The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has confirmed that the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, applied for an exemption certificate. Mrs Adeyemi Adenike, the NYSC Director of Press, said in a statement in Abuja on Monday, that the scheme would however, investigate the origin of the allegedly forged exemption certificate purportedly being used by […]
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The Akwa Ibom Police Command on Sunday confirmed the arrest of a village head and four suspects for allegedly abducting 19 ExxonMobil staff members. MacDon Achebe, the State Police Public Relations Officer, disclosed in Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom. A police source, who claimed anonymity, had said that the suspects were arrested for […]
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The Nigeria Mission in South Africa has condemned the killing of a Nigerian, Mr Ozumba Tochukwu-Lawrence, by gunman in South Africa. He said the it received with pain the unfortunate news of the assassination of Tochukwu-Lawrence by a yet-to-be identified assailant. Abraham said that the ugly incident was said to have occurred at 10 Koppe, […]
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The Niger Police Command on Sunday deployed armed personnel to prevent people from scooping petroleum products from the NNPC pipeline that exploded in Dagbo community, Paikoro Local Government Area. Dibal Yakadi, Commissioner of Police in Niger, announced this while addressing journalists at the depot in Minna. He said that deployment became necessary in view of […]
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Ten people were killed and 73 injured on Sunday when a train packed with weekend passengers derailed in northwest Turkey, the health ministry said. The train, with over 360 people on board, was travelling from the Edirne region on the Greek and Bulgarian borders to Istanbul’s Halkali station when six of its carriages derailed in […]
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Foremost African financial institution, Guaranty Trust Bank plc, will hold the 8th edition of its Annual Autism Conference on Tuesday, July 17 and Wednesday July 18, 2018 at the MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos. Themed “Raising a Child with Autism, the Role of Family and the Community” the two-day conference is part of the Bank’s Annual […]
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24 year-old American pop star, Justin Bieber, is engaged to model Hailey Baldwin, multiple entertainment news outlets and the UPI said Sunday. TMZ reported the singer proposed to his girlfriend Saturday night at a restaurant in a resort in the Bahamas. Bieber and Baldwin, 21, have been a couple for about a month after previously dating […]
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The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted cloudy skies over the central states of the country on Monday morning with prospects of rains over Abuja, Bauchi, Gombe, Jos, Jalingo, Niger, Yola and Kaduna cities. NiMet’s Weather Outlook by its Central Forecast Office in Abuja on Sunday also predicted day and night temperatures in the range […]
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Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday said there is evidence that some politicians are involved in the crisis between herdsmen and farmers in different parts of the country. He said this hours after Uche Secondus, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party […]
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At least 45 people are missing as torrential rains that have killed 11 people, pounded western and central Japan, the media reported on Saturday. More than 1.6 million people have been evacuated from their homes. Japan’s Meteorological Agency issued special weather warnings across four prefectures in the west of Japan’s main island of Honshu. It […]
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