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    Metro 18 Feared Dead In Kebbi Boat Mishap – Leadership Nigeria Newspapers

    No fewer than 18 people are feared dead in Shanga local government area of Kebbi State following the collision of two canoes carrying traders and their goods. The accident occurred Tuesday night around 8:30 pm at a place called Barikin Sakace in Shanga local government when a … Read more...
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    Metro Lulu Floors EFCC In Appeal Court, Acquitted – Leadership Nigeria Newspapers

    In a landmark judgment, the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, yesterday, set aside the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja delivered on February 22nd, 2016 by Justice E. S. Chukwu which dismissed a ‘no-case-submission’ filed by Sani Abdullahi Lulu, a former President of the Nigeria …...
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    Metro Woman, 40 Commits Suicide In Ebonyi – Leadership Nigeria Newspapers

    There was pandemonium and panic yesterday in Ishinkwo, Abaomege community in Onicha local government area of Ebonyi State, when the lifeless body of one Nkemjika Oyibe was found hanging on a tree in Onyemem Forest in the community. Members of the community especially youths had to scamper …...
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    Metro N650m Fraud: Court Asked To Strike Out Charges Against Senator, Others – Leadership Nigeria...

    A former Senator representing Oyo Central Senatorial District, Ayo Ademola Adeseun, yesterday urged a Federal High Court in Lagos to strike out the money laundering charge brought against him by the by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Adeseun, who was arraigned before Justice...
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    Metro Lassa Fever: Group Mourns Deceased Doctor – Leadership Nigeria Newspapers

    A Community Based Organization CBO in Kogi state, the Ebira Youth Elite Organization of Nigeria EYEON has mourned the death of a medical doctor, Victor Idowu Ahmed, who reportedly succumbed to the deadly Lassa Fever virus recently. In a tribute to the doctor who allegedly contracted the …...
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    Metro Inferno: Fire Guts Houses, Shops In FCT As Owners Count Loses – Leadership Nigeria Newspapers

    Properties and goods worth millions of naira went up in flames with no less than ten families displaced and shop owners recounting loses after a fire outbreak in the early hours of Saturday in Jikwoyi, FCT. Eyewitnesses who spoke with LEADERSHIP said they noticed the fire in one … Read more...
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    Entertainment I Am Proud To Be Acting Among A Listers–Rahama Sadau – Leadership Nigeria Newspapers

    Rahama Sadau is one of the best things that have happened to Kannywood and Nollywood in general. The Nigerian professional actress from the northern part of the country won Best Actress (Kannywood) at the City People Entertainment Awards in 2014 and 2015. She also won Best African Actress at …...
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    Metro UniAbuja NASU Vows To Continue Strike – Leadership Nigeria Newspapers

    The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), Abuja Chapter has vowed not to suspend the ongoing strike action until their demands are met. Recall that the Union embarked on a nationwide strike on December 4th, 2017 over federal government failure to implement...
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    Metro Girl, Lover Boy In Court For Dumping 3-week-old Baby – Leadership Nigeria Newspapers

    A girl and her lover boy who allegedly dumped their three-week-old baby girl by the roadside were on Monday brought before an Upper Area Court 3 in Jos. Zainab Yakubu, a 15-year-old student, was arraigned with her boyfriend, Abdullahi Ismail, the suspected father of the abandoned child. The...
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    Metro NAPTIP Arrests Herbalist Who Sells Babies In Abuja – Leadership Nigeria Newspapers

    The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking In Persons (NAPTIP) has arrested a 38 year old herbalist, Mr Chigozie Emmanuel, aka ‘Akuchi’, for selling new born babies in Abuja. NAPTIP said in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, that Emmanuel is from Enugu State and the owner of … via...
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    Metro Lassa Fever: Health Workers Not Taking Precaution – Minister – Leadership Nigeria Newspapers

    The minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, yesterday attributed the increasing number of health workers getting infected with Lassa Fever to their refusal to take necessary precaution while treating patients in hospitals. Adewole who stated this in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State when he paid a courtesy...
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    Metro JAMB Deadline: 700,000 Candidates To Lose Admission Today – Leadership Nigeria Newspapers

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has stated that over 1.6 candidates have been recommended for admission in the 2017/2018 admission year from various tertiary institutions . Of that amount, only 500,000 have accepted their admission as at the time of filling this report...
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    Metro Gunmen Attack Kwara Communities, Kill 4 – Leadership Nigeria Newspapers

    Gunmen have attacked some communities in Kaiama local government area of Kwara State killing four members of the local vigilance group and injured several others. The villages attacked by the gunmen include Tunga Maje, Nukku and Woro . The chairman of the council, Alhaji Abdullahi Abubakar, told...
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    Business Marketers Resume Loading Of Petrol In Lagos –

    The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has resumed petrol supply to major reception facilities in Lagos just as queues which resurfaced in the state at the weekend continues to grow, pushing cost of services especially transportation fares up. Confirming this in an interview with...
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    Metro DPR Recovers 13,000 Litres Of PMS Diverted In Gombe. – Leadership Nigeria Newspapers

    The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) says it has recovered 13,000 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly known as petrol diverted by a marketer, B. A Bello in Kumo town of Akko Local Government Area, Gombe state. The DPR Controller Gombe zonal office, Abdullahi Abawa, confirmed...
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    Metro NIS Promotes 8821 Officers – Leadership Nigeria Newspapers

    The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has promoted 8821 Officers and Men for 2017 promotion exercise. The senior officer’s promotion list which was approved by the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prison Service Board (CDFIPB) at its 59th meeting held on the 16th January, 2018 has a total of...
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    Metro Motorists Decry Return Of Fuel Queues In Abuja – Leadership Nigeria Newspapers

    BY TARKAA DAVID Motorists in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have decried the return of fuel queues at filling stations and appealed to the federal government to make good its promises of making the product available. Some motorists who spoke to LEADERSHIP said the artificial scarcity of...
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    Metro We Expect New Minimum Wage Before July – NLC – Leadership Nigeria Newspapers

    The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has said that workers in the country will not have the patience to wait till the third quarter of the year for the implementation of a new minimum wage. President Muhammadu Buhari had last November inaugurated the tripartite committee headed by former minister...
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    Metro 972 of Over 5,000 Nigerians In Libya Already Returned-NAPTIP – Leadership Nigeria Newspapers

    The Director general, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) Dame Julie Okah –Donli has said 972 of the 5000 Nigerians located in different detention camps in Libya have already returned. LEADERSHIP recalls that a Special Federal Government delegation last week...
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    Business N11.3bn Loan: AMCON Drags Kwara Monarch To Court – Leadership Nigeria Newspapers

    The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON ) has dragged the Olofa of Ofa Kingdom in Kwara State, Oba Mufutau Gbadamosi and his two companies before a Federal High Court in Lagos over alleged N11,280,998,959.78 debt. AMCON is praying the court for an order attaching the amount standing...
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