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Ondo High Chief Reveals The Cause Of The Deadly Disease killing The Youths Of Irele

Irele (Ondo State)- High Chief Moses Enimade, the Oyewoga of Ode Irele in Ondo State, says the recent death of 20 youths in the town was caused by sacrilege done to Molokun, god of the land. Enimade, next in command to Oba Cornelius Olanrewaju-Lebi, stated this during interview in Irele on Saturday. He debunked the […]

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Kidnapping is Our Family Business, Alarming Confession of Nanny Who Kidnapped Orekoya Children

The nanny, who kidnapped three children in the Surulere area of Lagos State, has said her husband, Waheed Kareem, is the mastermind of the kidnap. She added that Kareem was the head of a kidnap ring that involved some members of his family. It was gathered that Kareem escaped arrest. The Nanny, known as Mary […]

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Latest update: Deadly disease hits Ondo State, 28 dead already!

The Ondo State Government is working hard to control a strange disease which suddenly broke out in the Ode-Irele community of Ondo state, leading to the death of no fewer than 28 people in the past three days. Residents say the disease broke out three days ago and spread rapidly around the community, killing its […]

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RED ALERT: Deadly disease hits Ondo, residents wake up blind, die within a few hours

Residents of Irele community in Ondo state have been hit by a deadly disease which has not been given a name. According to reports, the victims wake up blind, with a terrible headache and die within a few hours. At least 15 people who contracted the disease are feared dead. Ondo state Commissioner for Health, Dr. […]

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Weed kills cancer cells, confirms US government

Marijuana can kill cancer cells, the US government has confirmed. It is believed that the drug – which is legal in a number of American states – can also shrink some of the most serious types of brain tumours. The research was carried out by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which is funded by […]

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Cast your votes and go, no waiting at polling booths after voting – IG

The Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, on Thursday   warned voters to go back to their homes after casting their votes on election days. Abba, who addressed accredited observers for the general elections in Abuja, said the possibility of committing electoral offence was very high if voters stayed back at the polling booths for votes to […]

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Airport Cleaner gets N7,200 salary increment for returning N12m (New salary now at 15,000)

Josephine Ugwu, the airport cleaner who returned a passenger’s luggage containing local and foreign currencies to the tune of N12m has been rewarded with a N7,200 salary increment. Ugwu, who works for Patovilki Cleaning Services, a concessionaire engaged by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria to keep the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos clean, was […]

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Court nullifies movement restriction during Lagos monthly sanitation

A Federal High Court in Lagos has declared as unlawful the restriction of citizens’ movement during the monthly Lagos environmental sanitation exercise. Justice Mohammed Idris, in a judgment delivered on Monday, held that such restriction of movement, in the name of sanitation, amounted to a violation of the citizens’ right to personal liberty and freedom […]

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Lekki bank robbery: We know the robbers — Police

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Kayode Aderanti, weekend, said that the command had clue of who the robbers that stormed a second generation bank last Thursday, killing three policemen and a teenager, were, assuring that it would soon round them up. This is just as the Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abbah, has given […]

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One year after, Jonathan gives Immigration Recruitment victims money, jobs (Photos)

A year after pledging jobs to families who lost loved ones during a deadly recruitment by the Nigeria Immigration, President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday, finally, handed out money and appointment letters to the beneficiaries. Mr. Jonathan gave N75 million (N5million to each family) as well as employment letters to families of those who died in […]

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Boko Haram will be ended in a couple of days – Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan has given a strong assurance that Boko Haram will be defeated in the north eastern states of Yobe, Borno and Adamawa in the next couple of days. President Jonathan told the Voice of America (VOA) in an interview that the military is doing its best to clear the insurgents from occupied areas […]

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ISIS: FG puts security forces, citizens on red alert

Following the pledge of loyalty to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria by Islamist terror group, Boko Haram, the Federal Government has put security forces on red alert to prevent infiltration by the foreign terror organisation. Coordinator of the National Information Centre, Mr. Mike Omeri, who disclosed this in Abuja while briefing the press […]

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‘My wife committed suicide because I caught her cheating’ – Husband

A 33-year-old man, who is currently being investigated by operatives of the homicide unit of Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Yaba, has denied killing his wife. “My wife took poison after a misunderstanding over her infidelity,” he said. It was gathered that the couple, who had been married for over seven years, had three […]

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Abuja Court awards N42m to employee for wrongful sacking

The National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja has awarded the sum of about N42.8m in favour of a former employee of Zenith Bank Plc, Mr. Abdulazeez Ibrahim. Ibrahim, a former Deputy Manager with Zenith Bank Plc, had sued the bank, challenging the decision of its management terminating his appointment over a purported N7bn fraud said […]

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Shekau has not killed Chibok girls – Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan has said on Thursday that the more than 200 female pupils kidnapped by Boko Haram from their hostel at the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State, are still alive. Jonathan revealed this in an interview with the African Independent Television during a current affairs programme, Kaakaki. The schoolgirls have spent […]

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Chadian President tells Shekau to surrender or be killed, says he knows exactly where Shekau is hiding

President Idriss Deby of Chad said Wednesday he knew the hideout of Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, and vowed that the leader of the insurgent group will be killed if he fails to surrender. “It is in Abubakar Shekau’s interest to surrender, we know where he is. If he refuses to give himself up, he […]

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“Missing N30 trillion” lawsuit against me politically-motivated – Okonjo-Iweala

The Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has lambasted a civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, for instituting a lawsuit against her over the claim by a former Central Bank governor, Chukwuma Soludo, that Nigeria has lost as much as N30 trillion to corruption and mismanagement. Apart from describing the suit as spurious, the […]

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Naira devaluation caused fuel scarcity – PPPRA

The Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) on Tuesday claimed that the ongoing fuel scarcity being experienced in parts of the country was caused by the two rounds of naira devaluation carried out by the Central Bank of Nigeria. PPPRA said the devaluation was carried out by the CBN between November 2014 and February […]

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