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Zamfara UBEC Chairman Convicted for Graft
Murtala Adamu, executive chairman, Zamfara State Universal Basic Education Board, was on Friday, May 12, convicted and sentenced to six months in...
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871Unprecedented Cyber-attack Affects 100 Countries
World War III has begun. And it is being fought in cyberspace. A cyber-security expert calls it “the biggest ransomware outbreak in...
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Ebola Is Back
The disease that killed more than 11,000 people between 2014 and 2015 mainly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia is back. The...
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Pope Francis Celebrates Mass in Fatima
Pope Francis is in Fatima, Portugal, for events marking the 100th anniversary of the appearance of Blessed Virgin Mary to three shepherd...
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Court Remands INEC Officials in Prison for N111.5m Scam
Justice P.I, Ajaku of the Federal High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo State, on Thursday ordered that the duo of Uluocha...
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Former FCT Minister Bala Mohammed Remanded in Prison over N864m Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, May 10, arraigned a former minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Bala A....
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644Trump Fires FBI Boss Comey
United States president Donald Trump on Tuesday afternoon fired James Comey as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Trump said in...
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EFCC to Appeal Dismissal of N190m Fraud Charge Against Oronsaye
Anti-corruption agency EFCC is to appeal the ruling Tuesday by Justice Olasumbo Olajumoke Goodluck of the FCT High Court, Abuja, upholding a...
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Court Refuses Patience Jonathan’s Claim to $9.8m
Justice M.B. Idris of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Monday rejected an application filed by a former first...
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Ike Chioke Named Speaker for AUN’s Ninth Commencement
The American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria, has named Rhodes scholar and leading investment banker Ike Chioke of Afrinvest...