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Lekki Riot Update: 1 dead from between Okada men & Hoodlums.

Obviously the battle between Okadamen, transport drivers and hooligans today in the Lekki Phase 1 territory of Lagos was a bigger than  we thought. Cutlasses were utilized and somebody kicked the bucket. A young person was struck in the back of the ...

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Residents flee their villages after receiving letter from Boko Haram

Inhabitants of Kukawa and Gubio towns in Borno state have fled their towns after they purportedly got a letter from Boko Haram advising them of a looming assault on their communities. An occupant of the town, Modu Kaka who talked ...

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Photos: Riots in Lekki as Okada riders, hoodlums & police clash !

A mob softened out toward the beginning of today up Lekki Phase 1 after hooligans/cruiser riders clash. The reason for the uproar has not been completely settled yet as indicated by a few inhabitants, the director of the Eti-Osa neighborhood ...

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Federal Government approves the purchase of ₦9.2bn cooking stoves for rural women

The Federal Executive Council yesterday affirmed the purchase of N9.2bn worth of cooking stoves and ‘marvel packs’ for country ladies under the National Clean Cooking Scheme. Talking with state house correspondence after the FEC meeting, the Supervising Minister of Information, ...

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Senate reacts to corruption allegations by Ex-Pres. OBJ.

The senate has responded to the corruption assertions leveled against it by the ex-Pres. Olusegun Obasanjo while at a book launch yesterday in Abuja. In an announcement released and signed by its representative, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe today, the senate scowled at the ...

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25 year old Nigerian musician who turned armed-robber paraded by Police

Lagos state Police yesterday paraded a 25 year old artist named John Sunday, ( pictured left) who says he turned to armed robbery with a specific end goal to accumulate N100,000 to promote his reggae album. “I am a musician from Ikofepepe ...

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Pics: Tanker carrying diesel rolls over, catches fire in Enugu

A tanker conveying diesel overturned after its brakes fizzled and burst into flames along Abakpa Rd in Enugu state this nighttime. Thankfully nobody passed on. The driver managed minor blazes however. See more pics bellow.

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Ten soldiers, thirty five hunters killed in road explosion in Adamawa

No less than 10 warriors and 35 hunters were this nighttime 6pm killed after a bomb planted along the Mararaba street close Mubi in Adamawa state went off. The troopers and seekers were on a routine watch of the region around ...

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Pics from Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s Second term inauguration

Here are photographs from the 2nd term inauguration function of Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State which held at the Osogbo Township Stadium at the beginning of today. Aregbesola was re-chosen Governor of the state in August 2014. More photographs bellow.

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Nigerian footballer John Zakari has kicked the Bucket.

Ex-Nigerian footballer, John Zakari kicked the bucket in the early hours of today Thursday November 27th at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, where he’d been receiving treatment for an undisclosed affliction. Also known as John Zaki, he played for Shooting Stars ...

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