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• Nigeria’s N35.5trn debt, humongous rise in FG’s expenditure profile worry NECA

• 2004 Philosophy graduate of Lagos State University bags professorship in U.S. Varsity

• Priest accused of stealing over $100,000 from church to buy drugs for sex parties

• I will fight Anthony Joshua again, Oleksandr Usyk vows

• N6trn NDDC misappropriated funds: Pres. Buhari gets 14-day ultimatum to publish names of looters, recover funds

• The Day in Pictures: Gov Sanwo-Olu and Other Cabinet Members Inspect the Lagos Blue & Red Line Rail Projects across the State on Saturday, Sept 25, 2021.

• Horror! 29-year-old birthday celebrator felled by police bullet at roisterous party

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  2004 Philosophy graduate of Lagos State University bags professorship in U.S. Varsity

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  N6trn NDDC misappropriated funds: Pres. Buhari gets 14-day ultimatum to publish names of looters, recover funds

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  Horror! 29-year-old birthday celebrator felled by police bullet at roisterous party

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  Ripening fruits with carbide life-threatening, toxic NAFDAC warns traders

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  SS1, SS2 students barred from writing external WASSCE, NECO, NABTEB

Business

National Sugar Master Plan could fetch Nigeria over $700million annually — Dangote

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  CBN says black market is illegal

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  Three-month Twitter suspension: Nigeria loses N247.6bn

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  Nigeria requires between $3 and $5 billion annual spending in power sector in next 15 years, says Schneider Electric

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  Cross River’s Cally Air face major cash and operational issues- at risk of grounding

Politics

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  2023: A third force, “Rescue Nigeria Project”, an alternative platform to APC, PDP, birthed in Abuja

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  At last, PDP stalwart, Femi Fani-Kayode, defects to APC

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  Ex-Governor in Northern Nigeria, after closed-door meeting with Obasanjo, says Nigeria is bleeding profusely

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  Watch: Alleged N60 billion Money Printing

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  Watch: News Reporter forced to flee during a live broadcast on Daunte Wright’s death.

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  Watch: Gov. Obaseki drops bombshell on Nigeria’s economy

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  Watch: Nigerian Fuel Attendants Fail To Locate Fuel Tank of a Tesla Car

Investigation

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  Amaechi’s directive to NPA on equipment purchase lacks budgetary provisions-Investigation

• Overland Airways, with 6-airplane fleet, flies one of the oldest planes in Nigeria – Per Second News check

• Stakeholders score Buhari’s agric policies low

• Exposed! How generator dealers, manufacturers rip-off Nigerians

• Inside Abuja’s booming Tramadol, Codeine black market – an investigation

• Salami Panel indicts Magu, says he collected over N1bn bribe from ex-Gov, 8 others on trial

• 48m barrels of Nigerian crude “abandoned’’ in China, whistleblower’s  5 per cent compensation, an elaborate hoax, scam

ENTERTAINMENT

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  Ola Ibironke a.k.a Dudu Heritage slumps and dies at 61

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  Just in: Veteran afrobeat musician, guitarist, Sir Victor Uwaifo, passes on

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  Why we raided BBNaija star, Dorathy Bachor’s block of apartments in Lekki, Lagos in wee-hours — EFCC

Sports

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  I will fight Anthony Joshua again, Oleksandr Usyk vows

• The Day in Pictures: Gov. Sanwo-Olu, FIFA Pres Infantino at the Opening of the Aisha Buhari Cup at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena Stadium, Onikan, Lagos

• Daniil Medvedev beats Novak Djokovic in 2021 US Open men’s final

• Guinea: Paul Pogba’s brother trapped after coup

• Tokyo Olympics: Resign now! Nigerians on social media tell Sports Minister, Sunday Dare

• NFSC grieves ex-NFF President, Oneya’s death

• Lionel Messi Is Leaving Barcelona

• Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Ese Brume loses $3,000 as PUMA terminates four-year contract with Athletics Federation of Nigeria

• Italy extends England’s misery, wins Euro 2020

• 30 years after, Nigeria’s football legend, Muda Lawal, gets football supporters club’s posthumous award

• Buhari allocates houses to 1994 Super Eagles squad

• Hard-hitting Adesanya overpowers Vettori to retain UFC middleweight title, to battle Whittaker in next title defence

• Chelsea win the Champions League

• Football Supporters in Nigeria extol Sports Minister Dare at 55

• COVID-19 Cases Surge In Japan putting Olympic Games in jeopardy

• Taiwo Awoniyi granted work permit six years after signing for Liverpool

WORLD NEWS

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  Priest accused of stealing over $100,000 from church to buy drugs for sex parties

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  COVID-19 variants are getting more airborne, making them more contagious – New Study

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  US Air Force F-16 intercepts plane over New-York during UN Assembly meeting

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  How Mossad assassinated Iran’s chief nuclear scientist with remote AI gun – report

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  Attempted coup fails in Sudan

Photo News

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  The Day in Pictures: Gov Sanwo-Olu and Other Cabinet Members Inspect the Lagos Blue & Red Line Rail Projects across the State on Saturday, Sept 25, 2021.

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  The Day in Pictures: Pres. Buhari Departs Hotel to Speak at the UNGA75 in New York

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  The Day in Pictures: Govs Sanwo-Olu, Wike Attend Presidential Address of Standing Committee Meeting of Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Marina, Lagos

OIL & GAS

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  Crude oil, gas worth $219.75m exported in May 2021, says NNPC

• Petroleum Industry Act: Pres. orders incorporation of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd

• Bank of America Says Oil Prices Could Climb Above $100

• Rebound Tipped For Global Oil Demand

• Accountability: NNPC consolidates gains, complies with Buhari’s directive, publishes 2020 Audited Financial Statements

• NNPC GMD’s transformation agenda excites DPR boss

NEWS FROM MDAs

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  Fire destroys Nigerian Ports Authority hqts in Lagos

• Anambra, Bayelsa, Benue, Imo, Nasarawa roads to gulp N38.4bn — FEC

• Another former Information Minister dies

• Breaking: Pres. Buhari fires two ministers, announces minor cabinet reshuffle

• COVID-19: 177,600 doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccines delivered to Nigeria, confirms Shuaib

• NIRSAL maps over 4,000 hectares of rice, cassava, maize farms in three states

health

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  7 Benefits of Drinking Lemon-Ginger Tea Before Bed

• COVID-19 variants are getting more airborne, making them more contagious – New Study

• COVID-19: Delta variant full of surprises, dominant in Nigeria, FG says

• Prof. Ifedayo Adetifa appointed new NCDC Director-General

• Nigeria kicks off 2nd phase of COVID-19 vaccination

• Nigeria ranks 4th best globally in COVID-19 response, says WHO

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  I used her hands for money-making soap, ritualist in police net confesses

• Woman, husband poison 10-year-old step-son fatally over alleged witchcraft

• Usifo Ataga: Chidinma, Quadri to be charged with murder at Lagos High Court for alleged murder — LASG

• Factory where moldy, sticky, spoilt rice is repackaged, sold uncovered in Benue

• Daredevil tenant kills landlord with stone over electricity bill 

• School children kidnapping most thriving, lucrative industry in Nigeria, fast impoverishing ransom-paying parents

Articles & Opinion

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  Obateru: Celebrating a Quintessential PR Man at 60

• APC, Buni and the birthing of a truly National Party

• Notes From Osun At 30

• A Chapter of Wike’s Play Book

• The Yemi Osinbajo option in APC’s 2023 presidential gambit

• Abba Kyari: A Fall From Grace by Reuben Abati

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  2023: Tinubu vs Bello And Others by Reuben Abati

• Igboho’s cats, Kanu’s interception and Buhari’s “language” By Reuben Abati

• How NNPC, under Kyari, outmaneuvered low prices during pandemic without cutting jobs

• Yinka Odumakin, A Samurai of the Struggle by Jimi Agbaje

• Nigeria, Twitter and Other Stories By Reuben Abati

• The Death of Ahmed Gulak by Reuben Abati

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  US Air Force F-16 intercepts plane over New-York during UN Assembly meeting

• United Airlines launches nonstops flights from Dulles, Washington to Lagos, Nigeria with Dreamliner

• Defunct Air Namibia owes N$3.5bn to creditors

• Air Senegal commences flight operations to Baltimore, USA

• Cross River’s Cally Air face major cash and operational issues- at risk of grounding

• 19 Year-Old Aircraft: What we know about the United Nigeria airline