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The Nigeria Customs Service, on Monday, foiled the effort of a smuggling syndicate after nine trucks loaded with bags of smuggled rice
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The Nigerian Navy’s Forward Operating Base (FOB) in Ibaka has announced the arrest of two suspected smugglers caught with a speedboat carrying 350kg bags of fertiliser, allegedly destined for Cameroon.
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The Cross River State Government has flagged off a six-day ‘Big Catch Up’ routine immunisation intensification exercise in the state. Flagging off the programme at Big Qua health centre in Calabar Municipality, the director general of the state Health Care Development Agency, Dr Vivian Mesembe, said the exercise is to be carried out in areas…
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President Bola Tinubu's wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, through her Renewed Hope Initiative Elderly Support Scheme (RHIESS), on Tuesday, supported 250 elderly persons in Oyo State with cash. Mrs. Tinubu stated that the initiative is an annual programme aimed at improving the welfare of elderly citizens across the country. Nigeria's First Lady, represented by the wife…
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An Area Court sitting at Centre-Igboro in Ilorin has sentenced one Musa Biliaminu, 22, to six months in jail for criminal trespass, house breaking, mischief and theft of aluminium window frames. Delivering judgment, the trial judge, Mr. Toyin Aluko, said that the convict admitted to committing the offences when his plea was taken. He said…
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Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa state has urged corps members posted to the state to be ambassadors of hope in their places of primary assignments across the state. He gave the admonition at the closing ceremony of the 2024 Batch C Stream I orientation course at the Magaji Dan Yamusa National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)…
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President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has congratulated Nigeria’s Atalanta of Italy forward and Super Eagles goal poacher, Ademola Lookman for winning the CAF Men’s Player of the Year Award. Akpabio stated this in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Eseme Eyiboh in Abuja on Tuesday. He also congratulated the Super…
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The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) on Tuesday inducted 74 Medicine and Surgery graduates of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto (UDUS). The MDCN Registrar, Dr. Fatima Kyari, led the oath-taking and induction ceremony and charged the new doctors to consider their new task as service to humanity. Kyari emphasized the importance of adhering to…
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The first lady, wife of President Bola Tinubu, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has donated N1.9 billion to the welfare
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Former presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, has knocked former President Olusegun Obasanjo in a birthday tribute to the immediate past President Muhammadu Buhari who clocks 82 today. Shehu slammed Obasanjo for his constant criticism of his successors and seeking their removal from office. On the other hand, he reminded Nigerians that Buhari has kept to his…
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Former presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, has said former President Muhammadu Buhari now has plenty of time to read and watch his favourite TV shows. Shehu said this in a tribute to celebrate Buhari on his 82nd birthday, praying that the former president be always remembered with honour. He described Buhari as a very different leader…
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Police detectives have reportedly intensified the search for the arrest of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf's spokesperson, Sanusi Bature Dawakin-Tofa. Family sources told The Guardian that the chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, petitioned the inspector-general of police for Dawakin-Tofa’s arrest. Sources said the governor’s aide’s trouble with the APC chairman is linked…