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Buhari arrives national arcade for Armed Forces Remembrance Day
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has arrived the National Arcade, venue of the 2023 Armed Forces Remembrance Day wreath-laying ceremony. Buhari who arrived at the Arcade at 10:05 am was immediately ushered onto the saluting base for the National Salute. He also inspected the guards of Honour, accompanied by the Commander Guards Brigade
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Kwara poly disowns student who defrauded US woman
The management of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, has disowned a student of the institution suspected to be an Internet fraudster, Awoleye Joshua, who lured a United States of America woman, Volapolonius Moss, to Nigeria and defrauded her. Joshua, 23, claimed that he was a Higher National Diploma student of the Mechanical Engineering Department of the
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One feared dead as tanker falls in Lagos
One person has been feared dead after a diesel-laden tanker fell on a stationary towing van at Otto Wharf, along Apapa – Oshodi Expressway, Mile 2, Lagos. The Director of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margret Adeseye, in a statement on Sunday said the incident, which happened in the early hours of the
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Trafficking: Kwara police rescue 41 children, nab suspects
The Kwara State Police Command said it had arrested three suspected human traffickers. A statement by the spokesperson for the command, Osakanmi Ajayi, in Ilorin on Saturday, stated that the suspects – Musa Ayuba, Jeremiah Muda and Luka Ayuba – hail from Kontagora Local Government Area of Niger State. According to him, the suspects were
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Scores dead in Nepal plane crash
At least 40 people were killed on Sunday when an aircraft of domestic carrier Yeti Airlines crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, a Nepal aviation authority official said. According to DailyMail, local television showed thick black smoke billowing from the crash site as rescue workers and crowds of people gathered around the wreckage of the aircraft.
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How many voters are there in Nigeria?
Numeracy is a Nigerian problem but electoral democracy is about counting numbers. Nigerians will vote to elect a president and national legislators on February 25, 2023. On 11 March, they will return to elect state legislators in 36 states and governors in 28. The numbers that will frame all these contests are now settled. They
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Seven-year-old girl critical after shooting outside London church
A seven-year-old girl was fighting for her life in the hospital Saturday and five other people were injured after a shooting following a requiem mass for a mother and daughter in London, police said. Mourners ran screaming from the scene outside a Roman Catholic church in the capital as gunshots rang out. “Initial enquiries suggest
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BREAKING: Bandits burn Catholic priest to death in Niger
Bandits in an attack on Kafin Koro Community in Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State in the early hours of Sunday have burnt a Reverend Father, Isaac Achi of Saint Peter and Paul Catholic Church, to death. The bandits were said to have invaded the community at about 1 am and began shooting sporadically
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Police appeal N10m damages judgment, say court erred
The Police Zonal Headquarters in Ukpo, Zone 13, Anambra State, has appealed the N10 million damages judgment delivered against it by a High Court sitting in Awka, in favour of one Sunday Chukwuemeka Ekwueme, over an alleged breach of his fundamental rights. Justice D.A Onyefulu of the state High Court, Awka, had on January 10,
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Why children from wealthy homes may abuse drugs —Psychiatrists
Mental health experts have dispelled the notion that there is a class difference in the increasing trends of drug abuse among youths in Nigeria. They noted that contrary to assumptions, children from wealthy homes are also abusing all sorts of drugs just like children from less rich homes. They added that the fact that children
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