FG says terror alert on FCT by foreign embassies unverified, misleading

Says warning not for Nigerians UK insists there’s increased threat in Abuja Warns assault may be indiscriminate, western interest targeted The federal government, yesterday, lashed out at some foreign embassies for allegedly issuing an unverified terror warning on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, posting clickbait, and causing panic in the country. Minister of Information […]

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Sokoto APC group dissociates self from rumoured defection

A coalition of All Progressive Congress Supporters Groups in Sokoto State has denied the rumour of alleged defection of its members to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the state. In a press statement signed by the chairman of the group, Suleiman Mahmud, and delivered at the NUJ press centre in Sokoto on Wednesday, the […]

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Britain’s new PM eyes delay to crunch budget plan

Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on October 26, 2022, for the House of Commons to take part in his first Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs). – Rishi Sunak will today face off against opposition lawmakers for the first time as British prime minister, in a likely raucous parliamentary session […]

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Court orders Nigeria to return IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu to Kenya

Kanu in court A federal high court in Umuahia, Abia state, has ordered the Nigeria government to return Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), to Kenya from where he was extradited in June 2021. The court also ordered the government to pay Kanu the sum of N500 million as damages […]

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Germany moves to legalise cannabi

The German government paved the way for the legalisation of cannabis on Wednesday, though it remains unclear whether the plan will pass muster at the European level. According to the plan approved by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Cabinet, cannabis and the active substance tetrahydrocannabinol would no longer to be legally classified as narcotics. “The purchase and […]

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Masked gunmen abduct Lagos motorist in broad daylight

There was panic at Computer Village, Ikeja, Lagos State, on Tuesday, when masked gunmen reportedly abducted a yet-to-be-identified motorist. According to eyewitnesses who narrated the incident on Twitter, the man was forced out of a black Toyota Corolla, which he was driving on Medical Road in the area. A user, @girllikehelen, who shared photos of […]

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Lagos-Ibadan expressway: 16 Longbridge joints reopen, drivers slam contractors

Less than two months after a construction company, Julius Berger Nigeria Limited, repaired the expansion joints at the Longbridge section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, the joints have reopened. A visit by our correspondent to the five-kilometre bridge showed that floodwater had washed off the tar on the expansion joints. It was observed that the bridge, […]

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Court orders FG to pay Kanu N500 million damages for illegal abduction

Return IPOB leader to Kenya A Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, has ordered the Federal Government to pay the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, the sum of N500 million as damages following his illegal abduction and human rights abuse from Kenya. The Court also ordered the […]

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Oyetola approves 1,887 retired teachers’ gratuity payment

Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has approved the release of N377,120,472.20, for the payment of the fourth round of gratuity to pensioners of primary school extraction. This was disclosed in a statement obtained in Osogbo on Wednesday and signed by the state Head of Service, Dr. Festus Oyebade. The statement also said payment of the […]

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