One soldier died, four others were injured as Boko Haram terrorists battled in vain to retain nine major camps in the dreaded Sambisa fore...
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Jonathan sacks NPA managing director, appoints Sanusi Lamido as replacement
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has approved the appointment of Sanusi Lamido Ado Bayero as the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports ...
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N25Bn Scam: Judge Convicts Igbinedion, Sentences Him Tomorrow
It would be recalled that during trial, a prosecution witness Mr. Ajoyo Sowale, an Accounts Officer with the Guaranty Trust Bank, identified...
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Identity Of Rescued Girls And Women From Sambisa Forest Confirmed
A military source who debriefed the rescued women, and provided them medical care, told SaharaReporters that the survivors are from Gumsuri ...
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Don’t form parallel govt, I remain in charge, Jonathan warns Buhari, APC
Thirty days to the official handover of the reins of power to the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian government has warned th...
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Proof For Nigerians That General Buhari Truly Means To End Corruption In Nigeria By Dr. Wumi Akintide
I was amazed by the level of integrity and probity displayed by Ahmed Joda on the particular case in question. I wanted to be like him from ...
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Man biking from Kaduna to Lagos to thank Yorubas for supporting Buhari
One Mohammed Kabiru Jafaru, 35, a supporter of President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday embarked on a journey from Kaduna to Lagos to ...
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AIT ban dangerous for democracy – PDP
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How Obasanjo Destroyed PDP
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The proprietor of Daar Communications PLC, Raymond Dokpesi, has stated that Monday’s decision by the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to...
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Nigeria's $20 Billion Oil Sales Fraud: Jonathan Administration Apparently Pressured PricewaterhouseCooper To Revise Report
One day after President Goodluck Jonathan authorized the release of a version of a forensic audit of $20 billion reportedly missing from Nig...
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‘Missing’ $20billion Oil Money: Our audit report not reliable — PricewaterhouseCoopers
The much anticipated report of the forensic audit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, operations on the missing $20 bill...
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Death and Malaria in Nigeria: Need for a New Strategy, By Jibrin Ibrahim
Each year, 25th April has been designated as World Malaria Day to focus energy on strategies to eliminate the disease. In Nigeria, 100 mill...
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Abducted Chairman Of Ogbia LGA Of Bayelsa State, Regains Freedom
Anya Abah, the local government chairman in Bayelsa State who who was kidnapped on April 22, was released by his abductors at about 8.45pm ...
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Switzerland uncovers $370m fresh Abacha loot
…envoy assures President-elect to release stolen money Another $370 million belonging to the late former Head of State, General Sani Abac...
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#ChibokGirlsAnniversary: Why I cannot guarantee the rescue of the girls – Buhari reveals
Nigeria’s President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, has pledged to do all possible to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls abducted from Chibok in...
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Constitution: Jonathan files fresh application in Supreme Court
Asks court to restrain NASS on amendment President Goodluck Jonathan has intensified his effort to prevent the National Assembly from ...
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FG names Abuja streets after Jonathan, Sambo, Atiku, 185 others
The Federal Government has honoured eminent Nigerians and other accomplished Africans by naming major streets in Asokoro Extension, Guzape,...
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Sacked IGP Suleiman Abba Sent This Message To Jonathan, Tells Nigerians The Whole “Secret”
The former inspector general of police, Suleiman Abba, has said he did his very best and delivered a credible and peaceful election to ...
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Gov. Mimiko Appoints Lasisi Oluboyo As The New Deputy Governor Of Ondo State
Ondo state Commissioner for Agriculture, Lasisi Oluboyo has emerged as the newly appointed Deputy Governor in Ondo state following the early...
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Check out Davido’s ex-girlfriend photos
Davido must be missing a lot. His ex-girlfriend is making her social media fans go crazy with the photos she’s been posting lately. These...
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Blast at Radio station kills many in Kogi town
A blast from suspected improvised explosives, Monday, killed many at Ta’o FM Radio station, located in Kuroko town of Adavi local governme...
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Ondo State Deputy Governor Impeached
Members of the Ondo state House of Assembly this morning concluded the impeachment of the state's Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ali Olanusi o...
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Hate campaign: Buhari fights back, bars AIT from covering his activities
By Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUJA – President-elect, General Mohammadu Buhari may have just started a revenge mission on the African Independent...
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Peter Okoye Star denies splitting from Paul Okoye
In a recent interview with Vanguard, Peter stated that Psquare is still very much intact.
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Ex-NDDC Commissioner Jailed Three Years for Stealing Transformers
A former Commissioner representing Akwa Ibom State on the board of the intervention agency, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Pastor...
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10 influential party chieftains who can help rally PDP into a viable opposition
Following the fall of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the March 28 presidential election, the party will automatically assume the r...
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Top PDP Financier, Arthur Eze, Visits Buhari
One of the major financiers of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Arthur Eze, on Monday visited the President elect, Muhammadu Buhari, at hi...
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Boko Haram Is A Fraud - Buhari
Abuja, Nigeria, 27 April 2015: President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari says the Boko Haram will be denied a recruitment base the moment ou...
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President Jonathan Rewards Former Anambra Governor Obi, Others With Posts
With just a month to the expiration of his tenure, President Goodluck Jonathan today offered a political reward to former Governor Peter Obi...
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Jonathan orders release of forensic report on NNPC
… I’m ready for probe – President President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday ordered the immediate release of the full report of PriceWater...
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N19.2bn Fraud: Former Governor Sylva’s Trial Resumes Tomorrow
Al egal matter which holds the potential to embarrass the incoming administration of Muhammadu Buhari resumes tomorrow at the Federal High C...
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See Damaging Report THEDAILYBEAST Wrote On Bola Tinubu
The writeup was captioned ”Nigeria’s Next Leader’s Ties to a Heroin Ring” They write thus;
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DOWNLOAD: Full Report of PWC Forensic Audit on Missing $20billion Oil Money
President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the immediate release of the full audit report of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC...
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APC’s Mama Taraba rejects governorship result, heads for Tribunal
The All Progressives Congress candidate in the just-concluded governorship election in Taraba, Aisha Alhassan, has rejected the results of...
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Taraba: INEC declares PDP’s Ishaku winner
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Darius Dickson Ishaku has won the governorship election in Taraba state.
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M.I Rapper says Olamide isn't successful yet
Chocolate City rapper, MI has advised popular rapper, Olamide, not to consider himself successful yet.
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APC warns against ‘last-minute’ looting of Nigeria’s treasury
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has decried the reported allegations of last-minute looting of the nation’s resources, hurried recruit...
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Top 10 Corruption Scandals Nigeria’s National Assembly Hasn’t Resolved
The seventh National Assembly will most likely end its tenure in early June without resolving majority of the huge misgovernance and corru...
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I’ll Probe Sanusi’s Allegation Of Missing NNPC $20bn – Buhari
Pr esident-elect, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), on Sunday said his administration would take a second look at the claim by a former Gov...
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INEC Declares PDP Ikpezu Winner Of Abia Governorship Election
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Okezie Ikpeazu, the winne...
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Okorocha wins Imo governorship election; PDP’s Okezie Ikpeazu triumphs in Abia
Incumbent governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha, has emerged winner of Saturday’s supplementary governorship election in the state.
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My warnings to the nation have come to pass — Primate Ayodele
By Bashir Adefaka Founder and Head of Inri Evangelical Spiritual Church, Lagos, Primate Elijah Babatunde Ayodele, has dismissed a report ...
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Buhari’s government: ICT stakeholders set digital agenda
By Emeka Aginam A lthough technology was at the center of the just concluded 2015 elections, Nigerian IT practitioners have expressed...
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Ezekwesili Set To Head BPP
President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) promise to fight corruption in government might start with his appointment of former World ...
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Probe of NNPC from 1999 inevitable
By Dele Sobowale “World Bank backs Buhari to probe NNPC, others”. PUNCH, Tuesday, April 14, 2015, p 32.
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2015 elections the worst in Nigeria’s history —Bishop Ighele
By Ephraim Oseji & Ikenna Asomba Bishop Charles Ighele is the General Superintendent of Holy Spirit Mission Church, the Happy Family ...
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Cabinet: Buhari Insists On Fashola As Tinubu Kicks
Indications are rife that the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari and the former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu are set t...
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Over 2, 000 Boko Haram terrorists force soldiers to flee Lake Chad
Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have forced hundreds of soldiers to flee Marte, a border town along the shores of the Lake Chad, a local of...
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SaharaReporters Projects PDP Candidate Darius Ishaku Winner Of Taraba Race
After careful internal analysis of unconfirmed polling numbers, SaharaReporters estimates that Mr. Ishaku will have a decisive win over the ...
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Strange Killer Disease: Ondo govt. bans production, consumption of ‘ogogoro’
The Ondo Government has banned the production and consumption of locally-made gin, commonly called ‘ogogoro’ in the state.
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Abia guber re-run: Okezie says he is hopeful of victory
By CHINELO OBOGO The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), Dr Ikpeazu Okezie has said that he is optimistic that...
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Rights Group Petitions Governor Yero Over Last-Minute Looting
The Kaduna Human Rights Association has written to outgoing Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero of Kaduna State to protest what they described as ...
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Senate President: Buhari states position
By Henry Umoru, Ben Agande & Levinus Nwabughiogu, Abuja. As the 7th Senate winds up ahead of the inauguration of the 8th Senate on Jun...
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The die is cast in Imo
BY CHIDI NKWOPARA “Inconclusive result”, is not a new phrase in Imo political phraseology having first reared it’s head in 2011, when the i...
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Another Buhari’s supporter starts walk from Yola to Abuja
Yola – A supporter of President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, identified as Abubakar Duduwale , has set for a walk from Yola in Adamawa to Abuja....
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”Nigerians described President Jonathan as a moving train who was stopped from collapsing Nigeria” – Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said African leaders were happy over the defeat of President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 president...
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Surprise! Reverend Iloh remarries at 85
By Bose Adelaja Reverend Moses Iloh, a fiery social critic and founder of Soul Winning Chapel in Yaba, Lagos did the unusual last Sunday ...
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Today, I expected a very low turn-out because in most cases, when a government is going, people reduce – President Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan has said he isn’t surprised that his friends and associates had deserted him after losing his re-election...
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Zoning of speakership: APC leaders’ stalemate dangerous – Kwankwaso
Outgoing Kano State Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, now senator-elect, is, perhaps, one of the few governors who have built a solid politica...
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In Abuja APC, PDP factions form alliance to produce Senate President
The PDP factions in the two chambers of the National Assembly are reportedly forming an alliance with some aggrieved APC members to produce ...
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Goldmynetv Exclusive: See photos from City People Magazine Publisher, Seye Kehinde 50th birthday
Seye Kehinde marks 50th birthday in grand style, in attendance were notable and influential people in nigeria including the governor o...
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Irregularities mar Imo rerun election
Saturday’s supplementary election in Imo State was marred by serious irregularities and low turnout of voters.
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When I saw not less than half a million Nigerians without their heads, I personally told President Jonathan to concede defeat - General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministry, Apostle Johnson Suleman
The General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministry, Apostle Johnson Suleman had an explosive interview with Punch.....He said he actually did no...
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Untold story of Ode-Irele mystery deaths
Saga of 300-yr-old deity behind tragedy, by chiefs …warn more people may die as death toll hits 30
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PDP takes early lead in Taraba
BYJOHN MKOM, JALINGO. The governorship candidate of PDP in Taraba state Arch. Darius Ishaku has taken early lead as the results of the Supl...
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I’m ready to step into Gowon, Shonekan’s shoes – Jonathan
With just few weeks to his exit from power, President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday said he is now ready to play the patriotic role expect...
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Police IG Sack: Nigeria Police expels Vanguard reporter from police beat
The Nigerian police has expelled a Vanguard reporter, Kingsley Omonobi, for a report published on the just sacked Inspector General of Pol...
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Army pulls out 31 retired generals
By Kingsley Omonobi, Abuja Thirty-one generals of the Nigerian Army who retired between January 2014 and April this year after the mandator...
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Patience Jonathan Boycotts Presidential Prayer
Nigeria’s First Lady, Patience Jonathan, was conspicuously absent at the 5th and last Presidential Prayer Breakfast Saturday.
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Lagos cancels restriction of movement for April sanitation exercise
The Lagos State Government on Friday said there would be no restriction of movement from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. for the monthly sanitation on S...
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African Countries Happy Over Jonathan’s Defeat – Obasanjo
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has yesterday, said that a lot of African countries are joyous that President Jonathan was defeated in...
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Police recover guns, ammunition inside secondary school ceiling in Kogi
By Boluwaji Obahopo, Lokoja Kogi State Police Command said it has recovered some arms and ammunition from a secondary school, in Adavi Loca...
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Buhari’s Cabinet: List Of The Supposed Ministers
While the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, delayed with forming of the transition committee, the media has revealed a new list of the min...
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Obiano plans to defect to APC, visits Buhari in Abuja
Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State on Friday visited the President-Elect, General Muhammadu Buhari in his Aso Drive residence, Abuja. ...
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Boko Haram Rebrands, Also Gotten A New Name
The terrorist group, Boko haram have changed the name of their group to ‘Wilayat al Sudan al Gharbi’, it’s translated in English as ‘West Af...
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5 burnt in auto-crash on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
Five persons were burnt beyond recognition Wednesday night during a head-on-collision between two trailers along Mowe/Ibafo axis of the...
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Nigerian Army detains policemen without food for refusing to wear military uniforms
Ten counter-terrorism police officers attached to the Nigeria army peacekeeping forward operation base in Abuja are currently unlawfully d...
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Nigeria Elections 2015 Aftermath ‘APC can’t stop defections,’ LP says
The LP also urged the APC to stop making dictatorial and anti-democratic pronouncements while pretending to be democratic.
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Suleiman Abba ‘Police IG’s sack illegal, unconstitutional’ Femi Falana says
Falana further stated that Abba’s dismissal is ‘null and void’ because it is ‘illegal and unconstitutional.’ Human Rights lawyer, Femi F...
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Army pulls out 31 Generals
Writer: Chris Agbambu – Abuja History was made in the Nigerian Army on Friday as 31 Major Generals and Brigadier Generals...
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Xenophobia: OPC leader, Gani Adams, visits South Africa
The National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, Gani Adams, on Thursday visited the Nigerian Embassy in South Africa in support of...
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Gruesome Senior police officer murdered by gunmen in Benue
A top police officer has been reportedly murdered by unknown gunmen in Benue State.
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Scammer charged to court for N81m fraud
A notorious fraudster who swindled a business man of the sum of N81 million has been dragged to the court by the EFCC.
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Senate President: Buhari states position
By Henry Umoru, Ben Agande & Levinus Nwabughiogu, Abuja. As the 7th Senate winds up ahead of the inauguration of the 8th Senate on Jun...
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Buruji Kashamu: Buhari's First Litmus Test By Adekoya Boladale
While General Buhari's blueprint on how he intends to effectively fight corruption and bring perpetrators to book still remains obliviou...
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Senate Seat Opponent Onjeh Describes David Mark’s Visit To President-Elect Buhari As A Wild Goose Chase
Comrade Daniel Onjeh of the All Progressive Congress (APC) who this month lost the Benue South Senatorial District to Senate President David...
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Babatunde Fashola Lagos State Governor gets international award
The ICG chose Fashola and six other notable persons to be honoured at its annual awards ceremony set to hold in New York on October 26, 2015...
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In Ondo Chief Judge sets up panel to investigate Deputy Governor
The seven-man panel was set up following allegations of gross misconduct levelled against Olanusi by the State House of Assembly.
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Ayo Fayose Court stops impeachment proceedings against Governor
The court also set aside all related actions previously taken by the 19 All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers in the state, led by the f...
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Bola Tinubu ‘Buhari will tackle Nigeria’s problems with seriousness,’ APC leader says
Bola Tinubu also said that Nigerians need to have a change of attitude towards nation building.
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Be Wary Of Timipre Sylva, Others Questionable Characters With Unresolved EFCC Cases—APC Chieftain Tells Buhari
Mr. Kpodo, who served as a security adviser to ex-Governor Sylva, said Nigerians were well aware of Mr. Buhari’s zero tolerance of corruptio...
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OUTRAGE | Nigerians Condemn Buhari’s Appointment of #BBOG Founder into Presidential Committee
By Yemi Adebowale Intense outrage in the Nigerian social media space greeted news of the appointment of Hadiza Bala Usman into the Presi...
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Zoning Of N-Assembly Offices: APC Meeting Ends In Deadlock
Meanwhile, returning members of the House of Representatives were, yesterday, understood to have forged a consensus on breaking the deadlock...
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Help Igbos, don’t look at party, Anambra governor begs Buhari
The governor of Anambra State, Willy Obiano, has appealed to the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to help address the problems affecting...
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Jonathan schedules tour of Aso Rock for Buhari
President Goodluck Jonathan has proposed a tour of the presidential villa for President-elect Muhammadu Buhari.
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The Death Zone Called University Of Uyo Teaching Hospital, By Inibehe Effiong
The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital, Prof. Etete J. Peters, allegedly conducts job interviews for would be employees of the hos...
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Suleiman Hashimu, Lagos to Abuja trekker meets Buhari in Abuja
By Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUJA – More excitement filled the air around the presidential campaign headquarters of the All Progressives Congres...
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ANALYSIS: Can Mama Taraba make it? By Jaafar Jaafar
At it stands, the Taraba runoff election scheduled for Saturday, April 25, may hardly change the current reality.
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APC candidate Dapo Abiodun challenges Kashamu’s victory at tribunal
The All Progressives Congress Senatorial candidate in Ogun East in the March 28 National Assembly election, Dapo Abiodun, has filed a peti...
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Workers slam labour unions for alleged partisanship
Some workers in Ekiti State are unhappy with labour leaders for allegedly abandoning their primary duties of agitating for their welfare a...
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Zoning of N-Assembly offices: APC meeting ends in deadlock
By Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUJA— A meeting of senior members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, called to resolve issues concerning the zo...
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I’ll be the first son of a poor man to govern C-River —Ayade
By Emma Una CALABAR—SENATOR Ben Ayade, the Cross River State governor-elect, has said that he will be the first son of a poor man to gove...
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PDP managed poverty, we will end it – Tinubu
ADDRESS OF THE CHANCELLOR, LADOKE AKINTOLA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, OGBOMOSO, ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU, DELIVERED AT THE 12TH CONVOCATION...
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Court halts impeachment moves against Fayose
A Federal High Court in Abuja today, set aside all actions and activities of the embattled Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr...
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Where is Boko Haram leader, Shekau?
With peace and quiet from the usually vociferous Abubakar Shekau, supreme head of the Boko Haram in recent times, there are speculations wi...
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I have stepped on many big toes, particularly the feet of cabals —Diezani
By Ben Agande A buja— Minister of Petroleum Resources, Deziani Allison Maduekwe, has denied media reports that she was seeking asylum in ...
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What Committee Plans For Buhari’s Inauguration
To enable a smooth hand-over of power on May 29 t he Presidential Inauguration Planning Committee has defined a week long activities for t...
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Buhari, DSS Disagree Over His Security Details
President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) has rejected moves by the Department of State Services (DSS), to replace his Chief Security...
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Chadian Troops Rescue 43 Kids Kidnapped By Boko Haram
Aguona reportedly said in N’djamena that the children, aged 12 and above, and are Chadian nationals, were found in the Nigerian town of Dama...
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Gunmen invade Jonathan’s home council abducts council boss
Armed men invaded the home council of President Goodluck Jonathan, Ogbia local government council and kidnapped the council chairman, Mr E...
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Bayelsa Students Fault Dickson Over 100m Bursary Approval
Comrade Abiye Garigha of the University of Port Harcourt said “why did they ask the students to secure international Passport and engage in ...
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Why I’m not proud to call Buhari my president — Aribisala
Charles Kumolu Dr. Femi Aribisala, a pastor and Vanguard columnist, in this interaction with Vanguard editors, ventilates his passion for...
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Ekiti monarchs to APC lawmakers: Don’t impeach Fayose
Traditional rulers in Ekiti State have warned the 19 All Progressives Congress (APC) members of the state House of Assembly against impeac...
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Dreadful End Kidnap suspect shot dead while picking N3m ransom
Operatives of the Special Anti Robbery Squad in Lagos have shot dead a notorious kidnapper who led his gang to abduct a business woman while...
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Needs in the Northeast: An Appeal to the President-Elect, By Margee Ensign
“We are jubilating”, said one of our AUN employees. Indeed much of Nigeria, the continent, and the world were celebrating along with Nigeri...
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Jonathan orders removal of his campaign billboards, banners, posters
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday directed the removal of all posters, billboards, banners, signs and other campaign materials deplo...
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Of Abia State, PDP and the Insidious Politics of Divide and Rule By Benjamin Ugochukwu
“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. N...
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Boko Haram 'Terrorists have run out of arms, ammunition,’ DHQ says
Major General Olukolade stated further that the terrorists’ numbers had dwindled due to the army’s recent attacks on them.
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Industry Nite: YQ, Olamide, Phyno, Lord of Ajasa, CDQ, others honour the late rapper, Dagrin
It was a full house at Spice Route when the ‘whole of Lagos’ came out to support the family and pay respect to the late Dagrin who passed...
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Shun Partisanship, Be Professional, APC Tells Arase
APC advised the Acting IGP to learn from “the fate that befell his predecessors who, under their watch, turned the police into the enforceme...
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NNPC wants fuel subsidy scrapped; says it’s not sustainable
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Thursday made a strong case for the complete removal of subsidy from the petroleum p...
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