Gunmen on Sunday at Gbarantoru community in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, abducted the wife of a lecturer with the Niger Delta University. Sources in the community told the Newsmen that the incident occurred early on Sunday and that the gunmen fired many shots to announce their arrival. The gunmen reportedly entered …
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Four persons were critically injured on Sunday when a two-storey building collapsed in Owerri, Imo State. The incident, which happened at 4:34pm at Number 10, Amaram Extension Street, less than a kilometer from Dan Anyiam Stadium, where the governor-elect held a nondenominational church service ahead of his inauguration next Wednesday, …
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Many students were injured at the Community Secondary School, Oroworukwo in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, when an unidentified student allegedly opened a teargas canister in the classroom. Some of the students, who were almost choked by the smoke from the canister, were seen in a video clip that …
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Three patients at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital reportedly sneaked out of the health facility without paying the balance of their bills running into hundreds of thousands of naira. The patients, it was gathered, were due for discharge, but were left in the hospital because they could not …
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The Independent National Electoral Commission today (Saturday) complied with the judgment of the Supreme Court and declared the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle and others winners of the 2019 general election. The commission also warned political parties to be conversant with the implications …
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Fikadu Dawit, a Bahraini athlete, today(Saturday) won the seventh edition of the Okpekpe International 10km Road Race at Okpekpe in Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo. Dawit emerged the winner of the race’s 2019 edition with a time of 29 minutes three seconds to claim the 20,000 dollars prize …
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is to conduct Computer Based Test (CBT) for job applicants nationwide on June 1, 2019. The Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Ndu Ughamadu, quoted the corporation’s Chief Operating Officer (COO), Services, Isa Inuwa, to have said that selection of candidates for the …
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Ghana coach Kwasi Appiah named Andre Ayew as the new captain while the nation’s football federation said former captain Asamoah Gyan had been made ‘general captain’ for the Africa Cup of Nations squad. Gyan said Monday he would quit the national team, angered by Appiah’s plan to strip him of …
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The Katsina State Government on Friday introduced the death penalty for kidnappers and cattle rustlers in the state. Governor Aminu Masari, who signed the amended Penal Code into law, said rape offences would attract life imprisonment. Masari told reporters in Katsina that the state government decided to be tough on …
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has praised the efforts of the Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson in developing education in the state. Jonathan, who gave the commendation at the launch of the Bayelsa Education Development Trust Fund in Yenagoa on Friday, said Dickson deserved praise for focusing on education. He said …
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