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CHAN 2016: Super Eagles to play Ivory Coast, Angola friendly matches in SA
The Super Eagles will play two friendly games when they hit South Africa for the final leg of preparations ahead…
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Health
Lagos gov’t reiterates commitment to improved health sector; as PSP managers assure cleaner state in 2016
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, Wednesday, reiterated the commitment of the present administration to move the…
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Local
Christmas: IGP directs all zonal AIGs, CPs to ensure peaceful yuletide
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Solomon E. Arase has directed all Zonal AIGs and state Command Commissioners of Police to…
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Lagos shelves December sanitation exercise for holidays; advises on cautiousness during harmattan season
Lagos State Government has lifted the order restricting vehicular and human movement during the December monthly Environmental Sanitation Exercise expected…
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Oil up after U.S. crude stocks drop, still close to 11-year lows
Oil prices edged up, Wednesday morning, after an unexpected fall in United States crude inventories but hovered not far above…
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Africa
Lagos gov’t partners traditional rulers on conflict resolution
Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs, Hon Muslim Folami, has restated the State Government’s commitment to rejuvenating the abandoned…
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Bauchi Human Rights Network frees 15 prison inmates
RUTH DAVID, Bauchi The Bauchi Human Rights Network (BHN), a network of various non-governmental organizations in the state, has facilitated…
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OPEC’s market share to shrink by 2020 — Report
Global demand for Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)’s crude will be lower in 2020 than next year as…
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NLC mobilises for industrial action; rejects hike in electricity tariff, fuel subsidy removal, others
National Working Committee of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has restated its opposition to the removal of the fuel subsidy…
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Local
MAN to CBN: Stop funding BDC market
Umbrella body of manufacturers in the country, the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, has told the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)…
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Local
NSE market capitalisation rises by N66bn; as 20 stocks record gains
Market capitalisation at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) rose by N66bn to close at N9.255tn from N9.189tn after the close…
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Local
Ekweremadu heads Senate’s 41-member constitution review panel
The Senate, Wednesday, constituted a 41-member constitution review committee, even as the it also okayed a bill to extend the…
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FG directs immediate payment of December salaries
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed immediate payment of December salaries to civil servants under the employment of the Federal…
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Business and Economy
NNPC/MPN graduates 300 under GAP programme, 74 others bag scholarship grants
DENNIS UDOMA, Uyo Mobil Producing Nigeria, operator of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)/MPN Joint Venture has graduated 300 beneficiaries of…
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NCAA sanctions Aero Contractors over Bauchi airport ‘ladder’ incident
ANTHONY OMOH Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has imposed an applicable sanction on Aero Contractors Airlines in line with Nigerian…
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Why I killed my mother– Suspect confesses; as Akwa Ibom police parade 3 suspected murderers
DENNIS UDOMA, Uyo Three suspected murderers have been paraded in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital by the State’s Police Command,…
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Akwa Ibom proposes N426bn Appropriation Budget for 2016
DENNIS UDOMA, Uyo Akwa Ibom State Government, Tuesday, presented an appropriation bill of N426 billion for 2016 fiscal year to…
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(Photonews) 2015 Champion Insurance Day holds in Lagos; Omolara Euler-Ajayi celebrates 70th Birthday
The 70th Birthday of Former Principal…
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Local
Umahi orders probe of youths’ death in auto crash
Ebonyi State Governor, Chief David Nweze Umahi, has directed the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Bernard Odoh, to probe…
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FG declares Dec. 24, 25, 28 as public holidays
Federal Government has declared December 24, 25 and 28 as public holidays to mark Maulud Nabiy, Christmas Day and Boxing…
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Education
Boko Haram insurgency forces more than 1m children from school — UNICEF
Although some schools reopening, insecurity remains an obstacle to education as violence and attacks against civilian populations in northeastern parts…
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Business and Economy
(For the Record) 2016 budget represents a major step in delivering a new opportunity for Nigeria — Buhari
Being full text of President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2016 Budget Address to the Joint National Assembly, Tuesday, December 22, 2016 …
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2016 Budget: Buhari planning to mortgage Nigeria’s future — PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the N6.8 trillion 2016 federal budget presented by President Muhammadu Buhari as ‘a…
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Buhari hints at impending devaluation of naira
President Muhammadu Buhari has hinted on an impending devaluation of the naira sparking speculations that the move might take effect…
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