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MTN Nigeria has paid N80 billion of the N330 billion fine imposed on it for failing to deactivate more than five million unregistered SIM cards. The Minister of Communications, Mr Adebayo Shittu, told NAN in Abuja that the company paid ...

Comr David Nwizi reportedly died in a ghastly motor accident, on Monday 26th December, 2016, while on his way to Isieke town from Abakiliki, Ebonyi state. . According to one Jimmy Bigboy Swag: “I just received with great shock the ...

According to Facebook user, Prince Uchenna Ahanotu, who shared the story, a woman stabbed her husband to death on Christmas day because he could not provide for the family. This happened in Majidun Awori, lkorodu Lagos. The woman has been ...

Teenager allegedly caught stealing chickens, in Ikorodu, Lagos, stripped naked, beaten and paraded with his loot

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A gang of kidnappers at Amavo Village in Owerrinta, along Enugu/ Port-Harcourt expressway, have been arrested by the Anti-Robbery Squad attached to the Abia State Criminal and Intelligence unit in Umuahia.  The members are Ifeanyi Monday, Ikenna Ubani, Uchenna Nwosu ...

Abia State Government is leaving no stone unturned to ensure increase in her internally generated revenue from the 2017 fiscal year. To this effect, the state has banned the use of agents as revenue collectors in the state in 2017. ...

This revelation was made in a revised Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) submitted to the National Assembly last week. The MTEF showed that the amount included $320million equivalent to N97.6 billion Abacha loot being expected from the Swiss government. Minister ...

Military officer fighting Boko Haram, Lt. Col Otos Umusu, killed in an ambush in the North East

The Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) has arrested the 10th gang member in the CBN Governor’s wife kidnap saga of September 2016, Umar Abubakar aka Kiriwa, after trailing him to Minna, Niger State, on 9th December, 2016. ...