Eyewitnesses say at least 15 persons have been confirmed killed in a dawn attack by an armed militia on three Fulani communities in Lau Local Government Area of the state. A resident of one of the affected communities said 15 people were buried at Jalingo cemetery. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the […]
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In a statement on Friday, Aisha, wife of president Muhammadu Buhari has expressed appreciation to the medical team attending to her son, Yusuf. The message showed that Isaac Adewole, minister of health, three professors are among the medical experts attending to Yusuf, the only son of President Muhammadu Buhari. Yusuf was involved in an accident […]
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The Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) has asked film-makers to submit their feature, short, animation and documentary works for consideration in 27 categories of the awards. The deadline for all submissions is 30th January 2018, while a late entry deadline is February 14. Submission should be entered on Film Freeway and in any of the […]
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Liverpool and Egyptian forward, Mohamed Salah etched his name into football history after being crowned African Player of the Year 2017. Salah fended off opposition from club-mate Sadio Mane of Senegal and Gabonese Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, winner in 2015, to pick the topmost prize at the Aiteo CAF Awards Gala 2017, held on Thursday, 4 January […]
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Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa state, has accused leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of perpetrating crimes under the cover of the federal government and politicising national security. In a statement issued by Francis Agbo, his spokesman, the governor alleged that leaders of the ruling party have taken advantage of “dysfunctional” Nigerian state to […]
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The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru said 4501 petrol trucks were simply untraceable, vanishing from the Nigerian radar, during the biting fuel supply crisis. “Due to massive diversion, hoarding, panic buying and smuggling, coupled with the information that three Direct Sales Direct Purchase Consortia had rejected October cargoes, […]
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The Nigerian Army has released a statement that one of the kidnapped Chibok girls has been released. It was reported that troops of the Operation Lafiya Dole deployed in Pulka, Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno, on Thursday rescued one of the Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram terrorists in 2014. A statement by Col. […]
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A 5.4-magnitude earthquake on Thursday hit Merowe area in north Sudan, some 350 km north of the capital Khartoum, according to the Public Authority for Geological Research of Sudan’s Minerals Ministry. “Earthquakes have occurred in Merowe area since Jan. 1 and continued intermittently in varying degrees thereafter. “Thursday’s quake registered 5.4 on the Richter scale,” […]
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In a statement issued on Thursday by Emma Powerful, spokesman of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), it was revealed that the group has launched “Radio Nigeria Hausa service”. It said the radio service would act as an unbiased informative platform to take the “message of liberation to the oppressed” indigenous northerners. IPOB added that the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday inaugurated new train coaches and locomotives at Rigasa train station in Kaduna state. Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, attended the event.
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