The International Press Centre (IPC) has condemned the attack on the Port Harcourt correspondent of Leadership Newspaper, Anayo Onukwugha. Onukwugha was reportedly assaulted by a soldier on Thursday, November 1, 2018. According to Report by Vanguard Newspapers, “Anayo was assaulted at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa, Rivers State, by a soldier believed to have been drafted from the Presidency …

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Dangote Sinotruk West Africa Limited has said that it was increasing its local input into the assembling plant to up to 60 per cent, planning to roll out commercial vehicles soon. The expansion drive, which is part of the backward integration plan, is meant to enhance value addition and local content. Group General Manager of the Company, Hikmat Thapa, made …

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—Aides must iron his shoe laces, bedsheets —Apply 1 inch of toothpaste on toothbrush for him Tayo Olanipekun Aides to Prince Charles of England have to press his shoe laces, pyjamas and bedsheets with iron without leaving any creases and must squeeze an inch of toothpaste on toothbrush for him anytime he needs brushing. The next in line to the …

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Tayo Olanipekun President Donald Trump has said the military would not have to shoot at migrants if they throw stones at the troops as the foreigners approach the U.S. border. This is in an apparent effort by Trump to clarify his statement on Thursday that if migrants attacked the guards with stones,they would be treated as those firing gunshots. He …

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Tayo Olanipekun Director General of Atiku Political Campaign Organisation (APCO) and former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, said the U.S. Mission to Nigeria has asked his principal to come for his visa to the United States. He said the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who is the standard bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is a recipient …

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To tackle the traffic gridlock on roads across the state, Lagos State Police Command has launched a joint operation with other sister agencies. Tagged Operation Restore Sanity On Lagos Roads/Operation Velvet, the police said it would henceforth impound cars of defaulting drivers during the operations. Such violators will also be arraigned immediately in a Mobile Court attached to the joint …

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Former Minister of Works and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih, is dead. Details of his death were unknown as at press time. Anthony Akhakon Anenih was born in Uzenema, Arue in Uromi present day Edo State. In 1951 he joined the Nigeria Police Force in Benin City. Advertisement He attended the police college in …

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Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode and the Governor-General of Canada, Rt Hon Julie Payette, will on Tuesday inaugurate a new biosecurity laboratory in Lagos. The Lagos State Government said the inauguration of the biobank will take place at the Mainland Hospital in Yaba, housing the isolation unit used by the state government to contain the 2014 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) …

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No fewer than three members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) died on Saturday in a clash with troops of Army Headquarters Garrison escorting ammunitions and missiles from Abuja. Two soldiers also sustained varying degrees of injuries from the attack and one of the dead has been identified as Abdulazziz Maigana. The troops on official assignment to Army Central …

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Tayo Olanipekun Negotiations for release of Leah Sharibu may be futile once she gets pregnant in Boko Haram captivity, a journalist with sources among the insurgents has said. Even when Sharibu, the remaining of the Dapchi girls, held for her Christian faith, gives birth, she cannot be separated with her baby until the child turns seven, the journalist, Ahmad Salkida, …

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