No fee is charged for NIS recruitment
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Stakeholders fear Ekiti APC may suffer worse defeat in 2022
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Don’t reopen schools now, ASUU President urges govt
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Ondo 2020: Ex-PDP spokesman urges delegates to resist peanuts for vote
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BREAKING: Alleged certificate forgery: Court strikes out suit against Obaseki
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‘Our relationship with Governor Akeredolu’
Paul Joseph Goebbels, a German Nazi politician, was the Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.
BDC operators charged with laundering $1.6m
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Lagos to build international infectious disease research centre
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My Deputy Security aides never withdrawn – Akeredolu
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Power consumers, MAN kick over 100% tariff hike
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I regret not joining PDP before now – Obaseki
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Governors, others at Ajimobi’s funeral
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Whistleblower: FG pays for funds recovered not mere exposure – Malami
The Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice only pays whistleblowers after successful recovery not for
Whistleblower: FG pays for funds recovered not mere exposure – Malami
The Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice only pays whistleblowers after successful recovery not for
FG pays for funds recovered by whistle-blowing, not mere exposure – Malami
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Auction of Nigeria’s sacred statues opposed holds in Paris amid opposition
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N-Power to absorb 400,000 applicants for third batch
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FG shuts Kara Bridge on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway for integrity test
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FG condemns attack on Nigerian Embassy in Jakarta by Nigerians
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Claims spending over N500m fighting pandemic Nasarawa State has received no money from either the Federal Government or foreign donors
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Ghana promises to rebuild demolished Embassy quarters
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Obaseki cleared to contest Edo PDP primary as EPM dismisses governor
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Buhari backs Giadom as APC acting national chairman, aide says
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Drama as father disappears with alleged raped daughter in Kwara court
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Another 42-year-old woman macheted to death in Ibadan
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Police rescue 300 workers ‘locked in rice factory’
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Zulum engages 6,111 in Borno mega farm scheme
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Imo retirees protest against non-payment of pensions
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Buhari urges caution on ECOWAS common currency
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APC will win Edo, Ondo polls, says Kogi governor
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Plan to reopen schools by Oyo insensitive, says Fed Govt
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Anti-Oshiomhole governors submit position to Buhari
APC NWC inaugurates Boms as Giadom’s replacement My victory signals end of Edo APC crisis, says Ize-Iyamu THREE All Progressives
Igbo President non-negotiable, says Nwobodo
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Flood sweeps teenage girl in Lagos
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Akeredolu sacks deputy’s media aide
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South’s elders sue Buhari, others for ‘discrimination in jobs, infrastructure’
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ICPC probes constituency projects in Rivers, Ogun, Kaduna, 13 others
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Ize-Iyamu emerges Edo APC 2020 governorship candidate
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Court bars Obaseki from contesting in PDP primary
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Calabar traders protest against kidnappings in Cross River
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Govt releases N13.6b for health workers hazard allowances, life insurance
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APC can’t stop defections, says PDP
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Giadom suspended as Lawan meets Buhari on APC crisis
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Uzodimma adopts nine-year-old hawker-singer
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Kaduna evacuates 35,000 Almajiri children, receives more than 1,000 –Commissioner
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Ondo deputy governor’s defection deepens APC crises
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Reps committee kicks as bulldozer invades Nigeria’s embassy in Ghana
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WHO declares Nigeria Polio free
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FG okays N27b bailout for local airlines, sector
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Nigeria elected member of UN Economic and Social Council
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FG pledges to stem growing rate of rape
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Ekiti APC, PDP clash over cargo airport
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JNI to Fed. Govt: action needed not warnings, condemnations
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PDP meets Thursday on Obaseki
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APC and its leadership tussle
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Oshiomhole: Giadom’s ‘take over’ makes no sense
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Ex-AGF Adoke, businessman re-arraigned for money laundering
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Ekiti APC council chair threatens contempt action
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NCDC activates four more testing labs
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Appeal Court upholds Oshiomhole’s suspension as APC national chairman
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