Not less than 21 people were reportedly killed in an attack on Omoku, a community in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni (ONELGA) local government area of Rivers state, on Monday. There are reports that the assailants were working for a former militant leader. Although Nnamdi Omoni, spokesman of the state police command, confirmed the attack, he could not give […]
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The executive secretary of Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association (DAPPMA), Olufemi Adewole, said the association has paid over N90bn to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for petrol but the corporation has no cargo for allocation. Adewole said the NNPC is owing DAPPMA members N600 billion and other marketers over N800 billion. “Marketers have continued […]
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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie Oyegun, on Thursday explained that his loyalty to the present administration led by Muhammadu Buhari, was reason why he is being persecuted by some disgruntled elements in the party who want him out as National Chairman. Oyegun who spoke in Benin, Edo State, […]
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Former footballer and the candidate of the opposition Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), George Weah gathered a total of 98.1 percent of results from the polling units to give earn an unassailable lead in the Liberian presidential run-off election. In results announced on Thursday by the chairperson of the country’s electoral Commission, Jerome Kokoya, Mr. Weah […]
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Apple on Thursday apologized to its customers for slowing down performance of older iPhone models and said it would discount replacement batteries for some of its handsets. The move by Apple was a response to an uproar from iPhone users — and a series of lawsuits — after news of the battery problems stoked concerns […]
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Governor of the State of Osun, Rauf Aregbesola, on Thursday presented the 2018 budget proposal of N173.98 billion before the state House of Assembly. The estimate, tagged ‘Budget of Enduring Legacy’ has Recurrent expenditure of N85,105,590,726 representing 49 per cent, with Capital Expenditure of N88,874,492,281 representing 51 per cent of the total budget. The estimate […]
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The Joint Task Force (JTF) comprising the Nigeria Navy, Air Force and Army, on Thursday, launched ‘Operation Jagunlabi’, to fight pipeline vandals around the creeks in Lagos. The Flag Officer Commanding, Western Naval Command, Rear Adm. Slyvanus Abbah, who flagged off the operation in Majidun, Ikorodu, told journalists that it was aimed at combating the […]
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The Nigerian military has said it budgeted about N38 billion for the purchase of ammunition, fighter jets and helicopters in 2018 as part of its efforts to tackle the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East. This figure was obtained from the breakdown of procurements covering the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Air Force and the Nigerian Navy, as […]
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Two people have been confirmed dead after a petrol tanker exploded in a filling station in Jos. It was revealed that four vehicles and four petrol tankers also caught fire. The inferno started inside the filling station along Ring-Bauchi Road in Jos North local government at weekend around 10pm when the filling station workers were […]
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The federal government said it will make the annual Calabar carnival a major foreign exchange earner for Nigeria. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said this on Sunday in Calabar while flagging off the third dry run of the 2017 carnival which has the theme ‘Migration’. He said that the carnival, which has united […]
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