President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday publicly blamed former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi who was killed seven years ago for the ongoing killings across central Nigeria. The killings have long been linked to herdsmen, and some herders of the Fulani ethnic stock have claimed responsibility for some attacks. But the president said Mr. Gaddafi, a dictator…
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Popular Ghanaian socialite, Moesha Bodoung has opened old wounds again by revealing her true source of income in an interview with International Correspondent for CNN, Christiane Amanpour. The interview ran in a salon where Moesha was undergoing manicure, she told Christiane she makes a lot of money from dating a married man who does everything for…
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The Ekiti chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Jide Awe, one Mr. Sola Adenijo and Sefiu Owonikoko, who died about three weeks ago, were discharged and acquitted of murder charge filed against them by the state government on Wednesday. The three men have been standing trial at the Ekiti State High Court on charges…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has explained why he declared his intention to seek reelection on Monday during the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC). “I declared before leaving home because Nigerians were talking too much about whether I would run or not. So, I felt I should break the ice. We…
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Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to US lawmakers for the leak of personal data on tens of millions of users as he faced a day of reckoning before a Congress mulling regulation of the global social media giant. In his first-ever US congressional appearance, the Facebook founder and chief executive sought to quell the…
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Professor Richard Akindele, a lecturer in the Department of Management and Accounting of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, who was allegedly heard in an audio recording which has now gone viral demanding for sex to pass a student has gone into hiding. The audio recording of the professor seeking to have sex…
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The Economic & Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed the arrest of 14 suspected internet fraudsters in the Badore area of Ajah, Lagos State, today. According to the commission, the suspects were arrested yesterday by the Lagos Zonal office acting on intelligence report. Items recovered by the EFCC include exotic cars, laptops and various charms. The names…
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday left Nigeria for Britain in order to hold talks with British Prime Minister Theresa May ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings scheduled for 18-20 April. Today, his media team shared photos from where he is staying at the Abuja House in London as he received the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and the Nigerian High Commissioner…
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The Nigerian Population Council (NPC) has pegged the country’s population at 198 million, Punch reports. Chairman of the NPC, Eze Duruiheom, revealed this while delivering a talk on “Sustainable Cities, Human Mobility and International Migration” at the 51st Session of Commission on Population and Development in New York. Duruiheom said the population had grown at an average annual rate of…
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Mr Rotimi Ameachi, the Minister of Transportation has said President Muhammadu Buhari has ended practice of getting ‘free money’ from government under different illicit guises and as such, there is no fund to be deployed for frivolities Nigerians are known for like ‘owambe’ (parties). The minister said this at the presentation of a book…
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