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Pandemonium engulfed Ekololu, a community in the Surulere area of Lagos, on Monday night when the back tyres of a tanker transporting fuel to a Conoil filling station burst into flames near the station. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Correspondent who resides in the area reports that the explosion of the tyres and the…
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A 41-year-old immigrant British resident, Sudharsan Ithayachandran, has died after being wrongly deported by the UK Home Office back to his native country, Sri Lanka. Ithayachandran was deported back to Sri Lanka on December 24, 2019, after admitting to working illegally at Tesco and using false documents, is married to Subatra Sudharsan, 41, who is…
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Sen. Ned Nwoko (PDP-Delta North), has criticised the recent sack of 317 workers of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and urged the Senate to investigate the purge. Nwoko told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja that the sack was “too hasty”, hence the need to probe the circumstances around it.…
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The President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Joe Ajaero, has called for better pay, insurance cover and pension for journalists across the country. Ajaero made the call when he visited the President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Dr Chris Isiguzo in Abuja. He explained that while journalists played significant roles in…
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The management of the Ebonyi State University (EBSU) says the institution had no hand on the death of Miss Favour Ugwuka, a final year student of the Department of English and Literary Study of the institution. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof Chigozie Ogbu made the clarification on Monday in Abakaliki in a press conference on the issues…
