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Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:40:28 +0000
Two women held over man’s death in Lagos
By Precious Igbonwelundu   Police in Lagos have arrested two women over the death of one Osita Anwuanwu, 64. The deceased was said to have slumped and died during an altercation with a lady friend Juliet Eguebor, 35. The squabble took place at a...

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:31:48 +0000
Groups dismiss alleged killing of 70 in Benue
By Frank Ikpefan Coalition of Benue State Civil Society for Peace and Good Governance has faulted the claim that over 70 people were killed in the Konshisha Local Government Area of the state by men of the Nigerian Army. While exonerating the Nigeri...

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:30:27 +0000
Okonjo-Iweala will drive global trade, says World Bank
By Collins Nweze     The international financial architecture is ‘skewed in favor of rich and creditor countries’, the World Bank said yesterday. President of the bank, David Malpass exposed the partial state of the architecture at the ...

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:28:24 +0000
Why NYSC scheme should be sustained, by D-G
By Frank Ikpefan, Abuja Without the presence of corps members, the health and education sectors would have collapsed, Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim has said. Ibrahim said corps members posted ...

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:26:09 +0000
‘Kwankwaso left N54.4b council projects unexecuted’
By Fanen Ihyongo, Kano The Kano State government yesterday accused the former governor of the state, Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso of leaving behind a liability of N54.4 billion for the five kilometre road projects across the 44 local government areas of t...

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:24:12 +0000
Party washes hand of planned Exco inauguration
By AbdulGafar Alabelewe, Kaduna Action Alliance Party (AAP) has washed its hand of any plan to inaugurate what it called ‘a non-existent EXCO’ of the party by expelled National Chairman of the Party, Kenneth Udeze. The National Chairman o...

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:22:17 +0000
Ebira farmers cry out over exclusion from compensation
Displaced Ebira farmers in Ekiti State have appealed to President Mohammed Buhari, Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello and well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on Governor Kayode Fayemi to have a rethink over their exclusion from those to be compen...

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:20:10 +0000
774,000 public jobs workers protest unpaid N20,000 wage
By Frank Ikpefan, Abuja     Participants in the Federal Government’s Special Public Works (SPW) programme are protesting the delay in paying their stipend more than three months after kick off. The SPW is an adhoc programme designed by th...

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:19:37 +0000
Doctors lament rising cases of measles in Borno
A group known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) (Doctors without Borders) has disclosed that it is taking care of patients suffering from measles in and around Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. It noted that the first child affected by measles wa...

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:10:09 +0000
Why IBB annulled Abiola’s June 12 1993 victory, by Obasanjo
By Ernest Nwokolo, Abeokuta   Barely 28 years after, former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday lamented the annulment of June 12, 1993 presidential election, presumably won by the late philanthropist, Moshood Kashimawo Abiola. He blamed the c...



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