Mercy Johnson, Cee-C and Lota Chukwu and Peace Hyde were among the women that won big at the 2018 edition of Exquisite Lady of the Year (ELOY) Awards held at the Lagos Continental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos. The awards which is now in its 10th year is dedicated to celebrating women of excellence who are blazing the…
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The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has received another batch of 174 stranded Nigerians from Libya. The returnees arrived at the cargo wing of the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at 1:10am on Friday. The acting zonal coordinator of NEMA in the south-west, Segun Afolayan has confirmed that 61 female adults, four female children and…
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The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) asserts that N7. 3 billion worth of Tramadol brought into the country from India has being seized. In a statement on Thursday, Joseph Attah, spokesman of the NCS, explained that they were able to seize the pharmaceutical products because of intelligence provided by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).…
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The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has pointed accusing fingers to the Nigerian police of diverting the attention of Nigerians from the death of the principal suspect of the April 5 deadly bank robbery in Offa,Kwara State, which lead to the death of over 20 persons. He stated this barely 24 hours after he called on…
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Two ex-presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, were among the top dignitaries who graced the turbaning of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as the ‘Wazirin Adamawa‘ on Sunday. According to reports from Sahara reporters, Bukola Saraki, President of the Senate, and Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House of Representatives,…
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Gunmen, who are suspected to be of the Boko Haram terrorist group has unleashed terror overnight in a village near Toumour , southeastern Niger, the local mayor said on Saturday. The Mayor of the town, in Niger’s Diffa region near the border with Nigeria , Boukar Mani Orthe said about 50 unidentified armed men seized the…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the killing of soldiers in Metele village, Borno State, by Boko Haram insurgents. Although the army is yet to reveal the casually figure, it is estimated that no less than 100 soldiers were killed in the attacks. Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity,…
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2019: APC, PDP eye Contractors, Lawmakers for Campaign Funds ( Saturday Punch Front-page) Soldiers’ Killing : Buhari Dispatches Defence Minister To Meet Chadian President (The Guardian Front-Page) Illicit drugs: Battling unending scourge ahead of 2019 polls. (The Daily Times Front-page) FG’s Dilemma On Atiku (Saturday Sun Front-page) Buhari Summons Service Chiefs… Sends…
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The Nation Newspapers has retracted the “I Still Knee for My Husband” Story, on Ibukun Awosika, Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria, after her tweets said she didn’t grant such interview. In a statement released by the management of the media house, they said further investigation showed that “the reporter passed off the bulk of an old…
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Oby Ezekwesili, Co-founder of Transparency International and former Minister of Education in Nigeria, who is also contesting in the forthcoming 2019 General Election under the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) has made it known that it is her intention to “Disrupt the Politics of Failure, Bad Governance and Leadership’. The ‘Bring back our Girls’ Activist,…
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