A public affairs commentator, Reno Omokri, has called out the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, accusing him of failure to call his followers, known as Obidients, to order. Omokri said Obi’s supporters have insulted all Nigerian icons, including the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of …
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The Ogun State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed a bill upgrading the State College of Health Technology, Ilese to a fully-fledged Polytechnic of Health and Allied Sciences. The bill titled, “H.B No 089/OG/2023-Re-passage of the Ogun State College of Health Technology (Amendment) Law, 2006” was passed at the plenary …
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A Dei-Dei Grade 1 Area Court Abuja on Tuesday, sentenced a commercial taxi driver, Bello Ibrahim to 18 months imprisonment for inflicting injuries on a traffic officer. The police charged, Ibrahim, 29, of Dei-Dei Abuja with resisting arrest and causing grievous hurt. Judge Saminu Suleiman sentenced the convict after he …
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Autopsies on corpses found in mass graves linked to a church in Kenya have revealed missing organs and raised suspicions of forced harvesting, investigators said, with a fresh round of exhumations set to resume Tuesday. The discovery of mass graves last month near the Indian Ocean coastal town of Malindi …
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The President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has asked the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja to dismiss a petition the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, filed to nullify his election victory. Tinubu, through his team of lawyers led by Chief Akin Olujinmi, SAN, maintained that the petition was bereft of …
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Osun State Police Command has disclosed that a middle-aged woman (name withheld) was on Monday kidnapped by unknown gunmen along Sekona in Ede South Local Government Area of the state. Meanwhile, the command spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola who made this known in Osogbo on Monday, however, hinted that police has …
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The Central Bank of Nigeria has said it will sanction banks assisting the operations of unlicensed foreign firms. It stated on Monday in its ‘Guidelines for the regulation of representative offices of foreign banks in Nigeria’, signed by the Director, Financial Policy and Regulation Department, Muhammad Musa. ‘Any CBN …
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The Police Command in Katsina State says it has arrested 72 suspected mobile phone snatchers and miscreants, locally known as Kauraye, operating in Katsina, the state capital The command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), CSP Gambo Isah made the disclosure in a statement on Monday in Katsina. He said that the …
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The Ebonyi State Police Command has directed the people of the state to disregard the sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, scheduled for May 8 to May 11 in the state. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Faleye Olaleye, described the sit-at-home as unconstitutional. Olaleye’s …
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Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma has finally surrendered to the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, as its industrial action entered day 5. The Organised Labour announced a strike throughout the state last Wednesday as a result of the disruption of the Workers’ Day celebration. A temporary injunction prohibiting the Nigerian …
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