Five people have been reported killed in a teenage suicide bomber who attacked a Mosque where his father worships in Gamboru in Gamboru –Ngala local government of Boro state. The incident occurred on Wednesday at 5: 00 am when the a teenage male bomber who had disowned his father detonated an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) […]
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Israel on Wednesday said it would pay thousands of African migrants living illegally in the country to leave, threatening them with jail if they are caught after the end of March. Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, made the remarks at a cabinet meeting on the payment programme in Jerusalem. Netanyahu said a barrier Israel completed in […]
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Deji Yesufu Very few people know that the controversy on tithes in Nigeria is coming exactly 500 years after a major controversy in Western Christendom. This controversy saw the emergence of the Protestant churches from within the Roman Catholic Church. On October 31, 2017, it was exactly 500 years that Martin Luther nailed 95 theses […]
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The Police in the United States have arrested a 67-year old man, Michael Neu, who defrauded his victims of thousands of dollars by posing as a Nigerian royalty. An 18-month long investigation exposed Neu from Slidell, Louisiana, as the internet ‘Nigerian prince’ heavily involved in scams, obtaining money and wiring funds. He is facing 269 […]
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Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate, has said the many challenges including fuel scarcity faced in Nigeria currently, have continued to overshadow the call for restructuring. He said this on Saturday in an article titled ‘Blame passing — the New Year gift to a nation’. Soyinka said such challenges have monopolised the attention of Nigerians. “Even […]
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The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, has assured Nigerians that the PDP will play robust and vibrant roles in the nation’s polity in 2018. Mr. Secondus, in a new year message he issued on Saturday in Abuja, said the worst was over for the PDP. He said the opposition party […]
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Liverpool reached a deal to sign Southampton’s Virgil van Dijk on Wednesday for a reported £75 million ($100 million, 84 million euros) in a deal that makes him the world’s most expensive defender. Van Dijk has been linked with a move to Liverpool for several months and the Anfield club were forced to issue an […]
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TheCable Nigeria has reported that the family of President Muhammadu Buhari is seriously considering flying their son abroad for advanced medical treatment. Yusuf Buhari, was involved in a bike accident at Gwarinmpa in Abuja on Tuesday night, and is currently at Cedacrest Hospital, Abuja. Yusuf sustained a head injury and broke a limb in the […]
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The Nigerian Prison Service has released the statement below to announce a jailbreak in one of its facilities in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State, in which four inmates were on Wednesday shot dead while thirty-six prisoners escaped. Read full statement below. At about 1147hrs on Wednesday, 27 December 2017, there was an attack on kitchen […]
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United States (US) ambassador to Nigeria, Stuart Symington, has presented Letters of Offer and Acceptance (LOA), to the Nigerian air force (NAF) for the planned sale of the A29 Super Tucano warplane. The presentation was made to Sadique Abubakar, chief of air staff, at NAF headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday. In April, the US government […]
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