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Port Harcourt lawyer killed, police rule out assassination
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A frontline Human Rights lawyer, Mr. Ken Atswete, was in the early hours of Monday assassinated by unidentified gunmen in Rivers State. Read More…
N52m debt: Firm seizes ex-minister’s generators
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A Cross River State High Court in Calabar has ordered the seizure of four generators belonging to Mirage Hotel, owned by the immediate past Minister of Culture and Tourism, Chief Edem Duke, in connection with a N52m debt. Read More…
Siasia says he’s quitting Nigerian football
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Samson Siasia, who helped Nigeria to men’s football bronze medal at the Rio Olympics, says he no longer want to have anything to do with the game in the country. Read More…
Police raid Dickson’s aide’s house over missing $4.6m dollars
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The police in Bayelsa State have raided the private residence of the Bayelsa State Government House Accountant, Richard Etonye, over missing money running into millions of dollars. Read More…
‘Asari Dokubo is not dead’
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The Ijaw Youth Council has dismissed the rumoured attack by military personnel on Alhaji Asari Dokubo, founder of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force (NDPVF). Read More…
Rivers govt to investigate Ahoada earth tremor
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The Rivers State Ministry of Environment says plans are underway to carry out a scientific study into the remote cause of earth tremor in Ahoada West Local Government Area. Read More…
Chief Joseph Yobo promises to bail inmates awaiting trial in Ikoyi Prisons
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Joseph Yobo, a former Captain of the Super Eagles, says the Joseph Yobo Foundation would work to release as many inmates of Ikoyi Prisons, especially those awaiting trial. Read More…
Pastor Adeboye donates house to parents of quadruplets
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One of the most exciting testimonies of the just concluded 64th national convention of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, which began on August 1 and ended on August 7, was the delivery of a set of quadruplets. Mrs. Nkechi Uche was delivered of the three boys and one girl through Caeserian session at the Redeemer’s Health Centre, Redemption Camp. Read More…
Ex-Appropriation Chair, Jibrin, Confesses; Says He Received N650 Million Illegal Allowances
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Abdulmumin Jibrin, the Kano lawmaker at the centre of the unfolding budget padding scandal, on Saturday said he was also a beneficiary of a questionable office maintenance allowance for members of the House of Representatives. Read More…
EFCC Tackles NBA President Abubakar Mahmoud
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The 56th Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association came to an end August 26, in Port Harcourt with the bar making pronouncements on major issues of national importance. One of the new commitments as articulated by the new President of the Association, Read More…
Amaechi: Political maverick or prophet?
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THE 2015 Presidential Election marked Rt. Hon. Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi as one politician to watch. Against conventional wisdom, against widespread ethnocentric sentiments from some of his South-South people, Read More…
Budget Padding: No going back on probe, parties tell police
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The leadership of the various opposition political parties in Nigeria on Saturday, flayed the alleged attempt by the ruling All Progressives Congress, to handle the 2016 budget padding allegation rocking the House of Representatives and insisted that the police must probe the scandal. Read More…
Bauchi govt revokes AIT/Raypower’s C of O
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The Bauchi State Government has withdrawn the Right of Occupancy on a piece of land belonging to DAAR Communication Plc, owners of the African Independent Television and Raypower FM. Read More…
Army kills 5 militants as ‘Operation Crocodile Smile’ begins in Rivers State
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Troops of the 133 Special Forces Battalion of the Army have killed five suspected militants as Operation Crocodile Smile got underway in the Niger Delta at the weekend. Read More…
PMB Constitutes Governing Boards For NPA, NIMASA
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President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the composition of the Governing Boards of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). Read More…
Jibrin accuses Dogara, Gbajabiamila, others of receiving illegal allowance
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Former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has accused 10 principal officers of the House of shortchanging the Nigerian taxpayers by appropriating about N10 billion as “office running cost”, which he said was shared among the senior lawmakers at various times since they were first elected into the House. Read More…
NBA’s new president sworn in, seeks reforms in EFCC
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The new President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr Abubakar Mahmud (SAN), formally took office yesterday with a call for the reform of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Read More…
Kogi ministerial slot: Five jostle to replace Ocholi
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No fewer than five names are being pushed for the vacant ministerial slot for Kogi State, following the death of Minister of State for Labour James Ocholi. Read More…
Breaking – Stella Oduah loses son
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The senator representing Anambra North Senatorial District in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, Stella Oduah, on Friday lost her son, whose name had yet to be known as of the time of filing this report. Read More…
Inspector General Idris Accused Of Massive Looting, Violations Of Public Trust
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Several senior and mid-level police officers have provided SaharaReporters with a list of grave acts of corruption allegedly committed by Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris. Read More…
MEND accepts Edwin Clark to lead Nigeria Delta dialogue with FG
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The Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, today, accepted that former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, should head the pan Niger Delta group that will dialogue with the Federal Government. Read More…
BREAKING: Kogi Governor attacked in Lokoja
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Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello was today attacked as he emerged from a mosque where he observed Jumat prayer in Lokoja, the state capital. Read More…
Soyinka: I’m responding to militants’ overtures
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Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka said yesterday he has been responding to overtures from militant groups. Read More…
Lawyers caught writing exams for students, Law School DG alleges
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Some lawyers have been caught writing examination for students in the Nigerian Law School, the institution’s Director-General, Prof Olanrewaju Onadeko, said yesterday. Read More…