Category: NEWS

Dogara Releases Pay Slip, Earns N346,577 Monthly
April 11, 2017 No Responses

Dogara Releases Pay Slip, Earns N346,577 Monthly

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara on Tuesday disclosed that he earns N346,577.87 monthly after deductions. He made this known in his three months’ pay slips released in response to the disclosure by Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai...
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Bill to abolish discrimination between First Degree, HND passes second reading
April 11, 2017 No Responses

Bill to abolish discrimination between First Degree, HND passes second reading

A Bill for an Act to abolish the discrimination between First Degree and Higher National Diploma (HND) in same profession passed second reading in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. The bill, which was sponsored by Rep. Ali Isa (Gombe-PDP)...
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EFCC Intercepts N250m Cash at Balogun Market
April 10, 2017 No Responses

EFCC Intercepts N250m Cash at Balogun Market

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday intercepted huge sums of money in various currencies totalling N250m at the popular Balogun market in Lagos. This came barely three days after the commission recovered N449m at an abandoned bureau de...
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Shooting at School: 2 Adults Dead, 2 Students Critically Injured
April 10, 2017 No Responses

Shooting at School: 2 Adults Dead, 2 Students Critically Injured

Two adults, including a teacher, were dead and two students were critically injured in a shooting Monday morning inside an elementary school classroom in San Bernardino, California. Police do not believe the children were targeted but were close to the...
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Man slashes daughter’s throat over Facebook use
April 10, 2017 No Responses

Man slashes daughter’s throat over Facebook use

The police on Monday arrested a Thai man for slashing his daughter’s throat after an argument about her Facebook and smartphone use. Sornkrai Poonperm, police commissioner of Petchburi province, some 120 kms south-west of Bangkok, said Surin Kaewrae, 41, con...
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Obasanjo’s wife loses bid to stop son’s wedding
April 10, 2017 No Responses

Obasanjo’s wife loses bid to stop son’s wedding

An Ikeja High Court  on Monday, dismissed the suit filed by Mrs Taiwo Obasanjo, wife of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, seeking the  postponement of  the wedding of her son Olujonwo to Tope Adebutu. Justice Lateefa Okunnu, dismissed the suit on the...
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‘Abule Egba Lagos flyover open for traffic May 15’
April 8, 2017 No Responses

‘Abule Egba Lagos flyover open for traffic May 15’

  Construction of the Abule Egba Flyover on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway is 98 per cent completed as the bridge is expected to be opened to traffic  by May 15,the site engineer, Mr George Tommows, said yesterday. The  News Agency of...
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Ban Vigilante Groups, Security Minister tells Legislators
April 7, 2017 No Responses

Ban Vigilante Groups, Security Minister tells Legislators

Ghana’s Minister for National Security Albert Kan-Dapaah on Thursday called on legislators to help stop the increasing activities of vigilante groups which could create huge security problems for the country in the future. He said though there were no legall...
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Fire Guts Airport in Nigeria
April 5, 2017 No Responses

Fire Guts Airport in Nigeria

The Aviation Fuel station attached to the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) Wednesday witnessed a fire outbreak resulting in the injury of two technicians. According to eyewitness account who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the fire ...
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3,800 Children are HIV Positive at Borno IDP camps- Source
April 5, 2017 No Responses

3,800 Children are HIV Positive at Borno IDP camps- Source

Executive secretary, Borno Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS (BOSACA), Barkindo Saidu, says 3,800 new cases of HIV infections have been recorded in internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps in the state. Saidu told NAN in Maiduguri on Wednesday that the...
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