The founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Federick Fasehun, is dead. The senior special adviser on media to Mr Fasehun, Adeoye Jolaosho, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. He said the OPC Chieftain died at about 1a.m. Saturday at the intensive care unit of the Lagos State University Teaching […]
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Former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan says he cannot take responsibility for the kidnap of 276 students from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno state, in 2014. Jonathan had been accused of not doing enough to secure the release of the students. Speaking in an interview with BBC, the former president said Boko Haram should […]
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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested one Abbas Lakis, a Lebanese for money laundering offence. Lakis was picked up at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, following intelligence report that he had on him, undeclared huge sums of monies aboard the Egypt Airline bringing him from the Kano Airport en […]
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Cameroon have been stripped of hosting next year’s Africa Cup of Nations, says the Confederation of African Football. African football’s governing body (Caf) says it is because of delays in the progress of Cameroon’s preparation for the tournament, due to start in June. Officials made the decision at a meeting on Friday in Accra, Ghana, […]
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Senator Dino Melaye and former National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bolaji Abdullahi, have been appointed directorate heads in the Presidential Campaign Council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The party made the disclosure on Friday in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan. In the statement, the council […]
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The Police Service Commission (PSC) says it has begun the process of recruitment of 10,000 constables. A statement by Ikechukwu Ani, the commission’s Head, Press and Public Relations, on Friday in Abuja, said the exercise was free of charge. Ani warned interested candidates against paying any money to apply and not to return the completed […]
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has granted Diamond Bank Plc, approval to operate as a national bank following its application for it. The bank’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr Uzoma Dozie, said this in a statement signed by the bank’s Head of media, Ezechinyere Anyanwu on Friday in Abuja. According to Dozie, the move was […]
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The House of Representatives Committee on Land Transport has summoned the Minister of Transport, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi due to allegations of corruption, According to Channels Television, the Chairman of the committee, Abdulmumin Jibrin, disclosed this in an exclusive interview after plenary on Thursday in Abuja, the nation’s capital. He explained that the minister was summoned […]
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The 6 Division of the Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt says it has discovered an illegal militia training camp inside a Rivers community. Aminu Iliyasu, the spokesman of the division, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Port Harcourt that soldiers had taken over the camp. He said the illegal camp was […]
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Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former longtime personal lawyer, pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying to Congress about a proposed Trump Organization skyscraper in Moscow, prompting the president to lash out at Cohen as a liar and “weak person.” The unexpected plea stemmed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s intensifying investigation into Russia’s role in the […]
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