When Chief Beecroft died, the crying looked painfully rehearsed. Of course, it was rehearsed, but it wasn’t supposed to be painfully obvious. Everyone in the movie seemed to have come to the table with their F-games. First off, the movie ran dangerously low on emotions of any sort and what is anything of worth in […]
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No fewer than 303 cartons of Tramadol tablets were intercepted by the Kano State Police command.The State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mohammed Wakili, disclosed this while briefing newsmen in Kano on Friday. He said the interception was in continuation of the Command’s effort to rid the State of all forms of crimes, especially dealing in […]
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Israeli firm, Archimedes Group, has been banned by Facebook. The company received the ban for using fake accounts and pages to post political news about Nigeria. Archimedes Group is a political consulting and lobbying firm that boasts of its ability of wining elections worldwide. In a post, Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, explained that […]
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Five oil workers were on Tuesday kidnapped by gunmen within the Oil Mining Lease (OML) -55 operated by an indigenous oil company, Belemaoil Producing Limited in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers. Confirming the development, the Rivers State Police Command said all hands were on deck to ensure the unconditional release of the workers. The […]
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The Naira on Thursday closed at N360.35 at the investors’ window. Market turnover at the window stood at N152.09 million dollars. The naira remained stable at the parallel market in Lagos, exchanging at N359 to the dollar, while the Pound Sterling and the Euro traded at N472 and N402, respectively. At the Bureau De Change […]
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The Nigerian Senate on Thursday passed the Public Holiday Act Amendment Bill to recognise June 12 as the new Democracy Day. The passage of the bill is coming almost one year after President Muhammadu Buhari announced that the date would replace May 29 for Nigerians to commemorate the return to the civilian government. While some […]
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The federal government of Nigeria has warned the nation’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against unpatriotic and toxic politics that puts the nation’s democracy at risk. Addressing state house correspondents at the presidential villa in Abuja on Wednesday, Lai Mohammed, minister of information, said the PDP and Atiku Abubakar, its presidential candidate, […]
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Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has accused some defeated politicians in the just concluded general elections of complicity in the current heightened situation in parts of the country. Buratai leveled the accusation on Wednesday in Maiduguri when he received the House Committee on Army led by its Chairman, Rep. Remande Shawulu, at […]
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The senate committee on banking, insurance and other financial institutions has approved second term for Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Rafiu Ibrahim, its chairman, said the allegations were targeted at “bringing you (Emefiele) down because you are a good person”. Last week, President Muhammadu Buhari nominated Emefiele for a second […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday embark on a five-day trip to Saudi Arabia. This is as revealed on Wednesday, by Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman. Shehu said the trip is at the instance of Salman Abdulaziz, the ruler of Saudi Arabia. “President Muhammadu Buhari has accepted the invitation of King Salman Bin Abdulaziz, the ruler of […]
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