A mostly Muslim county in western China has banned children from attending religious events over a winter break, an education bureau said in a notice posted online, as authorities step up control of religious education. Children in China barred from religious activities According to a...
…We’ve deployed 27, 000 street sweepers, trucks — LASG By Olasunkanmi Akoni & Monsuru Olowoopejo Lagos—Residents and motorists, yesterday, raised alarm over increasing heaps of refuse in Lagos ,especially along major roads and streets, lamenting that besides the health risk, it is compounding...
Many were feared dead and others abducted, yesterday, in a fresh attack by Boko Haram insurgents on Pallam community in Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State, local officials and residents have said. The attack came barely a week after the terrorists launched a similar attack on...
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By Victor Ahiuma-Young As part of its goal to see a generational shift in agriculture on the continent, the African Development Bank has taken its ‘Farming is Cool’ initiative to school children in Nigeria. The Bank has also launched a Junior Art Contest in Nigeria to promote the potential of...
Arsenal forward Theo Walcott is edging closer to a £20 million ($28 million, 23 million euros) move to Everton after he travelled to Merseyside for a medical as Toffees coach Sam Allardyce bids to boost his attacking options. Theo Walcott Britain’s Press Association reported that the 28-year-old...
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, told the Federal High Court in Abuja that it stored over N3billion loot that was recovered from former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mr. Andrew Yakubu, in...
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…Reveal Suspects Demanded N50m After Cloning Gov’s Official Line The Lagos State Government on Tuesday commenced trial of two suspects arraigned for attempting to defraud the State Government to the tune of N50million by cloning the official line of the State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode. The...
By Chidi Nkwopara, OWERRI. The immediate past Governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, has decried what he called “the increasing degree of government imposed poverty and the comatose state of Medicare in the state, which has claimed several lives”. Ikedi Ohakim Ohakim, who made his feelings...
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By Egufe Yafugborhi & Davies Iheamnachor PORT HARCOURT—No fewer than four persons were feared killed in a communal war that ensued between Gwara and Gwure communities in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State. Rape It was learned that some youths, alleged to be from Gwara, stormed Gwure...
No fewer than five persons were feared dead in a multiple accident involving an articulated vehicle, a tipper, a commercial bus owned by Onitsha South Mass Transport Company and a car in Anambra. An eyewitness told newsmen that the accident occurred at about 6.00am on Sunday near Ziks...
Turkey’s Erdogan threatens attack on Syria Turkey is set to launch attack on a Kurdish enclave in northern Syria “in the coming days.” Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, disclosed this on Sunday saying operation against the Afrin enclave is aimed at “purging terror” from his country’s...
The Police have arrested two men in Lagos for allegedly engaging in an illegal registration of candidates for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The Lagos State Coordinator of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Mr Sunday Aladegbaye, confirmed the arrest in...
The murder trial of Osa Alohaneke, a Nigerian accused of stabbing his fiancé to death in 2015 has opened in a Fort Bend County Courtroom in Houston, United States. Alohaneke Alohaneke, 59, was living in an area of southwest Houston with his fiancé, 52-year-old Cameroon-native Evelyne Ebane...
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Gunmen kidnap former Bayelsa Transport Commissioner By Samuel Oyadongha YENAGOA – MRS Marie Ebikake, the first female executive chairman of Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State and former Commissioner for Transport has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen at her Igbogene residence in the...
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Rev. Fr. Alex Dung has advised youths and the unmarried in the society to desist from indulging in fornication. Dung, who is the Communication Director of Catholic Archdiocese of Jos, gave the advice in a sermon at the Church of Assumption Parish, Chongo’pyeng, Jos. Newsmen report that Dung was...
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Some residents of Benue stet have continued to protest the brutal killing of their kinsmen on January by persons suspected Fulani herdsmen. •Some youths protesting the killings This is even as Gov Samuel Ortom on Saturday appealed to the protesters in some parts of Makurdi, the state capital, to...
India’s navy said four bodies had been recovered on Saturday after search teams located the wreckage of a helicopter that went missing earlier in the day. The aircraft, carrying five employees of India’s state-run oil exploration arm ONGC and two pilots, lost contact with air traffic control 15...
…It is your last chance – Trump Iran says the 2015 nuclear deal is not up for renegotiation, after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to withdraw from the agreement if its “terrible flaws” were not fixed. Trump “The nuclear deal is an internationally recognized and concluded pact and is not...
10% of Nigerians responsible for 26.59% of national income – NBS By Emmanuel Elebeke ABUJA – The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS says inequality in Nigeria worsened between 2004 and 2013 but improved in 2016. In a report released yesterday, the NBS said the inequality which was measured by …...
By Chioma Onuegbu The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, has arrested two suspected traffickers among Nigerian repatriated from Libya. The Director-General of NAPTIP, Ms Julie Okah-Donli, who disclosed this yesterday in Abuja, said the two suspects were...
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