Bus crash survivors’ accounts: “A woman dived out of window to save her baby”
More accounts have emerged on the events leading to the crash of a 59-passenger luxury bus on its way from Aba, Abia State,
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Revealed: FG has reintroduced subsidy on petroleum products
Petrol subsidy is back. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has been offsetting for months the difference between the landing costs of petrol and
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“Winners Chapel got N35m of NIMASA slush funds” – witness
A Federal High Court in Lagos friday heard how Winners Chapel, a church owned by Pastor David Oyedepo got N35million out of the
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Kidnapping: Police deploy tracking devices in Lagos, Rivers
The Inspector- General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, says the force will establish special tracking unit in Lagos and Port-Harcourt to check kidnapping
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PDP: “We will appeal to the Supreme Court”, Sen. Makarfi declares
The Sen. Ahmed Markafi-led, National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has resolved to challenge the Court of Appeal’s Judgement affirming
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BREAKING: Appeal Court declares Sheriff authentic PDP chairman
An Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt this Friday declared Senator Ali Modu Sheriff the Acting Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party. The judgement
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UAE to build city on Mars
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, the Vice President and Prime Minister of United Arab Emirates, this Friday, announced that the country was planning to build
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BREAKING: Three feared dead as luxury bus plunges into Lagos canal
At least three people including the driver, were killed, while 23 sustained injuries after a luxury bus with registration number Anambra GDD 386
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9 Suicide bombers invade Maiduguri, destroy 13 vehicles
Nine bombers died in Maiduguri between Thursday night and early Friday, in what would qualify as the boldest plan by Boko Haram to
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N522bn Paris Club refund: “Probe us if you can”, govs tell EFCC
State governors, under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors Forum, in the early hours of Thursday, rose from their meeting, saying they were
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Corruption Scandal: Samsung boss arrested
The heir to the Samsung business empire has been arrested on corruption allegations. Lee Jae-yong, the de facto leader of South Korea’s biggest
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PHOTOS: Fire razes buildings, vehicles in Onitsha
An inferno, on Wednesday night, razed down a filling station, 15 vehicles, and some nearby buildings along the Upper New Market Road, Onitsha,
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2019: Atiku, Lamido may clash over PDP presidential ticket
There are indications that former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and a former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido, are making moves towards clinching
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Judge orders permanent forfeiture of Diezani’s $153m to FG
Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the permanent forfeiture of a sum of $153,310,000, which was said
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Pastor Ashimolowo’s Church under criminal probe in London
The City of London police are investigating an alleged fraud involving a former Premier League footballer who lost £3.9 million from a British
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Australian catholic church pays $212m to sexual abuse victims
Australia’s Catholic Church paid 276 million Australian dollars (212 million dollars) in compensation to thousands of people who were victims of sexual abuse
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UK Visit: “The Buhari I saw is healthy”, says Saraki
Senate President Bukola Saraki, who led a team of National Assembly leaders to visit President Muhammadu Buhari in London, said at the end
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Noose tightens on Akpabio as EFCC seizes wife’s school.
A school allegedly belonging to Unoma Akpabio, the wife of the immediate past governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, has been seized
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Petrol tanker fire raze buildings, banks, filling station in Onitsha
A petrol tanker fire Wednesday night, razed down more than 10 buildings including shopping malls, banks, residences and a Mobil filling station near
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Zamfara Govt House, hospital in darkness over unpaid electricity bills
Zamfara State Government House in Gusau has remained in darkness following the disconnection of electricity supply to the premises by the Kaduna Power
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Bayern Munich destroy Arsenal, Madrid win
Bayern Munich ruthlessly destroyed visiting Arsenal in the first leg of their Champions League Round of 16 tie. The visitors conceded five goals
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Football headers risk brain damage, say scientists
Repeated headers during a footballer’s professional career may be linked to long-term brain damage, according to tentative evidence from scientists in the United
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Dangote targets one million tonnes of rice yearly
Aliko Dangote, President of Dangote Group of Companies, says his company plans to produce one million tonnes of rice within the next three
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FIRS makes N3.3 trillion in 2016
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) made a record N3.303 trillion in 2016, its chairman Babatunde Fowler disclosed in Lagos, shredding earlier reports of the
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Buhari: Saraki, Dogara visit to UK in pictures
President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki and the Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara on Wednesday traveled to London to visit
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Okorocha confesses: Buhari marginalising Igbo •Says nothing to show that South East is part of Nigeria
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State yesterday dispensed with partisan considerations to broach issues of core interest to the Igbo nation when Acting
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Police get FG’s approval to recruit 10,000 officers annually
The Federal Government has approved the recruitment of 10,000 policemen every year to address the shortfall in the numerical capacity of the Force. The
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Pro Buhari protests in Kano
Thousands of people, including women and youths, on Wednesday in Kano held a rally, organized by group, ‘’I STAND WITH BUHARI’’, in support
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Suspected killer of Kim Jong Nam arrested
Malaysian Police has detained a woman in connection with the murder of Kim Jong Nam, estranged half brother of North Korean leader Kim
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BREAKING: Saraki, Dogara visit Buhari in UK
President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; and some principal officers of the National Assembly are
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