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The Nigerian Community in South Africa said on Saturday that a mob destroyed four shops and several houses belonging to their members at Krugersdorp, near Johannesburg. Mr Cyril James, the Ward Chairman of the Nigerian Union in the area, told the News Agency of Nigeria on the telephone from Johannesburg, South Africa that the attacks…
Suspected herdsmen have allegedly killed a farmer, Adetona Owolabi, on his farm on Thursday at Afon in Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State. This killing came barely few hours after the state government said it had taken measures to prevent clashes between herdsmen and farmers in the state. Our correspondent gathered that trouble began…
Men of Nigerian Customs shoot man to death in Lagos. Pandemonium broke out the morning as trigger-happy operatives of the Nigerian Customs Service ( NCS ) on Wednesday morning killed a man at Oko-Oba, Lagos. The operatives were said to have opened fire after they sighted a bus suspected to be carrying smuggled rice. Pay Attention.…
I ask you in the name of God to accommodate your country men. You can also be assured that I am just as worried, and concerned with the situation President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Abuja called on the government and people of Benue State to exercise restraint following the recent attacks on some communities, assuring…
The National Examinations Council, (NECO) yesterday released results of the November /December Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE, after only 38 days of conducting the examinations. This is great a departure from the past during which results were released between 80 and 90 days after the last paper which had always truncated the admission of successful…
By Wole Soyinka Nobel Laureate urges the Nigerian government to do more in resolving the violence between herdsmen and farmers. It is happening all over again. History is repeating itself and, alas, within such an agonisingly short span of time. How often must we warn against the enervating lure of appeasement in face of aggression…
Undergraduate beheads mother. The Police Command in Osun on Monday said it had arrested one Joseph Mark, a 25-year-old undergraduate of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Ondo, who beheaded his mother on Sunday. The Public Relations Officer of the command, DSP Folashade Odoro, told newsmen in Osogbo that the incident happened at about 6:30 am, at…
National chairmanship aspirant of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the person of the former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, denied yesterday, speculations that he had stepped down for Chief Raymond Dokpesi in the ongoing race. He, however, expressed hope about the possibilities of the South-West trimming its chairmanship candidates before the national convention…
At the just concluded 5th Regular meeting of the National Council on Communication Technology (NCCT 2017) organised by the Federal Ministry of Communications penultimate weekend, Lagos shone like a star that it is. The “State Of Excellence” beat all other 35 States of the country to emerge as the best overall performing state in ICT…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission says it will on Tuesday arraign Mrs. Maimuna Aliyu, the mother of Maryam Sanda who allegedly killed her husband, Bilyamin Bello. The police had last week arraigned Maryam before an FCT High Court sitting in Jabi for allegedly killing her husband who is the son of…
