A staff of the Kano State Hisbah Board, Idris Ahmed Gama, has been arrested for condemning the arrest of some members of a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer organisation. The Commander General of the Board, Sheikh Aminu Daurawa, disclosed this while briefing newsmen in Kano on Monday. He said …
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Lithuania bought RBS70 NG, a mobile short-range air defense system, from a Swedish company for 147 million euros (about 159 million U.S. dollars), Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defense said Monday. The ministry’s Defence Material Agency has signed final agreements with Sweden’s Saab Dynamics AB, and the delivery is scheduled for …
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A school bus driver, Michael Mowete, was on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment to spend for defiling a three-year old girl (name withheld). Truthng reports that Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court held that the prosecution had discharged the burden of proof against Mowete. …
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Zenith Bank Plc has emerged as the best commercial bank in Nigeria at the World Finance Banking Awards 2024, retaining the award for a fourth consecutive year. The bank was also named Best Corporate Governance in Nigeria for the third year at the World Finance Corporate Governance Awards 2024. The …
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Nigeria must unsign or withdraw from SAMOA Agreement. Contrary to Minister Bagudu’s propaganda, SAMOA Agreement IS NOT IN THE INTEREST OF NIGERIA. Why? Articles of the Agreement especially 2.5, 29.5, 36.2, 88, 97, violate Nigeria’s laws, Nigeria’s sovereignty and African Charter on People’s and Human Rights which Nigeria has domesticated, …
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THE management of the Plateau State Tourism Corporation, PSTC, has announced the disappearance of a hyena which escaped its cage at the Jos Wildlife Park. This was contained in a statement issued by the corporation on Monday, July 8, 2024, in Jos after the animal was discovered missing. The Jos …
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A major drug cartel behind the production and distribution of deadly psychoactive substance, methamphetamine, popularly called ‘mkpuru mmiri’ has been taken down by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, following the arrest of the leader of the syndicate, 42-year-old Joachin Chikaodi Mbonu and his associate in his …
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A yet-to-be-identified man reportedly climbed up a mast on Katampe Hill in Abuja on Monday stating that he is willing to sacrifice his life for the solution to the problem of Nigerians. According to a suicide note he reportedly left at the foot of the mast, he demanded the return of …
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BENUE State High Court in Makurdi, the state capital, on Monday fixed September 26, 2024, to hear the suit challenging the governor’s executive order. The state Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Bemgba Iortyom, and human rights activist, Mr Adebayo Ogorry, had dragged the state government, the state …
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NIGERIA Customs Service Comptroller General, Adewale Adeniyi, has laid the foundation for the construction of a 30-bed ultramodern hospital valued at N500 million at Zone D Headquarters, Bauchi. The state-of-the-art medical edifice is being sponsored by the Abdul Samad Rabiu Africa Initiative under its Security Sector Support Grant at the …
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