Anambra State Ministry of Health has reported cases of Lassa fever, which have claimed the lives of a medical doctor and three others in the state. This was disclosed in a one-day Lassa fever training workshop organised by the state Ministry of Health. A resource person in the workshop, Dr. Jane Ezeonu
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As part of the on-going police recruitment the Police Service Commission has shortlisted a total of 110, 469 applicants for the next phase of the exercise, which will involve writing of aptitude texts.A breakdown of the applicants for the aptitude texts billed for Monday, August 22, 2016, include 22,454, for
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Paul Manafort, campaign chairman for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, has resigned just two months after taking the helm.Mr Trump confirmed Mr Manafort's departure in a statement.He first took control of Mr Trump's campaign after former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was fired in June.The 67-year-old veteran political strategist has come
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Senate president Bukola Saraki and his predecessor, David Mark top the list of prominent Nigerians set to be probed, after they were named in the Panama Papers scandal, Premium Times reports.According to the report by Premium Times, the presidency has ordered the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) to investigate the
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Usain has been the biggest star in world of sport in the past decade and now he is on the brink of yet more history. Victory in the 200m final at Rio 2016 means the 29-year-old needs another win in the 4x100m relay alongside his Jamaican team-mates at 02:35 BST
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A 19-year-old Nigerian boy, Andre Aderemi was on Tuesday, August 16 stabbed to death in the United Kingdom (UK), after being pursued by three men carrying machetes at Monks Hills estate, Selsdon, Croydon.He was stabbed about 20 times and died in the hospital. Three 19-year-old boys have also been arrested
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The naira yesterday hit a new all-time low of N365.25 to the dollar at the interbank foreign exchange market in a single interbank market trade of $1 million, before the naira finally stabilsed at N318.00 to the dollar. This is as the Debt Management Office raised N219.58 billion in local
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has debunked reports that it has liquidated a deposit money bank even as it reiterated that Skye bank which recently had a change in board and management was distressed. The apex bank in a statement signed by the acting director, Corporate Communications Department, Issac Okoroafor,
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The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu has blamed the continued decline of the naira against global other currency on the huge demand for foreign exchange (FOREX) necessitated by the importation of petroleum product into the country. According to the minister, between 30 to 40 per cent of
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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested a suspected impersonator posing as the former Executive Chairman of the Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde.The suspect, Promise Tochi Nwalozie was arrested in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in a sting operation that yielded the arrest of six other internet fraudsters.One
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