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DSS, businessman trade blames over fracas in Awka hotel

AN Awka-based hotel proprietor, Chief Ifeanyichukwu Nwokoye, and Anambra State Command of the Department of State Services, DSS, are trading blames over a scuffle between the former and some officials of DSS in the businessman’s hotel. The state Director of DSS, Mr. Alex Okeiyi, alleged that the businessman and his workers held his men hostage, […]

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Mother convicted for killing 5-yr-old daughter, dumps corpse in trash bin

A 41-year-old Arizona woman, Jerice Hunter, was on Monday, April 27, 2015, convicted of abusing and killing her 5-year-old daughter, Jhessye Shockley, after she deprived the girl of  food and water until she died, USA Today reports. Hunter was convicted of first-degree murder and child abuse of her child who prosecutors said was beaten, neglected and confined to a […]

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Senate passes 2015 budget without provision for fuel subsidy

The Senate on Tuesday passed N4.493tn budget for the 2015 fiscal year, about five months after it was presented by the Minister of Finance/Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The national budget, which was earlier passed by the House of Representatives last week, was N51bn higher than the N4.425tn submitted to both chambers […]

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Jonathan suspends Permanent Secretary over South Africa envoy recall

  President Goodluck Jonathan has rebuked the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Danjuma Sheni, for allegedly prompting the recall of Nigeria’s envoys to South Africa without due authorisation, triggering a diplomatic spat between the two countries. The president queried Mr. Sheni Monday, and placed him on suspension to allow investigation into the […]

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Eeefy Ify Ike Calls Nigerians To Do Their Civic Duties To Resolve National Challenges (Listen To The Jingle)

The Patriotic Movement puts this jingle together to encourage Nigerians to do the right thing. The founder of the union Eeefy Ify Ike says she believes every Nigerian have role to play in changing the nation. “The Nigeria we want is the Nigeria we build now! The world we enjoy now is the world of years past! […]

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Bracket after Scattering Abidjan With Panya, Set To Hit Back To France To Complete Europe Tour (Photos)

Bracket have been on Europe tour for almost a month now, but last weekend they visited Abidjan for a weekend show… The hardworking duo stars are hitting back this Friday to complete their Europe show as their Europe fans could not get enough of them. Bracket always on the move, kudos guys…. Listen to Panya below Download    

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Missing’ $20bn Oil Money: I have nothing to hide, Jonathan tells Buhari

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday said his administration had nothing to hide in respect of the claim by a former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor,   Lamido Sanusi, that   $20bn oil money was not remitted to the Federation Account by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. To prove this, he said he had directed that the full […]

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‘South Africans are full of anger’ – SA President, Jacob Zuma

In the wake of the xenophobic attacks which happened over the last few weeks in South Africa, the country’s president Jacob Zuma has said South Africans are full of anger. Speaking at the Union Buildings in Pretoria during a Freedom Day event, Zuma called on South Africans to reflect on the progress made over the […]

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At last! Jonathan appoints Peter Obi SEC Chairman, sacks NHIS boss

Barely one month before handing over power, President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed a former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC. Mr. Obi’s appointment was contained in a statement released Tuesday by the Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs to the President, Reuben Abati. The former […]

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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 corruption issues that characterised the outgoing administration. Even when it issues reports on certain important national issues, such as the fuel subsidy scam, the National Assembly lacked the firepower to compel the execuitve execute […]

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Dad who repeatedly raped his own daughter and got her pregnant jailed for life

A dad who raped his own daughter and even fathered his own child with her has been handed a life sentence – with the judge saying such severe sentences are normally reserved for murderers. But as the man was sent down, his daughter cried out to him that she still loved him. As her father was led […]

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5 INEC ad hoc officials arrested for thumb-printing ballot papers in Yesterday’s re-run election

Five ad hoc officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Imo were on Saturday arrested for thumb-printing ballot papers in the governorship re-run election in the state. The officials were arrested at Omuma Primary School in Oru East local government following an order by Mike Igini, one of the Resident Electoral Commissioners deployed […]

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Nigerians lose N84m to South Africans attacks on foreigners

The Nigerian Union in South Africa said on Saturday that Nigerians lost more than 4.6 million Rand (N84m) to xenophobic attacks . The President of Nigerian Union in South Africa, Mr Ikechukwu Anyene, told the News Agency of Nigeria on phone from Pretoria, South Africa, that the losses were initially put at 1.2 million Rand […]

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Crying baby taken off plane by armed police after cabin crew declared her a ‘security threat’

A crying baby was thrown off a plane with her parents because she posed a security threat. 19-month-old Sarina Aziz became agitated when cabin crew insisted she sit on the lap of one of her parents as the Luton-bound plane prepared for take off from Tel Aviv. After becoming restless due to long delays, her […]

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Dad makes daughter wear t-shirt featuring picture of him flexing his muscles to scare off boys

An overprotective dad keen to warn potential suitors off his young daughter has come up with a novel solution – by making her wear a t-shirt featuring a picture of his muscle-bound body. The parental message on the shirt reads: ‘Stay Clear Boys, this is my dad!’ lol

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