President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday approved the immediate unbundling of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, into seven independent operational units. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, who announced the unbundling of the national oil company in Abuja, said five of the seven operational units will be …
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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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She once tried to break the internet as she bared her naked derriere on the cover of a magazine. And Kim Kardashian is likely to do it all over again as she has shared a seriously racy nude throwback selfie on her Twitter page. The 35-year-old reality star appeared …
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A Federal High Court sitting in Benin, Edo State, has sentenced one Favour Eboigbe to 10 years’ imprisonment for trafficking six girls to Burkina Faso for prostitution. Eboigbe was arraigned on 12 counts before Justice A. A. Okeke. It was gathered that the 37-year-old man was living outside the country …
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Workers in the Niger State civil services have expressed shock at the decision of the state government for sack 6,000 “casual” and “ghost workers” in the state. The workers were left out of the payroll after the state government organised screening of workers in December, through a consultant, to determine …
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A huge public outcry and the pressure on security agents may have been contributory factors to the rescue of three female students of Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary in Ikorodu, Lagos State. The girls — Timilehin Olosa, Tofunmi Popoola and Deborah Akinayo — were kidnapped by gunmen on Monday on their …
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A housewife, Kehinde Anifowose, has appeared before an Ikole Customary Court over a debt of N90,400 she incurred during her wedding. A trader, Dele Omotoyinbo, dragged the bride to court, claiming that she supplied Aso-Ebi fabrics valued N90,400 to the defendant during her wedding in Sept 2015 but failed to pay. …
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has beaten former Lagos State Governor and National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and former United Nations Secretary General, Koffi Anan, to clinch the African Leadership Magazine Person of the Year, 2015. Ex-president Jonathan also defeated the founder, ECONET Wireless, …
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TRAGEDY struck yesterday, as the Minster of State for Labour, Chief James Ocholi (SAN), his wife and son died in a fatal auto crash along Abuja-Kaduna highway. While Ocholi, 55, and his son, Aaron Enojo, 20, died instantly, his wife, Blessing Fatima, a Registrar at Salem University, Sokoto, was said …
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The Lagos State Police Command has rescued three teenage girls abducted from their school in Ikorodu on March 1. Dolapo Badmus, the police spokesperson, confirmed the rescue over the phone on Sunday. “They were rescued in the early hours of this morning at Igbokuta area of Lagos State,” said Ms. …
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