Metro
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Police shoot at party goers for trying to overtake Bauchi deputy governor’s convoy — report
Bauchi State deputy governor Senator Baba Tela threw caution to the wind by beating up and brutalising some travellers in Kari community in the state on Saturday, witnesses claim.
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30 Nigerian soldiers killed as gunmen kidnap Chinese citizens, police officers in Niger state
Terrorists have attacked Ajata village, a mining community in the Erena district of Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, killing at least 30 security operatives.
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8 years after, Nigerian Army finds abducted Chibok schoolgirl, Mary Ngoshe, during Borno patrol
Troops of the 26 Task Force Brigade, on Tuesday while on patrol intercepted Ngoshe with a child believed to be hers, in Borno State.
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Top to bottom: After crashing from 3,700 megawatts to zero on Democracy Day, Nigeria’s national grid bounces back with 88 megawatts only
About 19 hours after Sunday’s system collapse, the Nigerian national grid is yet to recover to its previous level of 3,700 megawatts (MW) as only the Jebba hydropower plant had 88MW on the grid on Monday afternoon.
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Osinbajo stops convoy to help victims of Abuja crash
Senior Special Assistant to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, has reacted to reports that his principal was involved in an auto crash.
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‘I can’t guarantee your safety’: Ikpeazu orders herdsmen to vacate Abia forests
The governor also directed the state police commissioner and Umunneochi youths to provide security along Ihube to Isuochi Road, stretching from Ngodo through Lomara junction all the way to Ihube.
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Owo Catholic church attack: Pope Francis speaks as activist slams Buhari, US president Biden ‘for allowing Islamic extremists massacre Nigerian Christians’
A doctor at a hospital in Owo, a town in the Nigerian state of Ondo, told Reuters that no fewer than 50 bodies had been moved to the Federal Medical Center in Owo and to St. Louis Catholic Hospital.
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Reverend father speaks after terrorists killed worshippers inside Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State
Rev Father Andrew Abayomi, one of the priests at St Francis Catholic Church, Owa-luwa Street, Owo, Ondo State, has narrated how the church was attacked.
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Police vow to punish Abia RRS commander, CSP Johnbull, for calling Fulani herdsmen kidnappers
The Police High Command has said the Commander of Rapid Response Squad, Abia State Police Command, CSP Johnbull, will face “disciplinary procedures” of the Force for his “unguarded indiscretions”.
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Aspirants leave APC primary venue after generator ran out of fuel and officials resorted to using ‘torch light’
No fewer than three out of the five governorship aspirants contesting the ticket of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Sokoto State stormed out of the party secretariat, the venue of the primary.