An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday remanded a 14 year-old teenager (names withheld) at the Boys Correctional Centre, Isheri, a suburb of Lagos, for allegedly raping a five year-old daughter of his neighbour. The Chief Magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, who remanded the accused, over the alleged defilement, then adjourned …
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PRELATE of Methodist Church of Nigeria, Dr Samuel Uche, has alleged ‘grand plan’ by President Muhammadu Buhari to turn Nigeria into an Islamic state. But in a swift reaction, the presidency dismissed the allegations saying there is no such plan in the offing. Speaking with Vanguard, the president’s Senior Special …
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The Inspector-General of Police (IG), Mr Solomon Arase, has said the Nigeria Police Force had spent over N600 million on the procurement and maintenance of foreign dogs in the last few years. Arase made the disclosure at the inauguration of the Police Dog Breeding Centre and Ultra Modern Mounted Troop …
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A World Bank Specialist on Welfare Economics, Prof. Foluso Okunmadewa says Nigeria loses 1.5 billion dollars in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annually to vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Okunmadewa said this at the Stakeholders’ Dialogue on the reviewed Draft National Policy on Food and Nutrition (NPFN) by the Federal Ministry of …
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The National Examinations Council (NECO), has released the results of the November/December 2015 Senior School Certificate Examinations. Prof. Abdulrashid Garba, NECO’s Registrar and Chief Executive, disclosed this on Wednesday in Minna while addressing newsmen. He said that a total of 50,060 candidates registered, out of which 47,507 sat for English …
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The Police in Lagos have arrested the contractor who is handling the collapsed five storey building in Lekki area of the state. The Lagos State Police Spokesperson, SP Oladapo Badmus, who made the disclosure to the News agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos, did not disclose where he …
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Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu has said government has not unbundled the Nigeria National Petroleum Cooperation, NNPC yet. Explaining the development at the oil sector in an interview with State House correspondents after the meeting of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the …
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Nigeria is on the verge of another fuel crisis and a nationwide blackout of unimaginable proportion as workers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Wednesday, shut down the activities of the corporation nationwide over the unbundling exercise. The workers, under the aegis of the Petroleum and Natural Gas …
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An Ogbesun Chief Magistrates’ Court in Benin on Wednesday ordered the remand a 41-year-old Prophet, Benjamin Bernard, in prison custody for alleged defilement of his seven-year-old daughter. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Taiye Omoruyi, refused to admit the cleric to bail. The Prosecutor, Kenneth Ugiagbe, said the pastor committed the incest …
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have found themselves at the centre of a privacy row after they chose to take their first family holiday in secret. The royal couple flew with Prince George, two, and 10-month-old Princess Charlotte to a secret location in the French Alps last Wednesday. Unlike …
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