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Many Injured, Trucks Burnt As Tanker Explodes In Lagos

Many Injured, Trucks Burnt As Tanker Explodes In Lagos

Oct 29, 2020 General and News updates 0

Many people on Thursday sustained varying degrees of injuries while articulated vehicles were burnt after a Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) laden tanker exploded at Mile-Two Oke along Oshodi-Apapa in...
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UK High Commission Reopens Visa Application Centres In Nigeria

UK High Commission Reopens Visa Application Centres In Nigeria

Oct 29, 2020 General and News updates 0

Iyunade Adefioye The United Kingdom High Commission has reopened its visa application centres in Nigeria. The centres were shut due to the crisis which followed the EndSARS protests in Nigeria. This...
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Eid-el-Maulud: Senate President preaches peace, love, tolerance

Eid-el-Maulud: Senate President preaches peace, love, tolerance

Oct 28, 2020 General and News updates 0

The Senate President, Ahmad Lawn, felicitates with Nigerians, particularly the Muslim Ummah, on the occasion of this year’s Eid-el-Maulud, which is the celebration of the birth of Prophet...
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Police arrest 79 suspected looters in Abuja

Police arrest 79 suspected looters in Abuja

Oct 28, 2020 General and News updates 1

  The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police command has arrested 79 suspects, following the rate of looting and visualization by hoodlums in the territory. FCT Commissioner of Police, Bala...
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COVID-19: Ogun orders full reopening of churches, mosques, hotels

COVID-19: Ogun orders full reopening of churches, mosques, hotels

Oct 28, 2020 General and News updates 0

With the drop of COVID-19 infections in Ogun State, Gov. Dapo Abiodun, has announced that all hotels, viewing centres, marquees, event centres, suites, guest houses, motels, and establishments...
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NSCDC dismisses officer for looting

NSCDC dismisses officer for looting

Oct 28, 2020 General and News updates 1

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has dismissed an officer Corps Assistant Illiya Ibrahim of the Gwagwalada Division, Abuja, for participating in the looting of COVID-19...
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Oyetola relaxes curfew in Osun

Oyetola relaxes curfew in Osun

Oct 28, 2020 General and News updates 0

Following the high level of compliance with the 24-hour curfew declared last Saturday to forestall further breakdown of law and order in Osun State, the state governor, Mr. Adegboyega Oyetola, has...
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Amnesty International releases timeline of Lekki Shootings, warns against cover-up

Amnesty International releases timeline of Lekki Shootings, warns against cover-up

Oct 28, 2020 General and News updates 1

Amnesty International has offered insights into what possibly happened during the shooting of #ENDSARS protesters on October 20, 2020 in Lekki, Lagos. The global right group, which had claimed at...
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Sanwo-Olu awards scholarship to children of murdered policemen

Sanwo-Olu awards scholarship to children of murdered policemen

Oct 28, 2020 General and News updates 1

Police officers lynched in the wake of the violence instigated by the nationwide youth demonstration against police brutality will not die in vain, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu,  has...
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CACOVID yet to flag off Palliatives distribution in Osun – Relief C’ttee Secretary

CACOVID yet to flag off Palliatives distribution in Osun – Relief C’ttee Secretary

Oct 28, 2020 General and News updates 0

The Osun Food and Relief Committee on COVID-19 has  said that the Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) has not flagged off the distribution of palliatives in the State. The Committee disclosed this...
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WTO: US’ objection stalls Okonjo-Iweala’s emergence as Director General

WTO: US’ objection stalls Okonjo-Iweala’s emergence as Director General

Oct 28, 2020 General and News updates 0

The World Trade Organisation’s effort to name a new leader hit a new roadblock Wednesday after the Trump administration said it won’t back the appointment of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to be the WTO’s...
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Nigerian govt declares Thursday public holiday

Nigerian govt declares Thursday public holiday

Oct 28, 2020 General and News updates 0

The Federal Government has declared Thursday, October 29, a public holiday across Nigeria. Interior minister, Rauf Aregbesola, disclosed this in a statement by the ministry’s spokesperson, Mohammed...
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