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Nigeria Moves Up 9 Places In Latest Fifa Rankings

Nigeria moves up 9 places in latest FIFA rankings. Super Eagles now 7th in Africa, 41st in world The Nigeria’s Super Eagles despite missing the just concluded AFCON have moved up nine places to become the 7th best team in Africa and 41st in the world. In the latest FIFA rankings released on today Thursday,…

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Fgn Finally Agrees Buhari Is Sick And Not Coming Home Yet

The Federal Government has finally acknowledged Buhari is sick and not coming home yet. The is the import of the statement released yesterday by his office. Hitherto, same office has denied this fact for the past two weeks the President has been away in London, UK. President Muhammadu Buhari has now requested for an extension of…

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Braeking News: Tuface Succumbs, Cancels Protest

Popular Nigerian music star, Innocent Idibia (2face), has backed out of his planned nationwide protest. Announcing its cancellation 24 hours to the return and resumption of office by President Muhammadu Buhari who has been on short holiday in London. (This is a new developing story. Full details to come later.)

Lawyers Accuse Kashamu Of Assassination Threats

A week after a U.S. court insisted on his extradition for drug related offences, Nigerian senator Buruji Kashamu has been accused by some lawyers of alleged threat to their lives. A group of lawyers in Ogun State petitioned the state Commissioner of Police over alleged threat to their lives and attempted murder by Mr. Kashamu,…

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Rivers Police Commissioner Dies

Francis Mobolaji Odesanya, commissioner of police in the Rivers State Police Command is dead. He was aged 56. According to the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, Odesanya died after a brief illness. He was on admission at Sterling Hospital Ahmedabad-Gujarat in India. The Ikenne-Ogun state born police officer joined the Force on the 1st…

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Buhari Sacks Jamb Registrar & Other Heads Of Federal Goverment Education Agencies

President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked Dibu Ojerinde, a professor, of his appointment as the registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB). Bem Goong, deputy director of press at the ministry of education, disclosed this in a statement, saying Ishaq Oloyede, a former vice-chancellor (VC) of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), had been appointed…

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