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Police rescue 13 chained teenagers, 15 others in Lagos
The Lagos State Police Command had rescued 28 persons that included 13 teenagers found in chains in a house at Oke-Ira, Ojodu area of the state.The command's spokes?person, SP Dolapo Badmos, told the…
Bribery: EFCC quizzed 100 INEC workers, says Yakubu
The Federal Government may have commenced a subtle clean-up of Nigeria's messy electoral turf, with the arrest of over 100 officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for variou…
Boko Haram: Shekau 'fatally wounded' in air raid - Nigerian Army
The Nigerian army has disclosed that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, has been fatally wounded in an air raid.In a statement released early on Tuesday by Colonel and Acting Director of Nigerian Arm…
Congo Slashes Growth Forecast After Drop in Copper Production
Democratic Republic of Congo has cut its economic growth forecast for 2016 to 4.3 percent, compared with 6.9 percent last year, due to the impact of low commodity prices on its miningdependent econom…
Many countries want Nigeria to break up because of envy - NLC
he President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) Ayuba Wabba, says most countries are unhappy that Nigeria is the giant of Africa and will therefore be happy to see the country disintegrate.He, the…
Inactive Telephone Lines Increase to 67m in June, Says NCC
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has disclosed that inactive phone lines in the country increased from 65,186,763 in May to 67,331,498 in June 2016.The figures are contained in the ``Mont…
My biggest failure was exposing my private life too much- Tiwa Savage
In her recent interview with Elle magazine, singer Tiwa Savage said her biggest failure was exposing her private life too much and that addressing speculations only fueled crises than resolved it. Sh…
Mongolian wrestling coaches go nuts, strip down after unfavorable decision
Two Mongolian coaches stripped their clothes off after their wrestler Ganzorigiin Mandakhnaran lost the bronze medal match after the judges awarded a penalty point to Uzbekistan's Ikhtiyor Navruzov.A…
Debts: FG deducts N32bn from states' allocation
Six states have been thrown into a serious financial mess after the Federal Government de?ducted the sum of N32 billion from the monthly allocations of some indebted states in the …
Culture, tourism key to addressing challenges of lean resources, unemployment - Minister
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said culture and tourism are key to addressing the challenges posed by lean resources and unemployment in the country.''In this period…
Atiku denies involvement in PDP crisis
The former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, on Sunday dismissed reports that he is responsible for the leadership crisis currently rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).Speculations in some quart…
2016 Hajj: Don't bring kolanuts into our country, S/Arabia warns pilgrims
Jigawa Pilgrims Welfare Board (JSPWB), says the state government will not intervene for anybody who is caught with kola nuts in Saudi Arabia.The Head of Operations of the Board, Alhaji Ahmed Labbo, g…
Adamawa doctor arrested for removing patient's kidney
Men of Adamawa State Police Command have arrested a medical doctor, Hassan Yakubu, for allegedly removing his patient's kidney.Yakubu, who works in a private clinic in Yola, was alleged to have remov…
Social Media Is Not Where To Settle Family Crises - Basketmouth
Admired Comedian, Bright Okpocha, a.k.a Basketmouth, has expressed his disapproval of the attitude of celebrities who turned social media a place to settle their family differences.In his recent inte…
Escaped Chibok girl: I miss my Boko Haram husband
Twenty-one year-old Amina Nkeki Ali, the first of the 219 kidnapped Chibok school girls to be rescued from Boko Haram den, shocked the world on Wednesday when she announced her readiness to reu…
PDP Crisis: Another court sacks Ali Modu Sheriff as party chair
A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja, has nullified the appointment of Ali Modu Sheriff as Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).The trial judge, Justice Nwamaka Ogbonna, ru…
Lagos joins league of oil producing states in Nigeria
The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) has said that four of the five oil wells discovered in Lagos indeed belong to the state.It, however, disputed the state's ownership o…
PDP postpones convention, extends Makarfi tenure by 12 months
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has postponed its National Convention following the divergent court rulings and the sealing off of the venue of the convention which was scheduled to hold on Wednes…
8000 Boko Haram members voluntarily surrender - Military
The Nigerian Military on Tuesday in Abuja said that no fewer than 8,000 Boko Haram members had voluntarily surrendered to its `Operation Safe Corridor' in the North-East.The Director of Defence Infor…