A Grade I Area Court in Kubwa, Abuja, has dissolved a one-year marriage between a businesswoman, Nafisat Mohammed, and her estranged husband, Salisu Isah, on grounds of lack of peace. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the judge, Mr Yahaya Sheshi, dissolved the marriage according to Islamic law following N Mohammed’s …
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THE Delta State Police Command has arrested a butcher for allegedly stabbing his wife to death in Warri metropolis. The incident reportedly occurred on Thursday evening when the suspect tried to scoop hot water to bathe on returning from the market. Networknews.ng gathered that his wife refused and asked him not …
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FORMER Director-General, Nigeria Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala-Usman, has said efforts by stakeholders to intervene and resolve issues that led to her suspension from office proved abortive as the then Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, shunned all parties. Recall that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), through his media aide, …
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THE Ebonyi State Police Command, on Friday, announced the arrest of four persons over the murder of a Peoples Democratic Party chieftain, Peter Nweke. Nweke was tortured to death by hoodlums suspected to be loyalists of a rival party on March 18, 2023, the day of the Governorship and House …
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VOTER apathy trailed Saturday’s supplementary election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission in Ebonyi. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that there was a low turnout of voters in some of the polling units visited in Ikwo Local Government Areas of the state. The supplementary elections are taking place …
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THE leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has named former Kaduna State Governor, Sen Ahmed Makarfi, Chairman of the Kogi State governorship primaries slated for Sunday in Lokoja, the state capital. The exercise is to enable the party to pick a flag bearer for the November 11 governorship election in …
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No fewer than three persons were killed while two others were abducted when gunmen suspected to be cultists invaded the Ubeta community in the Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State on Wednesday. The gunmen reportedly ransacked the community in what appeared to be a reprisal. They were said …
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THE presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Bola Tinubu, says Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party could not have won the February 25 presidential poll because part of the votes he should have garnerned were taken by the candidates of Labour Party, Peter Obi, and Rabiu Kwankwaso of …
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THE Central Bank of Nigeria has proposed that banks should transfer funds in accounts that have been dormant for up to 10 years into a trust fund account. This is contained in the recently released exposure draft of guidelines on the Management of Dormant Accounts, Unclaimed Balances and Other Financial …
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The Federal Government, on Thursday, said the amount spent on subsidising Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, between 2005 and 2021 was N13tn, adding that the country lost N16.3tn to oil theft from 2009 to 2020. It disclosed this in Abuja through the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative at a …
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