Category: News
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Five 🇺🇸 U.S. Marines were confirmed dead after their helicopter crashed in a remote area outside of San Diego while on a training flight during a fierce winter storm, the U.S. Marines Corps said on Thursday. Their CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter went down in Pine Valley, a hilly remote area east of the city, on…
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The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, have issued a 14-day nationwide strike notice to the Federal Government. Their grouse is the non-implementation of the 16-point agreement between organised labour (NLC and TUC) and the Federal Government on October 2, 2023. Leaders of the NLC and TUC are sad…
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AFCON 2023: Jose Peseiro’s wife and daughter celebrate Super Eagles after reaching finals Jose Peseiro’s wife and daughter have joined Nigerians worldwide to celebrate the Super Eagles on reaching the finals of AFCON 2023 AFCON 2023: Jose Peseiro’s wife and daughter celebrate Super Eagles after reaching finals Jose Peseiro’s family are rooting for Nigeria in…
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Several people were reportedly killed by armed men who invaded the Iwili community in Umogidi Ward and Entekpa community, all in Adoka District of Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State. The attack on Umogidi came barely a year after gunmen invaded the community and killed many. A legal practitioner from the local government, Ada…
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Veteran singer and social activist, Charles Oputa, aka Charly Boy, has said that he engaged in scamming before 419 became popular in Nigeria. Advance fee fraud or “419 fraud”, is a scheme in which a sender requests help facilitating the illegal transfer of money, according to Wikipedia. The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant…
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Amid the rising wave of insecurity in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), some police officers have been arrested for forcefully collecting N29.9m from a resident of Abuja. The incident, according to Harrison Gwamnishu, a candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, happened in January. Gwamnishu had in a video via his…
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A lawyer identified as Eze Victor Agala, collapsed and died outside a courtroom in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State Capital. The legal practitioner, who is a native of Ibaa in Emohua LGA of the state, slumped just as he stepped outside the Magistrate Court building on Moscow Road, Port Harcourt. He was immediately rushed to…
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Nigerians’ spending on foreign education, healthcare and personal travels gulped over $98bn in 10 years, according to the Central Bank of Nigeria data. The CBN Governor, Olayemi Cardoso, who made the disclosure while addressing the House of Representatives on Tuesday, was responding to an inquiry by the lawmakers on the factors behind the rapid depreciation…
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The Abia State Government has given a two-week extra notice to residents of Umuahia, the state capital, to remove all extensions and illegal attachments to their buildings. The state Commissioner for information, Okey Kanu, announced this on Monday while briefing journalists on the outcome of this week’s Executive Council meeting presided over by Governor Alex…
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A 31-Year-Old 400-Level Female Student Of Olabisi Onabanjo University in Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, Adaeze Doris Jaja, has committed suicide in a hotel in the town. She was found lying unconscious and foaming at the mouth in a freezer, with an empty bottle of Sniper 1000EC/DDVP seen beside her Confirming the incident, the spokeswoman of…