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Actress Rachel Oniga buried in Lagos

Legendary Nollywood actress, Rachel Oniga, has been buried in Lagos. The actress died from heart-related issues on July 30 at the age of 64. A lying-in-state ceremony had earlier been held for the...

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Full draw: Tottenham draw Rennes, Mourinho’s Roma get CSKA in Europa...

Tottenham Hotspur will play Rennes and Vitesse Arnhem as well as Mura of Slovenia in the group stage of the inaugural Europa Conference League following Friday’s draw in Istanbul. Spurs, who are the...

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Plateau Assembly gives Lalong two-week ultimatum to end killings

The Plateau State House of Assembly has given Governor Simon Lalong two weeks to address the security challenges bedeviling the state. Chairman, House Committee on Information, Philip Dasun, conveyed...

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Fans hail Burna Boy for successful London concert

Grammy award-winning artist, Damini Ogulu popularly known as Burna Boy, treated fans to a sensational concert at the O2 Arena in London on Friday night. The concert, which is a part of Burna Boy’s...

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Why Yobe needs a zoo -Conservationist

A conservationist in Yobe, Mohammad Babagana, on Saturday expressed concerns over the lack of a zoo in the state, 30 years after its creation. Babagana, also the Deputy Provost, College of Agriculture,...

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Plateau PDP resolves differences, holds ward congress Sept 11

The Plateau chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party says it has resolved its differences and will conduct its ward congress on September 11. Spokesperson of Senator Tunde Ogbeha-led State Caretaker...

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COVID-19: Nigeria’s infection cases now 199,333 –NCDC

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says the country now has 199,333 COVID-19 infections as of Friday, August 27 across all the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory. The...

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Mali ex-interim president, PM freed from house arrest

Former Malian interim president Bah Ndaw and his prime minister Moctar Ouane have been freed from house arrest, the West African bloc ECOWAS said on Friday. In a statement, the Economic Community of...

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China still withholding critical information on Covid origins —Biden

President Joe Biden said Friday that China was withholding “critical information” on the origins of Covid-19 after the US intelligence community said it did not believe the virus was a bioweapon — but...

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Bandits subjected us to 88 days of torture, threatened to kill us –Freed...

News of the release of the pupils of Salihu Tanko Islamiya School, Tegina, on Thursday night threw Tegina town, in particular, and Niger state as a whole into wide jubilation. While their parents and...

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Southern govs should reject PIA, grazing routes, Akintoye, others say

The Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination has urged the  governors in southern Nigeria to unanimously reject the recently assented Petroleum Industry Act by the President,...

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Igboho committed no crime against Nigeria, release him, Soyinka tells Benin...

Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has appealed to the government of the Republic of Benin to free Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, currently in prison custody...

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Taliban takeover: No Nigerian in Afghanistan, FG declares

The Federal Government has declared that there is no Nigerian in Afghanistan who needs evacuation, following the takeover of the country by the Taliban. The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission explained...

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Gani Fawehinmi’s son buried beside father, amid tears

The son of the late human right lawyer, Gani Fawehinmi, Mohammed, was on Saturday buried in his hometown, Ondo, Ondo State on Friday, amid tears by family members, friends and well-wishers. The...

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Defend yourselves against killers, Plateau Assembly tells residents

Following the series of attacks by gunmen in various communities in Plateau State which have led to the killing of many and the destruction of properties, the state House of Assembly has called on...

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Food poisoning: How bacterial, chemical contamination, unsafe food handling...

Contaminated food has caused countless deaths in Nigeria with little measure taken to curb the menace, AFEEZ HANAFI reports Tuwon dawa – corn flour dish – used to be a favourite meal in the household...

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Afghanistan: IS remains a threat, says Macron

French President Emmanuel Macron warned of the threat the Islamic State group poses ahead of an Iraqi summit Saturday overshadowed by the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan and a deadly bombing in...

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Lagos evacuates three-week-old baby, others from Plateau

Lagos Government says it has evacuated a three-week-old baby, the mother and undergraduate students of the state’s extraction studying at the University of Jos from Plateau. The evacuation became...

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What Buhari has done to AK-47-wielding bandits worse than declaring them as...

Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, says what the Federal Government has done to AK-47-wielding bandits is worse than designating them as terrorists. He spoke in an interview with BBC News Pidgin on...

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Two die, one injured in Ogun multiple accidents

A multiple vehicle-collision accident on Saturday, killed two persons while one other sustained injury. The accident occured on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of...

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