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A lecturer of Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Osun state, Dr Ayo Ojediran, has reportedly sl¥mped and di£d in his office. The deceased, a senior lecturer in the Department of Science and Technology Education, Faculty of Education, sl¥mped in his office on Tuesday, November 14. It was gathered that...

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The Kaduna State Police Command has arrested a 20-year-old man, David Felix, who allegedly k+lled his father for allegedly appearing to him in his dream as a bird. The suspect told the police that he h+t his father with a p£stle while the father was asleep leading to his...

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A 33-year-old Nigerian man, Saheed Azeez, has been convicted of defr@uding 272 people of £220,000 in the United Kingdom Azeez, won refugee status in the U.K. by claiming he was being pers£cuted by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria for being gay, was found guilty of masterminding a £220,000 Facebook...

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A 30-year-old Nigerian student, Onyedika Benedict Oriaku, has been reportedly sentenced to seven years in prison for r@ping a woman in the toilet of a nightclub in Swansea, United Kingdom. Oriaku, who lives in Victoria Terrace, Brynmill was said to have committed the hideous crime at the Fiction nightclub...

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Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have suspended their ongoing nationwide strike. The unions made the decision on Wednesday night, November 15, following the intervention of the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu. The National Deputy Vice-President of the TUC, Tommy Etim, disclosed...

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The Nigerian Navy has arrested four stowaways who were trying to illegally leave the country on board a container vessel, TEME Express, en route Dubai, UAE. They were arrested on Monday, November 13, by the NNS BEECROFT team during a patrol at the Lagos anchorage. The Navy’s Base Information...

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Police operatives in Adamawa State have arrested a 20-year-old housewife, Amina Hassan, who allegedly set her husband’s house abl@ze over his refusal to divorce her. Hassan, from Shuware community in Mubi North, was said to have married Muhammed Auwal about five weeks ago after he agreed to divorce her...

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President Bola Tinubu has said his administration inherited serious liabilities from the previous government of Muhammadu Buhari. The president said this at an event in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Monday evening, November 13, according to a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale....

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The CBN has extended the validity of the old N200, N500, & N1,000 noted indefinitely. CBN’s Director, Corporate Communications, Isa AbdulMumin, disclosed this in a statement on November 14. “Without prejudice, the CBN wishes to inform the general public of its desire to extend the legal tender status deadline...

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Striking members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Tuesday afternoon, November 14, shut down the National Assembly Complex in Abuja. The union, alongside members of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), embarked on a nationwide strike over the ill-treatment of the NLC President, Joe Ajaero during the workers’ protest...

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