges are proposed by the state government for Eti-Osa in the...
View ArticleSenator slumps, dies in Government House
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Senator Tari Sekibo, the President of Ijaw National Congress, INC, the umbrella body of the Ijaw ethnic nationality worldwide has died. He died on Monday after he collapsed...
View Article13-Year Old Boy Kills Friend Over Earphone
The police in Kogi have arrested a 13-year-old boy, Yinusa Halilu, for allegedly killing his friend and classmate, Mustapha Kazeem, 12, over a damaged earpiece. ACP Austin Evakhabokun, the Acting...
View ArticleSpiritualist Rapes, Impregnates Woman For Deliverance
A herbalist, Ifatade Elegbeleye has been arrested and charged before an Ojokoro Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, western Nigeria for allegedly defrauding a woman seeking husband. He allegedly swindled her of...
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400 Nigerian Policemen On UN Mission To Liberia, Sudan
Four hundred Nigerian policemen left Nigeria today on United Nations peace mission to Sudan and Liberia. The cops were from the three contingents of the Formed Police Unit (FPU) . They will be...
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Jonathan Mourns Sekibo
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has sent a condolence message to the family and associates of Senator Tari Sekibo, president of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), who died Monday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa...
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Amosun Presents N210bn Budget For 2014
Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, southwest, Nigeria today presented a proposed budget of N210.21 billion for the 2014 fiscal year. The budget which was tagged Budget of Consolidation was N1.57...
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Jonathan misses 2014 budget date again, leaves for UK
For the second time this month, President Goodluck Jonathan has failed to present the 2014 budget to the National Assembly He was expected to present the budget today at the National Assembly....
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Counter terrorism: Nigerian forces abort plot, kill 2 suspects
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Nigerian forces in Kano, northwest Nigeria, Tuesday evening confirmed the death of two terrorists and the arrest of another two who, they claimed, were heading for operation in...
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Ghana waives taxes on condom
Ghana on Tuesday backed down on a proposed tax on imported condoms after mooting increased levies on foreign-made goods as a way of cutting government debt. Finance Minister Seth Terkper made the...
View ArticleOmo Omoruyi for burial on Friday
Jethro Ibileke/Benin The crisis in late Professor Omo Omoruyi’s family over burial procedures has been resolved to pave way for his burial this weekend. The crisis which had delayed an official...
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Doctor guilty of fondling 21 women under anaesthesia
A Canadian anesthesiologist was found guilty Tuesday of sexually assaulting 21 women while they were under helplessly under anesthetic but aware of what was happening. George Doodnaught was accused of...
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Amaechi: Battered But Unbowed
Rattled. That is what Rotimi Amaechi should be. Months of enduring body blows from an out-and-out heavyweight that is the Presidency should predispose the recipient to grogginess. But the 48-year-old...
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President Jonathan, Dame Patience And I
Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State explains his fractious relationship with President Goodluck Jonathan to TheNEWS editors In the last few months you have been under heavy artillery fire from...
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