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Militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, has denied claims by President Muhammadu Buhari that his administration was holding talks with the militants to ensure peace reigns in the region. In a statement issued on Friday by the group’s spokesman, Mudoch Agbinibo, the Avengers said it was not aware of any ongoing peace talks. It read, “Our attention has been drawn to media report that the President is in touch with Niger Delta agitators including the Niger Delta Avengers but the truth is that we are not aware of any peace talk. “If there is any such peace talk, it means the President is talking to their mercenaries set to disturb the genuine struggle of the agitators. “President Buhari led government is not sincere to the Nigeria people and their foreign allies. “If we are to engage in any peace talk we made it clear that the international community must be part of it. The President knows our demands. So they should stop deceiving the international oil companies, ...

Lagos State Ministry of Youth and Social Development Monitoring Team have arrested about four women who were begging for alms with babies less than a month old that weren’t their own. The women, Hadiza Nosiru and Salamotu Salisu, both from Jigawa State were arrested at the Oyingbo area of the State. Preliminary investigation showed that the two women apprehended are not the biological mothers of the babies but were given to them by their parents who later got paid for each baby. 40-year-old Aregbesola is one of the women arrested  for using her children to beg for alms in return for stipends. According to her , the person who hires her child always pays her between N1,000 and N1,500 daily. The woman claimed she had four other children. According to her , the first two children attend school somewhere in Ikotun area. She said: “I stay at Ijora Olopa though I am from Ibadan in Oyo State. I work with a food vendor, who pays me N 300 daily. The eldest of my...

The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, on Thursday enumerated no less than a dozen policies the Buhari administration is putting in place to reverse the reverse the worrisome trend of the nation’s economy. Mrs. Adeosun mentioned the policies as she fielded questions from senators during her appearance before the Senate. The key areas Mrs. Adeosun highlighted as being of immediate concerns to federal government with regards to tackling the alarming economic situation are as follows: 1. We would streamline the cost of government and improve efficiency of public service delivery across the Federal and Sub-national Governments. 2. Targeted spending on innovative social programmes and infrastructure, including social infrastructure. 3. Direct and model economic policies away from oil and towards non-oil revenues as global demand for oil decreases and supply increases 4. Focus on delivery of basic services to the Nigerian population upon which business can be built...

Popular Nollywood actor, Leo Mezie is currently battling kidney failure and is in dire need of a kidney transplant. Mezie is currently battling to survive collapsed kidneys after he allegedly took medications following wrong medical diagnosis. He was diagnosed wrongly with malaria, typhoid and pneumonia for over a year and the medications collapsed his kidneys. His colleagues have, however been making frantic effort to raise N10 million, estimated for an immediate kidney transplant abroad, while N80, 000 is being expended weekly for his daily dialysis. The campaign, headed by renowned movie director, Lancelot Imasuen, is tagged ‘We can raise Ten Milion to Save our friend and colleague’s life God helping Us.”

Popular Nollywood actor, Leo Mezie is currently battling kidney failure and is in dire need of a kidney transplant. Mezie is currently battling to survive collapsed kidneys after he allegedly took medications following wrong medical diagnosis. He was diagnosed wrongly with malaria, typhoid and pneumonia for over a year and the medications collapsed his kidneys. His colleagues have, however been making frantic effort to raise N10 million, estimated for an immediate kidney transplant abroad, while N80, 000 is being expended weekly for his daily dialysis. The campaign, headed by renowned movie director, Lancelot Imasuen, is tagged ‘We can raise Ten Milion to Save our friend and colleague’s life God helping Us.”

Eleven people have been burnt to death in a ghastly motor accident that occurred on Otedola Bridge, Berger area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria on Thursday evening. Those who died in the accident include eight males and three females, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, has confirmed. General Manager, LASEMA, Michael Akindele said the accident occurred around 6:10pm on Thursday. He said the 14-seater passenger Volkswagen commercial bus with Lagos colour lost its brake, somersaulted and busted into fire. “Eleven persons, which include three females and eight males were burnt dead. Three persons were rescued alive and were taken to the accident and emergency unit at toll gate,” he confirmed. Akindele said the bus was moving inward Berger before the accident occurred on Otedola Bridge around 6.10 pm. LASEMA’s response team, Federal Road Safety Corps, Lagos State Fire Service and the Nigerian Police were involved in the rescue. Police Public Relation...