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Lagos State named the most security conscious state in Africa

The Lagos State Government has bagged an award as the best security and most safety conscious State in Africa. At the award ceremony held in Johannesburg, South Africa and put together by the Security Watch Africa (SWA), the Rapid Response ...

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Lagos State finally cancels monthly environmental sanitation day

Today, the Lagos State Government terminated the monthly environmental sanitation exercise which normally holds for 3 hours on the last Saturday of every month. The state’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Steve Ayorinde, said the decision to cancel the monthly ...

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lebanese

EFCC arraigns 2 Lebanese over ₦1.7m dud cheque

Imad Harb and Toni Harb, were, today, arraigned along with their company: Transparent Construction Nig. Ltd. before Justice E. N. Oluedo of the State High Court Enugu, for allegedly conspiring and obtaining the sum of N1.7m from one Desmond Ogadinma ...

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ya

Yabatech Bakassi Hall of Residence on Fire – Photos

YabaTech, Lagos, goes up in smoke

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boko

Military unveils photographs of another 55 wanted B’Haram terrorists

The military on Monday in Maiduguri unveiled the photographs of another 55 Boko Haram terrorists it had declared wanted, bringing the number of wanted terrorists so far to 257. It had declared 202 insurgents wanted in two batches in 2015. ...

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Mob set Nigerian Breweries truck ablaze after crushing man to death in Enugu .

According to, Apeh Ifeanyi Malachy, the incident happened today in Nsukka. Following the crushing to death and cutting into two of the bike rider, irate youths immediately set the truck, which was fully loaded with coca-cola products, ablaze. The youths ...

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wife

82-year-old mother of former FIRS boss, Ifueko Okauru, shot dead

Grace Onaiwu Omogui, the mother of a former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Ifueko Okauru, has died. Mrs. Omogui, teacher, lawyer and judge, passed on at a Lagos hospital, Saturday, following complications from multiple gunshot injuries from an armed ...

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amnesty

Singapore government insists on executing Nigerian drug convict on Friday

Chijioke was arrested on 9 April 2007 and subsequently charged with trafficking 2,604.56 grammes of cannabis. He was found guilty and sentenced to death by the High Court in November 2008. Under Singaporean law, trafficking more than 500 grammes of ...

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bus

Bus driver, conductor mobbed for abducting 8 schoolchildren

Akorede Ogunjobi, and his conductor, Kazeem Adelere, were attacked by an angry mob for allegedly abducting 8 pupils of Oyes Faithful College, Ifo, Ogun State, and would have been lynched, but for the intervention of policemen who took them into ...

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nollywood

Top Nollywood Producer/Director, Ansa Kpokpogri passes on

Ansa Bassey Kpokpogri reportedly died overnight, after complaining about pains from peptic ulcer. She was 36. She left behind her husband, Eric who works at the Ministry of Defence and a daughter, Rezi. Sun re Crdt: peacebenwilliams

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