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Court restricts Tinubu’s daughter, Folasade Tinubu-Ojo, others from collecting levies from Computer Village traders

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A High Court of Lagos State has restricted Mrs. Folasade Tinubu-Ojo, daughter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Bola Tinubu, from imposing levies on traders at the Computer Village, Lagos. Others who were similarly restricted from imposing levies include: Mrs. Bisola Azeez, Mr. Adeniyi Olasoji, Nofiu Akinsanya, Tony Ikani and the Commissioner of […]

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Ganduje’s media aide, Yakasai sacked, arrested for criticising Buhari

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Abdullahi Ganduje, the Kano State Governor, has sacked his Special Adviser on Media, Salihu Tanko Yakasai, barely a day after the aide criticised Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, for his failure to end the security crisis rocking the country. Kano state commissioner for Information, Muhammad Garba, who conveyed the governor’s directive in a statement Saturday, said […]

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Kidnapped Kagara students and Teachers freed, arrive Niger state govt house (Photo)

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At last, the Niger state government has received freed 27 students and three teachers of the Government Science College, Kagara, Niger state, who were abducted last Wednesday, February 17. One of the female abductees was said to have been rushed to the General Hospital for urgent treatment because her health condition was reportedly critical. They […]

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US House of Reps pass $1.9trn Covid relief plan

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The US House of Representatives passed an enormous $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package early Saturday, hailed by Democrats as a critical step in funneling new funding toward vaccinations, overburdened local governments, and millions of families devastated by the pandemic. Four days after the Covid-19 death toll surpassed 500,000 in the United States, the sprawling measure […]

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Insurance broker arraigned in court for diversion of N26bn PHCN pension

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Insurance broker named Abiodun Waheed Hassan, alongside his firm, Bestworth Insurance Brokers Limited, was arraigned on Thursday, February 25, on a five-count charge of misappropriating over N26billion PHCN pension fund. Hassan was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), before Justice S.C. Oriji of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Apo, Abuja. Hassan […]

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US intelligence report says Saudi Crown Prince approved operation that killed columnist Khashoggi

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Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman approved the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, according to a U.S. intelligence report released on Friday, February 26. “We assess that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi,” the report’s executive summary […]

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Sheikh Gumi’s outburst against journalists is unacceptable, dishonourable and reprehensible ―NUJ

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Nigeria Union of Journalists has condemned in the strongest of terms the remarks made by Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Mahmud Gumi on Arise TV on Wednesday, February 24, where he labeled Journalists as criminals for calling bandits criminals. The Sheik during his interview with Arise TV said: “You are emphasising on criminality, I don’t know. Even the […]

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Nigeria’s DSS denies attempt to arrest Sunday Igboho

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Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) has denied reports that it had attempted to arrest Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho, in Oyo State on Friday February 26. Public Relations Officer of DSS, Dr. Peter Afunanya, debunked the report in a statement released this evening. The statement reads: “The Department of State Services wishes to refute the […]

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Chaos as Police, soldiers and DSS attempt to arrest Sunday Igboho, Fani-Kayode warns govt (Chaos video)

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It was chaotic along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Friday when a joint team of policemen, soldiers and the Department of State Services (DSS) attempted to arrest Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho. The Yoruba Youth Leader (YYL) put off his top shirt and dared them. Watch the video of the chaotic situation […]

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Over 300 girls kidnapped from Zamfara govt secondary school

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Gunmen believed to be bandits have abducted over 300 schoolgirls at Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in the Talata-Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State, Nigeria. According to a staff of the school, who begged for anonymity, the bandits arrived in the school around 1.00am on Friday with Hilux vehicles and motorcycles and forcefully evacuated […]

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Justice Kafarati, ex-Nigeria’s Federal High Court Chief Judge is dead

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Justice Abdul Kafarati, former Chief Judge of Nigeria’s Federal High Court, has passed away. Although the details of his death were sketchy at this time, he was said to have died of cardiac arrest on Thursday evening after his Magrib prayer in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. Chief Information Officer of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, […]

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Interim forfeiture of Okorocha’s properties ordered

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A High Court sitting in Owerri, the Imo state capital, Nigeria, presided over by Justice F. Njemanze on Thursday February 25, granted an application filed by Louis Alozie SAN, seeking the interim forfeiture of all properties allegedly illegally acquired by immediate past Governor, Senator Rochas Okorocha. The suit, with case No. HOW/191/202, had the former […]

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Trump’s immigrant visa ban revoked by Biden

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United State president, Joe Biden, on Wednesday February 24, revoked Donald Trump’s suspension of many green card applicants from entering the United States. The now revoked order (Proclamation 10014) had suspended the entry of certain immigrants and non-immigrants into the U.S. since late April 2020 on grounds of protecting the U.S. labour market in the […]

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New EFCC chairman, Bawa visits Buhari in Aso Villa

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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday February 25, met with the newly appointed chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa. President Buhari met with Bawa at the state house in Abuja, barely a day after his nomination as head of the anti-graft agency was confirmed by the Nigerian Senate. Photos from […]

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New VC of Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Prof Fasina visits Oloye of Oye-Ekiti, Oba Ademolaju (Photos)

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Recently inaugurated Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Prof. Sunday Abayomi Fasina, was on Wednesday promised a stuanch and total support by the host community, Oye-Ekiti when he paid a courtesy visit to the monarch of the town, Oloye of Oye-Ekiti, Oba Micheal Oluwole Ademolaju Adugbole III at his palace. The August visit was […]

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No food for the students. If anybody dies among them, we will tell you where to pick the body ―Niger students abductors say

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Abductors of the 27 students and 15 workers of Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State, have threatened to starve them to death if the ransom they are demanding is not paid on time. One of the abductors stated this in an audio recording made available to Punch correspondents on Wednesday by a prominent Islamic cleric,  […]

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Just one week in love affairs, young woman allegedly shot dead by her boyfriend

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Only one week of meeting themselves and in love affairs, a 27-year-old South African woman has been reportedly killed by her boyfriend. The deceased’s sister, Ntombizanele Mngadi, who dislosed this on Twitter, said she was shot dead on Monday, February 22. “My sister just got shot today and she didn’t make it. She left behind […]

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Driver allegedly fleeing with his boss’ car arrested in Nigeria (Photo)

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Officers from the Ogun State police command in Nigeria, have arrested Eyo Eta, pictured here, for allegedly running away with the car of his boss, a Toyota highlander with registration number APP 467 GS. The spokesperson of the state police command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, says the suspect was accosted by men of Federal highway patrol at […]

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