The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris has deployed a Police Special Intervention Force, to troubled Ile-Ife, Osun state, where a riot broke out on Wednesday. In addition, a Joint Investigation Team made up personnel of Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department, FSARS, SIP and Osun State Police Command CIID headed by a Commissioner of […]
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Governor Ayodele Fayose, of Ekiti state, says he had enacts law which proposes life imprisonment for raping an Ekiti woman. Speaking on Wednesday at the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium at the celebration of the International women’s day, Fayose fired shots at Buhari by saying that he does not want women to be confined to the kitchen and the […]
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Following an inter-tribal clash which led to the deaths of five people, Governor Rauf Aregbesola, of Osun state, has declared a two-day curfew in the ancient city of Ile Ife. ISemiu Okanlawon, Aregbesola’s spokesman, said the “breach of peace” in the area compelled the governor to act. “This has been compelled by the breach of […]
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Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen, was today sworn-in as the 20th Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), and is now a Grand Commander of Order of the Niger (GCON). He was given the award, Nigeria’s second highest, by acting President Yemi Osinbajo. The inauguration was witnessed by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki; former Chief justices of Nigeria, […]
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It was double eviction at #BBNaija House on Sunday night as two of the housemates, Kemen and Uriel were sent packing. Uriel received the least number of votes among all the seven housemates that were up for possible eviction. Kemen’s eviction was a different ball game. Kemen: disqualified Kemen, whose full name is Ekemini Ekerette […]
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The newly installed Tor Tiv, HRM Orchivirigh Professor James Ortese Ayatse, has called on the federal government to give more Benue people appointments as they are central to the central government’s economic diversification programme. The paramount ruler stated this in his inaugural speech in Gboko, at a grand ceremony at the Joseph Sarwuan Tarka Stadium. […]
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Award winning Nigerian Author, Chimamanda Ngozi- Adichie has been elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters as a foreign honorary member. According to a press release by the Academy on http://artsandletters.org, the honorary members will be inducted at the annual induction in May. This induction will make Chimamanda the second Nigerian to be […]
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A Minna Magistrates’ Court has sentenced two blind men to six years imprisonment for sexually abusing two minors in Niger. The Magistrate, Hajiya Hauwa Yusuf, convicted, Idris Usman, popularly called “Bagobiri” and Abubakar Sadiq, after they pleaded guilty to the charge. The Prosecutor, Abdullahi Mayaki, had told the court that the convicts committed the offence […]
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo who will be celebrating his 80th birthday on Sunday, has confessed that he does not know his actual date of birth. The statesman spoke at the opening of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, on Thursday, noting that his illiterate mother only told him that he was born on a […]
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The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) says about 65,000 of its members in Katsina state, have begun seven-day fasting and prayers for the quick recovery of President Muhammadu Buhari. Nelson Chukwu, chairman of CAN in the state, who disclosed this to journalists on Monday, said the prayers would be offered at Mountain of Fire & […]
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