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Tue, 15 Jun 2021 08:45:37 +0000
New lease of life for out-of-school kids
FRANK IKPEFAN reports that kids hitherto out of school are having a new lease of life. Thanks to the Girls for Girls initiative started by the United Nation’s Children Fund in 2017. When Aisha Aminu, a teenager, lost her father at three years old, ...

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 08:35:37 +0000
PDP governors raise alarm over ‘frivolous borrowings’
By Emmanuel Oladesu and Anthony Bassey, Uyo Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors on Monday hinged the country’s worsening debt profile on frivolous borrowings by the Federal Government. They said the N36 trillion debt is grossly unsustainable g...

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 08:25:23 +0000
Buhari, Gbajabiamila, Omo-Agege, Lalong salute Omatseye at 60
By Bolaji Ogundele, Sanni Onogu, Abuja and Kolade Adeyemi, Jos President Muhammadu Buhari, House Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila,  Deputy Senate president Ovie Omo-Agege and Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong, have extended their best wishes to The Natio...

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 08:15:17 +0000
Ekiti varsity students beat suspected robber to death
By Rasaq Ibrahim, Ado-Ekiti  A suspected robber Sunday Oluwasola has beaten to death by students of Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti (EKSU). The Nation gathered that Oluwasola with his robbery gang ransacked one of the students’ hostels oppos...

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 08:10:44 +0000
Police rescue 26 abducted kids in Ebonyi
By Ogochukwu Anioke, Abakaliki Police in Ebonyi on Monday said they rescued over 26 abducted children from their abductors. Commissioner of Police Aliyu Garba released the information in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, at a meeting with media...

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 08:05:22 +0000
Gunmen kill 12, injure five in Plateau attacks
By Kolade Adeyemi, Jos, and Uja Emmanuel, Makurdi Gunmen have killed 12 persons in attacks on two communities in Plateau State. The hoodlums killed 10 in Kuru, two in Zogu, in Jos South and Bassa council areas, respectively. The attacks took place on...

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 08:00:43 +0000
Abducted Ekiti farmer freed
By Rasaq Ibrahim, Ado Ekiti A farmer kidnapped at a farm in Iyemero Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Friday, Alhaji Jimoh Olodan, has been freed. Olodan’s abductors, on Saturday, demanded N30 million but a community source told the reporter that N2m was ...

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 07:55:27 +0000
Herdsmen kill two, abduct six in Akwa Ibom, Enugu
By Bassey Anthony, Uyo, and Damian Duruiheoma, Enugu Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen have killed two persons in attack on two communities in Akwa Ibom and Enugu. Six persons were abducted. One Sylvanus Usen was killed in Ikot Atasung in Ikot Ekpene c...

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 07:50:42 +0000
Truck knocks down VIO man
By Gbenga Omokhunu, Abuja The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) ministerial task force on traffic management has condemned the attempt by a truck driver, Wilson Aniete, to kill the ‘Truck Timing Unit Head’ of the Directorate of Road Traffic...

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 07:47:15 +0000
Baba Ijesha: Yomi Fabiyi to release new movie, ‘Oko Iyabo’
By Alao Abiodun Popular Nollywood actor Yomi Fabiyi is working on a new movie titled “Oko Iyabo”. The Nation learnt that the movie script appears to be x-raying the travails of embattled Nollywood star, Olanrewaju James, popularly known a...



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