Oluwatobiloba Amusan has made history by becoming the first Nigerian to win a sprint hurdles title at the Commonwealth Games. Amusan achieved the feat on Friday at the Carrara stadium in Gold Coast, Australia. The reigning American Collegiate 100m hurdles queen ran 12.68 seconds to win the race. She is now Nigeria’s first gold medallist […]
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The Nigerian male table tennis team today won the country’s first medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Austraila, claiming the silver medal. The team came in second position after they were defeated 3-0 by India in the Table Tennis team event final at the Gold Coast 2018 games. Bode Abiodun, who was the first […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has formally declared his intention to seek a second term in office. He did this by announcing his decision before the national executive committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja on Monday. This is the first time that Buhari will publicly declare his re-election bid, though there have been indications […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday declared that the current leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), led by John Odigie-Oyegun is not eligible to seek re-election in the forthcoming congresses and national convention of the party. President Buhari made the disclosure at the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the APC at the national secretariat of […]
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The Nigerian Air Force says its Special Forces in conjunction with some Nigerian Army troops, successfully foiled a suicide bomb attack by Boko Haram terrorists at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), Borno State, on Sunday night. AVM Olatokunbo Adesanya, NAF’s Director of Public Relations and Information, confirmed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. […]
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China has banned exports to North Korea, items that can be used for the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The 32 “dual-use” items China’s commerce ministry said, said include radiation monitoring equipment and software that can be used to model fluid dynamics or neutrons. China said that its action was in line with […]
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Nigeria has paid its regular UN dues for 2018, making it the 74th out of the 193 Member States of the global international organisation to fulfill its financial obligations. The Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric said in New York that Nigeria paid its annual dues in full. Ms Dujarric said: “Nigeria has paid […]
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The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, has taken the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, to court for defamation and is demanding N1.5 billion in damages. This follows the release of a list of alleged looters of the nation’s treasury by the minister. The list contained prominent names of […]
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A Court in Manhattan on Thursday sentenced Abdullahi Shuaibu, 53, who worked at the UN in 2013, to two years in prison after an exhaustive plea agreement with the court. It was a stunning defeat for the prosecutor who had asked that Shuaibu be sentenced to five years under the indictment. Shuaibu pleaded guilty to one […]
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Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has awarded a contract of US$2.8 billion for engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and financing of 614km Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) Gas Pipeline and Stations. The process for the award of the AKK Project began in July 2013 with advertisement for tenders published by the NNPC in major national newspapers. After a technical […]
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