The Emir of Kano, Malam Muhammadu Sanusi II, Monday ordered the state Sharia Commission to liaise with office of the Assistant Inspector General of police, zone 1 to commence process of returning the 14 year-old teenager, Ese Oruru allegedly abducted by one Yunusa of Kura local government area of Kano …
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An Ogudu Magistrates’ Court Lagos, on Monday, ordered a commercial driver, Kolawole Olumide, 25, to sweep the Ogudu Police Station for five days for driving against traffic. The Magistrate, Mrs O. Sule Amzat, pronounced the sentence after the driver pleaded guilty to the three-count charge of driving without a licence …
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Charges against five teenage boys who were accused of gang-raping an 18-year-old girl at a playground in Brooklyn last month have been dropped after she admitted to having consensual sex with the boys and her father. The unnamed girl has recanted her allegations of sexual assault against Denzel Murray, 14, …
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A meeting opened to the public in a New York town erupted into chaos Tuesday night as a resident accused the Mayor of having sex with his wife. Reginald Alfred approached the microphone at the Rockland County village meeting and started sharing details of how Spring Valley Mayor Demeza Delhomme …
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Nearly 100 Indian schoolchildren were hospitalised with suspected food poisoning Thursday after eating a free midday meal at a government-run school near Mumbai, police said, adding that some were in a critical condition. “Ninety-seven have been admitted to hospital, a few of them are critical. They started vomiting after eating …
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An Indian fitness instructor shot and killed a man who complained about loud music blaring from his New Delhi gym, reports said Thursday. The instructor, identified only as Rinku, and his friends were listening to music inside the gym late Monday when local resident Hardeep Singh asked them to turn …
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Nigeria’s troops have foiled a planned Boko Haram attack on a camp of displaced people in the northeastern town of Dikwa, previously targeted by the insurgents, the military said. “From all indications, the terrorists aimed at causing havoc at the Internally Displaced Persons camp located at Dikwa,” army spokesman Colonel …
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The Federal Government’s insistence not to devalue the naira yesterday saw the local currency firming sharply on the parallel market against the greenback. The naira closed at between N300 and N310 to dollar, regaining about 20 per cent of its Tuesday’s N364 to dollar closing rate. The rates had opened …
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By Dotun Olutoke Interestingly, the inspiration for this piece floated in my mind after reading Bayo Olupohunda’s expressive piece titled “Buharists, Wailing Wailers and a Divided Nation.” The article which appeared on Naij.com in the early hours of Wednesday, 6th January, 2016 points in an instructive manner to the dangers …
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Some students of the Southern Nigeria Institute of Innovate Technology, Ifewara in Osun State on Monday set the private institution ablaze because some courses offered by the school were allegedly not accredited. Our correspondent gathered that some of the students had turn violent on Sunday evening, vandalising the school’s …
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