A 23-year-old Law student in the UK, Damilola Olakanmi, has died after consuming cannabis sweets she bought online. Olakanmi, who lives in Ilford, east London with her mother was reported to have bought the ‘gummies’ through a messaging app and they were delivered to her home where she fell ill last Tuesday. According to Mirror […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has thrown its presidential ticket for the 2023 election open, abandoning zoning, which has generated heated controversy in recent times. Stakeholders of the party had taken different positions on zoning, with Iyioricha Ayu, National Chairman of the party, said had come to stay. Last week, a meeting of the PDP […]
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About a month ago, the Ghanaian dancehall act introduced a new girlfriend he has been dating. The lady has been identified as Freda and Shatta Wale showed her off countless on social media and promised her his love. According to information shared by a snapchat blogger, Sel The Bomb, the lovers split at the time […]
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The Jigawa Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has confirmed seven persons dead in a fire outbreak that engulfed a petrol station at Al-Masfa in Kaugama Local Government Area of Jigawa State. Adamu Shehu, the Command Public Relations Officer who confirmed the incident in Dutse on Tuesday told the newsmen that […]
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Ambulance/hearse drivers and mortuary attendants in Abia State, Tuesday, staged a peaceful protest to register their displeasure over extortion of their members by touts operating as revenue task force. The protesters, who gathered on the platform of Hearse, Ambulance, Casket, Mortuary Decorators Union, drove through major roads in Umuahia the state capital, causing heavy traffic […]
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The Managing Director, Nigerian Railway Corporation, Mr Fidet Okhiria, has said that 14 of the 21 passengers abducted on board Ak9 train on the standard gauge rail from Kaduna to Abuja were found alive and safe. This is contained in a statement issued on Monday in Lagos by Okhiria in an update on the attack […]
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About 11 soldiers have been killed in an attack by suspected gunmen on a military base in Birnin Gwari LGA of Kaduna state, sources have told TheCable. The gunmen who came in large numbers were said to have invaded the base at Polwire village on Monday and engaged the troops in a fierce gun battle. […]
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A member of the Northern Elders Forum, Usman Yusuf, has revealed what controversial Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, told bandits they met in the thick forests of eight northern states. According to the elder statesman, Gumi told the bandits (now designated terrorists) that killing, raping, maiming and burning of private and public assets were unacceptable and […]
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Sacked Chief Imam of National Assembly Mosque Zone E, Apo Legislative Quarters in Abuja, Sheikh Nuru Khalid, has been appointed by the Management Committee of a new Jum’mat Mosque behind the Central Bank Nigeria (CBN) Quarters, Abuja, The Nation has learnt He is to lead the congregation with effective from Friday 8th April
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Three siblings declared missing from a school in Abuja have been found two weeks after their disappearance. PUNCH Metro had reported that their mother, Joy Ani, had gone to pick them up from their school, Star Heritage Academy, located around the ECWA One area of Kabusa, but they were nowhere to be found. Their father, […]
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