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Showing posts with label The Punch - Nigeria's Most Widely Read Newspaper. Show all posts
Sunday 11 October 2015

Saki indigenes defend Shittu’s ministerial nomination

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Indigenes of Saki and Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State under the aegis of the National Association of Saki Elite have asked President Muhammadu B...

Alamieyeseigha is in heaven, says Okupe

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The Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe, says he is sure that the late former...

Police summon Wasiu Ayinde over shooting of varsity student

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A female Business Education student of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, Azeez Koforola, was reportedly shot in the e...

Navy destroys 50 illegal refining camps in Delta

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The Central Naval Command in Yenagoa on Sunday destroyed 50 illegal oil refining camps and 150 drums of locally-refined diesel at Asiagbene...

Super Eagles thrash Cameroon Lions 3-0 in friendly

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Super Eagles of Nigeria on Sunday bounced back from their disgraceful 0-2 defeat in the hands of Congo DR on Thursday to record an impressi...

Police release lover of murdered NYSC member

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The Oyo State Police Command has released Mr. Olusola Babalola, lover of the late Miss Omolola Abogunrin, who was raped and murdered in Iba...

Security agents arrest Falae’s kidnappers in Niger

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Five of the abductors of the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, have been arrested. Falae, also a form...

We know your hideouts, surrender now, Army tells B’Haram

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The Nigerian Army has said security forces are aware of the hideouts and strongholds of terror group, Boko Haram, in the country. The Acti...

Dangote to build cement plants in 18 African countries

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The Chief Executive, Dangote Industries Limited, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has said the firm would build cement plants in 18 African countries, ...

Screening: Rivers APC seeks special consideration for Amaechi

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The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress has called on the Senate to give the immediate past governor of the state, Mr. Ro...

Tambuwal, Yari visit Ugwuanyi, rue economic downturn 

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Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State, has described the governors who emerged in the 2015 elections as...

Chibok girls not pregnant for Boko Haram fighters – Military

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The Defence Headquarters has refuted media reports that many of the over 200 schoolgirls, who were kidnapped in April, 2014 from the Govern...

Buhari won’t stop probe against nominees – APC

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The All Progressives Congress has said President Muhammadu Buhari will not interfere in the on-going probe of some of his ministerial nomin...

Yoruba leaders’ threat against Fulani herdsmen diversionary – Falana

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Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), on Sunday picked holes in the threat by some Yoruba elders to banish Fulani herdsmen from the S...

FG deploys ICPC officials in airports

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The Federal Government has deployed officials of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission to major airports ...

Ignore petition against Kaduna nominee, Bent begs senate

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A former Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, Senator Grace Bent, on Sunday, urged the members of the eight senate to dis...

Cameroon occupying 16 A’Ibom islands – A’Ibom lawmaker

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A member representing Mbo State Constituency in the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Mr. Samuel Ufuo, has warned Nigerians on the illegal...

Israel accused of ‘deliberately killing’ Palestinians

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Israel’s government is facing serious questions over its use of force in the latest outbreak of violence with protesters after a number of ...

El-Rufai suspends Kaduna LG chairman over demolition

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The Interim Chairman, Kaduna North Local Government Area, Alhaji Garba Kurfi, has been suspended from office with immediate effect by the S...

Alamieyeseigha was like God in his hometown – Monarch

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The Acting Paramount Ruler of Amassomma Kingdom, Bayelsa State, Chief Sharp Nengi Sogo, said on Sunday that the late former governor of th...