Author: Vreporters
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42-year-old Man Hangs Self In Kano
Kano State police command said a 42-year-old indigene of Borno State, Babagana Usman had allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself. The police spokesperson in Kano, Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa announced this in a voice message sent to journalists. According to him, “On Friday morning around 6:45 am, police received a report that a 42-year-old indigene of…
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UNILAG VC, Prof Ogundipe Wins €38,000 GBIF Grant
The Vice- Chancellor of University of Lagos, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, and another botanist, Temitope Onuminya, have won 2021 Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) grants. Nonye Oguama, a Principal Assistant Registrar, Corporate Affairs of the institution, made the disclosure in a statement on Saturday in Lagos. According to Mrs Oguama, the awards are part of the 2021…
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Sunday Igboho: Controversies Trail Money Generated From GoFundMe
A GoFundMe fundraiser set up by supporters of Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, has generated heated controversy. The Nation had reported a blogger, Maureen Badejo, few weeks ago, set up a Gofundme page to raise £100,000 (N51.8m) to buy buses in support of Sunday Igboho’s project of ridding the South-West of killer…
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Police Recover Over One Million CFA From Notorious Pickpocket in Adamawa
The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested a notorious pickpocket and recovered one million, two hundred and ninty three (1,293,000CFA) and one Golf vehicle from him. The suspect, Danjuma Muhammed, 49, was arrested on Thursday, March 18, by operatives of the Command attached to Mubi South Division along First Bank road, in Mubi south local…
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UI Professor, 40 Other Nigerian Scientists Make Top World Most-cited Scientists’ List
United States-based Stanford University has released a list that represents the top 2% of the most-cited scientists in various disciplines in the world. The exhaustive list has 159,683 persons. Out of these whole list, 41 eminent Nigerian scientists are on the global map of researchers spread across different universities in the country. A focus on…
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Renowned Islamic Cleric Sheikh AL-Sudais Speaks On Taking COVID-19 Vaccine During Ramadan
The General President for the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque, His Excellency, Sheikh Professor Dr. Abdul-Rahman bin Abdulaziz Al-Sudais gave a lesson from the book of fasting in the chapter (Explaining Judicial Rulings for Fasting. During the lesson, His Excellency talked about rulings for fasting during the day in Ramadan, including…
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SECRET PLANS FOR CAPE VERDE TO CHANGE ITS NAME By Stella Olayemi
By Stella Olayemi IF Ulisses Correa wins election he has pledged to change the name of the micro-nation to the voice of America. How does a country hardly anyone has heard of, which is best known for the transit point for cocaine from South America and a population of barely 600,000 defy the wishes of…
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Commercial Bus Driver Flees After Hacking LASTMA Officer To Death in Lagos
Illustrative Picture: LASTMA Officer Attacked
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Twin Brothers Sentenced To Prison Over Internet Fraud In Ilorin
Twin brothers, Taiye and Kehinde Adebayo have been sentenced to prison after being convicted over offences bordering on internet fraud. The twin brothers who were prosecuted by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, were arraigned on a seven count charge to which they pleaded guilty. The charge against Taiye read…
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Nigerian Navy Releases List of Successful Candidates
The Nigerian Navy, NN, has released the list of successful candidates for the Direct Short Service Commission, DSSC, Course 28. The Director of Information, Naval Headquarters, Commodore Suleman Dahun, announced this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. It said candidates who attended the Selection Board interview in Lagos from Dec. 16, 2020 to Jan.…