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NIGERIAN-born Job Centre staffer Afolake Adeniji has been taken to court in London for tricking a teenager to work as her slave for 10 years after luring her to the UK with the promise of free education.

Ms Adeniji, 50,  had promised the victim free education in UK then made her work in servitude for more than 10 years, a UK court was told. Apparently, she tricked the now 27-year-old woman into flying to London from her home in Nigeria in 2003, when she was just 13.

MEMBERS of the Ebonyi State chapter of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) successfully organised a solidarity rally in support of President Muhammadu Buhari across the state this week.

FORMER vice president Atiku Abubakar's close political associate Alhaji Abdullahi Sugar has warned that ex-president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has finalised plans to install Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai as the next president come 2019.

SUPER Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr has attributed his team's failure to win yesterday's World Cup qualifier away in Yaounde to fatigue stating that the players felt very tired after Friday's first leg in Uyo.

NIGERIA is now officially out of recession according to statistics just published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) that showed that the economy grew by 0.55% during the second quarter of the year.

ASSET Management Corporation of Nigeria (Amcon) officials have denied that the sale of Arik Air to Ethiopian Airlines has been concluded pointing out that they are still in the trying to get the troubled carrier back on its feet.

NIGERIA'S qualification for the 2018 World Cup has been put on hold for the time being after the Super eagles only managed to9 secure a 1-1 draw with Cameroon's Indomitable Lions in Yaounde.

SUPER Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr has named the same team that beat Cameroon 4-0 on Friday for today's return leg against the Indomitable Lions in Yaounde putting to bed fears that some of the players who started the first leg may be rested.

VICE president Professor Yemi Osinbajo has urged all Nigerians eschew the growing separatist agitations and challenges to the unity of Nigeria asking them to instead channel their energies and resources towards building a great nation.

FLORIDA police officers have arrested three Indians including a couple who travelled all the way to the US to beat up their daughter-in-law after their son had asked them to because his wife was being indisciplined.