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Former Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN), Mohammed Sanusi, now Emir of Kano, yesterday said that the plans to bomb Kano Central Mosque, where over 200 people were killed had been on for two months.He however conveniently did not give further details on why he made such a bombshell statement.
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A mother and her two female kids were among 11 people who died after their bus skidded off the road and plunged into a river, at Akwa Ibom State.
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Four people were feared killed and several injured after members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers(NURTW) and motorcycle operators, also known as (Okada), clashed today at the Ajah/Lekki area of Lagos.
As former Lagos State Governor, Senator Bola Tinubu of All Progressives Congress (APC) charged the electorates to use charms and other, perhaps diabolical methods to defend their votes in the forthcoming 2015 general elections, it dawned on me that my worst fear was beginning to unfold.
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SIXTY-three senators as of Thursday have signed up to the plan to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan in the upper legislative chamber, The PUNCH learnt in Abuja.One of the arrowheads of the move to remove Jonathan in the Senate showed our correspondent the list containing the signatures of the senators.
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A grieving mother, Kate Hanson, brokenly queried God after her husband, Ime Innocent Hanson and daughter, Ruth, 15, drowned in stagnant water at Marian Road extension in the Calabar Municipal Area of Cross River State.
The Network On Police Reforms in Nigeria, (NOPRIN FOUNDATION), a nongovernmental organisation that acts as watchdog over activities of the Nigeria Police Force, has condemned the part played by the police during the recent invasion of the National Assembly by lawmakers.
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Just as Nigerians are accusing the police and
DSS of partisan in politics, instead of maintaining neutrality, the Inspector
General of Police, Suleiman Abba, gave a noisy fart yesterday. I have a sinking
feeling, in the pit of my stomach, for our democracy. 
The Kwara State Police Command said it has
recovered 21 different guns in fulfillment of its promise to mop-up illegal arms in circulation as the 2015
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The Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Dr. Mike Mbama Okiro has called for a system of revenue collection that guarantees the highest degree of public confidence in government’s integrity, efficiency and fairness.
What were his guardians thinking when they flung their 10-year-old ward, Usen Okon, into the Imo River in the Ikot Abasi area of Akwa Ibom State over witchcraft allegations? Is the river supposed to carry purged him of the witchcraft? or they feel he’s off better dead?
Salaries of the missing 30 mobile policemen in Borno State would be stopped by April 2015, if the men failed to show up at their squadron units.
I can’t just believe it! The Lagos State Government has through the security trust fund spent N2.3 billion to fuel the police patrol vehicles and equipment since 2007. What the heck has the Federal Government being doing?
Whatever a guy can do, a woman can do better. We’ve heard this mantra severally. We know it by heart. Two female suicide bombers, determined to please the dreaded Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau unleashed hell yesterday, killing 60 people and nijuring over 42 after they blown up themselves at a Market, in Maiduguri.
Hard to believe, but true nonetheless, that our own Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has been battling death in form of prostate cancer for a while.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today arraigned one Hassan Muhammed Bashar of Federal College of Education (Technical )Gusau, Zamfara State, and two others, Aliyu Muhammed and Murtala Abubakar before Justice Nasiru Umar Gumi of Zamfara State High Court , Gusau, on a 12-count charge that borders on conspiracy and forgery.
The President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Gary Enwo-Igariwey, yesterday in Lagos, said an Igbo man cannot be President of Nigeria because of lack of unity in leadership roles.
A teenage Pakistani girl has been shot dead by her uncle following a row over loud music, police said Tuesday.
The Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) on Tuesday in Abuja said that it had begun the recovery and confiscation of all cell phones “smuggled” into prisons by inmates.
David Cameron says he wears pyjamas, Donald Duck donned a nightcap and Marilyn Monroe wore just Chanel No 5 — but what is the best thing to wear in bed?
Teenage girls with uneven or abnormally large breasts should be offered corrective surgery because the issues can significantly affect mental health, experts have warned.
Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on Tuesday in a crowded market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, Borno State, killing at least 30 people, said witnesses and a security official.
The wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, on Monday in Abuja pleaded with Nigerian women to vote for her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 Presidential election.
A 50-year-old housewife, Mrs Abeke Olowolafe on Monday approached an Ado-Ekiti Customary Court seeking dissolution of her 32-year-old marriage to her husband, James.
The Vice-Chancellor, the Lagos State University (LASU), Prof Oladapo Obafunwa, said his stance against culture of impunity and corruption was responsible for the crisis rocking the institution.
THERE was palpable tension, on Monday, at the Cross River State secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Calabar, owing to an explosion, a few hours before the rescheduled ward congress.
Governor Babatunde Fashola said yesterday that he had approved overseas treatment for the four-year-old boy, Abraham Omonigho, who dogs attacked in Igando area of Lagos State.
The police in Nasarawa State yesterday paraded a 36-yearold woman, Sandra Linus, for allegedly kidnapping a nine-year-old girl, Nnenna Ogbonna, at Masaka in Karu Local Government Area of the state.
The Cameroonian army has killed around 100 Boko Haram militants in a military operation that targeted a training camp set up by the group in the country’s Far North Region near the Nigerian border, a security source said Monday.
