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Another market fire razes 30 shops in Kano

Barely a week after an inferno razed, a market in Kano, another mid-night fire outbreak on Thursday gutted Gwarzo market in Gwarzo Local Government Area of the state, destroying property worth millions of Naira. An eye witness on Friday said the incident occurred around 1 a.m. The source said the fire destroyed the entire furniture section of the market before …

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Of blood, tear gas, speculations at deserted Agege, Lagos

Agege Pen Cinema area of Lagos is a busy part of the metropolis known for heavy vehicular and human traffic up till late in the night. Moving across the railway line at Pen Cinema about 9pm Thursday, the busy area was almost totally deserted. While our correspondent tried to inquire, the striking feature was a pool of clotted blood shielded with a wooden …

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Bullion van: Mixed reactions as policemen return lost N5m

Mixed reactions have continued to trail the recovery of N5m by men of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit (Task Force). The said amount was recovered after falling off a moving bullion van along Lagos State House of Assembly Complex, Alausa, Ikeja. Chairman of the Lagos State Task Force Superintendent of Police, Olayinka Egbeyemi, disclosed that two Police …

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Market fire guts 40 shops in Cross River

Traders at the Ikom main market in Cross River State have continued to count their losses after Tuesday early morning inferno destroyed about 40 shops, and properties worth several millions. According to eye witnesses, the inferno which started at about 2am on Tuesday was due to a power surge from the public power supply and could not be contained in …

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Great Impact

GREAT IMPACT by Pastor Simeon Afolabi “Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven” (Matt. 5:16) God’s design for you is to live a life of impact and blessing to the people around you. This is how you can give Him glory. He desires a harvest of glory in …

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Christian journalists visit The Sun, Vanguard newspapers on gender reporting, advocacy

Deputy Managing Director, The Sun newspaper, Mr. Steve Nwosu has applauded Christian media group, Journalists For Christ (JFC), Nigeria, on its recent project; Mainstreaming Gender Reporting On Affirmative Action Of Women And Girls Rights Issues. The publication, a month monitoring of six national newspapers including The Sun, Vanguard, Daily Trust, The Nation, Guardian and The Punch newspapers, revealed the space …

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Nigerian Army announces death of abducted officer

Col. Samaila Inusa, before his kidnap was a senior Army officer serving at the Nigerian Army School of Infantry Jaji, Kaduna State. A statement by the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, said “the Nigerian Army wishes to regrettably inform the public that Colonel Samaila Inusa who was kidnapped on Sunday 27th March 2016, was found dead …

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Egyptian embassy denies Eagles’ supporters visa as hijacker diverts Egyptian aircraft to Turkey

Egyptian embassy has reportedly denied visas to Nigerians traveling to the north African nation ahead of Tuesday’s return leg of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification match between Nigeria’s Super Eagles and the Pharaohs of Egypt. The match, which is the second leg of an earlier encounter in Kaduna is a must win for the Eagles, held in a …

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