The number of Cameroonian athletes missing at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games rose from three to eight on Wednesday, as Games officials expressed concern over their safety. “The Cameroon Commonwealth team is sad to announce that eight athletes are missing from their respective rooms in the Games village,’’ Team’s Chef de mission Victor Agbor Nso […]
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The Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) has issued a statement in reaction to a leaked audio wherein a professor in the institution is heard demanding sex from a female student to help her pass her examination. Richard Akindele, a Professor in the Department of Accounting at the university, had his name repeatedly mentioned […]
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Officials said no fewer than 257 people including members of Western Sahara’s Polisario independence movement were killed when a military plane crashed in a field outside Algeria’s capital on Wednesday, officials said. Television footage showed crowds gathering around the smoking and flaming wreckage near Boufarik airport southwest of Algiers. A line of white body bags […]
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The Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, has asked supporters of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) not to entertain fears that former President Olusegun Obasanjo (OBJ) and other ex-military leaders may block President Muhammadu Buhari’s chance of coming back. Mr Shittu, who made the remarks on Tuesday in an interview with the News Agency of […]
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A total of 11 ships laden with various products, including petrol, are at Lagos ports waiting to berth, the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, said on Tuesday. The NPA disclosed in its daily “Shipping Position” in Lagos that nine of the vessels were waiting to berth with petrol. The publication noted that another four ships would […]
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Ike Ekweremadu, Deputy Senate President, will on 26 April argue before a Federal High Court in Abuja why the Federal Government should be stopped in seizing 22 houses, said to belong to him. The Federal Government had on March 21 filed an ex parte motion seeking an interim order for the temporary forfeiture of some […]
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At least 14 people sustained burns in a fresh outbreak of fires at a camp housing tens of thousands of people displaced by Boko Haram jihadists in northeast Nigeria, according to an aid agency. The outbreak comes just two weeks after a blaze at the camp, located at Rann, about 175 kilometres (108 miles) east […]
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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has described the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari as a welcome development as the rebirth of Biafra will happen under him. Buhari announced on Monday that he will be seeking re-election in office during the 2019 elections. In a statement on Tuesday, Emma Powerful, IPOB spokesman, said the […]
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The Lagos State Police Command has reacted to an incident involving some officials of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS and one Immanuel James, a businessman who alleged he was forced to hide in a Zenith Bank toilet to avoid bribing the men. The incident happened at Ago-Palace way, Okota, on Monday. In a statement released […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate to confirm Festus Okoye as National Commissioner for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Mr Okoye is among 26 new appointees the president wrote, in separate letters, to the Senate for confirmation. Mr Buhari’s request on Mr Okoye was contained in a letter read by the Senate President, […]
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