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Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday, said the government had started bringing stranded citizens home from Libya after a global outcry over reports that migrants there were being sold into slavery. Nigerians returnees from Libya Libya's U.N.-backed government has said it is investigating.

A U.S. mum has been arrested by police in Los Angeles after her 3-week-old baby suffered a fractured skull when she threw him at his father's feet during a heated argument, police said. U.S mum Heidy Rios, charged with cruelty to a juvenile

The need to address educational needs and bring about economic transformation for the people of Kogi State and the nation at large has informed the decision of the Senate to pass into law, the Bill seeking the upgrade of the College of Agriculture, Kabba, to a full-fledged university.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Abuja zone, has criticised Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State for allegedly refusing to reinstate the 135 sacked lecturers of the Kogi State University. Gov. Yahaya Bello 

As the era of killing husband continues, an Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan on Monday took a drastic measure to nip the ignoble act on the board, sentenced a female lawyer, Yewande Oyediran, to seven years imprisonment for stabbing her  husband, Lowo to death.

Ohionwa is one of the autochthonous clans of Ihima whose (Ihima) primaeval name, Onotu means the next in Kingship or one whose compound God has chosen for grace,glamour or even a pristine saddle His showers of favour. In Ihima-Onotu land, Ohionwa is one of the three aboriginal clans i.e Emani and Ohueta whose clans’ traditional stools bear Obobanyi-great hunter.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Thursday, arraigned a suspected Internet fraudster, Akpaikpe Etim, before Justice J.E. Oyefeso of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on an eight-count charge bordering on possession of fraudulent documents and obtaining money by false pretence. Akpaikpe Etim

Days after Imohimi Edgal, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, today led a team of policemen to rescue a 13-year-old girl identified as Nkechi Oseh, at No. 30 Adeniran Ajao Estate Anthony, her boss has reported at the police station.

Kogi state Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has offered to foot the bills of 25 medical students of the Ptince Abubarkar Audu University, Anyigba, who would be proceeding to complete their studies in three selected universities across the country.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday inaugurated a three-member committee to audit all assets recovered by government agencies.

Former Super Eagles star forward Yakubu Aiyegbeni who played mostly in England and made name with Portsmouth and Everton FC has retired from professional football on his 35th birthday. Yakubu

…Commend him for okaying death penalty for student cultists …as Fayose charges them to wage war against cultists, expose their activities on their campuses

In her quest to promote the standard of education in Ihima and help the less privileged children, Ihima Students' Union (ISU) an umbrella body for students of Ihima origin gives scholarship to 35 pupils who are mostly orphans.

The Chief Executive Officer of Builders Hub Impact Investment Program, Barr. Natasha Hadiza Akpoti continued on her developmental stride as she joined the Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission and the Director General of Small & Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria at the NDDC Headquarters in Port Harcourt the capital of River state to sign a Memorandum of Understating for the establishment of Innovation Hub in the Niger Delta region.

The crown Prince of Saudi Arabia recently began an anti-corruption drive in his country which took many by surprise. It targeted members of his own family, top businessmen who had criminally benefitted from the regime, and a whole host of officials accused of corrupt practices ranging from a breach of public trust, misuse of public funds and embezzlement. Two hundred and one people were held in conjunction with $100 billion of misused public funds while 1700 bank accounts linked to these individuals have been frozen. Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia heading this effort, is 32 years old. Please let that sink in: 32 years old! What are we doing in Nigeria? Prince Mohammed bin Salman 

Dangote Noodles Limited, a unit of Nigerian company Dangote Flour Mills, has sold two production lines in Ikorodu and Calabar, to rival pasta maker De United Foods Industries, maker of Indomie Noodles. Aliko Dangote

Midday, Sunday, November 5, another victim was added to the long list of casualties of the non-payment of salaries by Kogi State government. The addition, Zacchaeus Akinola Maliki, a highly committed civil servant, until his death worked with the Kogi State Local Government Pension Board. He was owed over 22 months in salary arrears before he died – an act which made it difficult for him to access medication early enough for the phenomenon that eventually shut up the entire lung.

The Kogi State government on Sunday said it would soon conduct competency test for public school teachers across the state to ensure that only capable hands teach in government-owned schools.

The 24hrs indefinite curfew imposed on the residents of Kogi Central Senatorial District by government of Kogi State in a measure to strengthening the security situation in the five local government of the senatorial district has been changed to 8am-6pm. Gov. Yahaya Bello 

The executive governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, Thursday, extended the 24hrs emergency curfew in Kogi Central Senatorial District of the state. Gov Yahaya Bello 

Many residents of Kogi central senatorial district continued to ask questions on the reason behind the decision by the state government to declare 24hrs emergency curfew. One-way Okene

Big Snow, the largest chicken on record. "Big Snow, the largest chicken on record, weighed 23 pounds, 3 ounces, and was of the breed White Sully developed by Grant Sullens of West Point, California, USA.

Kogi state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, on Wednesday blamed paucity of funds and insecurity for the failure of his administration to conduct local government election this year.

Austria (VIENNA) —Nigeria has successfully traced and recovered $2.9 billion or N738.9 billion from looters between May 2015 and October 2017, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, has said.

President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that various loot recoveries by his administration running to the tune of N512.4 billion will be deployed to funding the 2018 Budget.

Kogi State Government has concluded arrangement to arraign some officers of the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs as well as other Government's agencies  to Court for criminal conspiracy to misappropriate and mismanage State funds  that amounted to Two Billion, Thirty-six Million, Two Hundred and Two Thousand, Eight Hundred and Thirty-one Naira only (N2, 036,202,831.00). Gov. Yahaya Bello 

The recently appointed Director-General of Ajaokuta Steel Company Sumaila Abdul-Akaba has vowed to recover the over $4.5 billion investment in the company as efforts are being made to ensure that the plant becomes  fully operational soon.

By AbdulSalam Muhammad Islamic Movement in Nigeria says two unidentified members of the sect were killed by mobile policemen in Kano during Arbaeen annual trek Sunday. The #BuhariFreeZakzaky protest by members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, on Wednesday.

The extended tenure of Administrators of local government councils in Kogi state has expired and their fate is currently uncertain. Gov. Yahaya Bello 

MUSLIMS of Igbo extraction in Nigeria have decried what they described as a seemingly coordinated neglect by the Federal Government and state leadership of the South East geopolitical zone.

The founder of Builders Hub Impact Investment Program, Barrister Natasha Akpoti has resounded her commitment to serve humanity, settling tuition fee of 600 pupils she adopted their primary education last year. Barrister Natasha Akpoti 

The organised labour in Kogi state says it has suspended negotiation with the state government on the ongoing strike following the murder of a labour leader, Mallam Abdulmumuni Yakubu in Okene yesterday.

An unknown gunmen suspended to be assassins have killed two people in Osuwaya area of Okene local government of Kogi State.

Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi Iran has condemned the recent deadly terrorist attack in New York, offering condolences to the families of the victims. Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi

The Commissioner of Police in Anambra, Mr Garba Umar, on Wednesday unmasked two suspects behind the invasion and killing of 18 worshipers at St. Philip Catholic Church, Ozubulu.