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Tears, Tension In Anambra Community As Herdsmen Rape, Kill Widow

  A middle-aged widow has allegedly been raped and murdered in her farmland at Nteje in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State by persons suspected to be herdsmen. The woman was said to have recently completed the burial rites…

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Sex For Mark: OAU Lecturers Demand Probe Of Sex-Seeking Professor

The Congress of University Academics at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, and the National Association of Nigerian Students have called for investigation into the alleged sex-for-mark scandal against a lecturer of the institution. The congress said the…

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How Skye Bank Manager, Brother Mysteriously Drown At Akwa Ibom Beach

  The Manager of Skye Bank Plc, Abak Road Branch, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Ubong Ekpe, is dead. PUNCH Metro learnt that Ubong, who was married with children, drowned along with his brother, Francis, at the Ibeno Beach, Iwuokpom community,…

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Tension As Five Killed In Fresh Attack In Nasarawa Village

The Police Command in Nasarawa State has confirmed five persons killed in a fresh attack on Kadarko village and environs in Obi Local Government, on Tuesday. Mr. Kennedy Idirisu, the command’s spokesman, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Lafia that…

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FG Worried As ICC Intensifies Investigations Against Nigeria

  The Federal Government is worried that the International Criminal Court is unrelenting in pursuing eight cases against Nigeria, says the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubabakar Malami (SAN). He said this on Thursday while playing…

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Scores Killed, Several Injured As Bandits Attack Zamfara Villages

  Bandits have on Wednesday attacked two villages in Anka Local Government Area of Zamfara, killing some people. The bandits attacked a mining site at Kuru-kuru village and also ambushed some people from the neighbouring Jarkuka village as they mobilised…

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Controversial Polls Reordering: Senate Suspends Omo-Agege For Supporting Buhari

  The Senate has suspended Senator Ovie Omo-Agege for 90 days over his comment that the amendment to the Electoral Act 2010 to reorder the sequence of polls in a general election was targeted at President Muhammadu Buhari. The Senate…

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False Assets Declaration: Anxiety As Supreme Court Delivers Judgment On Saraki’s CCT Trial July 6

  The Supreme Court will on July 6 decide on whether or not the trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on charges of false assets declaration before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, should continue. A five-man panel of…

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Photos: Swaziland’s King Mswati’s 8th wife commits suicide

Senteni Masango, the 8th wife of Africa’s last absolute monarch, Swaziland’s King Mswati III, has died after committing suicide. She was found dead in the early hours of Friday morning, April 6, barely a week after the burial of her sister Nombuso…

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