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In what is the first roll-out of its N500billion social investment programmes, the Nigerian government is set to begin taking applications online for positions in the 500,000 direct teacher jobs scheme, through an internet portal named npower.gov.ng.
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The new militant group known as Niger Delta Avengers, that has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on oil and gas installations, has rejected an offer of talks with the Nigerian government.
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A monkey has caused a countrywide power outage in the Kenya, a spokesperson of national electricity provider KenGen said Wednesday.
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One of the most iconic captains of the Nigerian national football team, the Super Eagles, and former coach of the team, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, is dead, his family has announced.
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The Nigeria Medical Association has said the country has very competent Ear, Neck and Throat (ENT) specialists who can treat President Mr. Muhammadu Buhari’s ear infection.
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has spoken out about how the excess crude oil revenue account, which stood at over $20 billion at the inception of his administration, was depleted to about $2 billion when he left office on May 29, 2015.
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The presidency on Monday urged Nigerians to pray fervently for President Muhammadu Buhari as the country’s leader embarked on a 10-day trip abroad during which he would seek treatment for a persistent ear infection.
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A former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday said Nigeria could only make progress if it embraced the values of peace, freedom and unity.
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…marginalisation, defined, as the outcome of domination, is the most favoured word used by the Nigerian elite to describe their perceived political reality and above all to seek for more access to the national cake.
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President Muhammadu Buhari is ill and is being treated at the presidential villa, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report.
The president has an infection in his left ear, otherwise called Meniere Disease, a challenge which has drastically reduced his outings in the last one week.
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday partially fulfilled his promise to publish specific details of funds traced to and recovered from corrupt former government officials as part of his war against endemic graft.
The names of the corrupt officials from whom the assets were recovered were however not disclosed.
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Kaduna senator, Shehu Sani, and other key members of the ruling All Progressives Congress in Kaduna State, have announced the formation of a new group within the party.
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Meals are no longer the same in many Nigerian homes as mothers who spoke with PREMIUM TIMES said they had not only reduced the rations served their children but quality and kind of foods. They are blaming the country’s present economic crunch. In this interview, Ignatius Onimawo, the immediate past president of the Nutrition Society of Nigerian who is also a lecturer at Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, says there are grave health consequences for children, pregnant women and the elderly should the crunch persist.
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The planned trip of President Muhammadu Buhari to Rivers State to launch the cleanup of Ogoni land, polluted by years of oil exploration and production, has been cancelled.
Multiple sources at the presidential villa told PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday that the president had not left the State House for the trip.
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The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) DELTA, has interrogated seven suspects over various criminal activities in the coastal region of Delta.
Muhammed Garba, Flag Officer Commanding (FOC), Central Naval Command, told journalists on Wednesday at the Warri Naval Base that the suspects were apprehended in the last one week in Batan community and environs, Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta.
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In an exclusive interview with PREMIUM TIMES’ Mohammed Lere, Kannywood’s trendy actress, Rahama Sadau, confesses her love for award-winning actor, Adam Zango, and how surprised she has been that things speedily changed after a stormy row between the both of them.
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The Nigerian Army said its troops, alongside other security agencies, acted in self-defence as well as in defence of lives and property of peace-loving Nigerians when it shot dead at least five members of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Monday.
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A senator from Bayelsa State, Ben Murray-Bruce, on Monday said operatives of the State Security Service prevented him from “greeting” President Muhammadu Buhari at a state dinner organised to mark 2016 Democracy Day.
Mr. Murray-Bruce tweeted around 10:45pm on Monday, “I was at the Presidential Villa today, went to the president’s table. DSS wouldn’t allow me greet him, but let another senator greet him.”
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President Muhammadu Buhari did not release details of looted asset, recovered from corrupt persons, due to “legal reasons”, an official has said.
The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this on Sunday evening, hours after Mr. Buhari’s Democracy Day broadcast.
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A fight broke out between policemen and some people suspected to be members of the Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) in Asaba on Monday, witnesses said.
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Policies should be put in place not only to criminalise the battering of spouses but very stiff penalties must take over henceforth. Pastors and family members or anyone discovered to be encouraging women to remain in abusive environments should be treated as criminals as well. They are allies of would-be/killer-husbands.
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Niger Delta Avengers, the new militant group that has launched multiple attacks on oil and gas installations in the Niger Delta region, has struck yet again.
The group announced its latest assault on Friday, saying it blew up a gas and crude trunk line belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in Warri, Delta State, late Thursday.
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Today, tomatoes are seen as scarce commodity in Nigeria due to a massive pest attack on tomatoes farms across the country.
Several farmers have lost their produce due to the attack.
Bello Sani, a tomato farmer in Zaria, told PREMIUM TIMES that he lost almost everything he planted this year.
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What we members of the Nigerian elite have lacked is a sense on enlightened self-interest. We have failed to realise that if we do not build and develop our society, we will have no society to live in.
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Six of the 219 Chibok schoolgirls abducted in 2014 by Boko Haram are dead, activists and local officials have quoted one of the girls rescued Tuesday as saying.
Nineteen-year-old Amina Nkek was rescued in Kulakaisa village at the fringes of Sambisa forest, by a Chibok vigilante group, the sources said.
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A last minute meeting between the federal government and Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Tuesday night to attempt to avert a nationwide strike over increased petrol price, collapsed mid-way as representatives of the organised labour staged a walkout on government representatives.
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A Federal High court sitting in Lagos has given an order stopping Saturday’s planned national convention of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.
Justice Ibrahim Buba gave the order Monday in a suit filed by the National Chairman of the party, Ali Sheriff, the National Secretary, Adewale Oladipo and National Auditor, Fatai Adeyanju asking the court to stop the national convention pending the determination of the substantive suit.
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[/font][font=Lucida Sans Unicode]Hundreds of beggars, under the aegis of the Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities, on Monday stormed the Government House, Kaduna, demanding the withdrawal of the anti-begging law until Governor Nasir el-Rufai fulfils his campaign promises.
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At a time Nigeria is facing severe economic crunch, a comprehensive oil report presented to the National Economic Council (NEC) has been found to be silent on a whopping N323.58 billion earned as crude oil revenue under the President Goodluck Jonathan government.
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The scheduled appearance of Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, at the House of Representatives on Monday has left the lower chamber bitterly divided, as lawmakers bicker over whether the minister should be allowed to enter into the chamber or not.
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A former presidential aide, Doyin Okupe, has prostrated repeatedly before former President Olusegun Obasanjo, begging the former head of state to forgive him over insults he hurled at him while he (Okupe) served as spokesperson for ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.

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Barely a week after he became governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello approved for himself a total of N260 million as security votes, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report today.
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