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A farmer, Muhammad Baban-Iro of Rigasa Area in Kaduna on Thursday appeared before a Kaduna Sharia Court for refusing to refund N32,000 being the bride price and other expenses allegedly paid on his daughter. The demand was made by the suitor following the discovery that she had tested positive to HIV. One Ibrahim Bala of the same area had gone ...

Employees of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) have threatened to embark on an indefinite strike if the federal government fail to meet their demands. Leaders of the National Union of Electricity, NUEE, and Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies, SSAEAC have accused the Minister of Power, Prof Barth Nnaji, of pursuing personal agenda in the ministry ...

A flying car, known as a personal air and land vehicle, which can fly for up to 315 miles at speeds of 110mph, has been produced in Holland. This has got to be the most awesome way to avoid a traffic jam. A Dutch company has unveiled it. It costs $300,000. Two competing aviation companies have successfully completed test flights ...

AFP – Senegalese superstar Youssou Ndour has been appointed the country’s new tourism and culture minister in President Macky Sall’s cabinet. The Grammy-award winning singer, a fierce critic of former leader Abdoulaye Wade who hung up his microphone to campaign for Sall, forms part of a slimmed down government of 25 people appointed by Prime Minister Abdoul Mbaye. One of ...

Operatives of the State Security Services (SSS) on Thursday arrested 4 persons with 60 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Gombe. The Gombe State Director of SSS, Mr Bitrus Asha, revealed this while parading the suspects before newsmen in Gombe on Thursday. Asha said the suspects were arrested in a house at the British Cotton Ginnery Area (BCGA) in the metropolis ...