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News
Be patient with FG – Dogara urges Nigerians
RUTH DAVID, Bauchi Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has called on Nigerians to be patient with the All…
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Arts
Airtel celebrates Yuletide season with kids at orphanage home
In the spirit of yuletide season, employees of leading telecoms operator, Airtel Nigeria, has showered gifts on kids of Arrow…
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(Opinion) INEC, inconclusive elections and conspiracy theory
IDANG ALIBI The country’s electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), declared the November 25 governorship election in Kogi…
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Faith
Maulud: Saraki preaches love, peaceful coexistence
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, Wednesday, has felicitated with Muslims on this year’s celebration of Eid-el-Maulud and enjoined Nigerians…
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News
12th UNWTO Awards for Excellence and Innovation in Tourism Finalists unveiled
A total of 17 projects from Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe have been selected, from a total of 109…
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Education
Tambuwal meets Shagari; as Sokoto gov’t pledges to build teachers’ villages
As part of measures put in place to ensure the success of the State of Emergency declared in the education…
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News
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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Local
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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Local
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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Local
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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Local
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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Local
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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Local
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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Local
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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Local
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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