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The Hausa Service of the BBC is defying presssure from the Presidency and National Assembly trying to stop it from airing the controversial interview the wife of the president, Aisha Buhari, granted it.  A source within the Abuja Bureau of…
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The National Judicial Council (NJC) has berated the Department of State Services (DSS) over the arrest of judges, describing its actions as an attempt to ridicule, harass and intimidate judges. The NJC presented its position to the…
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Many traders and travellers were feared killed on Wednesday as an improvised explosive suspected to have been planted by Boko Haram insurgents went off outside a car park in Maiduguri, Borno state. The explosion went off at a park…
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Legislative aides to lawmakers at the National Assembly on Wednesday staged a protest over unpaid salaries and allowances estimated at about N1.5 billion. The aides who gathered at the lobby of the assembly complex in Abuja chanted…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has declared a manhunt for business mogul, Goodie Ibru, over alleged diversion of billions of naira and assets belonging to the Ikeja Hotels Plc. The Ikeja Hotels Plc are the owners of the…
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Toyota Motor Corp said on Wednesday it was recalling around 340,000 of its latest Prius gasoline hybrid model in Japan and overseas to fix a parking brake issue. Toyota said in Tokyo that the recall covered models produced between August…
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About 21 senior officials of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria were on Wednesday sacked in a major shake-up. Those affected, including directors, general managers and deputy general managers, were reportedly handed their…
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No fewer than eight members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, Nigeria’s foremost Shi’ite group, were killed on Wednesday as violence against the group spread to other northern states. While one member of the group was killed in…
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THE National Judicial Council (NJC), on Tuesday, recommended the most senior justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Walter Onnoghen, as successor to Mahmud. Mahmud will retire on November 10. Onnoghen, who is from Cross River State, is…
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Sahara Reporters is reporting that the federal government has dropped plans to arraign judges arrested in a DSS raid at the weekend. It is not clear why the judges are not going to be arraigned again even as Nigerians remain deeply…
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