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Saturday, October 22, 2016
Nigeria's Minister Of Finance Kemi Adeosun Opens London Stock Exchange. {Photos}
Kemi Adeosun, minister of finance, on Friday opened the London Stock Exchange (LSEG) to celebrate the business ties between Nigeria and UK, while promoting the 3rd ‘London and Lagos Capital Markets in Partnership’ conference.
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See Photos: Tricycle rider murdered in Anambra (graphic)
In today's message, the President of ANIAS Comr. Ferguson Okpara has condemned the clueless murder of Mr. Sulay Muhammed whom is a Keke Driver and currently the secretary of Igala Indigenes in Anambra State that was believed to have occurred on Thursday 20th October, 2016 around 11pm. ...
Photos: Shi'ite members stage protest in Kano and Kaduna, demand release of their leader, Sheik El-Zakzaky
Members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria IMN otherwise known as Shi'ittes, today staged a protest in some parts of Kano and Kaduna to demand the release of their leader, Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky who has been in detention since December last year following the clash they had with the Nigerian Army.
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See Photos Of Baby Who Survived The Train Accident That Killed Over 50 People In Cameroon
This is quite sad! Here is one of the youngest survival of the Eseka train accident in Cameroon yesterday. According to reports, she lost both of her parents in the deadly accident which killed at least 53 and wounded nearly 300 people.
The accident took place as the train travelled between two of the country's largest cities.. Efforts are being made to identify her relatives....
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Recession Hits Billionaire Aliko Dangote Hard, Unable To Pay Workers’ Salaries
The current economic situation in the country certainly affects everybody and everything, even Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, is groaning, according to P.M News. Investigations at one of Dangote’s companies, Dansa Foods Nig. Ltd off Lagos-Badagry expressway revealed that workers have not been paid their salaries for the past six months...
Former Bauchi Governor Isah Yuguda Under Investigation By EFCC. {Photos}
The private residence of the former governor of Bauchi State under the People's Democratic Party (PDP) has been seized and placed under investigation by the EFCC.
Businessman Who Was Abducted In Owerri Found Dead After Ransom Payment
NDLEA nabs 98 drug suspects in Ebonyi
The Ebonyi State Command of the National Drug law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has arrested 98 persons for their alleged involvement in illicit drugs since January 2016.
Also, 37 of the suspects have been successfully prosecuted and jailed by and others are still at various stages of investigation, the agency said....
Man nabbed while trying to steal transformer in Borno state
I’m Ready To Refund His Dowry To Free Myself From Bondage"— Estranged Wife Tells Court
One Fatima Buba has pleaded with a Grade 1 Area Court in Gudu, Abuja, to dissolve her marriage with her husband, Abdulganiyu Ibrahim, for alleged battery, cruelty and total change in behaviour.
READ : How IBB Brokered Peace Deal Between Makarfi, Sheriff
Details of how the national Chairman of the Caretaker committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi and the former chairman of the party, Ali Modu Sheriff agreed to go to the negotiating table have emerged.
Saturday Vanguard gathered that following the crisis that engulfed the party, the former head of state, General Ibrahim Babangida summoned the two leaders and directed them to resolve their differences in the interest of the party and the North....
Saturday Vanguard gathered that following the crisis that engulfed the party, the former head of state, General Ibrahim Babangida summoned the two leaders and directed them to resolve their differences in the interest of the party and the North....
Police Parade Suspected Killers Of Port-Harcourt Lawyer, Ken Atsuwete
The Police have paraded a father, his son and two others for their alleged involvement in the kidnap and murder of a Port Harcourt-based human rights lawyer, Mr. Ken Atsuwete. The victim was murdered in cold blood on August 29 along Onuchiolu Road, Aluu in Ikwerre Local Government Area, Rivers State...
MEET: Lekan Babalola - First Nigerian man to win 2 Grammy Awards
56-year-old percussionist Lekan Babalola has not one, but two Grammy Awards. His first Grammy came in 2006 for his work on the album In the heart of the moon by legendary Malian guitarist, Ali Farka Toure and Babalola got his second Grammy Award in 2009 for being onCassandra Wilson‘s album Lovely.....
All the institutions of government, the executive, legislature and the judiciary are corrupt - VP Yemi Osibanjo
Vice President Prof. Yemi Osibanjo has said the present administration’s fight against corruption will touch every sector in the society because all government institutions in the country are corrupt.
He decried the fact that corruption had penetrated every echelon of the society and was responsible for poverty and other challenges facing the nation....
Friday, October 21, 2016
Malaria Kills 48 In Sokoto, Nigeria
An outbreak of malaria has claimed no fewer than 48 lives in Gandu area, Sokoto North Local Government of Sokoto State in the last one month.
The Officer in Charge of Kofar Kade Clinic, Mrs Rabi Ahmed-Gandi, disclosed this in Sokoto on Friday when she received the second consignment of free anti-malarial drugs from the State Government....
Wicked Mother, Angela Whitworth Who Killed Her Baby Daughter And Fled To Uganda Is Jailed For Life.
A 'wicked and selfish' mother has been jailed for life for murdering her 20-month-old daughter over a bitter custody battle. Angela Whitworth, 44, used a black bin liner to smother Sarah Dahane at her home in Bicester, Oxfordshire, on May 15, 2013.
Having already booked her ticket before the murder, she then took a flight to Nairobi in Kenya the day before the little girl's body was discovered...
READ : "How Corps Members Were Robbed And Raped By Suspected Militants In Rivers".
It was a sorrowful nightfall for two members of the National Youth Service Corps last Wednesday in Asarama Community, Andoni Local Government Area, Rivers State, after they were robbed and raped by suspected militants.
The victims were said to be in bed at their unsecured lodge in an isolated part of the community when the gunmen broke into their rooms to rob and rape them.
The operation which started at midnight lasted for more than two hours, with two female corps members raped, and phones, food stuff, clothes, shoes, money among others carted away....
The operation which started at midnight lasted for more than two hours, with two female corps members raped, and phones, food stuff, clothes, shoes, money among others carted away....
Singer Yemi Alade To Co-Host 2016 MTV Mama Awards Alongside Bonang Matheba [Photo]
Abosede Omolare Stabs Fiance, Sadiq Dauda To Death In Ogun Few Weeks To Their Wedding (Pic)
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 23-year-old lady, Abosede Omolare, for allegedly stabbing her fiance, Sadiq Dauda, to death during an argument.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Abimbola Oyeyemi, told a news conference on Friday in Abeokuta that Omolare was engaged to marry Dauda in December....
Fans Slam Yoruba Actress Laide Bakare For Licking Her Son's Face [PICS]
Nollywood actress, Laide Bakare has been heavily criticised for sharing a controversial photo with her one year old son, Damilare Mishal.
The actress in an attempt to kiss her son, ended up licking the child's face which many of her fans believe looks nasty and bad.
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Brazil-based Nigerian Hairstylist, Nnaji Juliet Ijeoma Arrested At Lagos Int'l Airport With Cocaine Concealed In Her Bra
A Brazil-based Nigerian hairstylist has been arrested by Nigerian anti-drug detectives with cocaine hidden inside her bra. The suspect, Nnaji Juliet Ijeoma, 30 was arrested by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos on Friday. She was caught with the illicit drug at the airport during the inward screening of South African Airways....
JTF Frees Kidnap Victim, Foils Another Abduction In Niger Delta
Joint Military Operation in the Niger Delta on Friday said it had freed a kidnap victim and foiled another kidnap attempt in a bid to halt oil theft and criminality in the area.
At Least 3 Dead After Packed Passenger Train Derails In #Cameroon. {Photos}
At least three people were killed and others were injured when a packed passenger train traveling between Cameroon's capital, Yaounde, and the port city of Douala derailed and overturned on Friday, witnesses said.
"There are many injured. We are still in the phase of evaluating the situation. We cannot give even a provisional toll," said an official for national rail company Camrail, who asked not to be named....
Femi Fani-Kayode Re-arrested By EFCC. Photos
Former BBC Reporter Chris Simpson Dies
Former BBC correspondent Chris Simpson has died unexpectedly in Senegal at the age of 53.
A much-respected journalist, he worked for the BBC in Angola during the civil war in the 1990s, in Rwanda in the aftermath of the genocide and was also posted to Senegal and the Central African Republic (CAR) in the 2000s....
DSS Raid: NBA Asks Arrested Judges To Step Aside Pending Trial
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Nigerian Woman Shows Off Giant Cassava Tuber She Harvested From Her Farm (Photo)
A woman from Orlu, Imo State showed off a giant Cassava tuber she harvested from her farmland, NairaNaijaNews reports. See photo below.
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