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66 including BREAKING: APC Candidate, Rauf Aregbesola, Declared Winner Of Osun State Governorship Poll


BREAKING: APC Candidate, Rauf Aregbesola, Declared Winner Of Osun State Governorship Poll

Posted: 10 Aug 2014 01:44 AM PDT

Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the incumbent governor of Osun state and candidate of the All Progressive Congress party has won the August 8th 2014 gubernatorial election.   Professor Bamitale Omole,...

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Suspects sell N11.5m goods to Policeman for N3m

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 07:15 AM PDT

The ogun state Police Command has arrested two men for allegedly diverting goods worth N11.5m and attempting to sell it for N3m. The Police Public Relations Officer for Ogun State, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi...

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Two die in fresh cult clashes in Lagos

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 07:11 AM PDT

There was pandemonium in the Somolu and Bariga areas, Lagos, on Thursday morning after cult groups clashed on some streets leaving one person dead and several others injured. The clash, which began...

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Houseboy kills boss’ 78-year-old mother in Lagos

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 07:08 AM PDT

The police have arrested an 18-year-old man, Hounvenou Yavine, a national of Republic of Benin, for slitting the throat of his boss' mother, Mrs. Mariam Abiola. The incident happened at Ijaiye Low...

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Ebola In Nigeria: Ogun state writes letter to Adeboye

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 06:37 AM PDT

The Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Olaokun Soyinka, on Thursday said the state government had written a letter to the authorities of the Redeemed Christian Church of God to take...

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MTN Foundation donates 115 patrol vans to 18 states

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 08:45 AM PDT

As parts of efforts to check insecurity in the country, the MTN Foundation has said that it has provided 115 fully-equipped security patrol vehicles with communication gadgets to 18 state governments...

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Kano Hisbah arrests 200 street beggars

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 08:10 AM PDT

Kano – The Kano State Hisbah authorities said on Wednesday in Kano that they arrested 200 persons for street begging in Kano municipal area. Hisbah is the law enforcement arm of the sharia law. The...

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Ilorin Emirate bemoans worsening insecurity, holds summit

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 01:39 AM PDT

Ilorin Emirate in Kwara State is to hold a security summit to find solution to the astronomical growth of  insecurity in the area. The summit which has as its theme, "Challenges of Insecurity in...

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Court imprisons female student for stealing Ipad

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 08:47 AM PDT

A Wuse Zone 2 Senior Magistrates' Court on Wednesday sentenced a student, Mariam Nuhu, 26, to two months imprisonment  for stealing IPAD at a night club in Garki, Abuja. The presiding officer, Mrs...

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Lagos suburb decries neglect over bad roads

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 08:03 AM PDT

Some residents of Ejigbo have started wondering if the community in which they live in is really on the map of Lagos State.Chief of their numerous problems they said is bad road network.Some who...

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Angry Community Shuts Down Oil Wells in Bayelsa

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 07:23 AM PDT

The nation’s economy was dealt a devastating blow Tuesday when the aggrieved people of Biseni clan in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State shut down five oil wells in Idu Oil Field...

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Okorocha accused of giving church N50m dud cheque

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 05:49 AM PDT

Governor Rochas Okorocha has again come under fire as a fiery Catholic cleric, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has accused him of giving a N50 million dud cheque to the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri...

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Ritualists pluck 9-yr-old boy’s eyes in Bauchi

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 02:39 AM PDT

BAUCHI — The Bauchi State Police Command has disclosed that some unknown ritualists attacked and removed the eyes of a nine-year-old boy in Toro Local Government Area of the state. The command's...

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Native doctor shot dead by vigilante operatives in Anambra

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 01:57 AM PDT

ONITSHA—A traditional medical practitioner, whose identities are yet to be ascertained, was last weekend shot dead by some vigilante operatives for allegedly possessing some substances suspected to...

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Lagos female doctor contracts Ebola virus

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 01:54 AM PDT

The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, on Monday said one of the doctors that treated the Liberian-born American, Patrick Sawyer, who died of   the Ebola disease, had contracted the virus....

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Nasarawa to recruit 2,000 teachers

Posted: 04 Aug 2014 07:00 AM PDT

The Nasarawa State Universal Basic Education Board said it had concluded plans to recruit no fewer than 2,000 teachers to fill vacant positions in schools in the state. Executive Secretary of the...

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Five dead in Sokoto auto crash

Posted: 04 Aug 2014 03:35 AM PDT

Five persons from the same family have been  reportedly killed in a road  accident  that occurred on Saturday on Shagari-Tureta  road in Sokoto state.The News Agency of Nigeria learnt that the...

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Ogun communities battle pollution, residents report seven deaths

Posted: 04 Aug 2014 03:13 AM PDT

Residents said no fewer than seven people died in Ilashe, Ilupeju and Odan Agbara communities of Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area, Ogun State, in the first week of July from suspected water...

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Bayelsa parents, guardians protest NYSC posting to north

Posted: 04 Aug 2014 02:55 AM PDT

Some parents and guardians took to the streets of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, on Saturday to protest against the posting of their children and wards to the northern part of the country by the National...

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Three die in Rivers cult clash

Posted: 04 Aug 2014 02:48 AM PDT

AT least, three persons were killed during a cult clash in Bane and Kpaa, two Ogoni communities in the Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State. While two persons lost their lives in Bane, another...

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TB Joshua Bars Foreign Visitors Over Ebola Outbreak

Posted: 04 Aug 2014 02:28 AM PDT

Lagos — THE General Overseer of one of Nigeria largest Congregations, the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet Temitope Joshua, has barred foreign members from countries where the ebola virus...

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Ebola: LASG visits Synagogue Church

Posted: 04 Aug 2014 01:40 AM PDT

The Lagos State Government and some federal delegates on Sunday paid a visit to the General Overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet Temitope Joshua. The visit was said to be aimed at...

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Two soldiers, 12 others die in Taraba clashes

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 07:55 AM PDT

The Police in Jalingo, Taraba State, have confirmed the death of 14 persons, including two soldiers, in a renewed violence at Ibi, headquarters of Ibi Local Government Area, on Thursday morning.  The...

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APC Sponsors Boko Haram – Fani-Kayode

Posted: 01 Aug 2014 09:08 AM PDT

A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has again challenged the All Progressives Congress to explain its relationship with the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, saying the party was...

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Abuja residents embrace safety measures to avoid Ebola virus

Posted: 01 Aug 2014 05:45 AM PDT

Abuja residents have begun to adjust their lifestyles to avoid contracting the Ebola virus, a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) survey has shown. The virus has claimed over 700 lives in West African,...

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Village head commits suicide 4 days to daughter’s wedding

Posted: 01 Aug 2014 03:21 AM PDT

ABA—The immediate family and relations of Chief Samuel Omeonu Ezengwa, a village head in Umunkita, Nenu Autonomous Community in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State, have been thrown into...

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Tension in Ibadan over planned removal of NURTW boss.

Posted: 01 Aug 2014 02:49 AM PDT

There was tension in Ibadan on Thursday, as a cross-section of motor park touts were spreading falsehood of the removal of the state chairman of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW),...

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Police arrest mother for allegedly killing her two children

Posted: 01 Aug 2014 01:44 AM PDT

The woman allegedly said she gave her children a substance gotten from a cleric to drink. The Delta Police Command has arrested a 25-year-old woman in Abraka for allegedly killing two of her...

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Joy that Kills: Drunken bricklayer falls to death on Sallah day

Posted: 31 Jul 2014 05:45 AM PDT

A middle-aged bricklayer, Mr. Timothy Olubunmi, died on Monday afternoon, when he fell from the upper floor of an uncompleted storey building after getting drunk. Nigeriana learnt that Olubunmi was...

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Pastor, woman nabbed after ‘sanctified water’ kills 2

Posted: 31 Jul 2014 04:10 AM PDT

WARRI — A man, said to be a pastor, and a woman are in Police net in Asaba, the Delta State capital for allegedly killing two children with a deadly substance sold by the pastor for N1,850. The Delta...

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Landlady’s children cut tenant’s private parts

Posted: 31 Jul 2014 02:58 AM PDT

A 35-year-old man, Yinka Offehin, is battling for his life at a private hospital in Lagos State after his scrotum was cut by the children of his landlady. The Edo State indigene, who resides on...

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Gunmen abduct Senator’s mother in Bayelsa

Posted: 31 Jul 2014 02:43 AM PDT

Gunmen, in the wee hours of Wednesday, kidnapped 90-year-old Florentina Emmanuel, mother to Senator Paulker Emmanuel, at their Opolo residence in the Bayelsa State capital, Yenagoa. Paulker, a close...

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Gunmen kidnap man as bank manager escapes abduction in Aba

Posted: 31 Jul 2014 02:09 AM PDT

A middle aged businessman, Emmanuel Onu, has been abducted in Aba, Abia State, by gunmen believed to be kidnappers. This is even as a manager of a new generation commercial bank in the city escaped...

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Police parade female cult member, armed robbers in Delta

Posted: 29 Jul 2014 06:33 AM PDT

A 21-year-old lady was among 11 members of a youth cult group arrested by the police in Asaba while performing their initiation rites. The Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Celestina...

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Policeman Accidentally Shoots Self Dead In Aba

Posted: 29 Jul 2014 06:21 AM PDT

Inspector Sunday Mefo, a police officer attached to the Patrol and Guard (P&G) Unit at the Aba Central Police Station (CPS) in Abia State, allegedly shot himself dead accidentally on Sunday, July...

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SHOCKING: 43-year-old auto mechanic kills self over inability to pay rent

Posted: 29 Jul 2014 05:44 AM PDT

Following threat of eviction from his landlord over his inability to pay his house rent, one Mr.  Obi Orji, 43, an auto mechanic reportedly killed himself, Monday, July 28, in Minna. It was learnt...

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Posted: 29 Jul 2014 04:59 AM PDT

The Founder of Trinity House, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, has claimed that he has found a solution to the deadly Ebola disease, which has killed no fewer than 670 people and infected more than 1,000 in...

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El-Rufai loses son in auto crash

Posted: 29 Jul 2014 04:13 AM PDT

Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has lost one of his sons in a car crash. Hamza El-Rufai died Tuesday morning in Abuja. The father of the deceased broke...

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Three nabbed with cloned Ekiti govt letterhead, blank cheque

Posted: 29 Jul 2014 01:57 AM PDT

The police in Lagos have smashed a syndicate allegedly specialised in swindling members of the public through false offers from state governments. Large quantity of fake documents and letter head...

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Police arrest man for defiling minor in Ogun

Posted: 28 Jul 2014 07:31 AM PDT

Detectives attached to the Obalende Division of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested one Qudus Giwa of Sabo Area Ijebu Ode for defiling a 15-year-old girl, on Friday, July 25. The incident...

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Two refugees slaughtered by gunmen in Borno

Posted: 28 Jul 2014 06:00 AM PDT

Two people suspected to be amongst the over 10,000 displaced persons taking refuge in Shaffa District of Hawul Local Government Area of Borno state were over the weekend slaughtered by gunmen...

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14-year-old marriage in crisis over pot of stew

Posted: 28 Jul 2014 04:33 AM PDT

The marriage between Kamorudeen and Fatimah Bankole is currently in crisis as a result of a disagreement over the fish in their pot of stew. Fatimah, who is the first of the three wives of...

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Revelation: Politicians Buy Human Parts From Me – Suspect

Posted: 26 Jul 2014 09:09 AM PDT

Ilorin — The Commissioner of Police, Kwara State, Mr Ambrose Aisabor, yesterday, paraded two suspects, among others, for dealing in human parts.  The third person paraded was said to be an...

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Tension heightens in Anambra, Kogi boundary communities

Posted: 26 Jul 2014 07:45 AM PDT

Tension has heightened in boundary communities between Anambra and Kogi states, forcing residents to flee their homes and seek refugee in neighbouring towns. Armed youths from Echeno/Odeke boundary...

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Presidency encouraging war in Osun – APC

Posted: 26 Jul 2014 06:24 AM PDT

The presence of the Joint Task Force in the peaceful State of Osun seems to have energised some hoodlums to the point of killing two people in Ilesha on Friday during the campaign of Iyiola Omisore,...

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One killed in PDP, APC clash in Osun

Posted: 26 Jul 2014 06:08 AM PDT

One person reportedly lost his life on Friday in a fracas between supporters of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State. Fighting broke out shortly before the...

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Electric cable kills mother of three in Uyo

Posted: 26 Jul 2014 05:50 AM PDT

Mrs. Uwana Bright, a 32-year-old mother of three, was on Thursday electrocuted by a fallen and abandoned cable belonging to the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution (PHED) Company in front of the...

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Ebola Now In Nigeria

Posted: 26 Jul 2014 05:11 AM PDT

The Ebola virus plaguing west Africa, which has killed at least 660 since the worst-ever outbreak began there in January, is one of the deadliest known to man and can kill victims within days....

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Amosu salutes officers who survived Borno helicopter crash

Posted: 25 Jul 2014 09:23 AM PDT

Air Marshal Adesola Amosu, on Friday commended the courageous behaviour of the officers who survived the Helicopter crash in Borno.  This is contained in a statement posted on Defence...

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Nigeria security forces increase security ahead of Ramadan feast

Posted: 25 Jul 2014 07:34 AM PDT

ABUJA — Nigerian forces say they are increasing security nationwide ahead Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim celebration marking the end of Ramadan. Emmanuel Okeh, a spokesman for the Nigeria Security and Civil...

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Vandalised pipelines spill oil, pollute farmlands in Edo

Posted: 25 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Oil spill caused by bunkering has polluted farmlands and the only river in Egonu community in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo, according to residents. The residents told the News Agency of...

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Lagos: Police Begins Counter-Terrorism Campaign

Posted: 25 Jul 2014 05:45 AM PDT

he Lagos State Police Command has launched a counter–terrorism campaign. The State Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, a deputy superintendent (DSP) at a news conference yesterday, urged...

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Ijaw Ex-militants demand creation of Toru-Ebe, Oil River states – See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/ijaw-ex-militants-demand-creation-toru-ebe-oil-river-states/#sthash.AofvPfPj.dpuf

Posted: 25 Jul 2014 02:03 AM PDT

UGHELLI— Former militants of Ijaw extraction under the aegis of Meinbutu, have called for the inclusion of Toru-Ebe and Oil River states in the proposed states approved by the national conference....

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Kano Blast Kills Woman, Injures 8 – Police

Posted: 25 Jul 2014 01:50 AM PDT

A woman was killed by a powerful blast that ripped through a central park in Kano Thursday, the police have confirmed. Eight people were injured in the attack that targeted travellers at the Sabon...

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TOO BAD: 30-Year old Man R*pes 2 Year Old in Ebonyi, Blames It on “Konji”

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 12:22 PM PDT

A 30-year-old man Inya-Okoro from Afikpo North Local Government area of Ebonyi, has been arrested for raping a 2-year-old girl Favour. The Sun reports that the suspect allegedly committed the act...

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LASU Governing Council refute Agreement with ASUU/LASU

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 12:15 PM PDT

The Lagos State University Governing Council has refuted claims of its involvement in the implementation of the Miscellaneous Acts [2012] which stipulates that academic members of staff in the...

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Newly Wed Ex-Gov’s Daughter Shares Their Honeymoon PHOTOS

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 12:15 PM PDT

The honeymoon pictures from Adanna Ohakim, one of the daughters of former Imo State governor Ikedi Ohakim, and David Steineker, who got married last Saturday, are out. The newly-wed couple, who had...

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Eid-el-fitri: Federal Govt has declares Monday, Tuesday as public holidays

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 12:14 PM PDT

The holidays will mark the end of Ramadan The federal government has declared Monday, 28 and Tuesday 29 public holidays to mark this year's Eid-el-fitri salah celebration. A statement issued...

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Fans Dares Nollywood Actress Kate Henshaw” Calling Her A Whore

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 09:15 AM PDT

Nollywood actress, Kate Henshaw, has been under attack by some of her fans for making her intentions known of joining Politics. On July 18, it was reported that the Cross River State born...

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Only Religious Leader’s Intervention can End Boko Haram: CAN President

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 09:13 AM PDT

Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, on Wednesday stated that only religious leaders can end the boko haram insurgency that is currently plaguing the...

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EKITI: Wait for your time, my administration ends October 15 – Fayemi tells Fayose

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 09:02 AM PDT

Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi has urged  Ayodele Fayose, the state governor-elect to wait till he officially becomes the governor of the state, rather than unnecessarily getting involved in...

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BREAKING NEWS: Explosions Rock Kano

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 08:55 AM PDT

A bomb explosion has occurred in Kano, residents have told Nigeriana The blast ripped through the city's central motor park, a day after twin blasts killed over 40 people in neighbouring Kaduna. The...

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One dies, properties destroy as power surge ravages Lagos community

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 07:20 AM PDT

Residents of Ejigbo community, in the Ejigbo Local Council Development Area of Lagos State are still bemoaning the death of a man and the loss of their valuables as a result of a power surge that...

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JEGA ‘INEC’ Boss: I Ordered Osun INEC REC to Step Down For Credible Election

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 07:14 AM PDT

Mr. Jega said the commission believed that credible election could be conducted in the country with the involvement of all stakeholders. The Chairman of INEC, Attahiru Jega, has described as...

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Aba Mosque Raid: SSS Releases Two Islamic School Teachers After Two Weeks in Detention.

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 04:35 AM PDT

"The SSS told us the soldiers were just doing their job and that after their investigation they were convinced that we were not planning anything bad. They also asked us to be vigilant and report any...

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Emeka Wogu: Empowering Nigerians Our Top Major Priority From Government

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 04:24 AM PDT

The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Emeka Wogu, on Tuesday said the empowerment of Nigerians in an equitable manner remained a top priority of the federal government. Minister of Labour and...

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