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Tuesday, 3 January 2017
Abuja Airport to be shut for six weeks, flights to be diverted to Kadana
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The Federal Government has planned to close the Abuja Airport for six weeks from March 8, 2017, in order to repair its runway. The decisi...
Hollywood sign altered to read 'Hollyweed'
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Residents of Los Angeles woke up to a new year and a big change: their famous Hollywood sign reading "Hollyweed". A vandal, d...
Iheanacho breaks Premier League record
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Kelechi Iheanacho has the best goals-to-minutes ratio of any player in Premier League history following his strike in Manchester City’s 3...
Pastor Adeboye releases 2017 Prophecies
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General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has given his prophecies for 2017. Daddy GO, as f...
Senate to look into Kaduna killings
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The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has said that the senate would commence investigation into the recent killings in southern Kaduna St...
Buhari removes SGF as presidential committee chairman, appoints Osinbajo
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President Muhammadu Buhari has removed the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir David Lawal as chairman of the pr...
Veteran Yoruba actress is dead
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The Yoruba movie industry has recorded its first death of 2017 as one of its own, Toyin Majekodunmi, died on Monday. The veteran actres...
Social Investment Programme: FG begins monthly payment of N5,000 to one million Nigerians
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The Federal Government has commenced the monthly payment of N5, 000 stipend to the poorest and most vulnerable in the country through the...
Christmas Tragedy: Grandma, four grand-children, burnt to death in Delta
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Tragedy struck Idumuje Ugboko town in Aniocha North L.G.A, Delta State, in the early hours of 25 th December, 2016 as some hoodlums atta...
Release Nnamdi Kanu to douse tension, Cleric tells Nigerian govt
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The Archbishop of Anglican Diocese of Enugu, Emmanuel Chukwuma, has implored the Federal Government to release the detained Biafran activ...
Harrysong denies ‘secret marriage’ to Niger Delta ex-beauty queen
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Reggae Blues artiste, Harrysong, has reacted to reports making the rounds that he secretly wedded an ex-Most Beautiful Girl in Niger Delt...
RECESSION: Gov Bello Supports President Buhari
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Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has expressed optimism that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration will lead the nation out of ...
Gambia: Ekweremadu Warns Against Military Action
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Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, has warned against military action in the Gambia following that country’s presidential el...
Man arraigned for defrauding girlfriend of car, land
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A 47-year-old historian, Nicholas Ajayi, who allegedly defrauded his girlfriend of a car and landed property valued at N1.3 million, was...
Sunday, 1 January 2017
Buhari should give way to a younger man in 2019 — Bishop Okah
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The principal patriarch of the Flock of Christ Mission, Enerhen-Effurun, Delta State, Bishop Simeon Okah, has said it would be ridiculou...
I was overthrown in 1984 for devaluing the naira - Buhari
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President Muhammadu Buhari has restated his resolve not to devalue the naira or increase the price of fuel. He also disclosed that his r...
Apostle Johnson Suleman's 50 Prophecies For 2017
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President of Omega Fire Ministry, Apostle Johnson Suleiman, has released 50 shocking prophecies for the year 2017. According to him, he ...
China opens world's highest bridge
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An enormous mountain overpass standing at a whopping 565 metres high (1,854 feet) opened to traffic today in south-west China. The Beipa...
Flying Eagles & Gombe United Defender Uzama Douglas Shot Dead
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Gombe United defender Uzama Douglas was shot dead in Benin City by armed men believed to be cultists on Thursday. Uzama’s murder is the ...
Man, 25, stabs five-year-old daughter to death
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A 25-year-old man, Thomas McClellan, from Michigan allegedly sat on his step-daughter’s chest and stabbed her before setting her ablaze be...
ACP commits suicide in Edo
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An Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP, identified as Christopher Osakue, has reportedly committed suicide in Benin, the Edo State capit...
Saturday, 31 December 2016
Nigerian Defender shot dead in Benin City
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Gombe United defender Uzama Douglas was shot dead in Benin City by armed men believed to be cultists on Thursday. Uzama’s murder is the se...
Buhari’s New Year Message
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My dear Compatriots, I am happy to welcome you to the beginning of a New Year in our beloved country Nigeria. I felicitate with you to...
We’ve sold all we have – Parents of child with hole in the heart • Needs N6m for surgery abroad
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Master Abdulsobur Jimoh, (a six and a half years old boy) had been diagnosed by the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital with a hole in ...
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