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The 150 Nigerians, predominantly ladies, were yesterday relishing the air of freedom as they made the 300-kilometer journey from Lagos to Benin. The day before, they had escaped from hell in Libya, a country many of them had been deceived would be a staging post from the life of drudgery that they had lived in Nigeria into the Eldorado of their dreams.
Read More Patients at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Enugu State, have called for help from the Federal government, urging it to respond to the demands of the health workers under the aegis of the Joint Health Sector Unions and Assembly of Healthcare Professionals, JOHESU who have been on strike to press home their call for better working environment.
Read More Mr. Daniel Joshua, the Taraba state-born 31-year old, former N-Power graduate employee says his sound Christian moral upbringing compelled him to refund the N60,000 paid into his account, after he quit the scheme in April.
Read More A lady, Terry Gobanga, formerly Terry Apudo, was the rape victim who survived and now tells her story. A young Nairobi pastor, she was the bride that everybody was waiting for at the church that faithful wedding day.
Read More Lagos State Police Command is yet to prosecute Mr. John Paul six days after he was handed over to the Police for reportedly driving a three-inch nail into the skull of his eight years old nephew, Friday Paul.
Read More Kumshe, a North Eastern suburb lying between Nigerian boundaries with Cameroun, last week, narrowly escaped being tagged Nigerian’s ground Zero, in remembrance of the bloody raid in USA on September 11, 2011
Read More By Angela Okpe in Maiduguri The A mother of one of the abducted Chibok girls, Madam Rebecca Takai Nkeki, bared her sorrowful minds few days before the release of her daughter, Hauwa. The middle-aged woman who developed high blood pressure over the abduction of her daughter lamented the fate that befell her family to
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A lady born with sickle cell anaemia, Popoola Temitope, who is presently struggling to walk and living in pains needs urgent assistance from well-meaning Nigerians, government and the corporate society to help raise the sum of N5 million so that she could undergo a re-corrective surgery in India.
Read More Adelabu’s sudden exit ignited a volcanic eruption in Ibadan’s political firmament and a lot of distinguished personalities paid glowing tributes to this stormy petrel
Read More EKPENE IBIABONG—THE economic slump is taking its toll on residents, particularly children, who appear half-starved at the rustic Ekpene Ibiabong community, Odukpani Local Government Area, Cross River state, investigations by NDV has revealed. Most of the children sighted by NDV looked underfed with protruding tummies, white eyes and red hair, as if they are suffering Kwashiorkor.
Read More He fought for the glory of nation and was unshakable in his steely resolve to retain the territorial integrity of Nigeria – a price that came with the sacrifice of his life in the line of duty
Read More J.I.C’s mother, was Remilekun Alice Taylor (Nee Williams) and was thus, a first cousin, through his mother, to the Late Chief F.R.A Williams, another legal titan and contemporary at the Bar.
Read More CALABAR—EIGHTY-TWO years old Papa Okon Etim, who has spent half a century of his life in pool betting and forecasting at Calabar, Cross- River State, said that he tossed away the money he made from the tricky business in his ambition to make more, moaning that at the twilight of his life, he has nothing to show.
Read More It was around 6am on a Sunday morning of January 27th, 2013 and the Harmattan wind was blisteringly cold and rash, Yarbung villagers recalled. The body of police corporal Mathew Jacob, 31, lay in a coffin at his grandfather’s (Pa Gajere) compound in Yarbung, a normal farming community in Kachia Local Government Area, LGA of Kaduna state.
Read More Danfo Bus, a commercial mini bus painted in yellow with two black stripes at the side, is one of the realities that make Lagos notorious. Lagos can not do without it in a day as it conveys thousands of commuters within the metropolis. It is also a means of survival for the owner, the driver and the conductor. It is not out of place to see a danfo bus at a bus stop with the conductor shouting on top of his voice, “Ojuelegba, Ojuelegba straight, enter with your change oh, I no get change oh!”
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