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Ivory Coast to host all-night tribute to Papa Wemba April 25, 2016 A still frame taken from Ivory Coast national television RTI 1 on April 24, 2016 shows Congolese music star Papa Wemba performing during the FEMUA music festival in Abidjan, before collapsing on stage. Papa Wemba, who won renown by helping to bring the […]
Onyemaechi Mrakpor is a member of the House of Representatives from southern Delta state The head of Nigeria’s prisons service has been summoned to appear before parliament after his security guards allegedly slapped a female MP. Onyemaechi Mrakpor, 49, and a member of the lower house, told the BBC she was attacked for overtaking the […]
Dear Professor Oluchi, My boyfriend has a twin brother, but I didn’t have a chance to meet him since we have been dating in the last eight months until last week when he flew in for holidays from California where he studies medicine. They are not identical twins and I believe I am in love […]
UNIZIK students make mini bus from local materials Education By: Femi Ajasa Thursday, April 21, 2016 TOP HEADLINES By Ebele Orakpo Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress – Li Keqiang, Chinese politician. The time for Nigeria to look inwards is now. We have all the resources, both human and material, to be great. To ensure […]
By Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUJA — United States government said, yesterday, that it provided Nigeria every information and intelligence needed to rescue the over 200 missing girls abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State. This came as the federal government reiterated its commitment to find the girls, saying it remained its priority. The US government spoke […]
By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor Abuja— Former Finance Minister, Mrs Esther Nenadi Usman, was yesterday, taken into custody by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly receiving N2.5 billion of the N4 billion taken out of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, on the orders of the former National Security […]
By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief & Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUJA — Respite has come the way of the 36 states as the Federal Government, Tuesday, suspended deductions periodically made from various loans given to the states to enable them pay workers’ salaries and stabilise their economies. Buhari The suspension of deduction takes effect from April […]
*Judge orders Police to take Saraki’s lawyer out ABUJA — The ongoing trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja, took a new twist, yesterday, as the Federal Government applied to amend the initial 13-count charge it entered against him. Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki […]
The European Union (EU) has earmarked 36.1 million Euros (about N8 billion) to combat organised crime, trafficking and terrorism in the North East geo-political zone of Nigeria. The delegation of the EU to Nigeria and ECOWAS, in a statement, said three new measures had been adopted to tackle the root causes of irregular migration and […]
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