Alleges EFCC is being used by losers of Anambra poll to Obiano’s APGA candidate, Soludo Anambra State Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Don Adinuba, has said that the governor of the state, Willie Obiano, is currently out of Nigeria, adding that his principal did not disguise when he used one of the international airports […]
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A businessman, Mr. Ifeoluwa Oluwo, Thursday, narrated to a Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square, TBS, how Chidinma Ojukwu the murder suspect in the case of Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Usifo Ataga, sold the deceased’s laptop to him. He said that he bought the laptop from the first defendant for N495,000, on […]
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The Director, Child Welfare, Gombe State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, Joseph Markus, has lamented the increase of underaged girls for cheap labour on the farmlands. He made this revelation in his address on Tuesday, at a media roundtable organised by Save the Children International towards ending child marriage in the state. The […]
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The Federal Government has disclosed that it is considering stricter sanctions for companies involved in oil spillage in the Niger Delta. The Minister of State for Environment, Sharon Ikeazor, who revealed this on Thursday at the weekly ministerial press briefing organised by the Presidential media team at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, also explained that her […]
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The Federal Government on Thursday announced plans to institute stiffer punishments for companies involved in oil spillage in the country. The government also said that the level devastation in the Niger Delta is massive and has planned to meet stakeholders in Ogoni land on the ongoing clean-up exercise to get their own assessmentt on how […]
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Many Nigerian film stars on Thursday, stormed the residence of veteran comic actor Babatunde Omidina aka Baba Suwe. His remains were buried on Thursday in his Ikorodu residence area of Lagos. Baba Suwe died on Monday after a long battle with an undisclosed illness. He was 63. Massive crowd gathered at Baba Suwe’s residence early […]
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Nigerians will spend about N6.732tn on the purchase of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, within a period of 12 months once the Federal Government stops subsidising the commodity from February next year, investigations have revealed. This came to the fore on Wednesday as the Nigeria Labour Congress described government’s plan as a “penny wise-pound […]
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The Nigerian Bar Association and some Senior Advocates of Nigeria on Wednesday criticised the response of the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, over his comment on the leaked panel report of the Lagos State judicial panel of inquiry on restitution for victims of SARS-related abuses. Mohammed at a press conference in Abuja on […]
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By Femi Falana SAN For several years, the human rights community had called for the prosecution of the operatives of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) over incessant arrests, detention, torture and extrajudicial killing of citizens. As such calls were ignored by the authorities the SARS intensified the brutalization of citizens particularly young people. The […]
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Says NASS Spends N1billion yearly on futile Constitution Review Warns that Buhari must not allow Nigeria to break due to his Authoritarian Attitude Urges Buhari to Convoke a Representative Assembly or Town Hall Meeting to Consider El- Rufai’s Report or 2014 Confab Report on Restructuring Says some of them are ready to go for Treasonable […]
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