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Again, Court Rejects Biafra Leader Nnamdi Kanu's Bail Application

Ruling on Tuesday, the judge, Binta Nyako, held that Mr Kanu's second bail request amounts to an abuse of court process, after a similar application was rejected on May 18.

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Lassa Fever Kills 158 in 24 States Within 6 Months

Lassa fever have claimed 158 lives in 24 states since the beginning of this year, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has said.

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Land Dispute - Why I'm Begging Soldiers to Pull Out of My Constituency - Egbona, C-River Rep

In this interview with some journalists, the lawmaker representing Abi/Yakurr Federal Constituency of Cross River State in the House of Representatives, Dr Alex Egbona, speaks on the crisis that engulfed Nko community of Yakurr, leading to the invas...

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Moment Barcelona Player, Memphis Depay Turns Up At Davido's Concert in Los Angeles

Barcelona forward, Memphis Depay has been spotted spending time out with Nigerian Afrobeats singer, Davido, in Los Angeles.

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Atiku Hails Justice Tanko for Quitting As CJN

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate for the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar, has commended Justice Tanko Muhammad for his decision to vacate office as the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN).

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Fire Guts Warehouse At Broad Street, Lagos Island

Pandemonium broke out in the early hours on Tuesday, when fire gutted a room in a warehouse, located at 118 Broad Street, Lagos Island.

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Why We Sealed 137 Eateries, Others in Lagos - Govt

The Lagos State Government has shut at least 137 eateries and buildings across the state over violation of the state building law.

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Dispatch Riders Now Distributors of Hard Drugs - NDLEA

The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), yesterday, disclosed that dispatch riders had become distributors of hard drugs and illicit substances, vowing to beam its searchlight on them.

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Senate Backs Climate Change in Nigeria

The Senate has begun the process that would help in mitigating against what it described as Climate Change in Nigeria .

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Rising Insecurity Shows Govt Officials, Security Agents Complicit - SMBLF

LEADERS of thoughts and elder statesmen from four of the six geo-political zones of the country, under the aegis of Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum, SMBLF, have condemned in very strong terms the spate of targeted terrorist attacks on churche...

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Again, Chacha Eke Announces She's Quitting Her Marriage

Nollywood actress, Chacha Eke Faani has come out again to announce that she's quitting her marriage with Austin Faani.

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Kidney Impasse - Free Ekweremadu's Wife to Attend to Ailing Daughter, Igbo Youths Appeal With UK

The Igbo Youth Council, IYC, has again waded into the raging controversy over the detention of former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice.

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Wike Promised, Delivered Best Law School Campus On Record Time - Govt

THE Federal Government, yesterday, described Governor Nyesom Wike as a true promise keeper for matching words with action on delivering the Dr. Nabo Graham Douglas Campus of the Nigerian Law School in Port Harcourt, Rivers State as the best ever, on...

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IPOB Okays Army, Security Agencies Sweeping Out Criminals From S-East

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday, told the Nigerian Army, the Nigerian Police and their sister security agencies to desist from linking IPOB and Eastern Security Network, ESN, with the insecurity going on in the southeast, particular...

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We Pose As Security Personnel to Kidnap, Rob - Suspect

A suspected member of a kidnap gang that had been terrorising road users in Plateau State has opened up on tricks used by the gang to abduct victims on the expressways in the northern parts of the country.

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Assassination of Kalaba Ruler, CDC Chair - Tension As Oil Thieves Threaten More Bayelsa Monarchs, Villagers

CRUDE oil gangsters who abducted and killed the Paramount Ruler and Community Development Committee, CDC, Chairman of oil-rich Kalaba community, Yenagoa Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, last week, for opposing their illegal oil bunkering in the...

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Experts, Security Agencies Suggest Ways to Implement Anti-Torture Law

The experts had lamented the low awareness about the anti-torture law among lawyers, judges, magistrates, and law enforcement agencies, a situation, they said, contributes to the rising incidence of torture in the country.

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Fuel Scarcity - Abuja Deliveries Up Nearly 100% After Govt Freight Offer - Regulator

While fuel crisis persists, the government says things are 'getting better'.

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Nigerian Journalists to Release Book On Intrigues of 2014 National Conference

The book looks beyond what is already available to the public and what was published in the Main 2014 National Conference Report.

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Oyo, Osun Govts Set to Reconstruct 83.6km Ibadan-Osogbo Road

An official said the process for the award 29.2 kilometers of the road was at a final stage.

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