Goalkeeper Jan Oblak, Juanfran, Gabriel Arena and Fernando Torres are part of a 20-man Atletico Madrid squad that will face the Super Eagles B side in a friendly on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Atletico Madrid Football Club announced the 20-man squad for the friendly match on their official Twitter handle […]
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Ohaneze Ndigbo, a socio-cultural umbrella of Ndigbo, has called for the adoption of a six-year rotational single tenure for the president and governors of 36 states in the country. It also demanded creation of one additional state in the South-East geo-political zone, scrapping of local government system and resource control for states where natural resources […]
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The Police have arrested key members of the gang that attacked banks in Kwara. The robbery which left many residents and policemen dead. On Monday, a statement released by PRNigeria confirmed the arrest of two of whose photos were realeased. The statement reads: “Sequel to the Publication of the Pictures of the Offa Bank Robbers […]
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The Police Service Commission (PSC) in a statement on Monday, said it has shortlisted 37,062 candidates out of 133,324 applicants earlier shortlisted for screening. Ikechukwu Ani, spokesperson for the PSC who made the announcement, said the examination would hold on May 25 at Computer-Based Test Centres all over the country. The centres are available in […]
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The secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, has lunched a new website for his office. The new website — which he said costs N64 million — was unveiled at his office in Abuja, on Monday. The federal government had allocated N65m for the portal in the 2017 budget. The SGF said […]
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Timi Frank, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has written an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, wherein he apologised to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, alleging that life is worthless under President Muhammadu Buhari. He explained that he apologised to Jonathan because events in the last three years showed that the ex-president was a […]
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The Aliko Dangote Foundation has flagged off its one-off and unconditional Micro-grants Programme in Niger State with 25,000 disadvantaged women as beneficiaries bringing the total number of women beneficiaries to 256,500 across seven states of the federation. Chairman of the Aliko Dangote Foundation, Aliko Dangote said weekend at the flag-off ceremony held at the Justice […]
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The Nigerian Army said some courageous civilians on Sunday foiled a suicide bomb attack by a suspected female Boko Haram member on a mosque in Gashua, Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe. Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, the Deputy Director Public Relations, Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole, disclosed this in a statement released in Maiduguri. “What would […]
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Prince Harry and his bride Meghan Markle will be known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex after their wedding on Saturday, Buckingham Palace announced just hours before the ceremony. “The Queen has today been pleased to confer a dukedom on Prince Henry of Wales. His titles will be Duke of Sussex, Earl of Dumbarton and […]
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The rescheduled ward and local government congresses of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers state will hold on Saturday and Sunday. This followed the cancellation of the May 5 and 12 Ward and Local Government Congresses by the party’s national leadership. According to Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the party’s National Chairman and Mr Muiz Banire, […]
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