Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Friday, accused an online website Sahara Reporters, of peddling lies and blackmail against him. A statement signed by the Special Adviser to the Senate President on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, alleged that the online newspaper has taken upon itself calculated attempt to always malign and bring to disrepute, on…
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Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna Statewho accompanied the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on a recent trip to the UK has asked Nigerians to disregard the social media falsehood that he and the VP were not in good terms. He said this when they met with staff members of the Nigerian High Commission in London during…
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Two businessmen, Linus Chibuike and Nnamdi Ojukwu were arraigned on Thursday, before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos over money laundering. The businessmen were each arraigned on a one-count charge by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to which they pleaded not guilty. The charge against Ojukwu read: “That Ojukwu Nnamdi Rowland on…
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Abdulazeez Muhazab, Ishaka Salihu, Mohammed Jimoh, Abdulwaheed Nasiru and Abdullahi Nasiru were arraigned on Thursday by the Federal Government suspected to have carried out the October 2, 2014 bombings in Nyanya, suburb of Abuja and Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). According to a report by THEWILL, when the case resumed for…
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The General Overseer of Christ Embassy church, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome was just conferred with an honorary doctorate degree at Benson Idahosa University today and in appreciation he promised to give 1 billion naira to the school to help build its Faculty of Engineering. Late Benson Idahosa’s daughter in-law, Laurie took to her Instagram to share…
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Hillary Clinton faced 11 hours of questioning before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Thursday, and when it was over, it was hard to say how much new light was shed on the 2012 terrorist attack that killed four Americans while she was secretary of state. For many, there was just one question when…
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Not less than 42 people have been declared dead as truck and a bus transporting retired tourists on a day trip collided and caught fire Friday on a country road in wine country in southwest France, killing 42 people and gravely injuring at least four others, authorities said. It was declared as the nation’s deadliest…
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No less than twenty-nine South Africans have been charged with public violence amid the biggest student protests to hit the country since apartheid ended in 1994. According to BBC News, police again fired stun grenades to disperse students in Cape Town a day after protesters stormed the parliamentary complex. The demonstrations are a result of…
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, stated that 91 companies, consisting mainly of indigenous vessel owners, are vying to secure the contract for the provision of coastal and bunkering vessel services for the operations of the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, PPMC, a subsidiary of the NNPC. As reported by Vanguard, the NNPC, in a…
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Senior General Manager, Civil and Structural, Dangote Petrochemicals Ltd, a subsidiary of Dangote Group, Mr. Madhav Kelkar, while taking newsmen on a tour of the plant located at Lekki Free Trade Zone, Lagos, Thursday told them that its 650,000 barrels Per Day (bpd) capacity petroleum refinery would come on stream by 2018. According to him,…
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