President Muhammadu Buhari will on Tuesday morning, embark on an eight-day state visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia where he is expected to perform Umrah, the Lesser Pilgrimage. “Buhari will travel to Saudi Arabia on an official visit from Tuesday, April 11 to 19 on his last trip to the Kingdom as President, during […]
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IGP Alkali Baba Usman Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Okon Effiong, has ordered the immediate arrest of a yet-to-identified policeman seen in a viral video assaulting a man at Elibrade junction in the Emohua Local Government Area of the state. He also said the other policemen seen at the location while their colleague assaulted the […]
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IGP Alkali Baba Usman Ondo State Police Command has clarified that a 35-year-old man identified as Olorunfemi Tope, who was killed on Monday in a mob attack through the jungle justice at Ijoka Area of Akure, the state capital, was not an internet fraudster, contrary to claims and reports. Making the clarification, the police spokeswoman […]
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Oil spills in one of the oil communities The umbrella body of Ijaw youths, the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide, has raised the alarm over an alleged ongoing deprivation and oppression of host communities in Delta, Rivers, and Bayelsa States by some oil multinationals. National spokesman for IYC, Comrade Ebilade Ekerefe, made the claim on […]
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A suspect in the case of an Ibadan-based Instagram cloth vendor, Adeshina Olayinka, popularly called Khadi, who died at Wetland Hotel, Akobo, in Ibadan, is in police custody, according to a source in the hotel. Olayinka reportedly died after the man she was with checked out early on Thursday morning, and a phone call was […]
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Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) has petitioned the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, complaining of alleged high-handedness in the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) imposition of a 5 million naira fine on Channels TV for supposed tolerance of treasonable outburst of a guest. Besides, the organisation, in a statement, yesterday, slammed the regulator for […]
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Nigeria’s unemployment rate may hit 38.8 percent this year, forecasts by notable private sector institutions, have suggested. The figure is an average of the two most notable private sector-driven organisations that released forecasts on the likely state of the labour market this year, using different analytical techniques. Data users have not had the benefit of […]
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Census officials Against all odds, the National Population Commission said it is ready to conduct a national headcount from May 3, 2023, after the commencement date was shifted from March 29, following shifts also in the conduct of the governorship election nationwide. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has recently also confirmed the arrangement. […]
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IGP Alkali Baba Usman Police spokesperson CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi has condemned the assault of an unidentified man by a police officer in a viral video. A police officer was seen beating and slapping a man in Port Harcourt, Rivers State in a viral video shared on social media. Reacting to the video, Adejobi assured that […]
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A young man was stoned to death by an angry mob on Monday in Akure, the Ondo State capital, for allegedly killing two persons and injuring six others in a road accident. Police spokeswoman in the state, SP Olufunmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, confirmed the incident. Visibly sad over the killing through jungle justice, she told news men […]
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