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The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, has commended the Federal Government over its ongoing closure of the country’s land borders. Ibrahim made the commendation on the sidelines of his visit to inspect facilities at the General Yakubu Gowon NYSC Orientation Camp, Dutse, on Saturday. He was represented by the Director, Human Resources Management (HRM), NYSC National Headquarters, Abuja, Mr Abdulrazak Salawu. “The closure of our land borders is a welcome development toward our economic development. “It is unfortunate that most of the goods manufactured in foreign countries that are being imported into Nigeria through…

The Enugu Police Command said Saturday in Enugu that it has commenced a massive manhunt of abductors of a Catholic Priest, Rev.-Fr. Theophilus Ndulue. This was coming barely two weeks after the release of another catholic priest earlier abducted in the state. According to the Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Ebere Amaraizu, Ndulue was abducted by unidentified gunmen on his way home along Amansiodo Road in Ndiagu-Oghe in Ezeagu Local Government Area on Friday evening while returning from a pastoral council meeting. Amaraizu while confirming the incident, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu described…

Mrs Busola Dakolo, wife of Nigerian singer Timi Dakolo has refuted the report in some sections of the media that an FCT High Court in Bwari fined her N1 million in her suit against Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo. NAN reports that an FCT High Court on Thursday declared Busola Dakolo’s suit on her alleged rape by Fatoyinbo, founder of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), as “statute barred”. The Court presided over by Justice A.O Musa, ruled that the matter was filed out of time because the events that crystallized to form the cause of action took place 16 years ago. The…

Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema has opened the possibility of playing international football with Algeria.

Inter head coach Antonio Conte has received an anonymous threatening letter and a bullet in the post this week.

President Muhammadu Buhari has explained that 35 aides were not sacked from the Office of the Vice President instead they were redeployed to a new ministry. The President who fielded questions from NTA State House Correspondent at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, upon his return from a private visit from the United Kingdom described the interpretations of his directives as a sack as ‘unfortunate’. The President described what happened as a re-organisation and not a sacking, stressing that, a new ministry has recently been created, that is, Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and…

Some political thugs have stormed some polling units and snatched away ballot boxes in Anyigba in Dekina local government area of Kogi State. Anyingba, believed to be a volatile area, it was observed has the highest level of security presence in the entire local government. #BayelsaDecides: I’m disappointed, says Jonathan According to a source in the area thugs arrived the polling units in cars shooting sporadically, scaring voters and making away with the ballot boxes.

A 60-year old Catholic priest, Rev Fr. Edmond Nwagbal, was on Saturday burnt beyond recognition in a fire outbreak at St. Peter Claver Catholic Parish Nnew ichi in Nnewi North local government area of Anambra State. The Nation gathered that the inferno which occurred around 4 am, affected part of the church’s residential building. The deceased was said to be indoors when he was engulfed by the mysterious fire. The police spokesperson, Haruna Mohammed, confirmed the incident. He said the cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained. According to him: “Today 16/11/19 at about 04:00am, there was a…

Former President Goodluck Jonathan says he is not happy with what he observed at his hometown polling unit, Otueke, Bayelsa State. He said this on Saturday while addressing newsmen after casting his vote some minutes after 11 am. “I arrived the polling unit around 8:19 am and there was no conduct of election, no journalist to observe the election.’’ #KogiDecides: Wada urges electorate to defend votes He further said that throughout his participation in monitoring elections in many African countries that he had never seen where election officials arrived at polling units so late. “I didn’t meet any electoral observer,…

Musa Wada, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the Kogi Governorship Election, has cast his vote with a call to the electorate to defend their votes. Wada and his elder brothers, former Governor Idris Wada, and Dr Ibrahim Wada, cast their votes at Odu Ward 4, Unit 001, Odu-Ogboyaga in Dekina Local Government Area of the state at about 9:15 a.m. Speaking shortly after casting his vote, the PDP governorship candidate urged the voters to stay tight and defend their votes, saying there was an attempt by “hooligans” to disrupt the exercise in one of the polling units…