By NAN Nigeria lost an estimated 2.8 billion dollars in revenues in 2018, mainly due to oil-related crimes, according to the United Nations. This was contained in a new ‘Report by the Secretary-General on the activities of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS)’ on Monday in New York. The report, which covered from July 1, …
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A team of scientists working with the staff of Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Edo State has made a breakthrough with a “rapid portable genomic sequencing technology to identify viruses without prior knowledge of the cause of the disease.” The research led by scientists from Public Health England (UK), the Bernhard Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine, Germany, in collaboration with the …
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* As 17yr old arrested for defiling 12yr old girl A 41-year-old commercial bus driver, Jelili Lawal, has been arrested for allegedly raping a stranded 78-year-old woman, in Oloti community, in Adeniji Jones, Ikeja area of Lagos State. According to Vanguard report, the septuagenarian, with an undisclosed identity, was on her way home, on January, 1,2019 but missed the way. …
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The Nigerian Army on Monday explained why its personnel invaded the offices of Daily Trust Newspapers in Maiduguri, Abuja, Lagos and Kaduna on Sunday. The spokesperson of the Army, Sani Usman, a brigadier general, in a statement said, “Soldiers of the Nigerian Army along with elements of the Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies were indeed at Abuja and …
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A federal high court in Port Harcourt on Monday nullified both the direct and indirect primaries conducted by two factions of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State. The court, presided by Kolawole Omotosho, also restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from recognising any candidates of the APC for the 2019 general elections in the state. Two factions …
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The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, will now lead the party’s campaigns for the February general elections as against President Muhammadu Buhari, who is the Chairman of the APC Campaign Council. Buhari stated this on Monday while inaugurating the campaign council. The President said the reason was that he didn’t want governance to suffer because …
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By Premium Times The Director-General of President Muhammadu Buhari’s reelection campaign organisation, Rotimi Amaechi, has called on Nigerians not to give one vote to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections. Mr Amaechi is in the eye of the storm after an audio recording was released Sunday by the opposition PDP in which he was saying Nigerians were hungry …
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The presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 General Elections, Atiku Abubakar, has urged the military to follow due process in the case of Daily Trust newspapers whose offices were invaded on Sunday evening by armed soldiers. The Nigerian Army on Sunday night said it invaded the Daily Trust offices in Abuja and Maiduguri, Borno State to invite workers of the media …
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The chief military rebel who led a thwarted coup in Gabon on Monday has been arrested and two of his commandos killed after they stormed into a public radio station, the presidency said. “The situation is under control,” the presidency statement said, adding that hostages had been freed from the radio station. A group of soldiers had attempted to take …
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The Nigerian Government has directed its military to vacate the premises of Daily Trust offices and the order has been complied with. The government in a statement by Garba Shehu, the official spokesperson to President Muhammadu Buhari, on Sunday night said that issues between the military and the newspaper as they affect the coverage of the war in the Northeast …
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