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The police on Monday arraigned three commercial sex workers in a Karmo Grade 1 Area Court in Abuja for attacking and causing grievous hurt on colleagues. The defendants, Helen Gabriel, Joy Johnson and Ene Ahmed, all reside at Jabi Masallachi, Abuja, and are standing trial on two-count. The prosecutor, Zannah Dalhatu, told the court that Joy Opera and three others of …

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An estranged wife, Sola Bamisile, 30, on Monday told an Ikole Ekiti Customary Court, that she could longer bear her husband strong sexual urge. The petitioner alleged that her husband, Bayo Bamisile, constantly beat her whenever she refused him sex. Sola told the court that within five and half years of their marriage she had given birth to four children. …

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New Partnership for Africa Development says it will invest €38m in youth empowerment in five African countries in three years. The Director NEPAD Continental, Estherine Fotabong, disclosed this during a courtesy visit to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation on Monday in Abuja. She said that the project would focus on skill acquisition for the youths of the …

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Olabode Adaramola Niger state government through the agricultural and mechanization development authority yesterday distributed 100 motorcycles to extension and corporative staff across the state under the Central Bank’s Anchor Borrowers Programme. The gesture, which was aimed at boosting the capacity of extension workers to moblise farmers in the on-going effort by state and federal government to reposition agriculture as the …

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Folake Sokoya The men of Ogun State police command has arrested three members of an armed robbery syndicate at Ogunmakin in obafemi owode local government area of the state. The suspects were arrested after they attacked one Isaiah Sowunmi and shot his son Abiodun Sowunmi on the thigh in a bid to dispose them of their money. Distress call was …

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Zenith Bank Plc has recorded a gross earnings of N507.9 billion in its full year operations, as against N432.5 billion achieved in the corresponding period of 2015. Specifically, the bank’s result for the full year ended December 31, 2016, showed 17.4 per cent rise in gross earnings, from N432.5 billion in 2015 to N507.9 billion during the period under review. …

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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been consistently criticised for the manner in which it has managed Nigeria’s foreign exchange (forex) market. One of the complaints is the directive by the CBN to commercial banks to allocate 60 per cent of their forex sales to the manufacturing sector and at the rate advised by the CBN.  The second major complaint …

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From Right: Fela Ibidapo, Group Head, Corporate Communications, Heritage Bank Plc; Omobolaji Mogaji, Media Sales Executives at Multichoice and Gifty Powers, Big Brother Naija’s housemate, during her visit to the bank’s head office in Victoria Island Lagos, weekend.

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Folake Sokoya Operatives of Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested 12 suspects over an attempted murder of a tanker escort and the diversion of a 45,000 litre diesel laden truck as well as the diversion of 410 bags of flour. The incident happened on February, 1, 2017 when the truck with the registration number ENU …

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Olabode Adaramola Hundreds of members of the Niger state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) last Thursday foiled an attempt by the police in Minna  the state capital,  to stop a stakeholders  meeting at the state Secretariat of the party . The PDP members from the 25 local government areas of the state arrived the Secretariat as early as 9.00am …

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