Bauchi—Police in Bauchi State have arraigned three suspects before a Magistrate Court in the state for allegedly removing the two kidneys of 25-year-old Abubakar Buba. Police Prosecutor, Sergeant Amos Ukpe, told the court that the suspects, Mijinyawa Abdulkadir, Abdullahi Yusuf and Mohammed Zangina were charged with conspiracy, attempt to commit culpable homicide, causing grievous hurt and impersonation, contrary to Section 132 of the Penal code.
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Google Nigeria has announced the commencement of the “Succeed Online” training series, in an effort to help Nigerian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) make better use the internet in reaching more customers and meeting their business goals. Marketing Manager for SME products at Google Nigeria, Bunmi Banjo, who spoke a press conference in Lagos recently, stated that the goal of the free online training series was to educate small and medium business owners on crucial tips that would help them boost the impact of their online presence.
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National telecom operator, Globacom, has presented cheques ranging from N30,000 to N6 million to lucky subscribers who won cash prizes in the ongoing Glo “text4millions” promo. Among the winners are Oluwole Agboola who won one of the weekly prizes of N6 million, Yusuf Olaitan Lukman who won N1.5 million; Comrade Hossana Fetimi who won N300,000 while Mujidat Odunoye and Yomi Afolabi won N60,000 each in the promo. Others winners who collected their cheques are Andrew Iheagwam and Eniola Omoniyi who won N30,000 each.
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When his son Alexei was first diagnosed with autism at the age of two, Christopher LePoer took some time off work to try to understand why his child couldn’t speak, had highly irregular sleep patterns and walked solely on his toes. After weeks spent ploughing through medical websites and research he came to one unsettling conclusion: scientists didn’t understand either.
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South African supermarket chain Shoprite, said on Tuesday, it would spend $205 million on property development in Nigeria, to overcome a lack of infrastructure and capitalise on rising consumer spending.
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Four years after the Nigerian capital market experienced a major downturn, it is struggling to recover, writes Goddy Egene
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President Goodluck Jonathan’s directive that all federal civil servants should receive their August salaries between Friday, August 17 and Saturday, August 18 was made in bad faith.
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The Jetties and Petroleum Tank Farm Owners Association has said it will from Wednesday (today) shut down its depots across the federation to press home its demand for payment of fuel subsidy.
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Ahead of today’s meeting of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), the Northern Nigerian Governors Forum (NNGF) will meet in the morning to harmonise their position on their opposition to the demands for the decentralisation of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF).
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The Action Congress of Nigeria has appealed to the National Assembly to rise above partisan politics and act decisively on issue of the continued suspension of the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Isa Salami.
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