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Poultry industry deserves FG’s attention – Farmers

Jesusegun Alagbe Poultry farmers have called on the Federal Government to give attention to the poultry industry, saying it is an industry which had employed up to three million Nigerians. The farmers...

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Monkeypox: Plateau places health workers on alert

Friday Olokor, Jos The Plateau State government has called on its health care personnel to watch out for signs and symptoms of the monkeypox viral disease. According to the State Commissioner for...

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Imo police win best crime bursting command award

Chidiebube Okeoma, Owerri Imo state police command has been nominated as the best crime bursting Police Command in West and Central Africa by Security Watch Africa. The state commissioner of police,...

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OAU suspends students for attacking police station

Femi Makinde and Sodiq Oyeleke The authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State have suspended four students of the institution for allegedly leading other students in a protest...

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Matrix faults Navy report, denies vessel involvement in illegal oil business

Ovie Okpare, Warri An indigenous oil and gas company, Matrix Energy Limited, on Friday denied the involvement of one of its vessels in an alleged illegal oil business by the Nigerian Navy.  The company...

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Eke Ukwu market: Over 3,000 displaced traders to get N50m

Gibson Achonu, Owerri OVER 3,000 displaced traders from the demolished Owerri Eke ukwu market by Imo state Government, has got a cheque of N50 million to assist them revive their businesses. The Chief...

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Court jails 45 Boko Haram members

Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja A Federal High Court sitting in Kainji, Niger State, has convicted and sentenced 45 Boko Haram members to between three and 31 years in jail, following the conclusion of the first...

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Operation Crocodile Smile II targets pipeline vandals, kidnappers, others

Kunle Falayi and Olaleye Aluko The Nigerian Army said its Crocodile Smile II, which was launched in Lagos on Friday, would target pipeline vandals, kidnappers, and cultists operating in the South-West...

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Monkeypox: Parents storm schools, withdraw children over immunisation fears

Simon Utebor and Success Nwogu Parents and guardians on Friday stormed schools in Bayelsa State to withdraw their children following rumours that the Nigerian Army was conducting immunisation as part...

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Paris Club refund scam: Court orders ‘consultant’ to forfeit N1.4bn

Oladimeji Ramon The Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday ordered the temporary forfeiture of a total of N1,442,384,857.84 found in the bank accounts of three firms, which allegedly impersonated the...

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EFCC lines up 20 witnesses against Justice Fishim

Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday disclosed before a Lagos State High Court that the commission was ready to call 20 witnesses to testify against the...

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Igbo group in the Diaspora seeks new name for IPOB

•No to change of name –IPOB Dayo Oketola and Gbenro Adeoye An Igbo group in the Diaspora, Biafran Government in Exile, has suggested that the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra should change its...

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N1.5bn scam: Court grants ex-Edo SUBEB chair N5m bail

Alexander Okere, Benin A Benin High Court has granted bail to a former Chairman of the Edo State Universal Basic Education Board, Stephen Alao, and four other ex-members of the board standing trial for...

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PDP chairmanship: Obasanjo, Daniel in closed-door meeting

Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta A former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Gbenga Daniel, on Friday held a closed-door meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo to discuss his ambition for the national...

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I’m not marginalising South-East, Buhari tells Igbo leaders

Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said allegations of under-representation of the Igbo in his government were unfounded. He said while he gave the South-East zone four...

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Osinbajo gave approval for JV financing, not contracts –NNPC

Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Friday gave further insight into the Presidential approval it received from the Presidency while President Muhammadu Buhari was...

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Boko Haram fighters surrender in northern Cameroon

Nearly 60 men who said they were captured by the Boko Haram Islamist group and forced to fight for them in Nigeria have surrendered to authorities in northern Cameroon. After spending two years with...

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Buhari’s top pro-North pronouncements, action

Among other insinuations President Muhammadu Buhari’s critics make as his pro-north actions and pronouncements against his declaration in his now famous inaugural speech in 2015 ‘I belong to everybody...

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Buhari’s discussion with World Bank boss twisted, says Presidency

  Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The Presidency on Friday said the reported discussion between President Muhammadu Buhari and the World Bank Group President, Jim Yong Kim, was deliberately twisted by those...

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Man attempts suicide over N27m debt

Friday Amobi, Port Harcourt There was pandemonium in Rumuagholu community, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State following a report that a middle-aged man, had allegedly attempted to commit...

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