Eight months after she lost her daughter to oil spill, Annkio Kie (not real name) is still struggling to fight off pain and sorrow. Mary was sick for three years, after what started as mere rashes turned out to be a severe skin disease. “We couldn’t send her to the hospital because there was no […]
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The Sarkin Katsinan Gusau, Dr Ibrahim Bello, on Sunday urged politicians not to arm youths with dangerous weapons and drugs as campaigns intensified toward the 2019 general elections. Bello made the call when Sen. Said Dansadau,the governorship candidate of the National Rescue Movement (NRM), paid him a courtesy visit at his palace in Gusau. According
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President Muhammadu Buhari has dismissed as wicked the cloning allegation against him, saying ‘‘It’s real me, I assure you. I will soon celebrate my 76th birthday and I will still go strong’’. The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, said the president said this
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National Assembly (NASS) staff under the aegis of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN), had fixed December 4 to stage a protest over unpaid salaries and allowances. Mr Suleiman Haruna, the union’s Secretary-General, announced this in a statement in Abuja. Haurna said the first phase of the protest would take place between Dec. 4 and
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has charged African governments to improve funding support for HIV testing, care and treatment. WHO said that the improved funding support would ensure all citizens get access to the services they need to live productive lives. Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO Regional Director for Africa, said this on Saturday in
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Six people were injured after the wheels of a recently delivered Vietjet Airbus plane flew off as the aircraft made a rough landing in central Vietnam, officials said on Friday. The incident comes as Southeast Asia’s booming aviation industry faces scrutiny following last month’s deadly Lion Air crash in Indonesia blamed on technical problems with
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Senator Dino Melaye has been appointed as the spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council for the 2019 election. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is the presidential flag bearer of the party, while his running mate is a former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi. ICYMI: 2019: Oby Ezekwesili picks Ganiyu Galadima as running mate The
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The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus, on Thursday called on the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Yakubu Mahmoud, to resign over his alleged inability to conduct free, fair and credible election. He also called on the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Idris Ibrahim, to resign, as he alleged that
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Samuel Little was hoping to move prisons this past spring. The 78-year-old was spending the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of killing three people. But his name had popped up in the FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program, known as ViCAP, in connection with a series of unsolved murders across the country.
Serial killer, Samuel Little, confesses to 90 more murders Read More »
A Makurdi Upper Area Court on Thursday dissolved the marriage between Mr Stephen Adoyi and his wife, Rita, over starvation, negligence and breach of marriage vows. The Judge, Mrs Fatima Akintomide, while delivering her judgement, said that the marriage was being dissolved because the husband, who was the respondent in the matter, had conceded to
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